Student Profiles Vera Harshman and JoAnne Kunde
Continued article describes Vera Harshman a 6 ft 4 in senior with brown hair and blue eyes, age 17, who wants humor in a potential partner and plans to study nursing at the University of Wisconsin after graduation. It also profiles JoAnne Kunde, 5 ft 6 in, brown hair and blue eyes, 17, who favors fried chicken and vanilla ice cream, red as a color, and prefers athletic boys with red hair. both girls will attend college and participate in G A A and other school groups.
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Vera Harshman
Vera
University of Wisconsin
G.A.A
JoAnne Kunde
JoAnne
Jo-Anne
Sweet Sixteen Joan Elmendorf Enjoys Humor and Sports
Joan Elmendorf is sixteen and appears in school life notes. She enjoys fried chicken, blue and brown colors, has blonde hair, green and brown eyes, and stands 5 feet 2 inches tall. She values humor and courtesy in partners and likes skating and bowling. She works on the Script staff and yearbook board, and participates in Robed Choir Hi- Tri and Dramatic Club. After graduation she plans to attend college.
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Joan Elmendorf
Joan
Sterling Frosh Sophs Have Tough Luck Again
Ray Gierhart won the three quarter mile frosh soph meet at Sinnissippi with a 3 32.4 clocking but Sterling Frosh Sophs failed to place in the top ten to win. Dixon took second overall with five runners in top ten and 31 points while Prophetstown netted 44 points with five finishers. Sterling totaled 57 points placing first, eighth, eleventh, eighteenth and nineteenth.
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Ray Gierhart
Sinnissippi
Gierhart
Dixon
Prophetstown
SHS
Sterling
SHS Varsity Cross Country Team Defeats Erie
Jack Watson and Stan Stefanich finished first and second to lead SHS as they defeated Erie on a 1.6 mile course. Watson 7:51 headed a strong pack with Gebhart third, Arnold sixth, Flowers eighth, Laible tenth, Burger twelfth, and McCombs thirteenth.
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Jack Watson
Stan Stefanich
Erie
Watson
Stefanich
Ray Gebhart
Bill Arnold
Gilbert Flowers
Roger Laible
Loren Burger
Sherwin McCombs
Typing Pins Award Won By Ahrens And Landheer
Marilyn Ahrens and Jo Ann Landheer win typing pins after completing a fifteen minute session on new material with at most five errors and a ten word penalty for each error.
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Marilyn Ahrens
Jo Ann Landheer
Halloween Night by the Witch
A playful Halloween scene describes witches on broomsticks ghosts in shadows and goblins in bushes. An eerie night unfolds with the moon laughing and a black cat cursed to cross paths before dawn ends the haunt.
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Halloween
Latin Club elects officers and reports convention trip
The Latin Club elected Nancy Kunde as president Jack Rieske as vice president Doris Woessner as secretary and Ann Lahman as treasurer. They planned a November party to welcome new freshmen. On October 15 the group and Mr Lee attended a Junior Classical Society convention in Clinton Illinois arriving at 930 am and leaving at 630 am. They registered bought lunch tickets heard speeches and held meetings. Two schools staged Latin plays Little Red Riding Hood and The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse and a Living Statue pageant. Carbondale received the farthest plaque while Marion won for most attendants. The session adjourned at 330 pm.
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Nancy Kunde
Jack Rieske
Doris Woessner
Ann Lahman
Lee
Junior Classical Society
Clinton
Illinois
Christian Church
Sterling
Carbondale
Marion
Introducing Mrs Pettit
Fern Pettit is described as the office girl and secretary of Sterling High alumni class of 1941. The piece notes her height five feet five inches dark hair neat appearance and enjoyment of afternoon work. It mentions her home life with Ray Fern’s hobbies and club memberships including J C A Legion Auxiliary and W S C S.
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Raymond Pettit
Fern
Ray
Sterling High
Band Plans Specialities At Ottawa Ballgame
The Ottawa game features a saxophone quartet Orville Kimball Beth Myers Pat Forquer and Norma Miller performing The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. A brass quartet Glenn Mortenson Clark Prentiss Bill Sunday Tom Griffith plays In Evening by the Moonlight with Glenna Gould leading the boys’ quartet. The band will form a monogram S inside an H and march the field half length in a fast pace, potentially using lighting effects if equipment is available.
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Ottawa
Orville Kimball
Beth Myers
Pat Forquer
Norma Miller
Glenn Mortenson
Clark Prentiss
Bill Sunday
Tom Griffith
Glenna Gould
Introducing Mrs Frye Cheerleader Advisor at Sterling High
Mrs Frye an office worker and cheerleader advisor is a Sterling Township High School alumna from 1938 who later attended the University of Illinois. She married Vernon Frye after meeting him in Evanston and returned to Sterling in 1948. Her favorite sport is football and she enjoys cards steak and fried onions.
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S.H.S
Sterling Frosh Sophs Take Second in Triangular Meet
Ray Geihart won with a 3:32 clocking as Sterling Frosh-Sophs place poorly overall. Kilberg finished fourth, Lester eighth, Smiles thirteenth, and Stevens fourteenth behind Prophetstown and Erie in the meet.
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Ray Geihart
Sterling
Student Visits Germany Travel Log from Sterling Family
Gretchen Luebbers and family travel from Sterling to New York then across the Atlantic to Germany aboard the Queen Elizabeth. They describe sights in New York and Cherbourg, rationing in Aachen, and the wartime conditions in Paris and the German towns, noting unemployment and view of windmills. They spent 30 days abroad and returned to Sterling in October.
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Gretchen Luebbers
Sterling
New York
Germany
Empire State Building
Mrs. Roosevelt
George Washington
Cherbourg
Paris
Aachen
G A A noon schedule and student activity report
The G A A noon schedule for fall features ping pong and shuffleboard with several lively games noted at the stadium. On October 29 girls attend a Joliet workshop and on October 15 Sue Bucher and others enjoyed a Frances Shimer visit with swimming baseball volleyball and a student program.
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Joliet
Frances Shimer
Sue Bucher
Helen Fenner
Joan Engelkens
Pat Forquer
Shirley Humphrey
SHS Wins Cross Country Dual at Sinnissippi
SHS varsity cross country defeated Dixon 79 to 111 in a home dual meet October 15 at Sinnissippi. Watson, Stefanich, Gebhart, Laible, Arnold, Burger, Flowers, McCombs, Kilbery, and Lest placed in the top 14 as Sterling showed strength on home grounds.
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Mr. Small
Dixon
Jack Watson
Stan Stefanich
Sterling
Sinnissippi
S.H.S
Watson
Stefanich
Gebhart
Laible
Arnold
Burger
Flowers
McCombs
Kilbery
Lest
Sterling Takes Third in Frosh Soph Triangular Meet
In the Frosh Soph cross country meet Sterling finished third overall. Ray Gierhart led Sterling with a win, as the team tallied 53 points on the % mile Dixon Plum Hollow course while Byron edged Dixon for the victory 34 to 36.
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Sterling
Ray Gierhart
Byron
Dixon
Winte
Dixon Plum Hollow
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Betty Winn
Latin Club News
Carol Benson
Mrs. Pettit
Margie Wessels
Dolly Ann Bell
Janice Scott
Mrs. Frye
Sterling F-S
G.A.A. News
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