Script Junior Issue Earns High Praise From Seniors
The junior class produces the annual Script issue with hard work and promise. Seniors note the Juniors gain practical experience in publishing and acknowledge their success for the year 1952.
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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1951
Page
2
The junior class produces the annual Script issue with hard work and promise. Seniors note the Juniors gain practical experience in publishing and acknowledge their success for the year 1952.
The issue of the Script is produced by a team of juniors led by Editor Marlene Metzner with staff members Pat Howe Lois Good Shyllis Kosier Jean Stevenberg Audrey Bos Ann Gartner Shirley Buckingham and Arlene Wolf.
A Sterling High School senior, Joel Rice, finishes high school in three years and pursues piano study at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. He impresses North Shore musicians with his mature recital, earns praise for his technique and warmth, and encores twice. The column notes Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony No. 4 in A major as a highlight and closes with a playful sign off.
George recalls a wonderful time last night for ten cents while Jean wonders how much little brother spent.
Ann Lahman reflects on America as a land of opportunity and liberty. The piece extols freedom of speech worship and religion, urges kindness to others and unity, and links civic duty to God and national ideals. It advocates overcoming fear and prejudice for a peaceful, just society.
A short reflective piece by Judy Maynard contrasts a dark dreary scene with a sudden emergence into light. The narrator describes birds, trees, flowers and animals as the environment brightens and awakens sense impressions of smell and sound.
Poetic meditation on towering mountains and skyscrapers in the city. The speaker questions the nature of these grand forms as rain snow sun pass, noting science has offered explanations yet remains curious about what they truly are.
A poem in which a dog left in the snow waits for its master who has gone inside. The speaker scolds the puppy for idolizing one who may be blind to faults, while the pup clings to its owner and refuses other viewpoints. The piece hints at continuing on page four.
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