Taken from Handbook of Texas Online

HILL COLLEGE. From 1923 to 1950 Hillsboro Junior College, one of the earliest municipal junior colleges in Texas, operated in the same building as Hillsboro High School, in Hillsboro. The Hillsboro public school system had planned for separate buildings, but the high school had burned down on April 6, 1922, so the funds for the two schools were combined, and a three-story building on the site of the old high school building was erected. The junior college operated on the third floor. It opened with six faculty members and fifty-two students on September 10, 1923. In 1947 two temporary classroom buildings were added to the grounds for the junior college. In 1950 it closed for lack of funds.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hill County Historical Commission, A History of Hill County, Texas, 1853-1980 (Waco: Texian, 1980). Fay M. Little, History of Hillsboro Junior College (M.A. thesis, Baylor University, 1964).

Harold B. Simpson

HILLSBORO COLLEGE YEARBOOK (EL GUIADOR) 1947

FORWARD

We present this book with the hope that it will serve to light the candle of memories in the years when 1946 and1947 live only in thoughts; that each page will prompt a story of the happy days of our youth in Hillsboro College.

DEDICATION

This has been an unusual year in the life of Hillsboro College. It has been a year marked by the kind of change which can only lead to improvement. In 1947 a new era came into being. Student life was inoculated with a new spirit. The idea which now prevails is new, and yet it is old----as old as America itself. It is the idea of democratic living. Long ago we learned that people live most harmoniously and profitably in a society which offers every man and woman an opportunity to be a part of the government.  Why couldn’t such a system, known to be effective in instances where vast numbers are involved, work well at Hillsboro College?  Needless to say, the plan has been highly successful.  The formation of the entire student body into council groups was the first step undertaken. A Student activity committee composed of students elected to represent their respective council groups now function with the faculty in the promotion of every conceivable activity designed for making life in the school more beneficial and pleasant.  The foundation has been laid; the groundwork is formed.  It remains for those who follow to further the plan.  To these students of tomorrow who must carry on by enlarging upon what has been done this year, this book is dedicated.  It is dedicated in the solemn hope that our work shall not have been in vain and that the fruit of our endeavors shall be lastingly beneficial to the school and to the world.

These records were taken from yearbook that is in Hillsboro City Library. They are in opposite side with records for Hillsboro High School for 1947. They only list sophomores and freshman in this yearbook.

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HCGS Volunteer
September 2004