Boulder High School is Mindy's and a number of her old friends and boyfriends Alma Mater, mentioned frequently and is featured prominently in Season 4's Long Before We Met.
Location[]
1604 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Boulder High School is part of the Boulder Valley School District. Headquartered in the BVSD Education Center in unincorporated Boulder County, near Boulder. The district serves Boulder, Gold Hill, Jamestown, Lafayette, Louisville, Nederland, Superior, and Ward.
About[]
Boulder High School was founded in 1875 as a preparatory school to the University of Colorado. In 1876, it was the first high school in Colorado to graduate a class. The school is located in downtown Boulder, adjacent to the university’s campus and four blocks from the Pearl Street Mall. It predates many of the other High Schools now in Boulder by quite a long time, making it the model for the Boulder High School that Mindy attends (and Mount Mount High in the Animated Show), and its alumni appear several times through the show, chiefly as friends and old boyfriends of Mindy.
Boulder High School is in the Boulder Creek flood zone. The school's adjacent soccer fields were the site of housing as late as the 1970s, but the houses were removed due to the flash-flood risk. The Boulder Creek 100-year flood took place in 1894, destroying all buildings in the area. Boulder High football, soccer, lacrosse, and track teams compete at Christian Recht Field, accessed via a bridge spanning Boulder Creek. Christian Recht was a member of the Boulder Preparatory and Boulder High School faculty from the 1920s until his death in 1964.
Mork wearing Mindy's Gold and Green Cheerleading Sweater.
The school colours are Gold and Green (the real Boulder High's are Gold and Purple), reflected both in Mindy's Cheerleading sweater (which carries the same style 'B' as the real Boulder High's cheerleading outfits) and in the decorations for the reunion.
Mindy and Mork arriving for the reunion in BHS's gym
It appears in Season 4's Long Before We Met, it's gymnasium the location for both the High School Reunion and, after Mork travels back through time, Mindy's High School Prom.
Mindy's High School Prom in the BHS gym, with it's Parisian Theme.
Alumni[]
- Mindy McConnell
- Glenda Faye Comstock
- Susan Taylor - Frenemy and rival of Mindy's from High School. (Mork's Seduction / Mork's First Christmas / Mork Goes Erk)
- Brad Jackson - And old friend from High School that had chemistry with Mindy but never asked her out. (Mork Runs Away)
- Steve Sanders - Mindy's steady boyfriend for the last two years of High School (Long Before We Met)
- Dickie Nimitz - High School Dweeb, Chess Club member, suck up to Steve and creeper on Mindy. (Long Before We Met)
- Althea Bleilieben - Enthusiastic Classmate of Mindy and Glenda's, the lute player in the Marching Band (Long Before We Met)
- Jack Peterson - The Captain of the Football team, now massively successful, that Susan Taylor believes Mindy 'stole' from her, which Mindy denies alleging she never showed any interest in him, and he chased after her. (Mork's Seduction)
- Tommy Perozzi - Classmate of Glenda and Mindy's bad skin, great car. (Long Before We Met)
- Debbie Wilson - One of Mindy's old classmates that Mork contacts to see if they stole Mindy's necklace (In Mork We Trust)
- Linda Burchi - A fellow cheerleader, and voted loosest and most likely to succeed by the Catherine the Great society. (In Mork We Trust / Drive She Said)
- Molly Berger - Another of Mindy's old classmates that does not react well to Mork contacting her to see if she stole Mindy's necklace (In Mork We Trust)
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Behind The Scenes[]
The High School is never explicitly mentioned as Boulder High, but with many of the other extant High Schools in Boulder not being in place at the time of the show, and with allusions to colours and logos being somewhat similar to the real Boulder High it seems likely that this is the High School in question.
Brian Bonsall, the child actor who played Pam Dawber's son in 1989's Do You Know The Muffin Man (and Worf's son in Star Trek TNG) later moved with his parents to Boulder and joined Boulder High School, graduating from there in the 2000 and is one of their most prominent alumni.