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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1936
Page
6
The Sterling Script is a monthly publication from Sterling Township High School in Sterling Illinois. It showcases student writing, club news, and school activities produced by the Press Club.
A fragmented masthead lists staff positions including Editor-in-Chief Elmer Barraclough City Editor Don Fehrenbach and various editors and business managers. Additional names appear for sports birthdays births and features along with typists administration and exchange staff.
The article recalls the moment of the 1918 Armistice When the guns ceased one minute before eleven on November 11 1918 a quiet settled over the front A silent prayer is offered for the soldiers who made the world safe for democracy and for those who died to achieve peace
The Script will be distributed on Friday to give reporters more time for articles and reduce confusion from Thursday releases. Distribution in sixth period classes allows completion before football practice, letting readers study Friday evening and possibly delay plans with boyfriends.
Long after class, caretakers clean the building for the next day. The task is hard with many scraps of paper to pick up and back aches from bending and reaching. The moral is clear: don’t throw paper on the floor.
Sterling High Debate Club has set lineups and begun practice on the resolution that all electric utilities should be government owned. Affirmative team members include Elmer Barraclough John Wild Bob Salm Bob Fields Dale Harshman Don Fehrenbach Mary Andrews Lorraine Ohnen Sanford Mitchell and Don Breitweiser. Negative team members include Lyle Shannon Bob Castendyke Marjorie McNitt Lois Mus grave Shirley Boylan Lewis Kornman Jeanne Longabaugh Mary Jane Crump and Alicemae Richards.
A long roster of birth dates and names from October through December. Includes James Brown Martha Warner Jean Brown and many others with day and month markers. The entry reads as a compiled birthday calendar without additional context or events.
At the annual board meeting the Blue and Gold staff discussed the yearbook theme dedication and makeup. Editor Etta May Anspach led the session with guidance from Miss Echternach as the group planned the upcoming volume.
Mr. E T Austin showed slides about France and Switzerland to the French classes Monday morning, offering visual aid for language study and geography awareness.
The Script announces a future column for student opinion and commentary. Poems and jokes will be welcome but the focus remains on reader grievances presented in plain two dollar words to the feature editor Naomi Benters.
The science club forms a constitution committee led by Sue Rubright with Rose Anderson Edward White Royce Behrens and Stanley Rieser. Dr Luther S H Gable will speak on radium cosmic rays and heliology to the student body on November 24 using protected radium samples and demonstrations including the Aurora Borealis.
Harriet Huber and Bernard Dewey, two alumni, recently wed. Louis Long aged 36 serves as secretary treasurer of the Knox College freshman class. Bill Conde becomes athletics manager at Florida Military Academy in St. Petersburg, with Betty Meyer joining the office staff.
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