Sterling High Track Wade Merits Two Awards in Annual Contest
Sterling High announces winners of the annual short story and poetry contest. Helen Wade, class of 1937, wins two first prizes for "Blind Man" and "Spring Retreat" with a full page of verse to honor her. Other top awards include Robert Johnson in essay, Ada Shaw and John Albers in short stories, and Etta May Anspach with poems.
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Helen Wade
Helen
Robert Johnson
Herbert Bell
Frank Geoffroy
Ada Shaw
John Albers
Etta May Anspach
Elinor Bell
Margaret Birch
Margaret
Herb Bell
Faculty and Students To Host Public Open House At S H S
Sterling High School invites parents and patrons to an open house on April 29. The evening will feature visits to classes and departments while morning forty minute periods show students in action. Attendance is limited to adults. students from grade and other high schools are discouraged.
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Sterling High School
Sterling High
Eades
Glee Clubs Sponsor May Music Festival at S. H. S.
The first S. H. S. glee clubs festival will be held at the Coliseum on Friday May 1. Glee clubs from Chadwick Milledgeville Prophetstown Fulton Morrison Erie Tampico Lyndon Mount Carroll Franklin Grove Dixon Savanna Nelson Harmon Rock Falls and Sterling high schools will perform. Each school renders two numbers while the combined glee clubs sing three. Local grade schools and rural schools from Sterling Rock Falls districts join in the event with an orches tra band and glee club performances as a spring musical follows in the second week of May.
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Chadwick
Milledgeville
Prophetstown
Fulton
Morrison
Erie
Tampico
Lyndon
Mount Carroll
Franklin Grove
Dixon
Savanna
Nelson
Harmon
Rock Falls
Sterling
Coliseum
Central
Wallace and Merrill
Sterling Rock Falls
Trackless teams to get Sterling High track facility
Sterling High will build a track after a board meeting on April 6. A survey and cost estimate will be prepared by an experienced track builder after faculty and athletic committee review. The project aims to present a summer construction plan for next year.
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Sterling High
Board of Education
Wheeler
Hendricks
Agriculture teams make good showing at Rochelle
The agriculture judging teams from grain corn and poultry competed at Rochelle on March 22 with 24 teams. The grain team placed third. Fred Brauer tied for eighth with 350 points, James Zigler 349, Don Ebersole 345, and Russ Wagenknecht Norman Schune close behind. Corn and poultry fared lower but showed potential for the state meet in June. On Monday April 6 the FFA met in the high school gym with motion pictures and refreshments by Walter Koster’s committee. Indoor baseball was played and the Senior Gold Team will host the Blues Friday April 17 after selling too few tickets for the senior play.
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Rochelle
Fred Brauer
James Zigler
Don Ebersole
Russ Wagenknecht
Norman Schuneman
Walter Koster
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Johnson
Bauer
Lillian
Bendewald
Lanita
Bradley
Eileen Esc
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Heaton
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Koster
Arthur We
Longabaugh
Jeanne
Mair
Jean Sete
Paul Wee
Reed
Clara Atte
Salm
Robert
Anderson
Beverly
Barraclough
Elmer
Bissell
Dorothy Weeee
Crump
Mary Jane
Drane
Lloyd Wee
Fehrenbach
Don
Bell
Elinor
Eee
Worth
Merle Se
Ween
Young
Eugene Eeueeeus Vecens
Herbert Ween
Ewe Wees
Reese
Birch
Frank
Dorothy
Wteeee
Hallett
Mary Ellen
Kidd
Dorothy Ann
Glee Clubs
S.H.S
Blues
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