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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1970
Page
4
The annual S Club Circus at the fieldhouse on Friday April 3 featured an All Stars upset of the faculty in the intermurals game. Bruce Nelson won the Frosh-Soph free throws and Kim Pentland claimed the Junior-Senior title in the free-throw contest.
A word game presents a word search with fifty country names hidden in a mixed grid. Players must locate and check off each country such as America Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Burma Canada Chad, finding names spelled in multiple directions including forward backward up down and diagonally.
On April 10 1970 Sterling Township High School sent twelve girls to a cheerleading workshop at Peoria Richwoods High School. International Cheerleading Foundation instructors led lectures on crowd behavior and cheerleading, plus new routines chants stunts and tumbling. Attendees included Carol Castendyck Connie Griesser Annette Kolis Clara Martin Ann McMillin Anita Onda Mary Sedig Debbie Dietz Nancy Jo Friday Pat McMillin Lou Ann Mintke and Sue Stowell accompanied by Miss Susan Strong Mrs Nancy Nunemaker Miss Hope Klewin and Sharon E Douthit.
Roy Witherow reports the STHS Science Club schedules an annual balloon race for April 17. Tickets cost 35 cents from club members and require only the buyer’s name. After class, participants obtain a balloon in room 237, tie it to a card on the GAA field, and release at Mr Speer’s gun. The farthest balloon wins five dollars, and the first card back from each state gets two.
A March 23 overdue book and fine list names 460 students at STHS. Of these, 412 appeared on the March 13 list and 276 were on the February 6 list. About one sixth of the student body has accrued fines or lost books. Special 276-name lists are posted in the library and around the building.
Orange Blossom announces its first national poetry contest for ages sixteen to twenty one with up to five poems totaling 200 lines. Entries judged on originality, with a panel including Glenn Yarbrough and Chicago Tribune editor Marsha Lee Masters. Closing May 15, 1970. results by August 15 via telegram.
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