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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1962
Page
4
A veteran upperclassman offers advice to freshmen about adjusting to high school. The piece suggests Respect for Your Elders Day on September seventh with favors like carrying books and opening doors. It warns about heated lockers priced around 3.50 and notes mandatory senior photos for permanent records.
A National Honor Society prepared student handbook at SHS outlines faculty, events, graduation, college requirements, guidance, library, bus transport, lockers, and conduct rules. It includes the Student Council Constitution and Code of Conduct with staff credits and a note urging respect for elders on September 7.
A new Diversified Occupations Program headed by Mr. Watts will run next school year. It pairs business training with school subjects so students attend half day at school and half day at work earning two credits. Participants must be 16 or older and able to work about 15 hours weekly. Jobs include nurses aides, medical secretaries, beauticians, bakers, carpenters, and mechanics among others.
A back-to-school feature notes Sterling High has reduced shade due to Dutch Elm disease, with a red white and blue mailbox as the new front mark. Cafeteria is a study hall, machine shop and wood shop revamped, rooms 205 and 222 repurposed for offices and reading work, fieldhouse refinished for PE, and overall alterations aimed at welcoming students back.
The SCRIPT announces Anita Stickel joins SHS English as advisor while Miss Kraabel heads girls P E department and Camera Club gains adviser Mr Speer. Dean Colborn steps in for Mr Musgrove as Dean of Students as the school budgets 1200 plus students this year. Two seniors, Gay Elfline and Dave Breed, spent six weeks at Western Michigan University and University of Iowa respectively for summer studies.
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