| Days Until Graduation |
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| Class of 2027 |
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| Class of 2029 |
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| Days Since Graduation |
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| Class of 1975 |
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| Days Since 5 July 1971 |
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We normally get at least one snowstorm in Colorado during October, but we’re a third of the way through the month and the Front Range is having highs of greater than 80° F with no appreciable change in sight. You’ll be reading this in December, and if you live in an area without chairlifts, but you’re looking at white stuff on the ground, we, the usually cheerful citizens of the Centennial State, hope you feel appropriately guilty for absconding with snow that legitimately belongs on our abundant ski hills. We are fully aware that you have no control over the matter, but like parents of innocence-pleading teenagers, that does little to mollify our feelings on the matter. Decent people would box the snow up and send it to a ski hill of their choice on the Western Slope. Is that asking too much? Surely not. A monetary contribution to the ’75 Class Officers Ski Fund would also help to assuage the tremendous guilt you must be feeling.
The members of the Hacker Classic annual golf outing have received a lot of grief in past issues of Checkpoints, but in all fairness…they deserved it. This year the group invaded four quiet, unassuming courses in South Dakota which had great reputations prior to their arrival, but now, not so much. Tom Popp once again took top honors, which leads to 
the perennial question: why do they keep inviting him back? Larry “Frankie” Farris took the trophy for greatest room toimprove, and Russ Trinter took the award for best host of any Classic held in a state with a human-to-coyote ratio of less than 14 to 1. Other attendees were Rod Hennek, Wayne Willis, Bo Montgomery, Brian Duffy, Roy Rice, Tug McGraw, Jim Corrigan, Dave Pratt, and Bruce Fritzsche.
