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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1943
Page
2
A note from Sterling Township High School in Sterling Illinois lists editors for a periodical published every three weeks. The brief identifies the school and local publication cadence.
Sterling and Rock Falls celebrate the opening of a local Youth Center created by the efforts of students, parents, merchants, and the YMCA. The center provides a weekend social hub for S. H. S. students offering games, dancing, cake, reading, and conversation with simple membership rules.
The Red Cross delivers Christmas boxes from Sterling High to Camp Grant Hospital soldiers. Students in every second period class filled boxes with woolen scarves socks and stationery for lonely troops far from home.
In a lively school page, students describe a busy period with the senior play ending, intra mural hopes, and classroom antics. Betty Portner writes Santa letters for gas coupons, while jokes at a P. J. party spark memories of Guy Lombardo.
The list names freshmen and sophomores with multiple A grades. Highlights include Dick Eikenberry Joyce Goldberg Joyce Long Carol Moyer Mary Seloover Joyce Williams along with many others achieving top marks across four subjects or quarters.
The article highlights student leaders like Sarah Burkett and Miss Speer noting patriotic effort and courage. Albert Hunter an injured freshman receives praise for his resilience and perseverance. It urges participation and teamwork to support school activities and war effort.
War era titles and contemporary novels fill the S H S library shelves. Readers are urged to read Suez to Singapore and Gordon Seagrave’s Burma Surgeon along with Teresita of the Valley and Lassie Come Home. The note encourages immediate reading.
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