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If she accepted and did not have any demerits, she and the young man could be placed on the Dateline list. Then when Friday or Saturday rolled around, all the couples would gather in the Rumpus Room or the Parlor as you see in these photos.
We’re not sure exactly when the Dateline tradition began . . . Probably it was in the late ‘30s, but yearbooks don’t mention it until 1940. The first step in being a part of the Dateline was for one of the cadets to ask one of the Academy girls to go out with him.