Nob Kiser Speaks at Sterling High S Club Banquet
The S club of Sterling High held its second annual banquet with about 350 attendees at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. Nob Kiser of Purdue delivered a football themed talk emphasizing clean play, training, and the ABCs of sports: ambition backbone and character.
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Sterling High
Nobel Kiser
Purdue
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary
Lynn Timmons
Nob” Kiser
Kiser
Knute Rockne
Abc’s of Sports
Knitting Champ Declared in April Fool Edition
The Knox Student notes Skip Weaver aged 32 crowned national knitting champion after beating 63 rivals. April fools items appear in Lindblom Weekly The Cornellian and The Glen Bard with playful editions, while Reed-Custer reports success for The Gypsy Rover. An auto crash at Sixth Avenue and Fourth Street injured no one seriously.
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Knox
Knitting Needle
Lindblom Weekly
Lindblom High
Chicago
Cornellian
Glen Bard
Glen Ellyn
Reed-Custer Township
Braidwood
Ill
Gypsy Rover
Lane Tech
Mary Louise Kendle
Champaign
Eugene Ewbank
Sixth Avenue
Fourth Street
Track stars progress at college and sports notes
Former Sterling High standout Bob Gebhardt excels at the University of Illinois in the half mile, while hurdles rules have unsettled current athletes. The golf program trains before school, and the tennis court is prepared for a season with about thirty players hoping for a strong year.
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Bob Gebhardt
University of Illinois
Bob
Tilden
Vines
Sterling High
Halibut Vitamins Highlighted By Dr Kirby Talk
Dr Frank B Kirby spoke to students on Catching Vitamins with a Hock, detailing halibut life and oil as a vitamin source. He cited American chemists and a 1929 Norway claim that halibut oil is fifty times stronger than cod liver oil, noting vitamins are a supplemental food and can be eaten in unlimited amounts without harm.
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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 stage two one act plays titled Farewell Cruel World and Who Says Cant They will be acted and directed by club members The plays aim to entertain a younger audience and will be presented to the school once ready Mary Belle Haglund selected the plays and gave brief reviews of each.
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Dramatic Club
Mary Belle Haglund
Blues Track Team Aims For Strong Season Start
Sterling opened the season in Oak Park and later took fourth at the Geneseo invitational with Rock Island East Moline and Kewanee in a 12-team field. The shuttle hurdle team finished second after a hurdle collision, while the half mile relay won against Rock Island. Ray Falls earned a discus placing and the freshman relay placed second.
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Sterling
Oak Park
Rock Island
East Moline
Kewanee
Blues
Davidson
Ray Falls
Smith Portrays David Crockett In One Man Show
A three act one man dramatization by Cloud Smith, a quarter bred Pawnee Indian, was well received at S. H. S. The performance covered Crockett’s Tennessee origins his height and weight his brief schooling three terms in state legislature and congress and his famous maxims. Encores included two humorous Dutch characterizations.
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David Crockett
Cloud” Smith
Pawnee
Tennessee
Crockett
Congress
Will Rogers
Mr. Smith
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Blying
Scheid
Smith
Life OF Crockett
Tennessee Huntsman
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