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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1940
Page
5
Seniors led by Keith Swartley announce a grand Jack-o-Lantern Jamboree at 7:30 PM in the S. H. S. gym. The event features new games, a free show, and dancing with live music later. Freshmen receive a special invitation to attend this first real social function.
National baton twirling champion 1939 MacAllister leads 29 students in Sterling lessons from Joliet Illinois where his father directs a 120 piece concert band. He studied under Larry Hammond and won the Lewiston Kentucky title in 1939.
A list of upcoming Sterling activities including matches with DeKalb Belvidere Princeton and a Jack o Lantern Jamboree. Also notes Latin Club meetings Teachers Institute no school and an assembly by Russell Wright.
S H S announces three staff additions for September. Miss Rayma Rawson returns as English literature teacher for juniors and seniors after two years at Columbia University. Miss Margaret Birch and Miss Florence Wolber, both former students, join history and English teaching plus study hall and office duties respectively.
A collection of colored etchings wood engravings and lithographs assembled through the courtesy of Redfern Galleries of London will be exhibited in Miss Goette's art classroom until October 25. The group includes about 75 prints by well known artists and spans landscapes flowers birds animals and figures. The collection arrived from the United States Customs in spring 1940 and is circulated by Blanche A Byerley of Westport Connecticut.
A school notes several new students arriving from Illinois Ohio and Iowa. Names include Shirley Gates from Peoria Jane Stonesifer Harmon Patricia Gelaz Community Geraldine Des Combes Springfield Ohio Helen Rinker Chariton Iowa Betty Benard Waukegan Alice Partridge Rock Falls Jack Freeman Kewanee Ruth DeWolfe Rock Falls Ted Kontos Chicago Heights Phyllis Stump Fort Dodge Iowa Marge Pottinger Des Moines Iowa Dorothy Crabb Lyndon Charles Van Horn Morrison Joyce Wright Rock Falls Cecil Libby Princeville Eilene Linton Harmon Leo Manon Rock Falls Maxine Woods Polo.
Students sold 1383.50 in magazine subscriptions this fall, down from 1558.20 last year, with the school taking a commission for yearbook expenses. A new daily cash prize system rewarded top sellers, led by Claude Cummins on Monday. Other daily winners included Dorothy Ward, Kurt Grantow, Bill Welton, Garnet Kozier, James Coats, Doris Linton, Harold Wolker, Lavonne McNeil, Marion Palmer, Dorothy Schutt, Gertrude Fine, John Platt, Helen Becker, Myron Shannon, Janice Humphrey, Martin Doermann, Joyce Meenen, Art Melville, Marion Birdsall, Irene Shaible, and Marion Palmer sharing the final ten dollars.
Sterling Township high school reported officer elections for all four classes. Senior class elected Wayne Andreas president with Clair Book and Clarice Hey as officers. enrollment 142 with 72 boys and 70 girls. Junior class chose Wayne Friedrichs president. enrollment 149 with 78 boys and 71 girls. Sophomores elected Dorothy Hoener president. class enrollment 146 with 88 boys and 58 girls. Freshmen elected Donald Dewey president. enrollment 162 with 87 boys and 75 girls. Advisers named for each class.
John Platt is named business manager of the 1941 Blue and Gold yearbook published by Sterling Township High School. The editors are Helen Lea Hansen and Mariann Birch with Leora Jacobs Marvin Mundorff Vera Long overseeing literary material.
Globe trotter and reporter Russell Wright returns to address the S H S student body at the general assembly on October 30. His prior reception prompted the invitation, with his talk focused on the foreign scene. The current series opened September 23 with Prologue to Glory and featured Edward Reese, Ellen Hogue, Maurice Blyth.
Humorous note from a local page hints that Mr. Stry ker and Mr. Terhune have started new relationships, celebrating personal lives with a lighthearted tone and flirtatious headlines. The piece playfully warns suitors away while announcing happy unions.
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