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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1942
Page
2
Editorial notes school social plans shift toward noon gatherings aided by a new record player though dances at night will be rationed. The paper also dumps the dirt column, promising to print news that concerns all students. Sterling Township High School joined North Central Association in 1905.
The fall county teachers institute in Morrison featured Dr. Robert L. Phillips of Purdue University and Dr. Reg. I. Smith editor of The Christian Advocate as speakers. Dr. Smith drew strong praise while the division meeting occurred in Dixon on October 16. Delegates from Sterling Township included Mrs. Marie Davis and Curtis Brandau as other speakers joined Superintendent Dr. Stoddard of Philadelphia. Public school students enjoyed a two day holiday while teachers attended the event.
Frances supports Gilberto Gilbert Fidalgo in adopting American customs and learning English. Born in Mexico, he arrived from Monterey in October and now stays with the Joneses while leading Spanish class singing and pursuing music lessons. John Magon and Maurro Marruffo, both born in Mexico, also belong to the Spanish club and live in Sterling with their families. Maurro has two brothers joining the Marines soon.
Marjorie Holbert a French girl who arrived in the United States a year and a half ago through Red Cross aid spoke to Francis Shimer College second year French students. Now a student at Mt Carroll, she learned English quickly and credits her sister in California for language help. She finds slang and pronunciation hardest and calls the war description terrible. An American citizen for two years she has heard nothing from relatives in France and praises Americans as frank and friendly.
Peter Hoogeveen lists a month of films covering Agriculture Biology General Science Home Economics Physics Mathematics and Shop subjects. Highlights include America Builds Ships Pricipals of Refrigeration and Geometry in Action with multiple Biology topics and months end on Its Transformation.
George Hammond of Hollywood spoke to the student body on October 6 about How Important Is Two-fifths of a Second. He used original poetry to show how alcohol impairs driving and noted traffic deaths in the United States exceed bomb casualties in England since the war, due largely to drinking drivers. Hammond also performed I Made My Son A Criminal at Fourth Street Methodist Church that evening.
A lively school column jokes about seniors, freshmen, and Halloween antics. It mentions Macbeth rehearsals in room 14, a student called Convivial Rgger, senior English, gym floor numbers from Miss Schwappach, and Stryker carrying music, with seniors running wild after Behrens' disappearance.
Students honor soldiers at the U S O center with a singing program. Fresh-Soph football shines at Dixon and Mount Arrell. Gilbert Fidalgo entertains Spanish class with guitar. June Desmond Martin Doermann and committee praised for a top Hallowe'en Frolic. Advanced art class designs signs for events.
The boys and girls glee clubs and the robed choir advance well in practice. Girls rehearse daily except Tuesday from 1 to 1 30 pm, boys meet Tuesdays and Thursdays 11 10 to 11 50 pm, and the robed choir trains Mondays Wednesdays Fridays 11 10 to 11 50 pm. The girls mix popular and classical pieces this year. The robed choir works on Honegger King David and plans a January Sunday Evening Club performance. The boys recently toured Rockford to sing for U S O troops.
Sterling Township High School gains sixty one new books spanning science biographies humor and history. Titles include The First Radio Book for Boys Story Lives of American Composers Unfinished Symphony and A Pageant of South American History. The collection also features forty nine periodicals led by Le Soleil.
A hurried appeal urges readers to buy War Savings Stamps to support the Dixon game efforts and uphold the school's name, stressing urgency and concern over not winning or leading Alma to fame.
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