Editorial Watch The Headlines And Our Lives
The piece urges readers to consider war headlines as real impacts on daily life from college plans to enlistment and job shifts. It explains how events like draft changes, defense orders, and wartime shortages affect students, workers, and families, stressing headlines matter to all generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
U. S
Reich
Japan
Germany
Russia
Army
S.H.S
Freedom of America
Staff Acknowledgments From School Activities
To all teachers who joined the Boy Scout drive and to Glenn Gaumer for pinch hitting at Robed Choir practice. Keith Brown ad libbed well at the Homecoming dance. Dorothy Crabb Gordon Behrens Marion Palmer Janie Bartel and Joanne Stager prepared speeches for the Red Cross campaign. Lavern Hoener Bill McNinch promoted Armistice Day downtown. LaVenne McNeil Gordon Behrens Dorothy Crabb Art Wildman Lynn Wildman Jack Jamison Ellen Haskell Don Wallick starred in Macbeth. Marion Palmer promoted Blue and Gold before the student assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Gaumer
Mr. Stryker
Keith Brown
Dorothy Crabb
Gordon Behrens
Marion Palmer
Janie Bartel
Joanne Stager
Red Cross
LaVenne McNeil
Art Wildman
Lynn Wildman
Jack Jamison
Ellen Haskell
Don Wallick
S.H.S
Stryker
Eades
Miss Echternach
Betty Darnell
Students lament missing Script Dirt column and editors reply
The piece notes student shock over a missing Script Dirt column, jokes about a violin found missing since May, updates on staff like Flash-Jean Beatty, and various classroom and school life vignettes. It reflects a lively high school newspaper style with playful asides and minor campus drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacque Stevenberg
Jean Beatty
S.H.S
DeVoe
Joiner
Cicero
Hermann
Weyrauch
Davenport
Gordon Behrens
Ted Scheid
Mississippi
Robbins
English Classes Create Book Jacket Projects
Miss Burritts room buzzed with students crafting book jackets for reports. They printed author and title on covers, illustrated scenes, and added short story and author life summaries on flaps with notes about related works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Burritt
White House
Fractions of a day and a campus chorus of quips
A column of campus life and humor notes from a school newspaper. It jabs at students and staff with brief gags about bowling mishaps, music tastes, postal jokes, senior tackles, and playful quotes.
Education Marches On Where To Nobody Knows
A school paper style column notes classroom chatter and quirky events. The library receives many book returns while Latin seniors discuss fatalism and heredity. John Taylor Innis demonstrates clarinet technique as Elaine Geiger jokes about Latin plural forms.
Open Letter From Freshman Student to Teacher
A freshman writes to a teacher expressing frustration with harsh schooling, difficult exams, and the burden of five remaining years at SHS. The letter questions trust, warning, and warnings about reading assignments, noting fellow seniors’ attitudes and the struggle to stay awake in class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling
Marsha Bogaard
MR. Ripley
Stephan Foster
Furst
Uss
Sen. Jr
Spohs
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Editorial
Lavern Hoener
Bill McNinch
Polo
Miss Pasch
Tom Bogaard
Paul Weyrauch
Irene Melvin
Harry Woodyatt
Arlene Eldred
Jean Wiggins
Lois McConnell
Glenn Ellmaker
Elsie Meier
Darda Lubben
Kenneth Chamberlain
Janet Cassers
United States Postal Department
House of Mystery
Tribune
Illinois
Miss Browne
John Taylor Innis
Richard
Elaine Geiger
American Red Cross
The
Foreign Legion
Minerva
Sterling Jenee High School
Sterling, Illinois
Sports Editors
Paul Hermann, Janie Bartel
Paul Weyr
Auch
Helen Becker
Mary Lou Holler
Shirley Giffrow
Pat Marquis
Myra Butzer
Bettijeanne McNeil
Mary Watson
Janice Humphrey
Ed Browne
Lillian Bernstein
Paulina Baker
Martha Whaley
Jean Knox
Bob Brown
Barbara Bell
Dorothy Crabbe
Merrill Doden
Bob Hults
Jerry Shore
Fay Ewbank
Joyce Meenan
Audrey Lahman
Sarah Burke
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