Sterling High Defends Conference Title On Local Track
Sterling High prepares to defend the conference title at a local track meet tomorrow afternoon featuring top athletes from Dixon DeKalb Manuets Princeton Belvidere and Mendota star Capt Wolf and Don Whitmore of Mendota headline a strong field. Prelims start in the morning with finals at 1 30 pm the stadium expanding for spectators.
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Sterling High
Dixon
DeKalb
Manuets
Princeton
Belvidere
Stering
Sterling
Capt. Wolf
Don Whitmore
Mendota
Shirley Jenkins
Corrigan
Sterling Golfers to Face Dixon in Return Match Today
Sterling High School golf team meets Dixon in a return match at Twin City Country Club this afternoon. The 8. H. 8. squad beat Lee County earlier this year 16 to 1. The season ends with the conference meet at Mendota on June 8. Sterling has defeated Clinton twice and tied with Kewanee in a Kewanee triangular won by Galesburg. Final district standings placed Rock Island first, followed by Galesburg, East Moline, Kewanee, and Sterling. The five golfers in the tourney were Ernie Hubbart, Lawton McCandless, Bob Griesser, Bill Van Patter, and Bob Feldkirchner. Coach Hoogeveen has begun a match play to crown the school champion while Coach Scheid takes over the team during Hoogeveen’s absence due to mumps.
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Sterling
Champaign
Capt. Wolf
Bob Corrigan
Bob
Ed Gebhardt
Breed
Easley
Hall
Wolf
Clinton
Iowa
Illinois
Gebhardt
Healey
Corrigan
E. Howard
Geneseo
J. Woodyatt
K. Healey
Sterline
Blackhawk
Rock Island
Larry Wheeler
Sterling Athire
Sterling High
Whiteside County
Rock Falls
Morrison
Fulton
Eric
Lyndon
Prophetatown
Capt
Wolfe
Snyder
Janasen
Trample Dixon
Sterling High School
Dixon
Twin City Country Club
Lee County
Mendota
Kewanee
Galesburg
East Moline
Ernie Hubbart
Lawton McCandless
Bob Griesser
Bill van Patter
Bob Feldkirchner
Hoogeveen
Scheid
Coach Hoogeveen
Sterling Tennis Team Heads to Conference Meet
Sterling enters the Dixon conference tennis meet on June 3 with a 1 2 record after losses to Princeton and Dixon and splits with Morrison. Only Bixby and Jones depart to graduation, Shaffer and Duhm hold key slots, and Rohrer Philips Jenkins Haglund Cassens Hults and Geeting have played this season.
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Sterling
Dixon
Morrisan
Princeton
Morrison
Bixby
Jones
Shaffer
Duhm
Actioe
Rohrer
Philips
Jenkins
Haglund
Cassens
Hults
Geeting
Revival of Old Circus Maximus at Latin Club Event
The Latin Club staged a revival on May 19 with a parade of roles from lictors to vestal virgins and Roman maidens. Participants included Doris Boyer, La Verne Hoener, Clair Book, Don Kyger, John Griffith, and judges led by Bob Salm. The event featured entrants in contests, dramatic performances, chariot races, and wrestling, with Evelyn Schaible narrating and songs by the chorus. The evening closed with food and merriment.
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Doris Boyer
la Verne Hoener
Clair Book
Don Kyger
John Griffith
Sanford Mitchell
Marjorie Andrews
Doris Scott
Helen Shaw
Alice Burns
Janet Cross
Leona Drury
Helen Lea Hangen
Fern Allen
Ruth Ann Castendyck
Betty Gehring
Ellen Jane Wallick
Barbara Flinn
Franklin Schnoor
James Beatty
Harold Steiner
Bob Jamison
Bill Haglund
John Platt
Bob Griesser
Ronald Rank
George Remick
Clarence Strock
Edwin Brown
Russell Babel
Bob Philips
Jim Brown
Marjorie John
Arlene Karel
Darlene Weber
Ila Mae Bogh
Hoogeveen Quarantined With Mumps
The ailing Hoogeveen is quarantined for the remainder of the school term. Terhune has assumed Hoogeveen's classes in his absence.
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Hoogeveen
Mr. Terhune
Frey and Gould Triumph in Field Events at Night Meet
Easley won the 220 while Gould claimed the shot put and Frey took the javelin. Home athletes disliked night meets, preferring afternoon sunshine. The piece reflects their mixed feelings about evening competition.
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Easley
D. Gould
John Frey
Miss Turnell Hosts G. A. A. Awards Banquet
Sixty G. A. A. girls attended the Lincoln Hotel banquet on May 16. Miss Turnell awarded points based honors to seniors and a new emblem system for yearly point totals. Freshmen and sophomores participated in organizing for the first time, with Lillian Bernstein and Jean Hoffman among honorees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Turnell
Lincoln Hotel
Eades
Small
Miss Burritt
Lanita Bendewald
Mildred Carl
Betty Bowers
Virginia Conrad
Ruthmae Heller
Rebecca Hinz
Anita Hinz
Selma Huszing
Helen Kelsey
Jean Maier
Virginia Miller
Helen Ohda
Nona Olinger
June Reiger
Barbara Shaffer
Mary Anna Turnroth
Ruth Wilger
Patricia Behrens
Joyce Clark
Doris David
Barbara Flinn
Mary Anne Hemmerman
Betty Truedson
Marian Welker
Maury Anna Turnroth
Rose Daulton
Gertrude Fine
Janet Olinger
Marian Kline
Jacqueline Vertrees
Elaine Dewey
Vivian Wolf
Eileen Corrigan
Ruth Walker
Jean Hoffman
Lorraine Janssen
Commercial Students Win Typing and Shorthand Pins
Grace Ratzlafff and Jeanne Longa baugh lead shorthand with 120-word pins while Marian Beaver and Bob Salm top typing with 860-word pins. Lucille Burr, a first year typist, wins a 60-word pin. further shorthand awards include 100-word 80-word and 60-word levels among numerous named students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Ratzlafff
Jeanne Longabaugh
Grace
Jeanne
Marian Beaver
Bob Salm
Lucille Burr
Lillian Bauer
June Reiger
Nona Olinger
Alvena Haly
Helen Drury
Jacqueline Vertrees
Kathryn Janssen
Clara Reed
Ruth Walker
Dorothy McKee
Jean Maier
Helen Ohda
Marian Allabaugh
Mary Claire Heaton
Eileen Bradley
Gertrude Ebersole
Betty Faulkner
Henrietta Sterenberg
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Whitmore
D. Janssen
Malden
Heaven
Capt. Wolfe
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