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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
4
Readable scraps reveal seniors in fourth year English literature turning up unexpected etymologies and humorous misdefinitions. They declare etymology studies plants, a barrister blocks progress, and coquette means nut. They mock Chaucer dates, claim Robinson Crusoe is biblical, and critique Macbeth with modern art ties in a playful, ad hoc spelling of literary terms.
Severe weather and contagious diseases reduce student attendance at Sterling High. Tuesday attendance rose from 58 to 115. colds flu and other illnesses hit many students. Frost caused two cases of frozen ears. several pupils are home with Scarlet fever and pneumonia. John Randall and two relatives remain ill at home. Martin Hurd had appendectomy with favorable recovery. Eugene Young and Elmer Keefer show improvement at home. Ruth Harshman and Virginia Grandon have had recent medical events and partial returns to class.
The Pennington fund, long set aside by Dr. Pennington, funds two shop upgrades at Sterling High. A new sixteen inch by six foot South Bend machine and a used Cincinnati style milling machine were bought from interest income, enhancing manual training for day and night students. Principal and Mr. Timmons praise the endowment for expanding shop, wood, and drawing rooms beyond nearby towns.
The Gazette newsroom doubles staff from twelve plus one editor to twenty seven reporters and two editors. Beaten assignments cover Everett Myers and Etta Mae Anspach as editors with a long list detailing coverage for Prairie Ville I. T. A. Boy Scouts U. Y. P. LL and many clubs, leagues, and youth organizations. Three freshmen reporters also join, including Mary Jane Geyer and Don Fehrenbach.
S. H. S. alumni Fred Hardy Ibby Hungate Betty Gosh ert Leona Goulding Bob Warner Marion Snart Nile Gartner Roberta Cullen Frances Conde Gertine Sehlough Bill Miller Kennard Besse Jean Hopkins Charles Behrens Willard Thomas Bill McCandless Howard Abbott greet winter recess as they observe school life at S. I. S. in a festive reunion.
Irvin Burns and Arden Ewbank have been Junior Rotarians for the past month. Each month two boys attend Rotary meetings from Rock Falls and Sterling high schools. At year end the Rotarians reserve one meeting for reports from these boys.
Relief workers have recently completed painting aluminum coats on pipes and radiators across the office large assembly halls and science departments, brightening the rooms.
Mr. Stone, the S. H. W. S. janitor and pickup man, laments the culprit who tears notes into a million pieces and tosses them behind radiators, bemoaning the waste and trouble caused by such action.
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