Sterling High Defends Conference Title On Local Track
Sterling High faces Dixon DeKalb Princeton Belvidere and Mendota in the N C I C meet to defend the conference title. Captain Wolf and Don Whitmore headline a strong roster as state champions compete plus new records expected with preliminaries in the morning and finals at 1 30 in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling High
Dixon
DeKalb
Princeton
Belvidere
Stering
Sterling
Capt. Wolf
Don Whitmore
Mendota
Shirley Jenkins
Blackhawk
Rock Island
Champaign
Bob Corrigan
Larry Wheeler
Ed Gebhardt
Bob Gebhardt
Breed Easley
Hall
Wolf
S. H
Sterling Golfers 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 squad previously overwhelmed Lee County 16 to 1 and has wins over Clinton. The season ends with the conference meet at Mendota on June 3.
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Sterling High School
Dixon
Twin City Country Club
Lee County
Mendota
Sterling
Clinton
Kewanee
Galesburg
Sterling Tennis Team Set for Conference Meet at Dixon
Sterling enters the conference tennis meet at Dixon on June 3 with a 1 2 record, having beaten Morrison once and split two with Morrison while losing to Princeton and Dixon. Only Bixby and Jones depart by graduation, leaving Shaffer Duhm Rohrer Philips Jenkins Haglund Cassens Hults Geeting to return.
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Sterling
Dixon
Morrison
Princeton
Bixby
Jones
Shaffer
Duhm
Rohrer
Philips
Jenkins
Haglund
Cassens
Hults
Geeting
Revival of Old Circus Maximus At Latin Club Event
The Latin Club hosted a revival of the Circus Maximus on May 19 with participants including Doris Boyer lictors La Verne Hoener and Clair Book, high priest Sanford Mitchell, vestal virgins, Roman maidens, and entrants led by runners and athletes. Contest details feature dramatists, chariot racers, wrestlers, and gladiators amid songs, a narration, and a closing feast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Hansen
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
Ira Mae Bogh
Evelyn Schaible
Elda Robbins
Gordon Behrens
Jack Chapman
Hoogeveen Quarantined With Mumps at School
Mr Hoogeveen is incapacitated by mumps and placed in quarantine for the rest of the term. Mr Terhune has assumed Mr Hoogeveen’s classes during his absence.
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Hoogeveen
Mr. Terhune
Night track winds down with multiple event wins
Easley captured the 220 while D Gould won the shot put and John Frey took the javelin. Athletes complained most about racing under night lights, saying they prefer the sunlit afternoon meets.
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Easley
D. Gould
John Frey
Miss Turnell Leads G A A Banquet Awards To Girls
Sixty G A A members attended the May Lincoln Hotel banquet where Miss Turnell presented awards for earning 300 points. Freshman and sophomore members were newly active, with Lanita Bendewald as president and Helen Kelsey serving as toastmistress and event chair.
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Miss Turnell
Lincoln Hotel
Eades
Small
Miss Burritt
Lanita Bendewald
Mildred Carl
Betty Bowers
Virginia Conrad
Ruthmae Heller
Rebecca Hinz
Anita Hinz
Selma Hassan
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 Hemmelman
Leola
Marian Welker
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 Ratzlaff and Jeanne Longa baugh lead shorthand with 120 word pins while Marian Beaver and Bob Salm top typing with 60 word pins. Lucille Burr, a first year typist, surprising 60 word pin winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Ratzlaff
Jeanne Longabaugh
Theer
Grace
Jeanne
Marian Beaver
Bob Salm
Lucille Burr
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Whitmore
Bob
Breed
Iowa
Illinois
Gebhardt
Healey
Corrigan
E. Howard
Geneseo
J. Woodyatt
K. Healey
D. Janssen
Whiteside County
Rock Falls
Fulton
Erie
Lyndon
Prophetstown
Capt. Wolfe
J. Wolfe
Snyder
Janssen
Malden
Heaven
Moline
East Moline
Ernie Hubbart
Lawton McCandless
Bill van Patter
Bob Feldkirchner
Scheid
Lillian Bauer
Alvena Haly
Helen Drury
Kathryn Janssen
Clara Reed
Dorothy McKee
Marian Allabaugh
Mary Claire Heaton
Eileen Bradley
Fern Shantz
Vernice Kavadas
Beverly van de Mark
Roberta Card
Evelyn Linton
Gertrude Ebersole
Betty Faulkner
Henrietta Sterenberg
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