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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1935
Page
6
The Sterling Script is a monthly publication from Sterling Township High School in Sterling Illinois produced by the Press Club. It features campus news, student activities and school events for the local community.
Local newspaper page provides a full roster of staff editors managers advisors and club leaders including Etta May Anspach editor in chief Robert Johnson assistant editor Eugene Young business manager William Sims circulation manager and a large editorial board with names such as Mary Anna Turnroth Jean Maier Naomi Beuters and many others.
A cautionary editorial urges careful driving by students and all youths. It highlights risks from aging buses and fast cars, urges fundamental habits like checking before stopping and signaling, warns against passing at intersections, and stresses personal responsibility to prevent injuries or death.
The first debate is set for December twelfth at Princeton. Debaters have practiced for a month with about three debates weekly. Teams are still forming as members switch sides and handbooks guide group assignments. Books loaned for two days incur a five cent daily fine to fund a banquet. The year’s resolution calls for universal medical service funded by public expense. Debaters include Irene Mangan Eugene Young Bob Salm Arthur Hussing Marjorie Rorick Mabel Folkers Lois Musgrave Gene Cies Lester Kreider Don Fehrenbach Lyle Shannon Dale Harshman Bob Fields Jean Longabaugh Mary Andrews Virginia Grandon Sue Gerdes Marjorie McNitt Irene Simkus.
The current question of the month asks how breakfast shapes character. Students Naomi Renters Bernard Bivin Marilyn Bogett Burdette Miller and Sue Gerdes share playful lines linking Pep Bran Flakes Postum coffee oatmeal corn flakes eggs grapefruit and even upside-down cake to traits like energy brain power and mood.
A breezy column of campus gossip mentions Romeo Will Sims of S H S and a senior at a cemetery incident, Jeanne from Friesen, Northington’s sixteen scalps, and dating scatters. It recaps student parties by Gail Jansen Ida Jane Blanchard and Barbara Shaefer, plus several pairings and crushes among freshmen and sophomores.
A senior class mocks the anti old clothes day stance while praising the Gym Jamboree of October 25. The event raised 83 of 143 dollars. Dixon game attendance and a playful burial of the jinx with a sermon by Larry Wheeler are noted.
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