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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1936
Page
6
The document lists staff and editors for the Sterling Script Open House Edition. It includes Elmer Barraclough Edward Hay Don Fehrenbach Etta May Anspach Bob Johnson and various advisors and business staff.
The first load of dirt is dumped on Sterling High School’s lot on Le Fevre Street between Third and Fourth Avenues marking the start of a new track. The project follows board discussions and site preparation by architect Robert Work of Chicago to ensure proper drainage and alignment with the existing football field.
Sixty two students have been placed in jobs since September 1935 and the total is expected to exceed one hundred by year’s end. Shop home economics and commercial studies teachers often recommend graduates from both day and evening programs, with admin input required for every placement. Local factories and businesses are thanked for their assistance and suggestions in employing high school graduates.
The article outlines a comprehensive English program across grades with seniors under Miss Lovrien studying from tenth to twentieth century literature and doing reports with library tools. Juniors under Miss Rawson focus on American literature and writing. Sophomores study Literature and Composition using Literature and Life, Book Two and Using English, with Trail Fires as a supplementary exercise. Freshman English lays the foundation with current editions and a semester composition course continuing on page 5.
A charter chapter of the Quill and Scroll honorary journalism society is established this spring with eight members Etta Anspach Herbert Bell Margaret Birch Edward Hay William Hill Robert Johnson Margaret Thomas and Larry Wheeler plus advisor Miss Lovrien. National secretary Edward Nell commends Wheeler and Johnson and praises Hay Hill for reporting and writing news, noting the group shows unusual talent.
The Sterling High journalism program names its 1935 1936 staff with Etta Anspach as editor in chief and a full editorial board. It notes growth from a 1933 sophomore newspaper The New Deal to the 1934 1935 Sterling Script debut under Lois Wahl and further progress in 1935 under Everett L. Myers with added headlines cuts and redesigned layout.
The senior class under Margaret Birch will publish the 1936 Blue and Gold after May first. Seniors sponsor luncheons plays dances rummage sales and other activities to support the annual and break even through minor proceeds and sale profits.
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