Script staff and editors listed for publication
The article lists staff roles including Shirley Humphrey and Carlanne Buck as script staff with feature editor Joan Elmendorf and sports editor Dean Zellar. Other staff named are Bill Scott, John Michel, Jim Wilkens, Chuck Deets, Paul Small, Orville Kimball, Ann Farrer, and faculty adviser Herbert Parsley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Scott John Michel
Jim Wilkens
Chuck Deets
Paul Small
Orville Kimball
Ann Farrer
Your School Life Could Be So Stripped and Controlled
The editorial warns that neglecting facilities and discipline could lead to a future school where comfort items vanish and order is rigidly enforced. It urges students to respect rules and consequences, stressing that privileges are earned by behavior.
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Prudence
Woe Is Me: Freshman Initiates Report GAA Hoot
Ann Farrer's account recalls thirty three freshmen being escorted to the annex on a February evening. They wore backwards clothes and odd hair styles while upperclassmen applied war paint and teased them with compliments as part of initiation antics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GAA
Annex
Charles
Milton Berle
Cliff Garriott
Teen Time advice column offers teen dating tips
The column by Terry Teen answers letters from readers about dating. Advice covers telling a boyfriend about limits, double dating with car owners, what looks boys prefer, curfews after dates, first kiss timing, and judging potential partners.
Framing a GAA Initiation and Odd Floor Game
Two solemn girls refused humor at the event as pennies were pushed across a floor by noses. Attendees, hungry, enjoyed a hot chili supper while a clever act and interesting reports filled the program. The formal initiation was conducted by GAA officers, and each new member joined.
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GAA
Local gossip sparks as engagements and friendships emerge
The note lists several couples connected by engagement or dating: Mies Adame with Art Hill, Merrilldean Leonard with Harley Mikesell, Norma Wittenauer with Don Black. Lyle Marquis manages FAS basketball and a cheerleader Jo Cole. Dixon fellows court Warrior maidens Merilyn Wilkenson with Brad Nusbaum and Mary Brandt with Lou Hansen. Ruth Dudley hosts a chili supper. Sally Mosher explains street contrasts to a Rock Falls friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mies Adame
Art Hill
Merrilldean Leonard
Harley Mikesell
Norma Wittenauer
Don Black
Lyle Marquis
FAS
Jo Cole
Dixon Fellows
Merilyn Wilkenson
Brad Nusbaum
Mary Brandt
Lou Hansen
Ronette Shanger
Lyle Meiners
Ruth Dudley
Roger Laible
Sally Mosher
Rock Falls
Broadway
Locust Street
Sterling High 5 000 A D A Satire of a Privileged Student Life
A satirical monologue from a Sterling High student describes a privileged world with chauffeurs, servants, and a carefree senior class. The narrator mocks inequities, class rules, and lax discipline while imagining cars, free meals, and permissive campus life.
From One Mouse to Another
A letter from Minnie to Myrtle describes sneaking from SHS into a noisy factory-like room with sixty students using loud machinery. Minnie witnesses the clamor, a figure’s actions, and resolves to return to quieter halls of SI when a pocket vacancy is found.
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Myrtle
SHS
Perso
T Hall
Minnie
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Shirley Humphrey
Carlanne Buck
Mimi Miller
Maxine Wallis
Nancy Forquer
Sally Fraser
Marlene Metzner
Ant Howe
Marlene Bucher
Lettie Harden
Margie Wessels
Doyce Hall
Marilyn Miller
Carol Taft
Kay Sullivan
Phyllis Kosier
Shirley Buckingham
Jeanie Sterenberg
Carol Benson
Leola Clark
Jannis Cunningham
Dolly Bell
Janice Scott
Jeanne Marshang
Eva Fulton
Correnia Bolling
Janice Wagner
JoAnn Andrews
Deloris Seldon
Donna Bowman
Pat Walters
Kay Eshelman
Ralah Wesner
Vada Meyer
Joyce Nusbaum
Pat Steadman
Jo Ann Landheer
Sue Bucher
Jean Sonneman
Ronnette Shawrer
Joan Leisner
Micky Mellor
Lucila Bushman
Lois Ann Wade
Shirley Ladenberger
Verna Oltmans
Joyce Hall
Pat Meenen
Pat Forquer
Lucy Manzano
Bonita Bolling
Marilyn Bawden
Sylvia Bawden
Dean Zellar
Lola Nelson
Pat Batcheller
Beth Myers
Vera Harshman
Marilyn Pyse
LaVonne Buhrow
Janis Cunningham
Jeannie Sterenberg
Joan Elmendorf
Kay Exshelman
Betty Scott
Joan Bogott
Barbara Thomas
David Clark
Herbert Parsley
Editorial
Teen Time
Terry Teen
Terry
Miss Indepe
Miss Independent
Carless Joe
By Tom Unzicker
Wayne Moore
Shirley Hum
Evelyn Engephrey
Frank Garcia
Jim Nuttal
Bob Hicks
Fred Courtright
John Sunday
Ted Sulcuff
Phyllis DeWeerd
Donald McKee
Carol Turner
Stanley Doden
Rob Stanley
Norman Barnum
Shirley Taft
Jim Kindle
Joanne Stevens
George Wechsler
Dorothy Moorehead
Lavonne Cary
James Surratt
Tom Griffith
Bev
Susie Church
Ronnie Schueler
Bobson
Marian Stern
Pete Dillon
Shirley Smith
Ned Ryerson
Lauren Frazier
Barbara Byers
Lora Lee Wolf
Jean Marshang
Marvin Bixby
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