Feature by Anne Sandoe-Thorp
Feature by Anne Sandoe-Thorp
The Literary Issue, Friday May 21, 1965
Where are they now?
 
The Literary Issue graced two pages of the OWL for Friday, May 21. Contributions included poems, short prose writings, and artwork from BHS students. Poetry by seniors Iris Connolly, Lisa Tenenbaum, Nancy Quiggle, Mary Jane Davies, Jere Denton, Julie Kandyba, Curt Stocker, Joyce Hansen, Harlan Shannon, Janet Groft, and Anne Sandoe fitted neatly in around a short story about skiing by Garon Smith, a tongue-in-cheek piece of prose by Dave Tally, and artwork by Paul Briggs, Gary Pine, and Carolyn Bunegar. One of the poems, set to the rhythms of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" lampooned the practice of TP-ing houses as a way of indicating a fondness for the recipients of same TP!
 
The front page news stories for that week included an article about outstanding students awarded honors for strong performances in clubs and activities. Knox Wasley was awarded the Opdycke award, the highest honor presented to a BHS athlete, noting scholastic excellence and outstanding athletic performance. Classmates Nancy Quiggle, Ann Forward, Linda Jaeger, and Cassie Nelson won gold pins in recognition of their work on the yearbook. The outstanding Letterman of the Year award went to John Gendreau and Gil Espinoza was placed on the national wrestling honor roll determined by Amateur Wrestling News. Senior athletes Dick Lyman, John Gendreau, Gil Espinoza, Conard Metcalf and Steve Clark received scholarships.
 
Also noted on the front page were the annual Radio Day events sponsored by KBOL and the Boulder Radio Broadcasting Club, the junior delegates to the annual Boys' State Conference, and Sandy McCray's being named 1965 junior-senior prom queen. A small story noted that a new award for an outstanding chemist-athlete would be given in memory of former assistant principal and athletic coordinator at BHS, Christian F. Recht.
 
Page 2 carried a story about the annual orchestra conference, directed by William Seguine, with solo passages by seniors Giga Cook and Richard Best.  Next to that was a story by Marc Schipper about the growing need for federal aid to support higher education.  Tom Wolzein's column noted the growing parking problem and the need for practical steps by the administration to obtain new parking lot space.
 
Three letters to the editor 1) wondered why the BHS girls didn't have a football game against the Fairview girls, 2) commended the orchestra for their excellent assembly, despite lack of student appreciate, and 3) expressed concern about Americans' lack of knowledge about the threat of communism in America in light of recent attacks on U.S. policy in Viet Nam.
 
Page 3 highlighted the research grant Coach Emerson Wilson received to study at CU over the summer.  The Coach was one of only 3 Colorado teachers to receive the national grant.  An article about the Girls Athletic Association noted that senior Jenny Dobbert was honored with the club's outstanding member award, and a story about the Boulder YMCA's youth employment program (YES) offered hope for summer jobs for high school students.  In a separate story, seniors Cal Winn and Karen slutz were honored for their performances in productions throughout the year and Tom Mangan was honored as "Best Thespian" for his work behind the scenes. A humorous story about the "rigors" of senior week ending with the tortures of graduation floated just above the advertisements of the week, for the Teen Contest offered by the Tikki, an ad for the new Filet O Fish sandwich at McDonalds, and a Dugout cleaners ad encouraging girls to have your shoulder pads cleaned. The Dugout ad clearly referred to the junior-senior powder-puff football game featured on page 6.
 
Page 6 featured stories on the junior-senior girls football game, complete with a photo of Janet Groft, Ellyn Craven, Bobbi Barday and Jenny Dobbert in fine form. The student mixed doubles tennis team of Paul Boland and Lisa Tenenbaum captured the 1965 Division 1 Mixed Doubles tennis tournament against the faculty team of instructors John Fitch and Linda Armour.  This was the first time in four years that a student team had won the tournament.  In another story, the golf team had a poor showing in the district championships, while East Denver romped past the BHS team to win their 19th state AAA track and field championship.  Ads for graduation portraits at Stowall's, and movies Night of the Iguan and The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the Boulder Theatre flanked a Hey Girlies! BEEF up for Monday's Game ad from the Twinburger.

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Charlotte McMichael Shields
 
 I have to admit that when Ronny put me onto the story about Pet Mess and I sent an email to follow up with Charlotte , I addressed it to Shirley by mistake!  Fortunately, the McMichael twins are used to being mistaken for each other so Charlotte wasn't insulted.  Still, this reporter was embarrassed!  So here is the story, straight from Charlotte , of how Pet Mess came to be.
 
 
About my e-mail address, petmesscs@msn.com, (free advertising). It is my company name plus my initials. In the yellow pages it's listed as, Pet Mess Yard Service, in order to deflect the grooming calls. Yes -- I go to people's yards and clean up after their pets. You asked me how I got started in this. Well sometimes when you pray you don't get the answer you expect. So here goes- 
 
 After owning our own little sandwich shop in Texas I knew I really wanted to work for myself again but when we moved back here I ended up first cooking at a day care and then was a bookkeeper for Osco Drug, then Payless. A neighbor talked me into doing the scooping thing on weekends and I actually liked it. I got to be outside some and inside using the old brain some. Well when Payless turned into Rite Aid they didn't have bookkeepers' and I needed to decide to manage a store or quit. At the same time I had really been thinking of home schooling my youngest daughter. She was soon to go into high school and it seemed the hours spent in special ed were not doing well. So the side line job gave me the perfect combo again. I could start her day out with a test or other assignments and then work the hours I needed. The more she did on her own the more I could build my list of clients. Now she's up at Red Rocks Community College taking a speech class, writing a speech on how much her mom means to her. Life is good!
 
And a photo of Charlotte setting about her daily work.  She says the title under the photo should read "No beer in this cooler" or "No, I'm not selling burritos!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Winsted
 
 John came to BHS his senior year and played on the golf team.  And he's been a Coloradoan ever since!  John writes --
 
 "Since my days at Boulder High I went on to the University of Colorado graduating in Business under the 5 year plan. I was lucky enough to get a high draft number so my only knowledge of Vietnam was what I read. My family was always in real estate and golf so I continued the tradition in real estate as the Business Development Manager at Security Title in Denver and many years as a commercial broker with the Frederick Ross Company in Denver . I still play golf as often as possible as with the Boulder High team.
 
 Golf, sking, hiking and other outdoor sports have been my recreation and Colorado has still choices of locations I haven't seen. I've played many of the great courses in the US and Colorado and still enjoy telling of our successes with the Boulder High school team. Besides the real estate business, most of my time has been spent raising three girls. The first graduated from CU this year in Journalism and Business and the second is in PreMed. The youngest is still in high school. They are also all great singers and if the CU Jazz choir continues next year or if anyone is around for a Cherry Creek High School concert they can be heard. My wife Cindy, is an Iowa gal and of course a golfer and skier. We hope to get to Scotland and Ireland for a look at where golf started. Even though I was only at Boulder High for my Senior year it was a great one."