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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1942
Page
1
Sterling High School schedules its sixth annual Homecoming for Friday November 6. The Sterling Clinton football game will entertain fans followed by an all school dance in the gym. Spirit remains high despite fewer sidelights this year with grads joining in the effort.
Six Mexican students enter 8.H.8. as freshmen amid warm welcome. Anne Tafolla and Jerry Tafolla share Mexican roots and Sterling town ties, with Anne born in California and raised in South Pekin before settling in Sterling. Frances Manzano was born in Tucson before moving to Greeley with her family after her father’s death in 1931.
Five cartons of Christmas gifts from township high school students were mailed to Allied children amid war. Miss Helen Pasek, director, placed cartons in classrooms for filling as students donated small toys, games, crayons, sewing items, and personal care gifts. Teachers Eva Hunt and Helen Peterson supervised typing and crafts for servicemen bridge tallies.
The Spanish class on Thursday October 22 elected officers for the newly formed club led by adviser Miss Esther Merchant. President Dwight Sterenberg, vice president Gilberto Fidalgo, secretary Betti Jeanne McNeil, and treasurer Suzanne Janssen will guide meetings with the first gathering yet to be set.
Trimble of the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges conducted a thorough review of the high school last week. He spent a day and part of another examining equipment and classes, observing sessions, and questioning teachers and students to decide if the school should remain accredited.
The senior play cast includes Dorothy Hoener with properties by Arlene Eldred June Desmond Helen Becker Bud An Joe Galloway Ed Radke Gene Kelly and Bill Hussing. Business is by Ralph Wade and Wade. Costumes are led by Shirley Bell with Pauline Kreba Alice Funk Dorothy Bruns. Make up is by Sue Smith and Alice Hoover. Publicity is by Keith Brown.
High school concert band will perform a fall concert before Christmas. director J J Richards announced the date is pending. The program includes operatic overtures, symphonic pieces, marches, and special features, with a later combined band and orchestra program. Miss Ann Crane of Chicago teaches string players weekly at the coliseum at school expense, improving orchestra organization.
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