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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
7
A soggy pile of fourth year English papers reveals quirky etymologies and misdefinitions from seniors. They redefine terms about poetry, grammar, and literature with humorous takes on words like etymology, colloquial, and trope, while lampooning Chaucer and Shakespeare with modern misreadings.
Severe weather and contagious diseases hit Sterling High with many absences. Tuesday attendance rose from 58 on Monday to 15. Colds influenza and other illnesses reduced class presence. Frost caused two frozen ears and warnings urged protection. Evelyn Randall and two relatives sick with scarlet fever. Martin Hurd had an appendectomy Sunday and is recovering. Eugene Young Elmer Keefer improving from pneumonia but homebound. Ruth Harshman returned from pneumonia and Virginia Grandon back after emergency appendectomy.
The Sterling High School machine shop gains two new machines funded by the Pennington trust accumulated about thirty years ago. A sixteen inch by six foot South Bend lathe and a used Cincinnati style milling machine were purchased with interest income to enhance manual training for students and night school workers. Principal and Mr. Timmons highlight that all shop machinery was bought from this fund, boosting the school’s shop, wood shop, and drawing rooms relative to nearby towns. Sterling High honors Dr. Pennington for his philanthropy and foresight enabling this vital program.
The Gazette increases its news squad from twelve to twenty seven members and two editors. Each reporter is assigned a beat such as Boy Scouts Grand Army of the Republic and church youth groups to cover daily. Editors Everett Myers and Etta Mae Anspach lead the expanded team.
Alumni returned to SHS to observe changes in school life. Among the visitors were Fred Hardy Ibby Hungate Betty Gosert Leona Goulding Bob Warner Marion Snart Nile Gartner Roberta Cullen Frances Conde Gertine Schlough Bill Miller Kennard Besse Jean Hopkins Charles Behrens Willard Thomas Bill McCandless and Howard Abbott.
Irvin Burns and Arden Ewbank have served as Junior Rotarians for a month. Each month two boys attend Rotary meetings with Rock Falls and Sterling sending high school representatives. At year end the group allocates a meeting for their reports.
Relief workers over several days painted pipes and radiators in the office, large assembly, halls, and science departments with a bright aluminum finish. The project improves appearance and cleanliness across the facility.
Mr. Stone the S. H. I. S. janitor decries the culprit who tears notes into tiny pieces and discards them behind radiators, a petty act that disrupts school life and leaves teachers frustrated.
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