GAA Plans Varied Activities With Socials And Awards
Members are urged to attend at least one sport weekly as intramural teams kick off after Easter. Aerial darts Tuesday and Thursday, skating Wednesday 4 5 pm with cheap skates, and golf being organized. The Mother Daughter banquet on May 20 in the library initiates new members and pins. The All School Dance on May 28 in the girls gym ends the year with western attire.
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GAA
Donna Bennett
Kay Melchi
Libby Evans
Betty Pitzer
Mary Crane
Miss Moore
Illinois
District Tennis Meet At Moline May 1
The district tournament will be held in Moline on May 1. Sterling will send two players for singles and two doubles teams. Jim Schueler and Les Weinstine are entered in singles. Doubles teams were not yet decided at press time.
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Moline
Sterling
Jim Schueler
Les Weinstine
Scratch the Surface and Name the Pretenders
A compact piece urges discernment between genuine kindness and pretended sympathy, using social satire to advise testing motives through interactions. It implies practical world wisdom about character in social circles.
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Thomas
Track Season Opens With Triangular Wins and Records
Coach Scheid's Golden Warriors started April 13 with a triangular win over Newman and Oregon as Sterling led with 99 points, Oregon 37, Newman 14. Oak Park set a stadium mile relay record at 3:31.6 in a triangular victory over Dixon and SHS on April 17. Rock Island claimed the Sterling Relays for the third year, with seven event records and Rock Island 71, Sterling 51, West Rockford 48, Moline 44, Dixon 24, Rock Falls 17, LaSalle-Peru 8, Freeport 0. SHS athletes Hussing Tauali Baird Wolf Mylin Walker Johnson Kohl stood out. Girls ribbons were awarded by Kannaka Holloway Skrogstad Kannaka.
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Scheid
Golden Warriors
Newman
Oregon
Sterling
Harold Hussing
Tusi Tauali
Jim Baird
John Wolf
Sam Mylin
Mickey Walker
Dick Johnson
Dick Kohl
SHS
Oak Park
Dixon
Rock Island
Moline
West Rockford
Rockford
Gentry
Rock Falls
LaSalle- Peru
Freeport
Sally Kannaka
Phyllis Holloway
Shirley Skrogstad
Sue Kannaka
All-State Cast Honors Go To SHS Actors
At the State Finals in Champaign April 2 and 3 the SHS play Fire Mission placed sixth, with Jerry Rothstein and Tom Faudree named to the outstanding All-State Cast. The SHS debate squad debated twenty rounds across LaGrange Rock Falls Geneseo Augustana and Peoria, winning 25 percent of the events.
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Fire Mission
Champaign
Jerry Rothstein
Tom Faudree
LaGrange
Rock Falls
Geneseo
Augustana
Peoria
Three Win Firsts at DeKalb District Science Fair
Tom Faudree Colin Stewart and Richard Seldon earned first ratings for projects on an X Ray machine class A audio amplifiers and a radio tuning circuit at the DeKalb District Science Fair held April 24. Fred Beggeron won a second rating for paramecium research. First rating winners advance to the State contest at Monmouth Illinois May 7 and 8.
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Tom Faudree
Richard Seldon
Colin Stewart
DeKalb
Fred Beggeron
Monmouth
Illinois
Tennis Terms Glossary Confuses Players With Odd Phrases
A humorous glossary explains tennis terms with playful misreadings such as American Twist and Reverse Twist. It defines First Service net and Ready as a serve timing cue, Volley as a rushed stroke, Lob as a misreached high shot, and Overhead Smash as a ball hitting wood after contact with the racket.
Oak Park Relays Open Track Season
Oak Park sent a boys team to the Oak Park Relays on March 27 with Sam Mylin setting SHS high jump record at 6 1% inches and tying for second. Micky Walker placed fifth in the 50 yard dash. Sterling’s relays did not qualify. Harold Hussing won heats in high hurdles but failed in semis. John Wolf failed to qualify in shot put. Princeton won Class B events and Oak Park won Class A events.
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Sherman
Hunsberger
Oak Park
Sam Mylin
S.H.S
Micky Walker
Sterling
Harold Hussing
John Wolf
Princeton
French Club Hears Of French Scientists
The French Club met April 8 in the visual education room. Members reported on Louis Pasteur the chemist and Louis de Broglie the physicist, plus Michel de Notre Dame the physicist and astrologist. A future session will cover French musicians.
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Lee Tyne
Louis Pasteur
Colin Stewart
Louis de Brogle
de Brogle
Jerry Moore
Michel de Notre Dame
Leave It Lay Ethel Jacobson
A couple patches a quarrel and urges avoidance of autopsies to determine who started it. The wording suggests a domestic dispute resolved without formal investigation.
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Ethel Jacobson
Teen Drive-Right Contest Promotes Safe Habits In Sterling
Jaycees sponsor a national teen road test at Sterling High School. Entrants under 30 with licenses or learner permits face a written exam on April 20 and a driving test May 9 from East Third Street to First Avenue. Trophies awarded to top three individuals and a traveling school trophy.
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East Third Street
First Avenue
Sterling Tennis Opens Season With Wins and Close Losses
Rain disrupted April matches as Sterling’s tennis team posted 6 5 victory at Freeport on April 26 with singles wins by Weinstine Reed Kosier Lundquist and doubles by Schueler Weinstine Linton Kosier Lundquist Clark. Earlier Sterling defeated LaSalle Peru 6 1 at home April 23 and defeated East Moline 7 5 with singles by Schueler Weinstine Reed Linton Kosier and Swehla. April 19 saw Sterling win singles by Kosier, Swehla, Lundquist, Clark and doubles by Clark Lundquist. At Ottawa April 17 Sterling won 8 singles and 4 doubles in Clinton April 12 Clinton 6 Sterling 1.
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Sterling
Freeport
Les Weinstine
Herb Reed
Ken Kosier
Tom Lundquist
Jim Schueler
Larry Linton
Dean Clark
LaSalle Peru
Clinton
Seniors honored at FHA party
The FHA held a party Tuesday April 20 at 7 30 p m in honor of all senior girls taking Home Ec The committee chosen for the party was Mary Bauman chairman Barbara Eberly Lucille Hinrichs Mary Lou Lennington and Judy Rudolph. These girls organized the program including a piano duet by Linda McCoy and Barbara Conchola tap dancing by Pat Barlow and two songs by Mary Espinoza. The group was led in singing by Nancy Balster. After this program several games were played and refreshments were served.
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FHA
Mary Bauman
Barbara Eberly
Lucille Hinrichs
Mary Lou Lennington
Judy Rudolph
Linda McCoy
Barbara Conchola
Pat Barlow
Mary Espinoza
Nancy Bal
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