Whispers in the Dark and Class of 39 News
A school column reports June Frysinger as author of Whispers in the Dark and notes June’s rise in a tight-knit student community. It recounts class pins, jokes about Jeanne Longabaugh, graduation plans for 1939, and quirky student antics at S. H. S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June Frysinger
June
Miss Hunt
Jeanne Longabaugh
Grayce Ratzlaff
Jeanne
Grandon Civic Center
Civic Center
Coliseum
Tom Coats
Naomi
Tom
Miss Forbes Retires After Fifty Years at Sterling High
Miss Bertha Forbes, longtime Latin instructor at Sterling High School, retires at semester end after 50 years of service, 49 in Sterling. Elizabeth Joiner of Erie High is named her successor. Forbes will visit friends in Sterling after commencement, then move to Seattle. She is the last original S. H. S. faculty member from 1898.
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Bertha Forbes
Sterling High School
Sterling
Elizabeth Joiner
Erie High School
Joiner
Nizabeth Joiner
Central Junior High School
Miss Forbes
Seattle
Washington
Forbes
Summer School Opens June 10 Under Eades and DeVoe
Summer classes resume June 10 to help students regain credits. Instruction runs eight to twelve for six days a week through June and July. Wood and machine shop run seven to twelve with Mr. Timmons and Mr. Whaley. English social science and mathematics courses are offered. Mr. Eades and Mr. DeVoe return to supervise and teach.
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Timmons
Whaley
Eades
Columbia
DeVoe
Prom night drama and a puppet show delight students
The piece describes girls limiting dates to local and out of town boys for Prom and a laborious lead in at last minute patching up. Bob Fields staged a marionette performance replacing a long term writing task to entertain a senior English class.
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Bob Fields
Bob
Dale Schumacher
Mary Andrews
Pat Donahue
Upcoming Events Calendar For School Year
A sequence of campus happenings lists events from May 24 to June 9 including a music festival on May 24 25 Memorial Day no school on May 30 seniors trip to Chicago June 1 Baccalaureate June 5 6 exams Alumni Banquet June 9 commencement.
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Chicago
Junior Rotarians Entertain Senior Members Tuesday
Sixteen senior class boys who were Junior Rotarians at times led the Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday and delivered the program. Don Fehrenbach presided Irvin Wolf was program chair and introduced several speakers who spoke on facets of the Junior Rotarian idea. Participants included Fehrenbach Salm McCandless Fields Mason Hall Wolf Geer Gasso Burden Olmstead Jurkens Jones Gebhardt Cassens Friedrichs Eades Echternach were present and spoke briefly.
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Rotary Club
Don Fehrenbach
Irvin Wolf
Bob Salm
Lawton McCandless
Bob Fields
Charlie Mason
Lyle Hall
Dean Geer
Charlie Gasso
LeRoy Burden
Jack Olmstead
Hi-Tri Officers Inaugurated May 11 1938 39
The Hi-Tri season closed with the installation of next year’s officers at a Y M C A picnic. President elect Annamae Hussing received the Hi-Tri ring and pledged responsibility. Garnett Kosier became vice president and membership chairman, Mary Chilton Andrews secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annamae Hussing
Garnett Kosier
Mary Chilton Andrews
Lucille Burr
June Olson
Viola Nester
Ruth Welton
Eileen Corrigan
Mary Wilbern
Association
Ten Pep Leaders To Receive Cheerleading Emblems
Active cheerleaders will receive emblems this week. Six members June Frysinger Virginia Miller Naomi Beuters Bob Fields Leta Houseman earn chenille letters while Viola Nester Helen Myers and Harriet Kidd receive felt. Naomi is completing her second term as Pep Club president and Viola starts her first year as secretary. Miss Turnell is the Pep Club adviser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June Frysinger
Virginia Miller
Naomi Beuters
Bob Fields
Leta Houseman
Viola Nester
Helen Myers
Harriet Kidd
June
Virginia
Naomi
Leta
Bob
Helen
Viola
Harriet
Miss Turnell
Seniors Invited to Alumni Banquet and Dance at Coliseum
Seniors and S H S alumni are invited to the annual alumni banquet at the Coliseum on June 6. After the banquet a nine piece orchestra will play on the roof garden for three hours. Seniors may bring dates, hobbies, or wives. reservations go to Mrs Harold Ward per association president Robert Howens Jr.
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Coliseum
Robert Howens, Jr
Harold Ward
Eades Praises Students at Assembly Awards Night
Mr. Eades commended Irvin Wolf track captain and the track squad. Grace Ratzlaff Jeanne Longabaugh won shorthand pins. Bob Salm Jeanne Longabaugh Marian Rea ver and Grace Ratzlaff earned typing pins. The band choral brass groups and soloists were lauded for district state honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Bob Philips
Don Fehrenbach
Mary
Bob
Don
Marjorie John
Hazel Allai
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Naomi Beuters
Danforth
Eades
Evelyn Hussung Resigns to Attend Blackburn College
Evelyn Hussung resigns as office girl at S. H. S. to attend Blackburn Junior College in Carlinville Illinois next fall. A 1937 graduate she ranked seventeenth in a 104 student class and aided in the office during senior year and two following years. The college requires upper third ranking and daily work hours.
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Evelyn Hussung
Blackburn Junior College
Carlinville
Illinois
Evelyn
Our School
Blackburn
Shop Boys Build Tables Benches for Sterling Parks
Sterling park board asks school shop boys to craft tables and benches for park amenities and stadium seating. They have produced about 1,500 pieces and the shops now feature portable folding bleachers for classroom discussion.
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Sterling’s Park Board
Shop Boys
Mothers Honored at Sr Hi Y Banquet at the Y M C A
Mothers of the Sr Hi Y boys were entertained at the annual Mother and Son Banquet at the Y M C A on May 11. Rev White of Broadway Methodist Church delivered an address contrasting mothers of today and yesterday.
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White
Broadway Methodist Church
French Club Year Ends With Weiner Roast at Ariadine Main Home
A Tuesday evening event at President Ariadine Main's home closed the French Club activities for the year with a weiner roast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ariadine Main
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hall of Fame
John Quincy Adams
Daniel Boone
Daniel
Marian
Robbins
Marian Boone
Benjamin Franklin Bressler
Hoover
Dewey
Fields
Hi-Tri
Blackburn College
Sterling Parks
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