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THE
CHEMAWA
AM ERICAN
\\ ilcox, who came in 1904 from Alaska, has taken a most prominent
part in the baseball and basketball victories of the school.
Last and least in size is Herbert Reinkin. He entered from Alaska
in 1907, and although least in size, is not least in ability where his
work is concerned. Beside having an excellent record in the classroom
he also bears it in his chosen profession- —tailoring.
As for myself, will only say that I am the other member from Wash
ington, having come to the school in 1906.
W hat we have done in the school stands here recorded for or against us.
What we shall lx? able to accomplish, only the future can tell, but we
sincerely trust that our ambitions and aspirations will carry us into still
broader fields of knowledge and usefulness than we have yet attained to
while here in Chemawa.
PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF 1913
P A T S Y B A R R E T T , Klinket Tribe, Alaska
S I sat here listening to the history of the boys and girls
who compose the class of 1913 I began to wonder
what changes time would bring to them within the
next fifteen years. By that time some of them will
have a few gray hairs, no doubt, and perhaps the
crow’s feet will begin to show around the now bright
eyes. I am sure, too, that some of the old ladies will
be hunting for their spectacles before being able to thread their needles.
As my mind traveled forward, I became so lost in imagination that this
scene was enacted before me:
I seemed to see myself sitting in my law office at my home in Alaska
on an idle spring day in the month of May, 1928. It seems as though
the morning mail had just been brought in and laid upon my desk, and
on looking through the mail I recognized the handwriting on a letter,
also the familiar postmark of Chemawa.
The letter was from no other than Joseph Dunbar, a classmate of
mine, who had recently been elected president of the Alumni Associa
tion of dear old Chemawa; so I hastily opened the envelope and found
enclosed with the letter an invitation to attend the commencement exer
cises to be held there in June. In his letter he said he was sending out
special invitations to the members of the class of 1913, to urge them to
be present, if possible, at a class reunion. I decided at once that I
would be there and immediately answered his letter telling him so. I
arranged to leave about the middle of June, as I thought I should like