The Sterling Script Staff Roster and Editorial Team
The Sterling Script lists the monthly staff of Sterling High School with roles including editor in chief assistant editor business manager circulation news editors literary editors and faculty reporters. It enumerates names such as Lois Wahl Arden Ewbank Belle Haglund William Black Frances Connor Elmer Keefer and others across departments in a school publication from Sterling Illinois.
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Lois Wahl
Belle Haglund Arden
Ewbank
William Black Pyen Hall
Frances Connor
Elmer Keefer
Lois Musgravezabeth Hungate
Larry Wheeler
Marion McCoy
Donald Gerdes
Harriet Ports
Ruth Weyrauch
Etta Mae Anspach
Anna Marie Young
Helen Barton
Rea Kreider
Leo Darnell
Miss Lovrien
Miss Coney
Mr. DeVoe
Maiden bow of a modest paper aims for scandal
A playful local note presents a new paper promising modest reporting and room for growth toward a scandal sheet. It jokes about advertising, legal limits, and public interest while warning subjects to mind decorum and beware of the bribe price for Little Rollo at ten cents per issue.
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Rollo
Many Happy Returns of the Turkey Platter
Sterling High School themes note blessings for autumn holidays including football conference title chances, basketball prospects, a lyceum course, dances, an agriculture biology department, a new high school news magazine, and plans to invite Dixon on Turkey Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling High School
Lyceum
Department of Agriculture and Biology
Dixon
Simkus Wins Prize For Publication Name Choice
After debate the Press Club adopted Leandro Simkus's suggestion Sterling Script as the publication name. Other names like The Bug's Ear and The Eaves Dropper were considered, along with Student Barker and Sterlingite. About seventy submissions came from students. Simkus receives a year's subscription, submitted by Margaret Birch and the Baby.
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Leandro Simkus
Louis Long
Bill McCandless
Barker
Ruth Crane
Sterlingite
Simkus
Margaret Birch
Class of ’33 graduates head to colleges across the nation
Those from last year’s graduating class report strong college starts. Peggy Irwin attends Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio. Marian Myers and Grace Smyre are at DeKalb Normal. Florence Sims is a University of Illinois freshman. John Terhune and William Praetz at the University of Iowa. Bob Warner at St John’s Military Academy. Bill Hallett at a Woodstock Virginia school. Edgar Folkers attends Carthage College in Carthage Illinois.
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Peggy Irwin
Western College For Women
Oxford
Ohio
Marian Myers
Grace Smyre
DeKalb Normal
Florence Sims
University of Illinois
John Terhune
William Praetz
University of Iowa
Bob Warner
St. John’s Military Academy
Bill Hallett
Woodstock
Virginia
Edgar Folkers
Carthage College
Carthage
Illinois
Nocturnal Poem on Rhythm and Flight
A speaker laments failed attempts to capture rhythm with improvised words while the wind and a bending tree seem more authentic. The sky blooms bronze and flame as night approaches, a wild bird soars and writes a poem across the sky, contrasting human effort with nature’s effortless artistry.
Red lullaby and a student miscue in a humorous vignette
A surreal poem describes a red luminous scene with shifting shapes and weathered vision. A neighbor asks about Freddie with a reply that he is indoors playing a duet. A student turns in a paper quoting another student’s answers for a joke.
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Freddie
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Press Club of
Sterling, Illinois
Feature
Girls’ Athletics Society
Humor Exchange Advisors
Red
Mary Kay Sharpe
Smith
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