Serving the community since 1866
WEEK OF JUNE 8, 2023
VOLUME 157 | ISSUE 25
$2
150 years of pandemonium
Former Mines runner places first at annual
BOLDERBoulder BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
high school — the oldest in Colorado — during its sesquicentennial year. GHS will have more festivities for Homecoming Week this September. Throughout the event, the attending alumni enjoyed reminiscing by looking through the yearbooks and newspaper clippings, watching a short documentary of the school’s history and touring the current campus.
Ben Schneiderman embodies the idea that Orediggers lead the way. The former Colorado School of Mines runner took first place at the 2023 BOLDERBoulder men’s 10k race, finishing in 31:02. He even sported his Orediggers running gear as he crossed the finish line. Fellow Oredigger alumnus Jake Mitchem also finished fourth in the men’s 10k, coming in at 31:20. Mitchem competed for Mines from 2016-2022. About 40,000 runners participated in this year’s BOLDERBoulder, the Memorial Day race that’s been called “America’s All-Time Best 10k.” The annual event draws 100,000 spectators who cheer on the runners through central Boulder, helping the race feel like a townwide party. Schneider told the Boulder Daily Camera how he’d been in third most of the race, but took the lead on the final uphill stretch. He told the Camera how he appreciated the BOLDERBoulder because it’s a fun, local race, and he was excited to run with his brother Noah and former teammate Mitchem. Schneiderman, a Colorado Springs native, first started at Mines in fall 2014. He was an AllAmerican in cross country and
SEE 150 YEARS, P2
SEE FIRST, P3
Class of 1997 graduate Brian Sanders, center, reviews Golden High School yearbooks with his family during the school’s 150th anPHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN niversary celebration on June 4.
Generations of alumni celebrate Golden High School’s sesquicentennial anniversary BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
What started as Colorado’s first high school with a permanent building in 1873 has become a vast network of thousands of Demons across Colorado and around the world who bleed maroon and
white. So, when the call went out to celebrate Golden High School’s 150th anniversary this month, hundreds of graduates — from the 1960s to the future Class of 2032 — answered. On June 4, generations of Demons gathered to celebrate their historic
VOICES: 14 | LIFE: 16 | CALENDAR: 19 | SPORTS: 28
GOLDENTRANSCRIPT.NET • A PUBLICATION OF COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
GLOBAL MOVEMENT
Studio brings in dance from around the world
P16