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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1970
Page
4
Frode Fijeldberg describes four months in the United States noting homecoming, school life, and social mixing. He compares Norway and American schedules, modular classes, and Friday free Saturdays, then recounts Norwegian Christmas customs including seven cakes, Christmas Eve church, carols, and family gift exchanges.
Richard Roberson recasts Christmas with a ghetto scene where hunger replaces gifts. A truck and eight helpers deliver sparse presents, as the narrator greets a jolly, snow-dusted figure who leaves a message of goodwill.
Debbie Howard reports Sterling started a youth hotline on November 9. Led by Larry Segneri, it offers anonymous advice from trained counselors. In week one there were 15 calls about drugs, parental issues and dating troubles, with plans to expand to Sauk-trained youth counselors.
Three SHS student teachers from Olin Cox to Miss Marilyn Milosevich and Mrs Nancy Bajema work at Sterling High School until the second semester. Cox studies at Illinois State University in Normal and teaches with Mr Schick in Agriculture. Milosevich majors in English at ISU and enjoys the school and staff. Bajema, an English major from Morrison, is at Northern and was encouraged to teach by her husband. All report cooperative students and plan to return to college after the first week of second semester.
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