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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1972
Page
6
G A A hosted Dad and Daughter Night on November 2 with girls and fathers enjoying games such as basketball and volleyball. Refreshments followed. Over the next six weeks the group plans jogging and aerial darts and will convene its third executive board meeting on November 7 in the G A A lounge.
The French Club met on October 5 in Madame Kuhnert's room to discuss plans for the year including a club float. Initiation of new members was scheduled, with initiates wearing paper hats and carrying eggs signed by three teachers and three former initiates. New members supplied entertainment by a wrist-tying disentanglement challenge. Next month the club plans roller skating with the German Club.
A Good Place to Shop at 318 First Ave Sterling is highlighted as a local shopping spot. The brief notice calls attention to the storefront as a practical destination for residents seeking daily goods in the Sterling area.
A reflective piece questioning social cruelty and inequality. The narrator laments slavery, hunger, neglect, and judgment based on race and wealth, asking why the world has degraded and why the innocent suffer while the powerful laugh. The text closes with a plea to God over a ruined world.
The drama club presents Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes on November 10 and 11 at 8:00 pm. Rehearsals underway with cast learning lines and developing characterization as crews seek volunteers.
Kirchner's Group Dynamics class studied leaders and traits then formed projects. Mark Gibble led a football league using Sports Illustrated football cards with teams like the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins atop divisions. Paul Osborn created Mafia Corporation selling stock to raise two hundred thousand dollars for a fictitious business, profiting two thousand dollars in weeks, while all funds remained imaginary.
A personal poem reflecting longing and recovery. The speaker wanders through thoughts of daily change, tears on a pillow, and sleepless nights. Hope resurfaces as the speaker imagines walking again once strength returns.
Nancy Benson reports the King of Clubs and the French Club will temporarily declare a truce on Tuesday November 7 for a joint roller skating party. Melissa Stillman will chair arrangements at the Singing Wheels Roller Rink on Locust Street in Sterling. Members may bring guests and the note ends with playful German phrases.
An account dated October 24, 1972 describes rampant student pairings in SHS hallways. The writer protests privacy erosion, notes couples in the lobby biology hall lockers and stairwells, and laments lost study time. Proposes supervised gatherings or policy changes to curb hall romance.
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