THE old-school Latin motto at Merbein High was "accingunt omnes operi", or "gird for the task".

While those words and the secondary-only school are both long gone, their meaning might well have been taken to heart by community members who at first had some trepidation about the merging of primary and secondary campuses to create a much larger, and very different, P-10 college in 2010.

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