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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1943
Page
2
Editorial hails January 19 1943 basketball game as a revival of student enthusiasm at 8 H 8 school. It credits the Sterling-Rock Falls crowd for sparking pep, notes dances and yells declined, and urges ongoing student support beyond athletics.
Student opinions on school band sweaters focus on fairness to the band and the S club. Several respondents favor emblem use while opposing stars on sleeves, noting potential distractions and misidentifications.
Heavy weather has halted travel causing many rural students to miss high school. On Tuesday January 19 about 130 pupils were absent, most from rural areas, forcing Iar Eades to postpone an assembly due to the absences.
A January library delivery includes many non fiction titles on arts science and letters. Readers can explore The Arts Enjoyment of Art in America So Youre Going to be an Artist Getting Along With People and Personality Preferred. STEM guides include Electricity First Principles Things a Boy Can Do With Electricity and Romance of Chemistry. Other picks cover aviation vitamins government jobs and reference works.
Former S. H. S. faculty members send notes from Sterling 80 to share updates. Edna Neff, retired home economics teacher, now in California, recovering from illness. Amy Turnell among new activities at Streater, launching girls bowling last fall. Virginia Weston busy as Assistant Dean at State Teachers College of North Dakota and plays in a string trio. Margaret Birch Rodgers, now Mrs Robert B. Rodgers, near Fort Myer in Del Rio Texas, reconnects with old classmates.
The entire school mourns the death of Joyce Meenen a junior who died January 9 1943 after a brief illness. She was beloved for cheerfulness and constant participation in activities serving on committees and initiating plans. Services were held at St Johns church with the junior class in attendance.
Jean Wiggins, a former Sterling High School student now a senior at Warren G. Harding High School in Warren Ohio, wrote a sonnet titled Felicity as a class assignment. Her English teacher Miss Kaufman praised it as the best in class and read it aloud to students.
Music groups at Township High announce plans for semester programs. The orchestra will perform for a student assembly and share a night with the band in the Coliseum in March. Vocal groups prepare a spring variety show featuring the Dinning sisters of the girls chorus and a radio style choral tango.
Second year Latin students completed a semester project displaying posters on Roman and Greek mythological themes. Lena Mae Ashpaugh produced a musical myth poster, others linked myth to books, planets, and stars, with posters by Leora Wolker, Joan Hubbard, and Mary Lou Foulds among notable works.
Senior students attended a tuberculosis education film in a special Friday assembly January 22. The annual tuberculin test will be offered in February at no charge to students who obtain parental permission.
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