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The Chemawa American P r i n t e d a t C h e m a w a , O r e g o n , a n d D e v o t e d to th b I n t e r e s t s o f I n d i a n E d it e d t io n ------- n------------| J MAT # A-------- - Voi. X X II W ednesday, M arch 24’ 02fify-1956 TH E SE N IO R S HONORED T he Class of '20 was taken b y su rp rise W ednesday m o rn in g w hen they received a d ain ty little invitation from the four dom estic science S enior girls, M arguerite C ham berlin, Rose Goff, R uby W hite and A nnie M iller. T h e in v itatio n read as follows: F ro m th e D om estic Science b an q u et hall W e S eniors send o u t an u rg e n t call, F o r you to jo in o u r crow d so gay In honor of St. P a tric k ’s Day. T h e Dom estic Science w as beautifully decorated in green crepe paper w ith large palm s and o th er foliage p lan ts. Covers w ere laid for the Senior class to g eth er w ith the S u p erin ten d e n t and M rs. H all, Mrs. R isser, senior teacher, and M rs. B rickell. L ittle place cards w ith sham rocks and h arp deco ratio n s m arked th e place of each gu est and w ith green candles th e tab le was very effective. T h e refresh m en ts carried out the St. P a tric k ’s d ay schem e. A fter the d in n er a few m in u tes were sp en t for v o lu n tary recitatio n s and sin g in g of class songs, then followed th e good n ig h t song. SCHOOL NOTES Both the six th and seventh grades have been w o rk in g on in d u strial m aps of th e U nited S tates for e x h i bition w ork. T h e m issionaries who visited th e class room s re cently found several pupils whom they knew . T hey were also able to tell “ hom e n ew s” to m any pupils. T h e th ird -y ear vocational class will m iss F lorence G ensaw . F lo ren ce was a good stu d e n t, pleasant and agreeable. Ju st th e kind to help m ake an excellent school. R obert Service visited in room nine one day last w eek. R obert g rad u ated from this room a few years ago. H e says th a t X Y Z ’s, C O and C O 2 ’s are “ beyond my tim e .” T h e school regrets very m uch to lose M rs. Iliff. H e r fo u rth grade has already com pleted the y e a r’s assig n m en t in arith m etic. A ch an g e of teachers is alw ays detrim ental to a class and th e changes have been m any and freq u en t. T h e first year prevocational class exam ined buds from the ch erry orchard east of the school on F riday. No. 24 T h ey decided th a t all the fru it was dead. A more th o ro u g h exam ination will be given later in order to confirm this decision or revise it. T h e field w est of th e laundry has nearly all been plowed and th e dark, rich looking soil looks as th ough it m ight give us a harvest the com ing fall that would help bring dow n the high cost of existence. T h e follow ing good New Y e a r’s resolution is posted in th e p rim ary loom : W e, the first graders of the C. I. S ., do most earnestly resolve to try to keep our han d s and faces clean, and our hair combed d u rin g th e year 1920. Signed by each first g rader and th eir teach er. 'J u s t like exam ination every d ay ” was the sentence pronounced on th e new arith m etic recently given to th e first and second vocational classes. T hese are the E v ery Day A rith m etics and contain no answ ers. Ali pupils in all d ep artm en ts have been supplied w ith these books. O ne h u n d red an d forty-seven years old was the age of the sam ple of w’ood brought into the th ird -y ear vo cational botany class th e other day. It was O regon fir and m easured tw enty-five inches in diam eter. T he first year vocational class decided a five-inch diam eter lim b from a fir w’as fo rty -th ree years old. “ T h is o n e ,” they said, “ was old for its siz e .” T h e “ M ake Believe” farm in th e prim ary room is u p-to-date in every respect except one—ru n n in g across th e farm from one side to th e o th er is an old-fashioned rail fence such as is seldom ever seen any m ore. H ow ever, you can see cattle, sheep and horses g ra z ing in the fields wdiile th e orchard and barn lots are full of chickens, ducks, geese and tu rk ey s. T he first grade children m ade all of them last week. H a ttie M artin and M arina N elson from the fourth vocational class, K ath erin e L oftus, Mabel B lodgett and C larence E dw ards from the th ird year vocational class, Josephine C orbett from th e second year voca tio n al, and H en rietta C ham berlin from th e first year vocational have su b stitu tted in five divisions d u rin g the last m onth. These divisions include the first g rad e, the fo u rth and fifth. T hese girls and boy rich ly deserve the treat prom ised th em —a chicken d in n e r— but hardly deserve to lose their grade in th eir vocational work on account of being absent teaching.
