Inter-School Dance Tomorrow Coordinated by Swehla
Sterling and Rock Falls high schools unite for an inter school dance at the coliseum tomorrow night at 8 30. Lynn Lawrence's orchestra will play the out of town show with Bob Swehla as general chairman and Bill Welton as floor show chairman. Tickets are a quarter.
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Sterling
Rock Falls
Lynn Lawrence
Bob Swehla
Bill Welton
Dorothy Stewart
Neil Janssen
Suzanne Janssen
Rock Falls High School
Logan
Buy A Jeep Slogan For S. H. S This Month
The War Bond and Stamp sale at Sterling Township High School uses the slogan Buy a Jeep. A jeep costs 1165 dollars with parts bought by war bonds and stamps since September totaling 2498 dollars. The jeep’s body is completed and parts are staged as individual pictures in study hall.
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Sterling Township
Jeep
Harriet Echternach
Polomeme Potters Present Ancient Art Show
The Polomeme Potters showcased ancient pottery techniques at 8 H 8 on Monday November 8 at 2 45 PM. They explained clay craft from wheel work to firing ovens reaching high heat, noting pottery strengthens with baking. Cathryn Detweiler introduced the group to the audience and discussed pottery’s wartime uses.
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United States
Cathryn Detweiler
Christmas Greetings and Call to Share Joy
The Script wishes readers a joyful holiday season and urges spending some extra money to help someone less fortunate. It notes some workers will miss family time or face deployment, and urges remembering Christmas as the birthday of freedom through belief in Christ.
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Christ
Miss Rompf Joins Township High as Home Ec Assistant
Miss Virginia Rompf, a senior from Northern Illinois State Teachers College at DeKalb, will teach six weeks at Sterling Township High School assisting Mrs. Martin and Miss Franke in homemaking courses. She is active in college and local groups, lives in the community, and will graduate in June with a BS in science and education. When her term ends another DeKalb senior will replace her.
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Sterling Townhhip High School
Illinois
Northern Illinois State Teachers’ College At
DeKalb
Virginia Rompf
William Martin
Helyn Franke
Miss Rompf
Town Girls’ Organization
Sigma Chi Sigma
Township High School
Waterman
Former Teacher Edna Neff Dies in California Home
Miss Edna Neff, 67, longtime head of Sterling Township High home economics, died suddenly December 1, 1943, at her Santa Monica home. She began the department in 1911, retired in 1941 to move west, and held a lifelong teaching record from Denver to Columbia.
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Edna Neff
Sterling Township High
Santa Monica
California
Miss Neff
Sterling
Ek.t. Austin
Denver
Colorado
Maude Edwards
Rochester Atheneum and Mechanic’s Institute of Rochester
N. Y
Columbia
University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin
University of Denver
Sterling High School Radio Broadcast On WGN Sunday
Sterling high school will air on a nationwide network over WGN Sunday January 23 at 1 30 PM. A 30 minute program features the school choir a quiz for war stamps and bonds and an honor roll segment with Principal Roscoe Eades speaking on Sterling students and the national war effort.
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Philip Maxwell
Eades
Sterling
YM Youth Center opens with fun and activities for area students
High school students from Sterling and Rock Falls gathered at the Y M C A on December 4 for cokes ping pong pool dancing and music. The newly formed Youth Center was planned by Rock Falls and Sterling Hi Tri and Hi V groups with officers Sarah Burkett president Betty Jane Reisner vice president and Tom Hoffman treasurer. Chairmen include Shirley Butler Ray White Marilu Holler Eugene Sands Marcia Bogaard Bettijeanne McNeil and others. The second floor rooms and first floor spaces were cleaned redecorated and refurnished as part of the opening preparations.
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Sterling
Rock Falls
Rip van Winkle
Rock Falls High School
Sterling Township
Hi-Tri
Hi-V
Sarah Burkett
Betty Jane Reisner
R. F
Neilanssen
Tom Hoffman
Shirley Butler
Ray White
Marilu Holler
Eugene Sands
Marcia Bogaard
Bettijeanne McNeil
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Swehla
WGN
Citizens of Tomorrow
Twin-City
Coliseum
Polomeme Potters
Hristmas
YM Youth Center
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