The historical snapshot marks 1943 as the year the Colorado High School Athletic Conference became the Colorado High School Activities Association — broadening the organization beyond athletics alone. By 1944–45 the new name is everywhere in coverage of how the Association classified schools for state basketball.
On September 24, 1944, the Rocky Mountain News announced that Class C competition had been adopted for Colorado high school basketball:
“Class C Is Added To Prep Cage Meet”
The move would involve several small schools and take effect in September 1945. The state basketball tournament was to realign around Class A, Class B, and Class C representatives. Football playoff dates for the existing classes were set in the same announcement — a reminder that classification was already reshaping more than one sport.
A year later, at its regular fall meeting, the Activities Association adopted a three-division basketball plan for 1945–46. Class A stayed intact; the former B division was split so separate tournaments could crown champions.
“Three-Division State Prep Cage Setup Adopted”
R. W. Truscott — still commissioner, and the same figure who appears in the first minutes and the 1932 Garnett ruling — explained that enrollment-based sorting of B and C schools ran into geography, so some leagues would be all Class C while others mixed B and C.
These clippings are among the earliest clear newspaper portraits of CHSAA under its Activities Association name — already doing the classification work that still defines Colorado prep championships.