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ord for the longest residence in Chemawa, having come from Alaska in
1900. So small a boy was he that we can almost call him a Chemawa
product.
Joseph Dunbar, with his cornet, has always contributed his share to
the band music upon all occasions. He entered school in 1910, from
Washington, and has became proficient in orchard and farm work. The
class feels especially proud of him from the fact that he now holds a
position in the Indian Service, having been employed a few weeks ago
as industrial teacher at the Umatilla school. He is permitted through
the kindness of his superintendent to be present with us today to re
ceive his diploma.
Nick Hatch is our third band member. But what’s a band without
a drum-major? Or, where find one so efficient as in this class? Ralph
Sellew, who so ably pilots our band on the march, came from his Mon
tana home and entered the school last fall, and has done very good
work in the class.
As musicians our girls come in for their share of praise. Maude
Lowry, who came from California in 1906; Emma Shepard, from Al
aska, in 1902, and Fannie Adams, in 1910, from Montana, were all
connected for some time with the orchestra and displayed much tal
ent. Emma has also given us much pleasure by her piano and vocal
solos. She was the vocalist with the band on their recent trip from
home. Callista Rainville, our only Oregon girl, entered school in 1908,
and is also a pianist.
Nor must we forget our cooks and seamstresses. You will find all of
our girls proficient in one, or both, of these accomplishments, for such
we consider them. But we can especially recommend Irene Martin,
one of our California girls, who entered school in 1910; we are sending
her back now* as a splendid cook. Also, in the same year, and from
the same state, came Ethel Roberts; she can now cut your cloth into the
latest styles and send you forth looking like one of those fearful and
wonderful things of the present day—a fashion plate.
California scores another point in her only boy of the class. Dewey
Billy entered school in 1907, and, havingspent all his time on the dairy
detail, is now an authority on the cow and her ways.
David Billings entered the school in 1904 from his home in Southern
Oregon. He belongs to the mighty class who feed the world, and ex
pects to further perfect himself in farming by entering O A C this
fall.
Our achie\ ements on the athletic field have been too numerous to re
late, but class pride bids us pause long enough to mention tw’o of our
best athletes. John Service came to the school from Northern Oregon
in 1904 and holds the school record for the pole vault, while Bennie