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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1934
Page
1
Sterling High School monthly newspaper "The Sterling Script" lists staff roles including editors reporters and advisers. The issue notes a 10 cent single copy price and features sections on Boys' Athletics Girls' Athletics and alumni coverage with multiple named staff and faculty contributors.
The article urges students to take work seriously and study steadily. It notes night-before cramming is ineffective and warns that laziness and bluffing fail. Those who loaf face consequences come judgment day, while steady effort yields fewer regrets.
A reflection on enduring judgment at home school church and from peers. It asks readers to answer can you endure criticism responsibility and hardship without breaking or flattening out reflecting a community ethos.
Public uproar over booing at games targets old grads and townspeople more than students. Belvidere game quiet for Sterling students, Morrison crowd small due to seating confusion but some yelling. Spectators rushed calls in first quarter and showed poor attitude. Morrison used a single referee to cut costs. A Sterling student under the Belvidere balcony called older fans’ booing a disgrace.
The old members of the S Club welcomed neophytes Paul Lippelt Nile Gartner Herbert Straughn Karl Evans Bea Kreider Dick McClanathan Earl Stewart Ernest Rutt James Vipond Jack Gleason Jack Callighan Edward Jurkens Tom Stabler Louis Long Harold Healy Edward Glidden Earl Schumacher Dick McGregor Don Gehring and Charles Hussing at a recent initiation. Afterward those able enjoyed a picnic supper.
Miss Coney's English II class produced a one act play at semester end. Miss Brough will oversee makeup for the PF. T. A. production "Patricia" will be presented soon. Readers recall various school events and alumni visits, with jokes, birthdays, and activities noted.
Everett Myers, junior class president, answers the Script’s cry for help with a platform urging a student newspaper for all S. H. S. members. He asserts aims to report truthfully, cooperate on beneficial projects, and make the publication the best in the land. He asks peers for further prank ideas and expectations from the school publication.
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