Local High School Exchanges Highlight Student Activities
A roundup of school papers from Rockford Belvidere Joliet Hyde Park and Spring Valley shows a Christmas essay contest a sculpture class a junior class play What a Life and The Half Times world news condensed readers dances in Hyde Park and a notable noise meter program. Hyde Park earned the 1989 All American superior rating from the National Scholastic Press Association.
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United States
Rockford
Aledo High School
Spring Valley
Half Times
Hyde Park
National Scholastic Press Association
French Club Plans First Meeting After Christmas Break
The French club remains unoscillated this year with no regular meetings yet. Miss Schick mentors the group of French students who play French games and sing Christmas carols in the language. They also view motion pictures. The first regular meeting is scheduled for after Christmas vacation.
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Miss Schick
Latin Club Christmas Party Brings Freshmen Together
Freshman students attended the Latin Club’s annual Christmas party at the high school last Wednesday. Gifts were exchanged in a sack circle while music played, with unwrapped presents passed and kept as the music halted. A student trio sang carols as talks on Saturnalia and Rome’s Christmas role followed, and four freshmen staged a brief Roman American comparison play.
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Faye Ewbank
Gordon Behrens
Jack Chapman
LaVonne McNeil
Martin Doorman
Rome
Betty McNeil
Marion Hoover
Jean Bressler
Margaret Regier
Dorothy Ward
Merrill Church
Phyllis Stump
Emory Moore Named in Who's Who In American Colleges
Emory Moore a Sterling Township high school 1984 graduate was listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. He will graduate next June from Phillips University at Enid Oklahoma and is a brother of Haden Moore of the Sterling faculty.
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Emory Moore
Sterling Township High School
Emory
Phillip’s University
Enid
Oklahoma
Haden Moore
Sterling
Future Farmers Host Jamboree With Neighboring Clubs
The Sterling F F A held its fourth annual jamboree on November 9 with about 150 ag students from Morrison Tampico Rock Falls and Sterling. Events included a pop drinking contest won by Francis Anderson Tampico and a pie eating contest won by Deers Rock Falls. Rock Falls dominated several events and Tampico won the tug of war with Morrison third. An ice cream cake reception followed, and a motion picture closed the evening. A Christmas date party is planned for December 16 with committee chairs named.
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Morrison
Tampico
Rock Falls
Sterling Future
Sterling F. F. A
Francis Anderson
Daffy” Sterenberg
Wayne Friedrichs
Holiday Greetings From Sterling Area Businesses
A festive page lists numerous Sterling area merchants and professionals sending holiday greetings. Businesses include banks, shops, restaurants, and service providers such as Sterling Implement Co. Prince Ice Cream Castles, Walgreens, Phelps Hardware, and many others.
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Sterling Implement Co
Prince Ice Cream Castles
L. EK
Irv
Leo
Dougherty and Jackel
Sterling Federal Savings and Loan Association
A. & S. Dairy
Leo A. Ridge
Chase
Jokerst Motor Sales
Walgreen’s
Kk. A. Gehring
Willis S. Burr DeHaven Beauty Shop
Prophet’s Confectionary
Cameron’s Bakery
Crystal Barber and
Eberly’s
Grebner’s Shoe Store
Gartner’s
Hart’s Studio and
Camera Shop
Dunbar Furniture Store
Annabelle Ray Barber and Beauty Shop
Hey Brother’s Mylin’s Agricultural Store
Cushman’s Liquor Store
Gurdes, Jeweler Johnson's Tea Room
Federal System of Bakeries, Chas. A. Forster Phelps Hardware
Dunnebeck Chevrolet
M. M. Day
Farell Brothers
Ideal Cleaners
Walt Lunch
Bradley’s, Inc
Arcade Laundry
Leath Furniture Co
Ford Hopkins
Senior Play Acclaimed Success By Audiences
The senior class presented Clifford Goldsmith's What a Life on November 28 and 29 at Central High School. Johnny Platt starred as Henry Aldrich with Mary Andrews as his girl, supported by a strong cast and crew under directors Miss Burritt and Miss Joiner.
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Clifford Goldsmith
Johnny Platt
Henry Aldrich
Henry
Central High School
Mary Andrews
Doris Burritt
Elizabeth Joiner
First After-Game Dance Attracts Large Attendance
The first of a series of high school basketball dances was held in the gym on December 6 under senior class sponsorship. Future dances are planned after Friday games with proceeds of ten cents. Good music and a social hour framed the event.
Jam Session Rivals Band Numbers at Senior Dance
Music by Mel Elliot and his band entertained dancers at the Senior Cotili sion on November 20. The gym was neatly decorated and a small crowd enjoyed a jam session on the floor with David Stryker on piano and three DeKalb musicians. Ruth Ann Castendyck sang. Fern Allen and Herb Carlton were co chairmen.
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Mel Elliot
David Stryker
DeKalb
Ruth Ann Castendyck
Naval Officer Recounts Halifax Visit and Four Eyes Officer
Mr. Logsdon relates a World War I tale of meeting a British officer with four eyes in Halifax. The officer, badly disfigured, uses three glass eyes in rotation, and adjusts his real eye to a glass one based on drinks. Logsdon notes naval officers pay high laundry costs and must provide their own whites.
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Mr. Logsdon
Halifax
Admiralty
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Steadman
Wolf
Belvidere
Joliet High
Latin Club
Future Farmers
Jean Knox
Jim Wink
Bill Buckingham
Fern Allen
Herb Carlton
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