Script Editor Receives High Honor at Sterling Christmas Concert
The Sterling Township High School music program presented its annual Christmas concerts led by director William Tonkin. The 85 voice Robed Choir performed December 14 and 16 at St Johns and Messiah Lutheran, with Freshman Boys Chorus and Sophomore groups also performing. Audience members joined in carols between numbers.
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Sterling High
Sterling Township High School
William Tonkin
St. John’s
Messiah Lutheran
Sterling High Faculty Plan Christmas Trips
Sterling High faculty members reveal holiday travel plans. Miss Wilma Moore seeks sun and recreation in a warm destination. Miss Jan Head will visit Detroit. Miss Marise Daves heads Alabama bound. Miss Ruth Straw trips to Memphis Tennessee. Mr Harvey Waffle travels to Platteville Wisconsin for store business. Miss Ruth Welle to Newton Iowa to visit family. Mr William Tonkin 예정 Northern Michigan. Miss Delores Salzsiedler returns to South Dakota. Mr Jack Barnes heads Colorado.
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Sterling High
Wilma Moore
Jan Head
Detroit
Marise Daves
Alabama
Ruth Straw
Memphis
Tennessee
Harvey Waffle
Platteville
Wisconsin
Ruth Welle
Newton
Iowa
William Tonkin
Michigan
Delores Salzsiedler
South Dakota
Jack Barnes
Colorado
Spanish Club and Future Teachers Host Kinder Party
A Monday party for first and second grade Mexican children took place in Wallace School gym. Sponsored by the Spanish Club and the Future Teachers, the event featured games, two pinatas, candy scramble, and gifts presented by Santa Claus.
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Wallace School
Future Teachers
Santa Claus
Student Council Supplies Main Hall Christmas Tree
The council, led largely by sophomores, bought and decorated the Christmas tree in the main hall two weeks before Christmas vacation.
Christmas Spirit Fills Sterling High With Festive Events
Sterling High celebrates with decorated halls and classroom displays as language clubs hold a joint Christmas program. Students perform carols in French Spanish and Latin and advisors Miss Ruth Straw and Miss Delores Salzsiedler oversee events. The home economics department hosts a faculty party on December 13 with decorations by foods classes. The band plans a January 1 party at Carrie Doty’s house.
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Sterling High
Ruth Straw
Delores Salzsiedler
Carrie Doty
Girls and Boys Quartets Busy Weeks in Christmas Push
The Girls' Quartet sang for Ladies groups at Fourth Street churches Ore gon Ogle County Soil Conservation and Morrison Teachers Institute. The Boys' Quartet performed at Presbyterian Congregational Methodist Episcopal and Christian Churches for the Elks Memorial and at Jul's Danish Farm for the Bankers Association Banquet. Members include Nancy Balster Nikki Fleck Sandra Geiseman Ruth Williams and Jim Zeigler Jim Baird Lee Tyne Bob Brown.
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Fourth Street Methodist
Congregational Church
Ogle County Soil Conservation Association
Oregon
Teachers Institute
Morrison
Elks Club
Jul
Danish Farm
Bankers Association
Nancy Balster
Nikki Fleck
Sandra Geiseman
Ruth Williams
Jim Zeigler
Jim Baird
Lee Tyne
Bob Brown
Gratitude for Submissions and Acknowledgments
The note thanks all contributors to the issue and regrets that not all writings could be printed. It also extends thanks to Harold Hussing for designing the name plate now used in the Script.
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Harold Hussing
Joanne Whitaker Wins DAR Award For Senior Honor
Joanne Whitaker was selected as the recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution award for her senior year. The honor recognizes dependability leadership service and patriotism, highlighting truthfulness honesty punctuality initiative cooperation helpfulness responsibility and unselfish loyalty to American ideals.
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Joanne Whitaker
Honor Society Inducts Eight At Assembly
Eight seniors were inducted into the National Honor Society at a December 17 assembly after the principal introduced the prior May inductees. John Benson explained the four requirements and emblem, then four members defined each criterion: character, scholarship, leadership, and service. The tapping ceremony followed as inductees accepted pins and the pledge.
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National Honor Society
Roscoe Eades
John Benson
John
Judy Penley
Richard Nice
Jim Schueler
Joanne Whitaker
Eades
Honor Society
Nikki Fleck
Harold Hussing
Dana Johnson
Sally Kannaka
Ruth Pelton
Ellis Seavey
Ronald Sonneman
Ruth Williams
Lost and Found Items at Room 113
Miss Ruth Straw reports a Lost and Found list in Room 113 with claimable items including a brown leather pencil case a blue and white headscarf with purple roses a gold compact a gym suit bearing Sally Sword's name black fur topped boots books pens bracelets neck laces and a pocket book Anything Can Happen by George and Helen Papashmely. Two right hand gloves a Quill and Scroll Pin plaid headscarf have not arrived.
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Papashmely
Ruth Straw
Sally Sword
George
Helen Papashmely
Miss Straw
Joanne Sterling Gazette Editor and Club Leader
Joanne demonstrates leadership as editor in chief of the Script and president of the Dramatic Club. She also serves as vice president of the National Honor Society and Sterling Gazette high school correspondent, pursuing typing II shorthand II English and world history this year.
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Joanne
Dramatic Club
National Honor Society
Sterling Gazette
Suggestions to Improve S H S Time Schedule
A list proposes changing S H S to shift the day from 11:00 start to 3:30 dismissal with blocks for lunch siesta recreation and relaxation. It advocates watching Arthur Godfrey during 11:00 start and claims doctors support longer breaks to reduce absences.
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