Warriors Baseball Completes Strong Season Runner-Up in NCIC League
Warrior baseball under Coach Homer Musgrove posted 13 wins and 4 losses, finishing second to Ottawa in the NCIC summer league. Johnny Carrillo led with a .427 average, 26 hits in 55 at bats, including 5 doubles, 6 triples and 1 homer. Pitchers Pete Dillon, Carl Huffman and Don Puterbaugh anchored a solid staff. the B team went 5 1. The squad featured mostly sophomores and juniors with four seniors.
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Homer Musgrove
Ottawa
N.C.I.C
Warriors
Johnny Carrillo
John Wolfe
Dick Ohnen
Pete Dillon
Carl Huffman
Don Puterbaugh
Newman
Morrison
Sterling High football opens with 50 candidates
Bernie Mitchell welcomes 50 varsity candidates for practice starting August 31. Two daily practices early, then one daily as school begins. Six returning lettermen. team relies on fight and determination. First game September 18 against Newman at the Stadium. Schedule includes two conference games and visits to Geneseo for the final game.
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Bernie Mitchell
Inday
Golden Warriors
Newman
Geneseo
Reavis
Oak Lawn
Sterling
Rock Falls
Dixon
de Kalb
Belvidere
Ottawa
Hall Two
Wells
Summer Round Robin Tennis Meet Held at S H S Courts
A summer round robin tennis meet directed by Mr. Wolfgang Edelman took place on the S H S courts during July and August. Winners included Jim Schueler in the high school boys division and Trudy Worth in the high school girls division with Gale Dillon and Reuben Chapman as runners up.
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S.H.S
Wolfgang Edelman
Jim Schueler
Schueler
Reuben Chapman
Victor
Trudy Worth
Gale Dillon
Stephen Heller
School Rules And Etiquette Advice For Students
A guidance column outlines ten school rules encouraging neat dress and shoes, tidy desks, proper conduct, and courteous behavior. It advises avoiding gum, loud giggling, showiness, crowding in halls, and improper dances, while promoting neatness, respect for property, and school spirit.
Six S H S Boys Receive Highest Scout Honor Eagle Scout
Six Sterling Township High School youths John Dillon Roger Eshleman Richard Helms Ken Kosier Lee Tyne and Jim Ziegler earned the Eagle Scout award after a Board of Review and national confirmation. The ceremony happened September 8 at the Grandon Civic Center following extensive merit badge work and district to national reviews.
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Sterling Township High School
John Dillon
Roger Eshleman
Richard Helms
Ken Kosier
Lee Tyne
Jim Ziegler
Board of Review
Rockford
National
New York City
Grandon Civic Center
Sterling High Welcomes New Foreign Students Tusi Tavalini and Nora Strunk
Sterling High School adds two new students from abroad this year Tusi Tavalini from Manhattan Beach California and Hawaii and Nora Strunk from Concepcion Chile join as a senior and a junior respectively The piece notes Tusi as a promising football player and Nora adapting to American schools with some language difficulties.
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Sterling High School
Tusi Tavalini
Manhattan Beach
California
Hawaii
Tusi
Nora Strunk
Concepcion
Chili
Sterling
Nora
Chile
McMurray Welcomes 90 Freshmen and Sophomores
Ninety freshmen and sophomores reported to coach Bob McMurray and assistant Arlyn Yonneberg. The group was split into two practice groups, morning and afternoon. Plans call for two teams later, the frosh soph and the Pee Wees.
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McMurray
Bob McMurray
Arlyn Yonneberg
Gullible's Travels Joke Verse on College Boy Behavior
A satirical verse mocks college boys and dating habits. It contrasts free meals and late dates with the narrator preferring a tree, labeling college-bred men as a four-year loaf made with Dad's dough and crust.
DeKalb GAAA Picnic and Fall Sports Calendar
Dates list events for September to October including football games at Newman Clinton Rock Falls Dixon Morrison DeKalb Belvidere and a Homecoming GAA dance. Cross country meets feature Sterling Rockford Morrison Princeton and Dixon with multiple invitational dates.
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Newman
Varsity
Clinton
Fresh-Soph
Sterling
Rock Falls
Dixon
Rockford
Morrison
Fulton
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