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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1942
Page
2
An editorial urges Sterling high school girls to avoid wearing slacks and to dress as young ladies for school. It argues that slacks are inappropriate for a school setting and compares wearing them to a whistle stop hillbilly image, calling for cooperation to maintain a traditional dress standard.
The junior class tops the scholastic honor roll for the first quarter of the year. A large portion missed the honor parade by one grade. Sophomores seniors and freshmen trailed in the number of students on the roll.
Betty Tret writes letters to Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Stephen Leacock. Fisher describes her Vermont home near Red Mountain and notes Made-to-Order Stories for her son Jimmy in the Army Medical Corps. Betty plans more correspondence with several authors.
Principal Roscoe Eades J. A. Twardock and Miss Esther Merchant attended the University of Illinois annual high school conference on November 6 and 7. The program focused on Improving Our Relations With South America and Adjusting Our High Schools to a War Time Program. Each member joined a discussion group aligned with their interests.
The office lost and found overflows with items from shoes to bracelets and glasses cases. Students are urged to claim items such as a wine colored compact, a gold ring, and a red bandana. Several notes tease missing notebooks, pencil cases, and a student handbook titled SWEET SIXTEEN.
A defense stamp club starts in Homer Musgrove's American history classes. The second period class trails with Neal Wick as secretary while the fourth period class, led by Ronnie Eberhardt, chases. Neal’s father bought twenty dollars worth. Kenny Duhm leads the second period group. Harold Wolber tops the fourth period with six dollars.
Students and faculty cooperated as 600 pictures were taken Friday morning November 20 for identification and yearbook use. No charge was made to students. prints may be purchased later at a low cost. Public address system aided the rapid session.
National Book Week at Sterling high school spurred creative exhibits in the library. Displays featured army and air corps topics, radios, and World War II themes with covers around a U S flag image. Students and teachers, including Miss Helen Pasek and librarian Mrs Hankland, highlighted maps, classic literature icons, and new arrivals to inspire reports.
Senior play crew led by Miss Doris Burritt and Miss Elizabeth Joiner enjoyed prop hunting and rehearsals for Three Sisters. They escaped school for a property run, laughed through kisses on stage, and endured dirt smudged faces after a foray to a secondhand store.
On Tuesday November 3 during the national elections period, high school social science classes conducted a mock election. Students learned proper ballot marking while several officers were selected. Jerome Robbins was nominated along with Roscoe Eades, A. R. DeVoe, Dollee Fauth, and Bill Adams.
The article thanks Miss Doris Burritt Miss Jay Joiner and Miss Martha Goette for their hours of work on The Seven Sisters. It also credits N Timmons Helen Peterson Audrey Cassens and the junior girls for makeup scenery candy sales nursing course attendance and overall performance.
Mrs Halmar Hankland tours Texas from November 5 to December 8 or 9 visiting Camp Wallace and Galveston while roses bloom. In a postcard to Mrs Hamilton she notes blooming roses and reluctance to return to snow. Librarians club members delighted by a package containing pralines from the shevesbearam society.
Sixteen bonds at 18.75 dollars each will finance a parachute. Thousands of American airmen will survive to fly again thanks to home front support through War Bonds and Stamps.
Hart's Studio and Camera Shop was left off the previous month's patrons list, a discrepancy noted by staff. The omission affects recognition in the published roster and may require correction in the next issue.
The Latin Club has set December 9 for a Christmas meeting with no other arrangements announced yet.
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