Sterling Defeats Rock Island in Open Season Reveal
Sterling's basketball squad showcased strength with a 29 to 9 victory over Rock Island, a former district champion. Captains Gebhardt and Moore led the team as Whaley and Bowers pride themselves on solid coaching. An intramural league and a potential wrestling team under Allie Morrison are on the horizon as practice continues.
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Rock Island
Sterling
Gebhardt
Moore
Whaley
Bowers
Community
Coliseum
Allie Morrison
G A A song service lights Christmas spirit
Last Friday morning the G A A held its annual song service to celebrate the Christmas season. Mrs Dora Andreas Wiles led carols with Mrs Eades at the piano while members and guests formed a semi circle around a stage choir. Ten carols were sung by all, each member holding a candle. Mrs Wiles sang a solo A Candle Light or No Light and Miss Esther Brown performed Cantique de Noel, filling the room with Christmas spirit.
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Dora Andreas Wiles
Eades
Un Peu de Paris Hosts Christmas Party in December
The Un Peu de Paris club celebrated a Christmas party on December 19 with first year class and faculty guests. A French play featured Edna Good Ruth Weyrauch Bill McCandless Lamilee Bethard Lucille Martin as a French family, plus Anna Marie Young John Keefeer Dorothy Pettit Jean Zbinden Elwood Mohrman as guests and Frances Connor Robert Zbinden Robert Sundberg Marion McCoy as French beggars.
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UN Peu DE Paris
Edna Good
Ruth Weyrauch
Bill McCandless
Lamilee Bethard
Lucille Martin
Anna Marie Young
John Keefeer
Dorothy Pettit
Jean Zbinden
Elwood Mohrman
Frances Connor
Robert Zbinden
Robert Sundberg
Marion McCoy
Roman Banquet at Latin Club Feeds Readings and Festivities
The Latin Club staged a Roman banquet with fiv ergreen branches chrysanthemum decor and candelabra. Sophomore girls served a three course Latin inspired dinner while Everett Myers led as master of ceremonies and Eve lyn Vanor performed a classic dance. A prophecy read by William Black, pantomime by Ellen Hall and Dan Metzgar, and a Roman wedding finale featuring Janet Hoover and Larry Wheeler capped the evening with rewards for Latin students and club helpers.
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Sherman Baldwin
Everett Myers
Evelyn Vanor
Sue Hendricks
Leona Mitchell
Elizabeth Hungate
William Black
Lois Wahl
Ellen Hall
Clyde Wentling
Dan Metzgar
Dorothy Frank
Janet Hoover
Larry Wheeler
Margaret Birch
William Sims
Herbert Bell
Louis Long
Melvin Bere
Lawrence Coats
Joe Figeley
Miss Forbes
Miss Echternach
Armory To Be Redecorated In Sterling Project
C W A plans redecorating at the Sterling armory in the coliseum. Company M's De Voe says walls and ceiling will be refinished the storeroom bars removed a new supply room and dust proof closets for uniforms. Five workers for two weeks with 350 labor and 250 materials. C W A runs similar projects statewide employing about 950 men. Funds cover labor while materials come from taxes.
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Sterling
Sterling Coliseum
de Voe
Company M
Prom chairmen announced for junior-senior event
Everett Myers, president of the junior class, announces the committee members for the annual prom. L. T. Mortensen leads place, Lois Wahl program, Leora Weaver decorations, Doris Geer dance, Robert Besse banquet, with a substantial junior treasury promising an ultra-ultra event as plans start early.
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Everett Myers
L. T. Mortensen
Lois Wahl
Leora Weaver
Doris Geer
Robert Besse
Holly Dance a Brilliant Success at Soph Dance
The sophomores sponsored a holly dance last Saturday with a beautifully decorated gym. A staged snowball dance featured many soloists and elegant costumes, with piano duets and a reading. The program committee included Virginia Grandon and Margaret Birch while decorating was by Carol Battenger and colleagues.
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Sophs
Margaret Birch
Jane Ward
Virginia Grandon
Betty Myer
Carol Batteiger
Mary Jane Huber
Dorothy Ann Kidd
Ethel Shaw
Jean Pettit
Jeanne Walker
Cynthia Irwin
Mary Janet Carolus
Janet Hoover
Marjorie King
Evelyn Vanor
Dorothy Frank
Dorothy Burns
Marjorie McNitt
Herbert Bell
Carol Battenger
Eugene Bentley
Mittelstaedt
Wyne-Deaver’s
Elmer Keefer
Larry Wheeler
Basement Remodeling Proposes New Classrooms and Track
The school board is studying two projects to aid employment and save taxpayers. One would remove basement partitions at the high school to create space for biology and agriculture classrooms. The second plans leveling, tiling and excavating the athletic field to build a central track and spectator bleachers.
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PROM
Holly Dance
Board of Education
Co. W. A
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