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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1939
Page
4
Fashion pages tout plaid in coats dresses and accessories with noisy jewelry tights and garden implements. Slops for rain white rubbers add inches, while tweeds for both boys and girls stay British and heavy. Formal wear is flexible with velvet velveteen and patent pumps remaining in style.
Students at S H S open the term with humor and crowd scenes. References to plays and acts include Scatterbrain and Blue Orchids plus a light rundown of school life and dismissive jokes about exams and dating. The coach is noted in a light line about motivation.
Weaving school life glimpses shows Ernie Hubbart in a cowboy suit and Charlie Geyer without a secret admirer while Jimmy Jones earns the Timid Soul nickname. John Schmidt keeps clans on time as Bernice Morley greets with hello and Thursday Friday backs down on a fight.
A playful verse recalls a little dog brought to school against rules. The dog strolls an aisle leaving a smile on a teacher’s face before a flea transfixes the scene and alters the mood. A simple, humorous classroom moment captured in verse.
The senior class of 1938 contributed 26 dollars to the Alumni Association, supporting the organization’s activities and future projects.
Old grads are surprised as half the assembly room seats are removed, library stacks and tables move in, and a librarian's office rises in the north east corner. Part of the boys locker room becomes a workroom and storeroom for the library. Fresh paint and fixtures mark the change while Miss Lovrien and Miss Browne lead a team of library assistants including Ariadene Main Marian Alla baugh Helen Lea Hansen Charlotte Goetz Barbara Flinn Dorothy Janssen and Marjorie Cartsinger with Bob Jones P. G. overseeing the project.
The Future Farmers held a supper on Monday night October 2 to honor their mothers. President Lester Jacobs gave a welcome speech and Mrs. J. P. Hopking spoke for the mothers. Harold Stone and Clarence Strock performed a cornet duet. Mary Jane Reitzel and Bob Bartel demonstrated the state championship milk display earning a trip to San Francisco. Plans were outlined for a trip through the Moline Harvester Factories.
A collection of humorous lines and lines about local life appears to mix jokes with brief notes on people. References include Harry Hare, a Brad ford Junior College student Jean Brown and special correspondents Helen Lea Hansen and Gordon Behrens.
Lew Hoskins presented a preview of television before the science club and parents in the gym, using nearly a ton of equipment to demonstrate sending and receiving sets with audience participation. He outlined how he learned of television in college and aims to simplify its explanation while noting its future possibilities and vocational relevance.
Five instructors join the school this fall filling roles in English Latin violin home management and cooking. Stryker a Lake Forest trained English and vocal music teacher with a year as a professional pianist also writes choir music and popular songs. Joiner replaces Forbes in Latin and teaches English. Lois Reitzel guides study hall with a Cornell College English and Dramatica degree. Ball takes violin duties at three schools including Freeport and Rock Falls. Strauch from Amboy teaches home management and cooking, residing in Chadwick.
Did you know smiling Miss Schick linked to Abe Lincoln and that Miss Ludens attended Ferry Hall with Jean Harlow The list notes Miss Neff led a domestic science tea room Mrs Davis taught at S H S under Miss Marie Llewellyn Mr Timmons taught physics and started the shop department at Sterling High Mr Robbins served as principal at Bemont and Tampico later becoming an ordained minister He is a former Brandau star athlete at Cornell Iowa in football basketball and tennis
Lucille Elvidge the literary interpreter and Paul Hilliard dramatic tenor headlined a Tuesday recital on September 19 hosted by the 8. H. S. senior class. Elvidge offered humorous and tragic readings including Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. Hilliard performed opera numbers and modern pieces accompanied by Mrs. Roscoe Eades. Local citizens helped bring the nationally known artists to town.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Timmons spent four weeks on a Colorado summer vacation visiting the Bad Lands and Mount Rushmore Memorial in the Black Hills. They praised the Geyser Basin as a remarkable natural sight and noted favorable weather and good roads except for toads in South Dakota. Mr. Timmons also attended a short summer school at Fort Collins meeting many repute vocational teachers.
From twenty five candidates who auditioned before three faculty members eight were selected for judging by students. The ballot chose four finalists Grave Kavadas Betty McCombs Beverly Anderson and Vivian Wolf for further consideration.
Hangnail profiles Jim a senior involved in all sports with football as his specialty. He chairs the Hallowe'en Frolic this year, is seventeen, tall and dark, with Ernie a junior. Also noted is DeVere a sophomore who was freshman class president and leads Jr Hi-Y this year.
About 150 new books on aviation, radio theatre, travel, mystery thrillers, and current best sellers are ready for circulation. Many volumes of modern verse and plays such as Elizabeth the Sick, Dover Road, Outward Bound, Journey's End, and Petrified Forest are available to borrow. Behind the Footlights, Marionettes Masks and Shadow, and The Art of Play-Going should be popular. Good Looks for Girls is expected to be in demand by at least fifty per cent of S. H. 8.
At the Sterling Morrison football game the junior class sold refreshments totaling sixteen dollars.
Sr Hi Y officers this year include Ray Pettit president Claire Book secretary and Charles Mason treasurer Ballots for vice president had a tie between Lyle Geeting and Paul Harshman Robert Easley serves as second vice president in charge of food Advisors Mr T Roas Young and Mr E B Small led last Tuesday’s meeting where plans for the year were discussed No supper this week but one planned for next week
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