Sterling Script Staff List and Editorial Team Roles
The document lists staff members for The Sterling Script with roles across editorial, city editing, business management, circulation, features, society, school administration, sports, exchange, and reporters. Names include Lyle Shannon Naomi Benters Mary Beth Harrison John Platt Ariadene Main Bob Salm Lawton McCandless Sanita Bendewald Alice Mae Richards Bob Haag Lora Mae McCaslin Wendell Vallee Hermina Vogel Kathryn Cornelius and many reporters such as Lucille Ohnen Meda Parker Dick Smith Betty Gehring Viola Nester Helen Cassensa Arden Daehler Lillian Whitford Bill Haglund Helen Meyers Ellen Jane Wallick Lucille Burr Helen Lea Hansen Margery Kohl and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Andrews
Bob Fields
Elmer
Lora Mae McCaslin
Wendell Vallee
Hermina Vogel
Thoris Hoak
Kathryn Cornelius
Lucille Ohnen
Meda Parker
John Platt
Dick Smith
Betty Gehring
Viola Nester
Helen Cassensa
Arden Daehler
Lillian Whitford
Bill Haglund
Helen Meyers
Ellen Jane Wallick
Lucille Burr
Helen Lea Hansen
Margery Kohl
Alvera Gantzert
Ruth Robinson
Gertrude Adams
Editorial on athletes failing under success
The piece notes that some students who receive honors in interscholastic activities become egotistical and unteachable, while others remain admirable. It contrasts tin heroes with genuine, modest leaders like Lindbergh, urging steadfast integrity despite fame.
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Lindbergh
Mend Your Manners in School Society
A writer urges introducing a manners course alongside safe driving for all students. They urge the ninety percent to act as vigilantes against disrespect and petty theft, noting embarrassment when outsiders must reprimand. They call for internal action rather than office intervention.
Christmas Message From Principal to SHS Students
Principal Roscoe Eades urges SHS students to help Red Cross fund relief for war‑stricken China and to remember those at home facing hardship. He frames Christmas as a season of giving and peace, urging generosity and concern for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SHS
China
Red Cross
Do you know the early Americans and Manhattan Island swindle
A reflective jumble about early American dealings with Manhattan Island, noting a myth of paying Indians with trinkets and the later need to buy the island back, along with aside comments on Indians’ color, alphabet pangrams, and Cyrus the Great’s memory of soldiers in his vast army.
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Manhattan Island
Cyrus the Great
Coach Scheid Teaches Safe Driving to Boys
Coach Scheid uses gym classes to teach safe driving for drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. One hundred fifty copies of MAN AND THE MOTOR CAR are used as textbooks. The top shown drivers in exams are Clinton Tuber Warren Reitzel Wayne Ellmaker Ward Dillon and Robert Bartel.
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Scheid
Clinton Tuber
Warren Reitzel
Wayne Ellmaker
Ward Dillon
Robert Bartel
December Dates and School Group Gatherings Schedule
A compact list shows events around Christmas recess and early January: Junior Christmas Dance on December 23, School Again on January 3, Ag Meetings January 5 12 19, Science Club speaker Dr Jones January 12, Semester Exams January 19 and 20, and Tea Dance on January 21.
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Dr. Jones
Landslide Talk Resumes For 1940 Election
A cheeky political column previews the 1940 race with F D R as a likely favorite, Alf Landon and Hoover as possible contenders, and jokes about Farley as GOP standard bearer. It muses on term limits, party symbols, and a light suggestion of Harpo Marx as VP.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Rogers
Alf Landon
Hoover
James
Jim
Supreme Court
Maine
Vermont
Literary Digest
Charley Butterworth
White House
Harpo Marx
Autographed Track and Field Book Given to Sterling High School
Coach George Bresnahan of the University of Iowa presents an autographed copy of Track and Field Athletics to Sterling High School Library. Inscribed by Bresnahan to Sterling High School for help when he was a SHS student from 1906 to 1909. He visited and greeted former friends in the office.
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Misa Forbes
Bresnahan
Living Art Now on Exhibition in Our School Library
The school library features new assistant Quinten Hlarms aiding Miss Lov Rien with cataloguing. L'Illustration from Paris arrives weekly through May. Nineteen new collateral reading books boost the French class shelf. Two modern paintings from a lending library, Still-Life Apples by Henry Lee McFee and The Boat by Peter Blume, are on display with a bulletin by Miss Goette. New safe-driving material and three new historical novels for religious education classes accompany the exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quinten Hlarms
Henry Lee McFee
Peter Blume
Scheid
Hi Y Represented At Elgin Conference December Meeting
Hi Y representatives led by George Allen attended the Older Boys Conference in Elgin December third to fifth. The event drew 661 delegates and 41 leaders from 65 communities, with 701 official attendance. New Hi Y chapter formed for rural lunch program attendees. Junior Hi Y won 21 20. Mary Wilbern presides over the new freshman-sophomore Girl Reserve club with officers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle
Dale Harshman
Paul Harshman
Lyle Hall
Bob Jurkens
Warren Reitzel
DeVere Tarvin
George Allen
Elgin
Mary Wilbern
Gertrude Fine
Helen Lea Hansen
Annamae Hussing
Mias Harriet Schick
Alma Sherman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Press Club
Sterling Township High School
Sterling, Ilinois
Lyle Shannon
Naomi Benters
Mary Beth Harrison
Ass't
John Havener
Ariadene Main
Typista
Advisers
Roscoe Eades
Duke of Windsor
Japan
Uncle Bob
J. Q. Vandz
By Mortimer Q. Hashhandel
S.hls
Hi-Y
Dr. Acton
Ray Hart
Mr. Eades
Sir Rover
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