Seven Sisters Senior Play Delights Large Audience
The 1942 senior play Seven Sisters by Edith Ellis drew large crowds on November 19 and 20 in the school auditorium. Directed by Miss Burritt and Miss Joiner the production featured a cast including Betty Fadden Gloria Paulson Nellie Hill Dawn Pabst Janet Wilger Joanne Eckhardt and more with Dorothy Hoener as production manager.
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Edith Ellis
Miss Burritt
Miss Joiner
Betty Fadden
Gloria Paulson
Nellie Hill
Dawn Pabst
Janet Wilger
Joanne Eckhardt
Martin Doermann
Paul Weyrauch
Bill Dies
Don Wallick
Ed Lawrence
Bill Adams
Jeanne Quilter
Dorothy Hoener
Arlene Eldred
June Desmond
Helen Becker
Bud Anning
Ed Radke
Gene Kelly
Bill Hussing
Ralph
Cecil Wade
Shirley Bell
Pauline Krebs
Alice Funk
Doroth Bruns
Sue Smit
Alice Hoover
Miss Petersen
Keith Brown
Debaters Discuss World Government Debate Interest Grows
Unprecedented interest surrounds this year’s debates with twelve teams from regular debaters and social studies students. The topic is Resolved That a Federal World Government should be established. Many debates occur during noon hours within the school due to travel restrictions. The Speech Club plans its annual banquet during Christmas holidays at the Lincoln Hotel.
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Speech Club
Lincoln Hotel
Lunch Bucket Brigade part of Schools At War effort nationwide
Rural schools are pressed into the national war machine by the War Savings Staff. 4 H clubs and Future Farmers of America youths raise livestock and contribute War Bond funds while improving stock quality and volume for food production. Youths collect scrap iron and rubber, grow victory gardens, and organize cooperative school gardens to support the war program and nutrition for Americans.
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Washington, D. C
War Savings Staff
Treasury Department
Farm Children of
America
Victory Gardens
Rura
Rural America
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
United States
United States Office of Education
Circulo Espanol Names Club and Plans Christmas Meet
The Spanish club held its first meeting of the year on November 24 and adopted Circulo Espanol as the club name. Members spoke only Spanish and discussed a Christmas gathering in Mexican style. Gilbert Fidalgo played guitar as members sang and danced, with Anne Tafola bringing records and performing a dance.
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Circulo Espanol
Mexico
Gilbert Fidalgo
el Rancho Rancho Grande
Gilbert
Anne Tafola
Shrine Safeguarded Against Warplanes in Philadelphia
Independence Hall, a national shrine, now features sandbags hose lines shovels and incendiary bomb extinguishers alongside relics of Washington and the Liberty Bell. An underground vault is planned for the bell while guards monitor visitors and sabotage threats are addressed with new protective measures.
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Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Shrine of Liberty
War Savings Staff
Treasury Department
U. S. Office Ofucation
Washington
Richards Composes New Song for Sterling
S H 8 s bandmaster J J Richards wrote the music for a new school song titled Blue and Gold Catherine Detweiler supplied the lyrics The tune will debut at the December band concert and be performed by the Sterling band members.
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J. J. Richards
Richards
Catherine Detweiler
Sterling High Stages Seven Sisters Play
S H S presents Seven Sisters as its senior play. Sterling High is not alone. Austin High in Austin, Texas will present the same production December 3 and 4 with two casts, likely one per night.
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Sterling High
Seven Sisters
Austin, Texas
Austin
Clothing for the Average Enlisted Man Bonds
Five bonds valued at eighteen dollars and seventy five cents each will fund clothing for the average enlisted man. The plan prompts improved issue of uniforms and related gear for service members.
Spirit of 1942 pledge from Harry B. Mitchell in Denver
U S Civil Service Commissioner Harry B. Mitchell spoke in Denver Colorado delivering a vow of duty for the war era. He declared each individual can do something meaningful by God’s grace and urged Americans to contribute to the national effort.
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U. S. Civil Service
Harry B. Mitchell
Denver, Colo
Warriors Cage Season Opens With Freeport Exhibition
Freeport high school hosts Sterling Warriors for a Saturday night cage opener on Freeport's court. The season starts with two squads to watch as Keith Wells returns and a large junior contingent joins eleven freshman players. Speed may counterbalance a lack of height across both teams.
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Freeport High School
Sterling High
Clinton
Iowa River Kings
Sterling Warriors
Keith Wells
Keith Brown
Ira Abney
Kenny Reitzel
Homer Musgrove
Typing Awards Won By Miss Eva Hunt Classes
Students in Miss Eva Hunts typing classes earned pins for typing speed. Ray Orlowski received the forty word pin while Naydla Brooks Helen Gleason and Florence Stern earned thirty word pins. Pins awarded for fifteen minutes of unpracticed material at thirty or forty words per minute with five or fewer errors.
War Bond Song by Cambridge Junior Victory Army Leader
Commander Sheldon Saltman of Cambridge high school leads the True American corps a unit of the Junior Victory Army He wrote a new verse for The Star Spangled Banner inviting the corps to support U S War Stamps and Bonds by buying bonds and stamps The verse promotes readiness and support for the war effort through finance.
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Cambridge
Mass
Sheldon Saltman
True American” Corps
Junior Victory Army
JVA
U. S
Initiate New Members At Junior-Senior Hi-Y
The Junior-Senior Hi-Y held an induction ceremony at the Y M C A on Monday night November 10 with 55 attending supper. T Ross Young spoke on the Hi-Y’s purpose before Lyle Wilcox led the initiation and Mr Young offered the ceremony prayer.
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T. Ross Young
Lyle Wilcox
Mr. Young
Lyle Book
Frank Birch
Glenn Gaumer
Irwin Nelson
Bob Dravis
Steel Helmet Purchase Aimed At Soldier Protection
Eleven 25c stamps cover one steel helmet with a padded inner liner for protection against shrapnel. The note emphasizes every soldier needs this protective gear for frontline fronts and safety.
Clip of Bullets and Ground: Business Talk of Rifles
A 25 cent stamp buys a clip of eight bullets for the Garand at 2.9 cents each. The text notes that ground control is decided by the business talk among thousands of rifles.
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Garand
War Savings Bond Drive Proclaims Faith in Victory
The piece urges readers to prove their faith in America’s triumph over Nazi Germany and Japan by purchasing War Savings Bonds or Stamps, highlighting patriotic duty and wartime sacrifice.
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America
Nazi Germany
Japan
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America’s
Sterling
Spirit OF 1942
Warriors
Cage
Freeport
War Bond
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