Old Timers Attend Sterling High S Club Banquet
The Sterling High S club held its second annual banquet at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall with an estimated 350 attendees including many former letter men and old timers. Nob Kiser, Purdue coach and guest speaker, urged clean play, training rules, and the ABCs of sports—Ambition, Backbone, Character—in a talk recalling Knute Rockne.
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Sterling High
Nobel Kiser
Purdue
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary
Lynn Timmons
Nob
Kiser
Knute Rockne
Abc’s of Sports
National knitting champ crowned by April fool issue
The Knox Student notes Skip Weaver of 1932 fame as national knitting champion after defeating 63 weavers from Lindblom Weekly in Chicago The Cornellian and The Glen Bard. Amid playful chatter Reed-Custer High reports a successful gypsy rover project Lane Tech and Champaign letters. An auto collision on Sixth Ave and Fourth St last Wednesday left occupants shaken. both cars badly damaged with no serious injuries.
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Knox
Knitting Needle
Lindblom Weekly
Lindblom High
Chicago
Cornellian
Glen Bard
Glen Ellyn
Ill
Reed-Custer Township
Braidwood
Gypsy Rover
Lane Tech
Mary Louise Kendle
Champaign
Eugene Ewbank
Sixth Avenue
Fourth Street
Sterling High Predicted Tennis Rise and Track Alumni
A Sterling High School column notes former track star Bob Gebhardt of Illinois advancing well in the half mile. It recalls hurdling rule adjustments and summarizes golf and tennis training plans, with a hopeful wish for a Tilden or Vines to lead the school to victory as tennis turnout nears thirty players.
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Bob Gebhardt
University of Illinois
Bob
Tilden
Vines
Sterling High
Halibut Vitamins Topic Taught By Dr Kirby
Dr Frank B Kirby spoke before the school on catching vitamins with a hock telling the life of a halibut. He cited halibut oil as a potent vitamin source and referenced a 1929 Norwegian claim that halibut oil is fifty times stronger than cod liver oil. He said vitamins are supplemental and that one can eat unlimited amounts without harming the body.
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Frank B. Kirby
Norway
Dr. Kirby
Two One Act Plays Booked For Dramatic Club
In an extracurricular meeting the Dramatic club voted to produce two one act plays Farewell Cruel World and Who Says Cant. Members will act direct and manage the production. Both plays are humorous and suit a student audience. Mary Belle Haglund selected them and briefly reviewed each. A school performance will follow when ready.
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Dramatic Club
Mary Belle Haglund
Blues Track Team Gears Up For Season With Meets Planned
Sterling opens track season at Oak Park then places fourth at Geneseo invite amid 12-team field. The Blues finish second in shuttle hurdle, disappoint in half mile relay, while Ray Falls earns discus berth and freshman relay claims second. Season aims for strong results at upcoming meets through May.
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Sterling
Oak Park
Rock Island
East Moline
Kewanee
Blues
Davidson
Ray Falls
Smith Enacts Crockett in One Man Show at S H S
A three act one man dramatization about David Crockett by Cloud Smith, a quarter Pawnee impersonator, charmed the student body. The skit depicted Crockett as a Tennessee pioneer, legislator, and congressman with frontier bravado and sayings. Encores offered two humorous Dutch characterizations.
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David Crockett
Cloud” Smith
Pawnee
Tennessee
Crockett
Congress
Will Rogers
Mr. Smith
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Nob” Kiser
Blying Leet
Scheid
Clinton
Dixon
R. 1
Rock Fall
Mendota
Smith
Life OF Crockett
Tennessee Huntsman
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