Home stretch.

 Exams were set for the following week, the paper reported. First period exams for seniors would be on Wednesday. Periods three, five and seven on Thursday, and the remaining classes on Friday. Lockers were to be turned in at home rooms on Friday.  

 Monday of graduation week was Odaroloc day ( 2pm ), as well as the day to pick up caps and gowns. (Rental $4 paid in the social room before getting the costumes.) Graduation week would also see the annual senior breakfast and class day program at 1:30pm (seniors report to the boy's gym at 1:10 in caps and gowns for the processional. The Class Tea was also scheduled as a class day event. The Owl did not report whether white gloves were optional.  

 Rules for graduation ceremonies were set down by principal Wendell Greer. Senior were to be in assigned seats by 7:45 for an 8pm start. Those that decided not to make it were supposed to advise the principal by 4pm . 

 In other news, The Owl and Odaroloc named new editors to replace the graduating seniors ,and the way the appointments were reported must have been one of our earliest lessons in the power of media control, The Owl's appointment was reported under a big, two column headline, above the fold, while The Odaroloc got a one column box just two inches long.  

 Rounding out page 1 was a story on the city's teen dances for the summer. Fifty cents stag, 75 cents drag. No smoking or drinking in the dance area, but no clothing restrictions either.  

 On the editorial page, The Owl gave the junior and senior girls as well as spectators high marks for decorum at the junior-senior girls football game (see sports page). Known in the past as a rowdy contest with tinges of female mud wrestling, the higher plane of this year's event was seen by The Owl as a way to encourage the administration to allow it to continue. At the same time, a letter to the editor from Barbi Mack chastised the thief of a letter jacket from a locker. Another letter encouraged building a drag strip on the old dump property north of the 28^th Street bypass. And my editor's "bannerpoint" column was far less toadie than some earlier outings as it dumped on the administration's new policy to curtail attendance at the CU World Affairs Conference in response to some flagrant attendance infractions.

 The Letterman's club set its annual "Red Mill Dance " for the old Red Mill tungsten mine up Sugarloaf. The old mill had been used the past three years. (A location that would put modern rave organizers to shame.) Fifty cents a couple.

 In a reminder of what Denver wasn't back then, students with straight As in the spring semester could get free reserved seat tickets to three Denver Bears minor league baseball games.

Leading the sports page was the Senior's win in the girl's gridiron battle. Jenny Dobbert averaged 12.5 yards per carry in the 28-7 victory. The Owl reported 600-700 spectators. Barbi Mack, Linda Theis, and Jill Coppom scored during the game for the Seniors, coached by Ron McGuckin, Al Goldsberry and John Gendreau.

Ads this week were Senior related, with Morris' Candies telling them to finish up the year with a trip to the candy store and the dougout cleaners saying "Spring has sprung, the Seniors have won." Bergheims Men's Store had gifts for grads like "chair valets," dresser caddies," and billfolds (monogrammed free). The Tikki lounge was advertising "Boulder 's newest combo sensation" which was called "The Kumquats." And the Filet 'o' Fish sandwich ad was back from McDonalds. Still new and still only 24 cents.

(Next time: The Last Owl on graduation eve featuring all 472 members of the graduating class, and the exact text of a Twinburger ad that only marginally exceeded in taste Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl.)

(Thanks to Anne Sandoe-Thorpe for writing last week's column. If you're a former Owlie and want to try you hand at this weekly time warp, please email me. TW)