Show -- 93- educational facilities of the Mormon colonists are generally uniform and the history of Virden and her school is typical of the others in Kew Mexico Having its beginning in a discarded residence and a faculty of one the Virden school has expanded to a plant with an estimated 29 value of 535000 and a faculty of ten It has risen from the status of a parochial school to that of a regular county The school with an accredited rating The first students to be graduated from the High School were graduated in 1930 Before that year all the upper division Herman students had been forced to go by bus to Thatcher Arizona for their schooling There are about forty five Spanish children in the system but none are Mormons and are separated from the Anglos both Mormon and gentile for school work Although against the principles of the state law this procedure has had no apparent repercussion among the natives or Mexicans The division still existed in 1935 The first improvement in Virden schools came In 1925 in the form of a new adobe school building of four rooms which was to take the place of the old v'endham home In 1935 the Federal Mmorgency July 1936 Letter from J F Relief Act added another Moffett to H U Foster new |