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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1941
Page
2
A senior high school article praises student cooperation with defense efforts. It notes improved youth confidence, a shift from wartime despair to opportunity, and the school’s defense training in shop, drawing, and welding. Students emphasize responsibility, patriotism, and readiness to contribute during the war effort.
Community football game formations praised by the band members. Former students of Miss Margaret Peterson contributed to a funeral flowers fund. Marian Palmer leads magazine sales. Hi-Tri sponsors Illowa Girl Reserves Conference. Keith Brown gave a script selling speech. Max Reynolds praised for pep and old jokes. Marian Schueler chosen for Home Economics National Convention. Student body supports a scrappy but losing football team.
This fall a new student handbook was issued to each student at SHS. The blue cover marks a change from the gold of the first edition. It includes college entrance guidance, graduation requirements, a clear grading system explanation, and the 1941-42 football and basketball schedules.
The 1941 42 Sterling Township High School library opens with 15 student assistants under Miss Loretta Browne. Names include Lillian Bernstein Leona Branch Bessie Buell Marian Eade Alice Hoover Dorothy Janssen Marjorie Lang Darlene Leonard Loren Mass Betty McCombs Mary Jane Miller Gladys Moore Betty Portner Betty Jane Schuldt and Vivian Wolf. Each logs two to seven hours weekly and handles tasks from book repair to shelving and overdues.
A didactic verse urges teachers to tell the truth and answer when addressed, to conduct themselves with propriety for the sake of students, and to balance honesty with prudent discretion in classroom conduct.
A local confectionery owner, Harold Goshert, says top qualifications for student employees are ambition, a cheerful personality, politeness, dependability, honesty, and neatness. He stresses courteous, sincere service, accurate cash handling, and clean appearance as essential in any job.
The latest SHS alumni list details 1941 graduates pursuing higher education at Lake Forest College DeKalb and other schools while others begin work at local firms such as Telephone Co Carleton College Central National Bank and various businesses. Some couples are noted as married with entries for nursing and teaching paths.
A puzzled freshman voice vents about life in school. The letter asks why freshmen are treated as less capable, why seating and attention are lacking, and how seniors supposedly become so much smarter. It seeks guidance on advancing to senior status.
Motion pictures have been used in several classes this fall to supplement reading and study. Thirteen films were shown covering topics from biology and world history to hygiene and English.
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