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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1919)
PAGE 3 T H E CHEM AW A AMERICAN LOCAL There are fifteen students now at Chemawa who served during the late war. The Sigma Phi Delta Society gave a party on last Thursday evening in honor of six Senior girls who were pledged as members. Students who have been absent for the past year or more and returned to Chemawa express themselves as noticing much progress here and that the work gener ally seems on a more solid basis. Mrs. R. N. Thomas, nee Marie Shaisnikoff, spent Armistice Day with her host of friends at Chemawa. She and her husband leave Portland today for Los Angeles, where they expect to make their future home. Rose O ’Brien and Margaret Lewis accompanied a crowd of Salem High School students to Albany on Saturday to cheer the Salem High School football team in its game with Albany High. Irving Shepard is a member of the Salem High team and does fine w ork. Reginald Downie, 247 P. W. E. Company, is the last ex-student of Chemawa to arrive home from over seas, having been in France eighteen m onths. Reggie is one of the most resourceful and competent of Che- mawa’s young men, and all Chemawa welcomes him at school again. He will act as assistant disciplinarian. A dinner, honoring Reginald Downie and Mrs. R. N. Thomas (our Marie Shaishnikoff) with covers for fourteen, was given at a special table Armistice eve ning in the students’ dining room. Rose O ’Brien, Julia Fratis, M arguerite Chamberlin, H enrietta Cham berlin, Mary Ware and Jessie Cleveland served the delicious dinner and acted the part of hostesses. Rus sell Adams, Allan Shepard, Irving Shepard, Nick Orloff, Louis Colby and George Barrett were the hosts. Our kitchen and dining-room departments, directed by Mrs. Katie L- Brewer and Miss Olive Skipton, re spectively, are very efficiently handled and a credit to our school. We doubt if there are many institutions where an athletic training table for 24 young men, a diet table for 8 students, a special dinner for 14, be sides over 600 students at regular meals, all at the same time in the same dining-room and prepared at the same time in the students’ kitchen, which occurred on Armistice Day; and apparently not a hitch any place. Can you beat it? During chapel on Sunday evening the orchestra played “ A Moonlight Frolic” by W eixelbaum, Maud Craig sang ' ‘Alone W ith G od” by Abbot, and the choir sang “ Saints in G lory” by Gabriel. During the evening A rthur Johnson, a senior, recited a poem by Harold Bigbie entitled “ Coats Off,” and, he did it well. Mr. Bigbie is an English poet and “ Coats Off” is a wonderful production of the mind—dealing with after the war conditions in England—and as Supt. Hall aptly stated it is as applicable to the United States today as it is to England. Rev. Father Gall of Mt. Angel, Oregon, has given us much encouragement by his appreciation of our school paper. He has the following to say: If the value of a publication is judged by its size, the Che- mawa American is not in it. This, however, is not the case—the value of a publication is not measured by the yards of paper used, but by its intrinsic value and in this regard the Chemawa American holds first prominent place. The printing is neat, the language clean, the contents of such a nature that they elevate the reader, make him a better person, and The American deserves to be read from beginning to finish. ARM ISTICE D A Y A most intensely interesting meeting took place in the school auditorium on Armistice Day with the entire faculty and student body assembled. It was a snappy and patriotic affair from beginning to end. Reginald Downie, a returned veteran, was chairman and on the stage were seated quite a number of our boys from “ overseas” in addition to those who made talks. Besides those mentioned on the program George Bar rett was yell master and there was ‘pep’’ in every yell. The program follows: Band Processional School America - School Song— “ Over T here” Russell Adams Short Talk W ater Transportation of Men and the O rd nance of War. Song . - - - Octette Girls Short Talk . - - - Nick Orloff The Perils and Hardships of Sea Navigation in Time of W ar—The Submarines, etc. Selection - - - * - Band Short Talk - . . . John Beyers Laud Transportation of Vast Armies and Their Supplies in Provisions and Accoutre ments, etc. Song— “ Joan of A rc” - - - School Short T alk - - - Elwood Towner Personal Impressions of the War Vocal Solo— “ Dear Old Pal of Mine” - Russell Adams Short Talk - - Reginald Downie The Country as I found it and as I left it— The people, the Cities, the Architecture— Embracing the various Characteristics of the same. Aftermath of the Great Struggle of Democracy vs. Autocracy. Remarks - - - - Supt. Hall Song—“ Keep the Home Fires B urning” - School Recessional . . . . Band
