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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
2
Sterling Township High School monthly paper from Sterling Illinois lists editors and staff for 1945 46. Names include editor Joyce Goldberg feature editor Verla Brewer sports editor Gene O Connell circulation manager Bob Barnett and numerous reporters and assistants. Publication adviser Miss Mildred Krughoff is noted.
A collage of Christmas requests from readers includes dreams of a White Christmas with Keith, a fuzzy wuzzy bear, a tall dark and handsome figure, a Buick with a blond, new comic books, an answer book for geometry, a Van Johnson, returned pictures, a talking doll, an atomic bomb to bring to school, Lana Turner in a stocking, Bob Hope's jeep, a big red car with blondes, and pleas to keep maniacs away from basketball games or trade for yellow scarves.
The piece celebrates peace won by the nation and freedom for veterans to celebrate at home. It highlights European progress away from racism, the joys of carols and gifts, and urges midnight church services to renew the Christmas spirit and pursue lasting peace.
Residents are urged to join in preparing decorations refreshments and floor shows for the Youth Center. A formal dance is set for December 26 and crowd support is needed to ensure a successful event and a cheerful conscience.
A playful 1945 style query blends Pythagoras with a list of locals and soldiers asking how the right triangle theorem would apply to “human triangles” amid wartime. The note invites students with solutions, ending with an informal call to Pussy.
A list of student voiced dislikes includes Bob Deem about silly girls not Verla, Babe Shumaker without her man, Pat Harrison gum chewing in school, Joyce Coles script assignments and parking, Phyllis Zigler without her man, Joan Holler wanklets with heels, Janet Clark red heads, Beverly Geible pumps with slacks, Margery Moulton men, Bob Schuneman one word for women, Laverne Siex cornering in Mr Ferris's room, Gene Zeller pig tails, Jane Stager talkers and latecomers, Don Huntley study hall teachers, Keith Behrens Bernie Mitchell yelling, Daryl Gaumer chewing gum when he has none.
The article recalls graduates and visitors from 8S. H. 8. including Bob Cate Randall Barnett Jack Appenzellar Lawrence Mundt and others. Don Church received a U S Army discharge in November after 22 months overseas earning three Battle Stars and a unit citation while training at Camp Young and Yuma and serving with the 9th Army and the 15th 8. 8. He plans to attend the University of Iowa next semester Merrill Church serves in the U S Air Force at Biggs Field El Paso with three Battle Stars the Air Medal and Presidential Citation plus an Oak Leaf Cluster after 15 missions over Germany and Austria. LeRoy Clark former 8S. H. 8. student en route home from overseas participated in the Normandy D day assault and Belgian Bulge. Howard Gaffey discharged after 244 years overseas in England served in the medical corps and now plans to work for Ford in Dallas. Bea Reed shares a furlough anecdote as he travels with the paratroopers. (Continued on Page 6)
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