Fund Drive Urges Help For SHS Injured Students
Editorial notes serious injuries to SHS sophomore Mike Davis after a Sinnissippi Park bike accident. Davis underwent spleen removal and kidney dialysis after transfer to Rochester MN. A student council fund, shared with Frank Ramirez of Rock Falls, seeks parental and community contributions in the main office at Sterling High School.
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Sinnissippi Park
Rochester
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Frank Ramirez
Rock Falls
Sterling High School
Time for a Change in Student Council
Gene Hallman critiques the Student Council and Mr Kradle in Script, arguing that council members should get involved or resign. He recounts dull meetings, empty committee reports, and urges fresh participation, noting he is an elected council member and calling for broader student body involvement.
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Kradle
Kradie
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Letter to Editor on Kim Kradle as student council leader
Doug Fitzgerald argues the article misrepresents Kim Kradle and the council. He says ten weeks cannot judge against a year, notes Kradle writes as a private student, and supports the council while asserting his leadership is louder not weaker.
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Kim Kradle
Kradle
Doug Fitzgerald
Dear Spirit of Wisdom and Cher Startling Advice Column
A reader writes about loves, trust, and parental rules. Advice contrasts friendship and honesty with risk of elopement. Cher offers cautious counsel about telling a friend she is being used and the dangers of rushing marriage under parental grounding.
Origins of the student council from 1937 tale
A columnist recounts the imagined founding of the student council starting in 1937 with Alfred Landfill. The spoof history follows bungled leadership, battles atop the Washington Monument, a Boston Tea Party mishap, and a rock group transformation before a school bearing the creator’s name allegedly centers student leadership.
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Washington Monument
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Sterling Township High School
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Poem No 1 at Wis: criticizing values sold as culture
Poem No 1 questions building tomorrow on a thin today where values are sold like vegetables. It contrasts loveliness with consumer culture and notes how religion, compassion, and tolerance are commodified. Mentions students at the University of Wisconsin.
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Boston
Compassion
U. of Wis
Poem on Sterling High Teachers Through the Years
A reflective poem lists Sterling High staff across years from 2525 to 2595, noting teachers like Howard Bauer Van Wyhe Mumford Strong James and Miss Strong. It portrays school life as persistent yet unchanging, with playful references to demonstrations and thinking.
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Miss Strong
Mr. James
Bender & Block Music Co
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