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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1969
Page
2
About 200 members attended the GAA picnic led by Rhonda Smith. Members signed up for new activities including tennis, soccer, archery, bicycling, speedaway, and softball as coaches introduced officers and the Varsity Cheerleaders led chants after a cooked meal. The first activities begin Monday September 8.
Sterling's Cross Country team led by co-captains Dan Overaint and Felin Cruz begins a 16 meet varsity slate with about 45 members under coach Wigginton. The season opener features roughly twenty to twenty one teams at Otter Invite with LaSalle and Ottawa among top rivals. Coach praises team spirit. success expected to be a collective effort.
ACT the national testing program announces five opportunities for secondary school students to take the ACT Test Battery during 1969 70 with the Oct 18 1969 first date registration Aug 25 Sept 15. The test covers English math social studies and natural sciences and costs 6. Results go to chosen colleges. Most colleges urge junior year testing with senior year still possible.
A new student at SVHS compares large school life to Somonauk Community and Mt. Vernon. He notes a bigger curriculum, broader activities, and enjoys sports, poetry, theatre, percussion, and vocal music while appreciating the church choir and computer projects. He mentions a soprano tenor exchange on WSDR.
A quirky list presents three punny titles: Spacecraft Bugs labeled Gemini Crickets, Insects on the Moon dubbed Luna Tics, and a Poem by Prison Inmates titled Converse. The items blend wordplay with space and confinement imagery in a light tone.
Classified advertising rates are .05 a word with a 25 billing charge if not prepaid. Ads must be placed in the Script mailbox in Room 206 at least one week before publication. Helps wanted notices and typing jobs advertised, with contact details and home typing options. The last SCRIPT issue will be distributed to activity ticket holders only.
Puzzle shows thirty seven school subjects and activities hidden in letters sometimes forward or backward and diagonally. Readers circle names such as Agriculture Algebra Art Auto Mechanics Band Biology Chemistry Chorus Drafting Earth Science Economics English French Geometry German Government Graphics History Home Economics Journalism Latin Library Literature Lunch Mathematics Physical Education Physics and more likely misspelled items.
Student query listing course codes 35 Typing 36 Welding 37 Woodshop with brief prompt inviting identification of items or topics referenced in a curriculum segment. The note emphasizes a request for locating related courses or activities.
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