Anna M. Grant Papers

Ms. Anna May Grant was born November 2, 1877 in Virginia City, Nevada. She entered the University of Colorado as a Junior in 1901 and graduated with honors with a Bachelor of the Arts in 1902. During her senior year at the University she was an assistant in Latin. She began her long association with the Colorado State Preparatory School, which would become Boulder High School, in 1902 and would continue until 1918. She returned to CU in 1911 and in 1919 she obtained a Masters of the Arts. While at University of Colorado she studied Philosophy, Latin, English Literature, and Greek. She began teaching at East Denver High School in 1918 and retired in 1939. Ms. Grant was a teacher of Greek and Latin. She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and other education organizations.

In the 1930’s Ms. Grant wrote a series of poems to the Boulder Daily Camera, titled “Rhyme a Day”. The same year she dedicated a book of her poems, entitled Colorado Columbines to the late Dr. George Norlin, who was President of the University. The dedication read “friend, teacher, brave defender of the right.”

Ms. Anna Grant died in December of 1960. She lived and worked in Colorado the entirety of her career.