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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1941
Page
2
Students urge expansion of school assemblies after the pre Christmas program. They note other districts hold weekly similar events and suggest involving honor students class officers and various clubs. Proposals emphasize citizenship, public behavior and responsibility, with shop classes dramatics music and more contributing.
A high school article notes several faculty members play instruments and urges organizing a faculty swing band. Stryker, Browne, Whaley, Weston, Eades, Robbins, Pasek, Peterson, Scheid, Birch, Ludens and others are mentioned as potential players or vocalists, imagining a school assembly jam session as a lively program.
A nostalgic column targets the so called wall-vegetable at school dances. It mocks students who block, shout, or crowd during performances and argues such behavior spoils the event. The piece warns persistent wall-vegetables to stop their disruptive tactics or risk continued social censure.
The high school debate team, led by Coach Mr. Robbins, schedules January practice debates under the theme Practice makes perfect. Schools including Polo Sandwich and DeKalb vie in upcoming sessions. Sterling faces both sides in a Thursday church debate, with Mendota set to clash before assemblies.
The Robed Choir will provide music at the Wallace School P T A meeting next Tuesday evening. The choir sang at the Sunday Evening Club service at St Johns last Sunday with about 1400 attendees. Mariann Birch Julia Heida and Alice Hoover presented musical numbers and Cecil Ralph Wade and Leland Book performed as a male trio.
February 22 is set as the Sophomore dance date with organizers urging students to save the day and secure their accompanying date. Plans remain tentative but the event is being scheduled.
Sinnissippi becomes a winter recreation spot as students and parents use the area for sledding and skiing. A new toboggan slide promises speeds up to about 60 mph on appropriate sleds, with a ski jump and east side slope for thrill seekers. After outings, the crowd heads home, avoiding the west end circle and pondering moes on the road.
Christmas parties honored top typists in the classes led by Miss Peterson Miss Hunt and Miss Schick. Prizes were awarded to Dorothy Ann Lewis Clair Book Jim Wink Virginia Friedley Wayne Overcash Phyllis Geer Ellen Jane Wallick Maxine Rosenow Clara Behrens and others for 30 40 and 50 word pins. The Dramatic club will meet February 3 to review one act plays with Clarice Hey Bill Haglund Janie Bartel Leona Drury and Marian Palmer.
Initiation of French students will take place next Tuesday evening at a dinner given at the high school by the present members of French Club. Various initiation stunts are being planned and games will furnish entertainment for the students. Miss Harriet Schick is the advisor of the club.
After the holidays the column lists social chatter from New Year celebrations. Betsy McCombs vows to stay with Leo Hunsberger, Margie Andrewa’s circle expands with bids from Billy Dies and Keith Brown, and many local couples are noted at dances and gatherings. Several names from Bradley to Dixon appear with party and dating hints, plus a light sports nod to skiing and bobsledding in Sinnisssippi.
Betty Gehring Paul Hermann Janie Bartel Keith Brown Jason Hopkins Dick Smith Paul Weyrauch Jean Hoffman are listed as editors and staff for business features. The note enumerates the newsroom team and their roles within the publication.
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