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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1943
Page
2
The editorial urges students to keep classrooms quiet to respect teachers and preserve learning. It argues teachers teach to help students gain knowledge, not merely to maintain order, and calls for cooperation to save noisy energy for basketball games.
The nation marks Book Week with the theme Build the Future with Books. The aims include fostering love of reading among children, increasing appreciation for children’s books, supporting public libraries, and promoting home reading. Miss Doris Burritt curates a library display highlighting new books and posters on book types.
A chaotic choir scene at Robed Church features Mr. Stryker and misbehaving singers. Pranks escalate amid discord as a contestant named Pudkins wins a contest titled Dis Chord.
A youth misinterprets cortege as a purchase for his partner for a dance. The misread term leads to humorous confusion about courting ritual objects and social chances at the event.
Stanley Williams, a senior, handles film projectors at the school and maintains the equipment after delivering films to classrooms. Audrey Meyers earns praise for bowling with a top 141 score this year, leading the G A A league and guiding a freshman team as captain. Jim Wolf is nearly recovered from leg injuries, walking without a limp and gearing up for basketball after tough football seasons.
Former students now in Uncle Sam's service share visits with alumni in Navy and khaki roles. Technical Corporal Jack Chapman, 1942, to Fort Mead Maryland, works in X ray and studies there after Aberdeen duty. Ed Lawrence, Seabees petty officer third class, a 1943 graduate, cooks in California. Six V-12s, Bill Benson Cornell engineer, Keith Brown Illinois engineer, Tom Bogaard DePauw pre med, Dean Dahlgren 42 Oberlin officership training, Martin Doermann 43 Dartmouth deck officer training, Charles Miller 42 Oberlin officer training.
Inmates are invited to contribute poems jokes personals lost and found and want ads to a column by U R Struley. The writer urges participation, saying it costs nothing and is enjoyable, and asks readers to send material for the paper.
Neal Wick interferes with a girls gym class in a playful ramble while Miss Bosworth challenges him to try exercises. Benita Pabst plans to sing at a choir concert after an operation. Janitors promote cleanliness while cleaning up mushy notes and gum. Ralph Haag Ansel Henderson and Marilu Holler lead assembly speakers under Miss Genn Grubb.
The column lampoons Frolic preparations at S. H. 8 with stories of backstage mischief, senior humor, and faculty quirks. It mentions former students now in service, teachers under pressure, and playful banter about uniforms, tests, and assembly seating.
Sterling Township high school's senior class presents Out of the Frying Pan with Warren Davis as George Bodell and Bob Swehla as Norman Reese. The cast, chosen by Miss Joiner and Miss Burritt, brings the author’s vision to life with timely improvisations and lively stage dynamics.
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