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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
EMPLOYEES' MEETIXG
HE second regular meeting of the Employees was held
in the Auditorium on Monday evening Nov. 2, from
7.00 to 8.00. Supt. Wadsworth called the meeting
to order and stated that while there was no regular
program prepared the meeting was open for the dis
cussion of any question that any of the employees
wished to propose. Different questions were proposed
and informally discussed. It was suggested that more interest would be
taken in the meetings and more good could be derived from them if there
were regular programs prepared and subjects assigned to members upon
which papers were to be prepared. "Care of Public Property" was as
signed to Mr. Devol; "What Can be Done to Lessen the Use of Tobacco
Among the Boys," to Mr. Gillett; "Conservation of the Pupils' Time,"
was assigned to Mrs. Brace and Mr. Smith; Mrs. Brace representing the
academic department and Mr. Smith the industrial department. "De
portment" will be discussed by Miss Fitzgerald and Mr. Loos. Miss Fitz
gerald will discuss the topic from the standpoint of the schoolroom and
Mr. Loos will straighten out the difficulties of the disciplinarian.
At 8.00 P. M. the meeting adjourned to the Gymnasium for the first of
a series of Socials that have been planned to be given during the year.
Here Mrs. Brewer and Mrs. Loos had arranged a dainty lunch consisting
of coffee, sandwiches, salad, pumpkin pie and cider, while a neat little
program of various stunts had been arranged by Mr. Devol, consisting of
first, social intercourse; second, dancing; third, men's hopping relay race;
fourth, women's walking relay race; fifth, a pumpkin passing contest in
which two persons chose sides; and sixth, hunt for partners for lunch;
this consisted in matching a cut proverb, the men having one part, the
ladies the other. Some dissatisfaction was manifested by the more crit
ical of the party who claimed that there were no such proverbs in exist
ence. They were quieted, however, when they were told that most of
the sayings came from the Bible. The grand march was led by Mr.
Cooper. At 10:15 the social adjourned to meet again in the same place
Dec. 7, at 8.00 P. M.
EXCEESIOIJ SOCIETY NOTES
On October 1st, the Excelsior Society met in room No. 9 to reorganize
for the school year of 1915. Thirty-seven members wTere present; these
members, with several new boys present, made quite a room full.
Reginald Downie, a member of the class of 1914, was elected president.