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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1918)
I THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN A D D R E SS G IV EN B Y CH IEF SU PE R V ISO R L IP P S ____________ (Continued ironi Page 2)_____________ PAGE 3 tional with you to a factor forthe betterment of not oniy your own condition in this life, but of those with whom you come in contact both in and out of school. You cannot expect anyone to respect you without you first respect yourself. So it behooves you always to conduct yourself in such a manner that reproach may never be brought upon your life, no matter where you happen to be. habit of being friendly, of being cheerful, of being full of enthusiasm, and in being interested in the work and things we are doing. Now, when we get out into life wre are going to succeed in proportion as we are industrious and as we are enthusiastic and en ergetic in our work. Here, I wish to state that at chis school there is one thing in particular which pleases LOCALS me very much, and that is the manner in which many Rev. Mr. Eliot, pastor of the Salem Presbyterian of the older students, both boys and girls, are assum church, held services at Chemawa on Sunday last. ing responsibility. The boy or girl without character is not going to The juniors did themselves great credit during succeed. The fellow who isn’t clean, who hasn’t Alumni and Seniors Week in looking after the comfort ideals, never gets anywhere. We must picture in our and well-being of the visitors. minds the kind of men, the kind of women, we want Lycondra Squartzoff, who had been ill for some to be. We must strive for that ideal. Oh, we are go time, passed away on Saturday evening last. The ing to be discouraged and have the blues sometimes! remains were laid to rest in the school cemetery on We are going to get lonesome, we are going to think Sunday afternoon. Services were held in the school that everything is going wrong. I don’t believe it is chapel, Rev. Mr. Hood officiating. Lycondra had a sin to get discouraged, but it is a sin to quit because always been one of Chemawa’s good boys and a host we are discouraged. If we screw up our courage and of friends mourn his demise. overcome these discouragements everything will look brighter and we will go along with greater enthusiasm SE V E N T H GRADE NOTES. and we will go “ over the top.” But we must have character, we must have the right kind of hearts, we Nellie Francis is in charge of the hospital kitchen must live clean lives, we must have for our ideal and in the B division and is doing well. our model the lowly Nazarene—Christ. He has set Our reporter was under the weather for a few days the example for the perfect life. We may not be perfect, we may not attain perfection, recently and failed to get his notes ready for the press. but if we aim high we will come more nearly to attain We are glad to welcome Louise Demacon, who at ing perfection than if we aim low or do not aim at all. tended Chemawa couple of years ago, to our class. If anybody else can do a thing there is no reason why We first year vocational are studying hard to be you cannot do it. Stick right to it. There is no ready for the industrial geography “ final” the last of reason why Indian boys and girls cannot do what this month. white boys and girls can do. You have just as bright The seventh grade pupils feel very sad over the loss minds, just as good opportunities, and there is no of their classmate, Lycondra Squartzoff, who passed good reason why you should fail. I wish for you all a very happy year, a prosperous away Saturday evening. year, and I hope you will begin the year 1918 with All of our Christmas decorations have been taken determination, with a resolve that “ I will study hard down excepting three gay little Santas who gallop er, I will put more energy into my w’ork, I will be around the top of the blackboard carrying seventh more ambitious, more determined, more enthusiastic; grade pennants of red and blue. I will be happier, I will be more cheerful, I will do There are not so many seventh grade pupils on the more than I have ever before done to fit myself to go honor roll for December as there were for November, out into the world and do my part as a good citizen but there are more on the eighty-five per cent list, so and a useful member ot society.” Live up to this that the class average is really slightly higher. resolve and you are bound to win. Base, rate, percentage, percentage, percentage, Rah, Rah, Rah!. ATTENTION! Seventh grade, seventh grade, seventh grade, The eye of not only every student and employe at Rah, Rah, Rah! Chemawa is on you, but the eye of every business This is a real seventh grade yell at present. The man and woman in this world of which you are a part. class of ’21 is hard at work after the holidays and all It is your duty to appreciate the fact that it is op- are anxious to work. I
