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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1937
Page
7
Anecdotal notes from Sterling High School recount campus chatter and crushes among students, including references to teachers, clubs, and social life. The column mentions a missing beas t ie, letters from Belvidere and De Kalb, and a lighthearted run of intimate notes from the Little Black Book with doubled lives, mischief, and crushes among seniors and staff.
Sterling Chapter 354, Order of the Eastern Star, hosts a holiday dance for Sterling and Rock Falls high school students on December 30 from nine to twelve. Faculty hosts assist with tickets at twenty five cents single or fifty cents per couple. college students home for holidays invited.
Former Script editor Everett L Myers now with Sterling Daily Gazette spoke to the Press Club on December sixth. He outlined essentials of good reporting and demonstrated lead paragraphs covering the who what when where why, answering staff questions about his Knox College paper days and teletype editor work at the Gazette.
The Mendota Debate Club postpones its annual banquet to spring due to holiday conflicts. The program remains incomplete while the Mendota Invitational is set for January 8. New members include Marge Andrews Jeanne K Ruth Ann Castendyck Fern Allen Helen Lee Hanson Phyllis Shannon Francis Kersten Dick Rohrer Charles Geyer Lyle Geetig Ruth Welton Eleanor John Gloria Brian Marian Kline Harrison Stone Leta Houseman Bob Fields Charlotte Carns and John Platt.
The item notes Helen Kelsey and Charlotte Carns showing class rings and questions the identity of a bygone beloved in Ida Jayne’s locket. It hints at disputed football gossip and warns players about threatening writers, marking tense days in the paper.
Sterling Future Farmer Warren Friedrichs and Harvey Schweitzer Jr of Malta win honors as they join 15 000 Illinois Future Farmers to usher at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. The pair reported Monday at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago to receive instructions.
The Sterling Future Farmers club hosted mothers and fathers for a potluck supper and outlined plans for a stronger winter program. Coach Twardock is praised for his record. Morrison and Rock Falls visitors joined a jamboree with games and ice cream. Sterling won the December 3 poultry contest at Morrison with Arthur Koster Roy Beck and Jason Hopkins as the winning team.
A playful list of nursery classics and rhymes with a mix of modern stray lines. References include Little Bo Peep Little Boy Blue and Mary Mary lamb, alongside improvised lines about a ship, a trapeze, and Afghanistan.
Social notes describe feminine party life with luncheons and bridge games for Mary Beth Harrison and others. The piece mentions birthday celebrations, theatre plans, dances, skating, and faculty social events, ending with dessert bridge and prize drawings for club members.
The Paris French club held a Christmas party at the YWCA with games and gift exchanges. Refreshments and carols closed the evening as Miss Harriet Schick and Miss Marian Lovrien were noted as advisers. Junior girls wore hair ribbons and varied attire while GAA pledges recited a tune. A nurse will staff S H S one hour daily in the second semester for illness checks.
A Wuhan based Chinese college student Lin Teh Wei writes across the Pacific to the student council of an American college, detailing daily bombings in China, civilian suffering, and a Red Cross appeal for aid as winter nears. He reports that many children are motherless and seeks assistance from overseas students and schools.
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