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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1936
Page
2
A collage of classroom into jokes and quips features Miss Rawson and Don Allen debating a famous liberty quote, references to Jesse Owens and fascism, penny candy bids, and a quip about Don Fehrenbach. Interwoven are exchanges about battles and a puzzled question about Stonewall Jackson.
A midsummer eve fantasy unfolds at English manor where Melisande longs for a knight in blue and gold to lift her from dull domestic life. The courtly romance shifts to a moonlit forest, then returns to modern reality with tea cups and a happy ending.
Last year total enrollment was 539 with 97 graduates. This year freshman class has 192 pupils split 105 boys and 87 girls, sophomores 144 with 67 boys and 77 girls, juniors 137 with 63 boys and 74 girls, seniors 110 with 58 percent boys and 62 girls, and six postgraduates (four boys, two girls). Total enrollment now 587, an increase of 48 pupils.
Sterling Township High School welcomed Haig Arklin, a famed oil painter, for an Thursday assembly October 15. He displayed six by seven foot canvases, reproducing European masterworks. Arklin spent three years in Europe making copies to help Americans view and understand the works.
From Thursday to Sunday, R. A. Dad Waite head of the American Youth Foundation visited Sterling and Rock Falls. The Hi-Y clubs heard him discuss sportsmanship citing Knute Rockne, and he advised juniors and seniors on readership during prolonged library interviews.
On October 5, 1936, two S. H. S. squads of three boys plus guardians Mr Norman Long and Mr Twardock entered the Champaign Illinois Meat and Milk Judging Contests. Meat team members were Claude Bley Russell Wagenknecht and Walter Koster. milk team members Norman Schuneman Richard Ebersole and Howard Landis. Both teams finished second with Schuneman ninth in milk judging and Bley fourth in meat judging. The group also attended the Washington Illinois football game as guests of the University of Illinois Athletic Society. Fifteen new agricultural class members were initiated November 2 as Green Hands.
Local high school gossip column notes mischief and pranks among students. References to painted nails, missing shoes, crushes, and letters with Canadian connections pepper daily life. Details include Bennie, Bud Seagren, Lanita Bendewald, June Frysinger, and others amid casual incidents and senior memories.
The notice states a sectional corn and poultry show will be held on November 1344 at the Sterling Coliseum.
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