Sterling High to Open Debates at Wheaton College Tourney
Sterling High School debaters travel to Wheaton College for the season’s first decision tournament with five competitors led by Mr Robbins. Debaters Salm Castendyck Longabaugh Fehrenbach and Dona hue will discuss two positions each as a strong field awaits.
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Sterling High School
Wheaton College
Robbins
Bob Salm
Bob Castendyck
Jeanne Longabaugh
Don Fehrenbach
Pat Donahue
Wheaton
Augustana
Rock Island
Mr. Robbins
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Gordon Behrens
Bob Jamison
Paul Harshman
Barbara Flinn
Amboy
Lillian Bauer
Rockford
Geneseo Sterling
Geneseo
de Kalb
Assembly Hall
Sterling
Warm Reception Given Old Grads At Christmas Dance
Sterling High hosted a December 27 Christmas dance in the gym sponsored by the senior class. Dee Palmer's orchestra provided music as alumni matched the student body in number. The program featured Haroldine Fadden dance, a chorus selection, and a Barbara Shaffer Warren Fridrich duet. Mason Bell did the decorating and artificial snowballs closed the bal.
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Sterling High
Helen Kelsey
Dee Palmer
Asa
Haroldine Fadden
Barbara Shaffer
Warren Friedrichs
Mason Bell
Fehrenbach Resigns As Co-editor of Script
The Script staff undergoes a shake-up as co editor Don Fehrenbach resigns to join editor Bob Salm on the board. Naomi Reuters remains editor-in-chief with Ruth Welton as her new assistant. Deadwood is pruned from the reportorial staff and positions adjusted.
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Don Fehrenbach
Bob Salm
Naomi Reuters
Ruth Welton
Deadwood
Cherry Tree Twirl Planned by Helen Hansen at High School
On February 11 the sophomore class will sponsor the Cherry Tree Twirl in the high school gym. It is a no date dance with games for non dancers. Music by Kippy Carpenter, admission twenty five cents. Helen Lea Hansen chairs, withBetty Gehring program and others handling orchestra decoration games publicity tickets refreshments and more.
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Kippy Carpenter
Helen Lea Hansen
Betty Gehring
Dick Rohrer
Ron Rank
Fern Allen
Mariann Birch
Ruth Ann Castendyck
John Platt, Jr
Gertrude Fine
Dick Havener
Bob Greisser
Grain and Poultry Judges Enter Contest Feb 18
February 18 is the date set for the agricultural grain contest at Stillman Valley. Ten Sterling boys will judge grain and poultry, five each, with no team selections yet. Grain judges will review four rings of crops and weeds while poultry judges assess Mediterranean and American breeds by egg production. Teams from thirty-one other schools enter the elimination for the state tournament.
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Stillman Valley
Sea Scout Ball Held In Black Hawk Area Council Gym
The first Sea Scout Ball in Black Hawk Area Council took place January 14 in S H S gym. An orchestra entertained a large crowd of scouts and friends. The venue was decorated like a ship with flags and banners. A Bridge of Honor ceremony was led by A A Stoker, council chief executive. Refreshments followed as dancing continued.
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Blackhawk Area Council
A. A. Stoker
Bacteriologist Paul Piret to Speak at Science Club
Noted bacteriologist Paul Louis Piret will lecture at the Science Club meeting next week on January 31. A projector and microscopic slides will be shown to the audience. Mr. DeVoe calls this the outstanding attraction of the school year's series. The annual board will soon launch their campaign for subscriptions.
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Paul Louis Piret
DeVoe
Belvidere to Clinton Basketball and Debate Dates
A list of upcoming events includes basketball games at Belvidere Wheaton Dixon Rock Falls Mendota Clinton and home games here February 14. Debate tournaments at Augustana Coe College and Dixon are scheduled January through February along with agricultural meetings Luncheon and Teachers Institute at Morrison.
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Dixon
Augustana
Coe College
Mendota
Clinton
Housewives Take Advantage Of Home making Course
Eighteen young women have enrolled in the adult home making class conducted by Miss Hester one afternoon each week under the Smith Hughes plan. The course covers menu planning food buying table service home furnishing decoration care of children and clothing selection. Business girls and housewives show interest in this innovation with twelve class meetings on successive Tuesday afternoons until March 28.
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Miss Hester
Smith-Hughes
Senior Luncheon Features S. H. S. Amateurs
Jean Maier chairs the first 1939 senior luncheon set for February 8 with Pat Donahue organizing an amateur contest to showcase S. H. S. talent. Boxes will be placed in building sections for attendees to sign up for the amateur crown.
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Jean Maier
Pat Donahue
Tefore
Beauty Queen at Cornell College Picked in Poll
Beverly Anderson of the class of '38 was named one of Cornell College ten most beautiful girls in a campus poll. Pictures appeared in last Sunday's Des Moines Register and will be featured in the college yearbook beauty queen section.
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Beverly Anderson
Cornell College
Des Moines Register
Shadow system lets S H S broadcast to ten rooms
A new RCA two way loud speaking system installed at S H S enables real time calls from Mr Eades office to ten stations with options to broadcast to all rooms or select rooms. It can air outstanding radio programs schoolwide. Results will decide if permanent.
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Eades
Mervyn Reed
Koster Elected President of Sterling F F A Club
Warren Friedrichs state president of the Future Farmers of America works on committees to formulate plans for a state seal of instruction camp at Springfield Illinois next fall. The committee meets at Moline on April 14 15. Sterling F F A Club officers elected: Arthur Koster president Roy Beck vice president Lester Jacobs secretary Kenneth Manon treasurer Clarence Strock reporter.
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Warren Friedrichs
Future Farmers of America
Springfield
Illinois
Moline
Sterling F. F. A
Arthur Koster
Roy Beck
Lester Jacobs
Kenneth Manon
Clarence Strock
Bendewald And Sangrey Head Basketball Dances
Mendota and Morrison basketball games sparked a pair of dances with Lanita Bendewald as tonight’s chair after the Belvidere game. Ruth Sangrey will chair the February 3 Dixon game dance, with a general committee including Charlotte Carna Virginia Miller Irvin Wolf Mary Wilbern Ruth Langrey and Jim Jones. Leta Houseman led the first event attended by about 240. the junior and senior classes will sponsor and divide the remaining dances.
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Mendota
Morrison
Lanita Bendewald
Belvidere
Ruth Sangrey
Dixon
Charlotte Carna
Virginia Miller
Irvin Wolf
Mary Wilbern
Ruth Langrey
Jim Jones
Leta Houseman
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W L Salm
Fehrenbach
Castendyck
Donahue
Longabaugh
Lynn Timmons
Everett Myers
Salm
S.H. S. Gym
Rock Falls
Here
Teachers Institute
Beverly Anderson Cornell Beauty
Koster
Bendewald
Sangrey
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