Sterling Script Monthly Staff Directory and Report
School publication list from Sterling Township High School in Sterling Illinois shows staff roles including editor in chief Elmer Barraclough city editor Naomi Benters and sports editor John Stabler. Additional editors reporters and administration names are listed with positions in business manager and typists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Barraclough
Naomi Benters
Ed Hay
Fred Sterenberg
Shirley Boylan George Dies
Jean Brown
Bill Hill
Dorothy Lambert
John Stabler
Hildegarde Gantzert
Fileen Mangan
John Beckert
Bob Fields
Marie Burkett
Russell Wagenknecht
Bob Salm
Mary Beth Harrison
Alicemae Richards
Lanita Bendewald
Ruth Olmstead
Gene Young
John Wild
Jack Metzger
Alice Johannsen
Ed Sty
DeVoet
Editorials Bowers Resigns from Sterling Township High
The Script reports the resignation of E. A. Bowers, instructor and coach at Sterling Township High School since 1931. He leaves to become head of public schools in Pickford, Michigan, a move he calls an advancement. Friends thank him for his tenure and wish him happiness and success in his new role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Bowers
Sterling Twp
Bowers
Pickford
Michigan
Safety drive in Sterling cuts accidents and speeds
The campaign conducted throughout Sterling has decreased accidents as speeders slow down. Police stopped many lawbreakers at Ave B and Sixth Street and at Fifth Ave and Fifth Street. High school students are urged to stop completely at all stop signs while the drive continues until violations end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling
Ave. B
Sixth Street
Fifth Ave
Fifth Street
Start The New Year Right A Motivational Note
The passage urges readers to embrace the new year with hope and perseverance. It emphasizes resolutions, renewed ambition, and the belief that steady effort leads to better work, new friendships, and personal progress in the coming year.
Seniors Present Next Luncheon on Feb 16
The seniors promise a great feast and real entertainment for February 16 luncheon. More dancing and good food are in line with a record attendance expected for the year’s biggest luncheon. Pauline Turner serves as chairman with excellent music promised for dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Turner
New Book Shipment Arrives at Library Cataloged Soon
A fresh library shipment features Woollcott’s While Rome Burns and Kruif titles Seven Iron Men Microbe Hunters, Allen’s Only Yesterday, Dorsey’s The Story of Civilization, Haggard’s Devils Drugs and Doctors, Woodward’s Meet General Grant, Werner’s Barnum. Cataloging and distribution follow in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Dorsey
W. E. Woodward
General Grant
Barnum
M. R. Werner
Where Are Your Manners Eldom Report Prompts Courtesy Reminder
A school column urges better manners among students noting crude behavior at dances harms impressions of boys and girls. It praises decency and respect toward women while highlighting shop class projects and a note about Arzy Anderson, a 1936 Sterling alumnus, now leading a theatrical unit in New York after a frugal start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldom
G.P. Hill
Arzy Anderson
New York
Arzy
Sterling
New York City
Glad Arty
Marathon Readers Among Local Seniors Share Favorite Books
Among seniors the most voracious readers include Don Breitweiser John Wild and Frank Sisson Breitweiser lists several titles read since September including It Cant Happen Here American Panorama Now It Can Be Told In the Russian Ranks Danton Anthony Adverse The Black Tulip and Best Plays of 1934 35 Wilds first semester reading features Anna Karenina Last Days of Pompeii Richard Carvel Rats Lice and History Men Against Death Hunger Fighters Microbe Hunters Anthony Adverse Don Quixote and Sherlock Holmes Sisson shows interest in the Nordhoff Hall Trilogy Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairns Island The Cloister and the Hearth Last of the Mohicans Second Childhood Life with Father and All Quiet on the Western Front
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Breitweiser
John Wild
Frank Sisson
Breitweiser
American Panorama
Danton
Anthony Adverse
Anna Karenina
Pompeii
Richard Carvel
Don Quixote
Sherlock Holmes
S H S Song Popularity Roundup with Tops
Thirty six songs top S H S charts featuring old favorites like Chapel in the Moonlight and new ballads such as Good Night My Love from Stowaway. Swing tunes show rising status with Riding High Hey Babe Mr Ghost Goes to Town and Rap Tap on Wood. Winners listed include Chapel in the Moonlight Pennies from Heaven It s O Lovely Good Night My Love I ve Got You Under My Skin With Plenty of Money and You The Night Is Young I m in a Dancing Mood.
Birthdays Listed For December Through January
A compiled list of birth dates and names from December and January. The roll includes Mary Beth Itarrison How ard Miller John Reigle John Phelps Ruth Swanson Fred Van Sickle and many others across 12 dates, spanning December to January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Beth Itarrison
Howard Miller
John Reigle
John Phelps
Ruth Swanson
Fred van Sickle
Mary Andrews
Dorothy Ewbank
Quenten Harris
Bill Neese
Robert Lubben
Ruth Olmstead
Beverly Oswald
Virginia Conrad
Dorothy McKee
Ruth Wilger
Chester Burkholder
Leo Darnell
Marge McNitt
Dale Schumacher
Elmer Koster
Ed Ohnen
Bernice Whalen
Vera Ricker
Gloria Brian
Bettijane Long
Carol Miller
Mary Anne Hammelman
Albert Macklowsky
Edgar Vickrey
Richard Hulse
Willis Schrader
George Buell
Shirley Walker
William Dettman
Dorothy Falls
Charles Mason
Bette Jane McMurray
Edwin Stutzke
Arthur Koster
Belva Ebersole
Mildred Feltz
Marian Pettit
Doris Vanderhoof
Laura Card
Mabel Witmer
Russell Allabaugh
June Reiger
Fern Shonts
Madeline Harting
Dorothy Overcash
G. P. Hill
Arlene Pyse
Charles Eckel
Arthur Malnix
Charles Grimes
Viola Nester
Erma Detweiler
Howard Landis
Thoris Hoak
Chester Smith
Theron
Ae William Wessels
Mildred Otten
Twila Oswald
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Press Club
Sterling Township High School
Sterling, Illinois
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