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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1936
Page
6
The Sterling Script is a monthly publication produced by the Press Club of Sterling Township High School in Sterling Illinois. It showcases student writing art and club news for the school community.
An unfinished OCR fragment lists staff positions and names including Elmer Barraclough editor in chief and city editor Ed Hay, with various departments and roles such as Features, Sports, Birthdays, Typists and administration. The text ends mid sequence with several unnamed or partial names and titles.
The piece urges students to attend the season opener despite rain and cold. It emphasizes school spirit as essential, asking whether readers contribute to morale and how weather and gear affect turnout. It calls for collective support at the next game.
Ada Shaw led a rummage sale by the senior class on September 25 to raise funds. Betty Shaw Bob Moore Don Cornelius Gene Cies and Ruth Olmstead assisted as price committee and selling squads across the day.
The Latin Club starts with a gala production of The Argonauts a puppet show by Bob Salm and Bob Fields. Salm and Fields have prepared dolls and pantomime for the event. Freshman Latin students will be guests of the club for the dramatic performance.
A gym supper launches the Blue and Gold staff for 1937. Editor Etta May Anspach leads seniors and faculty advisers through planning for a superior yearbook edition with an extensive list of editors and roles and ex officio senior class officers.
Birthdays listed for many residents across September and October with dates and names. A health note reports Leo Darnell, class of 1936, has improved after a serious stay in City Hospital.
Gene Wolber joins the S. H. S. staff as a janitor under Mr. Timmons with Mr. Kurtsinger. Mr. Stone who had served five years resigned last spring.
Third year Latin students viewed slides on the life of Cicero. Other Latin classes saw slides about Roman games and amusements last Friday.
The debate squad returns all last year’s letter winners and adds strong new debaters. Coach Robbins splits the team into affirmative and negative groups meeting twice weekly with a weekly joint session. The course will award academic credit and the topic is government ownership of electric utilities.
Attorney Mason Bull spoke to Sterling High School on September 19 presenting Famous Personalities of the Constitutional Convention. He highlighted Washington Franklin Hamilton and the convention dynamics including Washington’s temper and Franklin’s role. Bull declined pay and asked the fee be donated to the school library for Constitution related books.
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