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Volume 51, #26, Friday April 23, 1965
Leading this week was a news report that federal money was coming to Boulder for the War on Poverty "Youth Corps," which would give "unemployed and underemployed high school aged citizens" job training. The project was to employ 50 to 75, but "will not replace any worker currently employed," the director said. Also on page 1, junior and sophomore candidates were getting ready for the spring election. Election campaign reform had clearly been accomplished at BHS, where all campaign spending for "materials and devices" was limited to $15, and the candidates all had to have a 2.5 grade point average.. Doug Ravenel was named the top chemistry student and called "Little Einstein" in the page 1 headline. Sponsored by the American Chemical Association, the winners got to attend a state wide dinner with all the other winners in the state. (Note that Ravenel just posted his pic on the reunion site, looking a lot more like Steve Jobs than Albert Einstein.) The city manager lectured an American history class, telling the students "The only way I can see to make people realize the functions of city government, would be to stop all city services simultaneously." Page 2 had a hard news piece on a Broomfield HS two year experiment in a modular scheduling system with 15 minute to one hour periods which, in the first year seemed to do a better job of preparing kids for college and develop self discipline, according to the administration. It was the year of the big construction project, expanding the school with exterior walkways inside the central courtyard, adding classrooms, and building a new lunchroom. The Owl reported that during the upheaval, Principal Wendell Greer uncovered the trowel used to lay the original cornerstone for BHS in '36, as well as a copy of the Boulder City Charter from 1917. In its editorials, The Owl chided students who had attended the previous week's World Affair's conference at CU. Seems more than a few extended their spring break by "attending" the conference from "grass side seats" on the lawns of the CU campus. Spring. On the cryptic side, the was a letter to the editor from the Littleton HS baseball coach which started, "I would like to apologize for the incident that occurred recently with the umpires. I was entirely wrong in taking my team from the field." Page 3 had the American Friends Service committee selecting a junior, Linda Jaeger, as the next year's exchange student. Also in its international bent, Mary Helen Carroll wrote about displays at BHS of writings from prisoners-children-- at the Terezin Concentration Camp. That was the Nazi's "model" camp, run as a propaganda place to show the world life wasn't so bad. Of the 15,000 children at the camp, 100 survived. Spring competitions and conferences reigned on page 3 as well. The choir was at a Colorado State College festival, 15 Owlies were heading for a weekend at Fort Collins for "J Days", and the Latin Club took first place by contributing more to a state publication than any other Latin club. With six pages that week, Sports got two. The track team (known as "thinclads" in the headline), beat both Loveland and Longmont. Scott Patten won the mile and the 880 relay team took first (Ron Bush, Bud Holmes, Frank Lister and John Panneaker). Junior Bob Nakosteen won three separate events. Baseball lost at Hinkley and fell to fourth in the Centennial league. Golfers beat Cherry Creek at the Cherry Creek Country Club. David Graham's regular sports column talked about how coach Wally Schneider had one of the best balanced golf teams this year, even though it was without Hale Irwin and Dick Anderson. A seven line box on page 5 yelled "Hey Girlies!!!, You don't have to be good to have fun! Like archery, swimming, golf, tennis or softball? Then come to GAA every Monday and Wednesday." It is not clear whether that page 5 box had anything to do with a page six story headed "Dangerous Female Archers Threaten Terrified Tracksters In Gym Classes." The story was reported in the journalistic style known as "advanced doggerel," starting with "I shot an arrow into the air It hit the earth I know not where In the distance I hear a scream. It knew it was a result of the girl's archery team." Etc. Finally, Principal Greer said classes could be held outdoors in the spring if teachers wished, so long as they told the office where they were taking the class. Ads that week: Buffalo Smoke Shop advertised: "The Gospel According to Peanuts", "Sunday Best of B.C," and "Europe on $5.00 a day." Lots of ads for clothes for the upcoming prom. Boulder Cleaners said come in for a tux fitting. Royal Banner said "Want White?" as in white dinner jackets. The Treasure Chest was pushing Nadine formals and party dresses. The Dugout cleaners said to use them to "take the mire from your attire." Boulder Theatre was running James Stewart and Edward G Robinson in "Cheyenne Autumn" (In Technicolor). McDonalds was still pushing its new 24 cent Filet of Fish, and the Twinburger (open to 12pm!) had a 20 cent special on boysenberry shakes. (Next time: "Females Encounter Stifling Problems In Snagging Escorts to Annual Prom") TW
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Number 2, Friday April 23, 2005
(Terry O'Donnell went to Kilimanjaro in February of 2005)
Terry O'Donnell's Kilimanjaro Diary Episode One
I'm sitting in the computer room watching the snow falling and thinking about being in
Seven of us (four from Three of us from Boulder were used to the higher Colorado altitudes and hiking the high peaks, but the fourth from here and her three relatives from San Fran were not, so the climb was planned so that there would be plenty of time to acclimatize. We took one of the less popular routes and hiked to the top in nine days. Going from rain forest to something resembling the surface of the moon was enough to spin your head, and throwing in the glaciers on top really was icing on the cake! Flowers and plants that were so unfamiliar and fellow hikers from around the world made the trek extraordinary!
Check back soon for the next installment of the trip to Kilimanjaro.
Sharon Hammit Miles "Being a grandparent is the best!!"
Sharon
writes that she's a Senior Fulfillment Manager for a large magazine publisher, Conde Nast (or Advance Magazine group). They publish 26 of the top magazines in the country - Gourmet, Bon Appetit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vogue, Glamour, Golf Digest. Golf World, Golf for Women, Allure, House and Garden, Vanity Fair - to name a few and I'll bet you readers have at least one of those in your house right now!
Sharon
has two daughters who are married and live within 20 minutes of her - one in
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I did boat charters and deliveries in the early years. I was delivering a 62 ft ocean-racing catamaran named the "