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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1939
Page
4
A light community recap details various campus scenes and mishaps. Tom Coats pays a dollar after a parking slip on a Geneseo trip. Debating staff celebrate a Fun Festival balloon stunt gone awry. The annual board reports sales gaps and a color error in the engraved school portrait. The next issue promises the Whispers in the Dark culprit will be named.
A list of students awarded typing or shorthand pins with word counts. Bob Salm earned a sixty word typing pin in advanced class. Donna Hansen and Eleanor John received fifty word pins. Kathryn Jansen Kathryn Walters Vernice Kavadan Marjorie Rorick and Warren Whitver earned forty word pins. Very Yarbrough Charlotte Capps Betty McNinch Earl Bruggeman Marjorie John Donald Haag and Donna Brittain earned thirty word pins. Marie Vogel Donna Little Jean Maier Dorothy Overcash June Reiger and Irene Gerdes received eighty word shorthand pins. Marian Allabaugh and Beverly Wolf received sixty word pins.
Miss Goette directs a quirky display of student soap carvings including dogs, lions, a zoo keeper, and portraits. Students such as Art Malnix, Jack Jurkens, Bob Breiding, Lorraine Wolf, and Don Kyger craft varied pieces from plaster, cork, water color, and wood while Goette observes.
Mrs. Silas Jones, former college teacher, spoke to the Hi-Tri girls on college life April 18. She warned about home sickness, wardrobe musts, room decorating, and rushing, stressing books over clubs, lasting friendships, and answered questions at the end.
Rural Hi-Y youths met at the Y cabin for a Monday noon gathering under Mr. Twar dock and Ralph Pyles. They enjoyed food and gossip as rumor of mystery stories circulated, with plans for a two day summer camping trip noted.
Bill Haglund asks for a transfer with a playful twist as he reveals the destination is a surprise party. The conductor questions the unknown location while Bill keeps the secret, adding light humor to the scene.
The 79 member band competes in the state band contest at La Salle tonight at ten. The Robed Choir faces its competition tomorrow. Notable ensemble members include Arland Gould Clarence Strock Julia Heida Mary Anna Turnroth Bob Jones and Edwin Bowers. The spring concert is set for May 24 featuring contest numbers and several group performances. Tickets are on sale. May 25 features a joint program by Mr Howens and Mr Richards. The chorus works on H M S Pinafore with solos planned this week.
Dale Schumacher won first place in his division at La Salle on April 15 and earned a national contest recommendation to Anderson Indiana. Mary Andrews Pat Donahue and Bob Fields also placed second in their divisions after a district contest on March 25 where Dale and Pat earned first ratings and Mary and Bob earned second ratings.
Three students out of 600 earned straight A s this quarter. Keith Benson leads freshmen, Helen Lea Hanson tops sophomores, and Don Fehrenbach remains senior leader, each with four A s. An amused note follows about an absent minded professor revolving in a door.
John Gillis described French schools at the French club meeting on April 18. He claimed doors are manually controlled, air raid procedures exist, walls resemble prisons, stores close with iron doors, and streets are wide with few lights beyond theatres. He noted fencing and rugby in sports and a grading paradox for French graduates. Students Jim Brown, Mary Wilbern, and Viola Nester spoke in French. Dale Schumacher sang.
The S H 8 debaters host a farewell picnic in the gym on May 6 for seniors. Bob Salm presides as program planner. The team names 16 award winners for the year, with notable success in overall record 26 wins 16 losses. The affirmative Castendyck Salm tallied 16 wins 6 defeats, while the negative Donahue Behrens Fehrenbach went 11 10.
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