Sterling Victory Over Rock Island Boosts Ongoing Championship Run
Sterling defeated Rock Island 29 to 9 in a strong showing that follows a prior undefeated football season. Captains Gebhardt and Muvore led the squad with solid play as Rock Island, a district champion, sent five returnees. Coach Whaley and Bowers praise the team while intramural hoops and a potential wrestling program under Allie Morrison loom as next steps.
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Sterling
Rock Island
Gebhardt
Muvore
Whaley
Bowers
Community
Coliseum
Allie Morrison
G A A Song Service Celebrates 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 and a choir assisting. Ten carols were sung while each attendee held a candle.
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Dora Andreas Wiles
Eades
Un Peu de Paris Holds Christmas Party at School
The Un Peu de Paris club hosted a Christmas party on December 19 with first year class and several faculty as guests. A French play featuring Edna Good Ruth Weyrauch Bill McCandless Lamilee Bethard Lucille Martin depicted a French family. Guests included Anna Marie Young John Keefe er Dorothy Pettit Jean Zbinden Elwood Mohrman. French beggars were Frances Connor Robert Zbinden Robert Sundberg and Marion McCoy.
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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
Latin Club Banquet Highlights Classical Theme
Evergreen branches and chrysanthemums adorned tables for the Latin Club annual feast. Sophomore girls served a three course Latin dinner while Eve lyn Vanor and Sue Hendricks performed a pantomime. A Roman wedding concluded the program with Janet Hoover as bride and Larry Wheeler as groom.
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Sherman Baldwin
Everett Myers
Evelyn Vanor
Sue Hendricks
Leona Mitchell
Elizabeth Hungate
William Black
Lois Wahl
Ellen Hall
Clyde Wentling
Wolf
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 Redecorating Planned in Sterling Coliseum
C W A projects in Sterling will redecorate the armory in the Sterling coliseum. Mr De Voe in charge of Company MM says walls and ceiling will be refinished bars removed from storeroom windows a new supply room and dust proof uniforms closets will be added. Five men will work two weeks at 350 labor and 250 materials, with statewide armory work employing about 950 men.
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Sterling
Sterling Coliseum
de Voe
Company MM
Company M
Prom chairmen announced for junior senior event
Everett Myers announces the prom committee with L. T. Mortensen at place Lois Wahl for program Leora Weaver for decorations Doris Geer for dance and Robert Besse for banquet. The junior treasury holds a substantial amount prompting early, ambitious planning for an ultra-ultra prom.
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Everett Myers
L. T. Mortensen
Lois Wahl
Leora Weaver
Doris Geer
Robert Besse
Holly Dance A Brilliant Success
The sophomores sponsored a Holly Dance last Saturday night with a beautifully decorated gym. A white fence with lighted trees, a central large tree, a fireplace with stockings, green and red ropes, and colored lights created festive decor. The program featured a snowball dance by a long list of performers and a piano duet plus a reading. credits for decorations, advertising, and hosting are noted, with high praise for the original staging and a call to repeat the event.
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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
Virginia Grand
Larry Wheeler
Basement Remodeling Plans for High School
The board of education weighs two projects funded with C W A aid. One would remove basement partitions at the high school to create extra classrooms for biology and agriculture. The other proposes athletic field work including leveling tiling and excavating to build a central track and bleachers.
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Board of Education
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