Jane Silver

Described by many as a perfectionist, Jane “Janey” Silver worked tirelessly for nearly 30 years. In that time, the Mancos Marching Blue Jays won the Colorado Bandmasters Association (CBA) State Marching Band contest three consecutive years. Silver's band is still considered the “Pride of the Mancos Valley.”

“Jane was one of the major proponents of women’s sports,” Erica Holm, one of Silver’s former students, said. “When she came to Mancos, there weren’t even girls sports. But she worked to build this huge sense of community. Everybody was working towards this main goal, and when we finally achieved it under her, we weren’t band geeks, we were state champs. And, we were the first state champs our high school ever got to have. I think she would just be floored and amazed that all these years later that we’ll remember her and that people want to remember that time in our lives and that time that she got to accomplish what she worked so hard for.”