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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
7
The Great Love Doctor presides over a school rumor mill as seniors and freshmen exchange notes and crushes. Fran Cullins, Betty Shaw, Shirley Jenkins, and other pairs surface in French notes and whispered inquiries.
The Lombards wowed audiences December 2 with a smoked meat platter magic trick as Mr. Lombard outlined the east coast in pitch black and Black Beauty appeared. An electric spark throwing anvil accompanied the Anvil Chorus after the lights went out.
The Sterling Rotarians were entertained at noon on December 3 by the school glee clubs. The boys opened with Soldier's Chorus from Faust Bulldog Song and Rotary Song. The girls closed with I Would That My Love The Dancers and Roses of Picardy accompanied by director Mr Howens.
Two packed houses applauded the senior class play Seven Keys to Baldpate last Thursday and Friday evenings under Miss Rawson. The cast and crew produced a polished melodrama with strong leads and well staged lighting and costumes, including prominent performances by Zale Allabaugh Florence Kline Allen Besse Virginia Grandon and Jane Andrews.
The Sterling Club hosted a November 29 dance sponsored by the T. N. T. Club. The senior girls group led by Virginia Grandon reports a tidy profit for charitable use and plans future meetings every Tuesday night at members' homes.
A collage of campus tidbits notes Northwestern beat Notre Dame spurring student strike cheer. Knox sports editor boosts opening basketball win over Rock Island. Joliet High School ditty recalls a football feature from the High Journal. Drake U Date Bureau makes headlines. Rockford Owl front page highlights music. Eureka Nautilus reports a soph Wiener roast.
Margaret Birch and Etta May Anspach of Blue and Gold and Script joined the state high school press conference at Champaign before Thanksgiving. They heard lectures, spoke with Mr. Peers of Deerfield Shields High on publication improvements, and enjoyed the state orchestra chorus with Virginia Grandon. They attended a press association jam boree luncheon and the Illinois Chicago football game with Miss Lovrien advising on publications.
Cornell College official Professor King Dean of Men spoke to high schoolers on the psychology of drunkenness. He diagrammed alcohol’s effect on the brain and argued liquor is a narcotic rather than a stimulant, as some believe.
Mrs. Davis has been ill and absent from school this week. Miss Yeager is also ill.
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