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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1924)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager SUBSCRIPTION ... 50 Cts PER ANNUM LITERARY SOCIETIES Nonpareil The Nonpareil Literary Society held their regular meeting in room 10 on Friday, Dec. 5. After a short business discussion we were all well entertained with a program rendered by the new members. Our visitors for the evening were Mrs. Markestrom, and Miss Vesper, who gave a very interesting talk. After a short talk from our advisor, Miss White, and a few snappy songs and yells we adjourned for the evening to meet again in the near future. Winona The Winona-Reliance annual joint meeting was held in the auditorium last Friday evening at which time the following program was given: Winona spirit, Wi nonas; recitation, Grace Johnson; instrumental quar tet, Frank S. James, Paul Keta, Raymond Haldane and Wm. Markishtum; debate, “Resolved, That Mulligan should be eliminated from our bill of fare,” affirmative, Maybelle Bremner and Raymond Sander son, negative, Edna Audette and Percy Woodcock; duet, Anna Peratrovich and Reno Booth; Reliance prophecy, Martha Edelman; magic tricks, Jacob Atkins; Hawaiian selection, Raymond Haldane and Paid Keta; jokes, Raymond Sanderson. We ended our program with songs and yells. Supt. Hall gave us a compliment on our work. During the judges decision on debate Mr. Leavenworth gave us a few humorus selections. ATHLETIC NOTES An interesting basketball tryout closed last Friday with the final of a series of games played during the week to give every candidate a chance to show’ the reason why he should have a position on the team. Eighteen of the fifty men survived the test and have been retained, from which a first and second team will be selected. Plenty of material is on hand from which to pick forw’ards. Dewey Matt and William Brendible, both regulars on last year’s team, are turning out, as well as Dandro George, who was high point man on the 1923 team. Aside from these three men Eddie San derson, Willie J. Williams, Alfred Bernard, Lyman Scott and James Thomas are maneuvering around in such a manner that it is plain that every man hoping to retain a forw’ard position will have to work for it. While the new’ players are youngsters and inexperi enced they have the qualities and natural ability that make them strong contenders for the position. The program for the next two weeks w’ill consist of drills in the fundumentals and very little playing. The team last year enjoyed a very successful season, though it played many hard games, which was due to the fact they were all schooled in the art of executing the fundamentals. A struggle for the center position is being w’aged betw’een Reginald DePoe and Robert Fielder and both are likely candidates. At present DePoe has a slight edge because of his aggressiveness. Fielder is a little the tallest and has a longer reach which should be a de cided advantage in his favor once he rounds into form. John Edelman and Andrew Jackson are also center contenders of ability. Both have the stuff that make the best basketball players—aggressiveness. Charles Buchert and Jack Abraham, both guards on last year’s team w’ere lost through graduation. Need less to say the services of these two stellar players will be missed, for two guards of their calibre are hard to find. Both were fast and good basketshooters, espec ially Buchert, who plaved a running guard position. The ability of both these fellows to shoot and get back down the court w’as unusual. The most promising candidates to take the place of one of these tw’o men is Johnnie Milne, a new man, w’ho has the size and speed to make an ideal guard. Other guards who are attracting favorable attention are Joe Dumore, Charles George, Eldred George, John Kowasuk and Raymond Haldane. That DePoe and Dandro George will be switched to guard positions in not altogether unlikely. JUNIOR NOTES We have one more new’ member in our class, Orsen George. We have a new ancient history teacher again. We are glad to know it is Mrs. Palmer. Four Junior boys, Fred Nystrum. Victor Edenso, Raymond Jones, and William Markishtum, went to Dallas last week to attend the Larger Boys’ Conference Only two others were not of the Junior class that attended the Conference. Did you see the smiles on the Junior girls’ faces since Thanksgiving? Who knows why? The Junior boys set' em up to the girls last Friday evening in the gymnasium. Sup’t Hall was our honor guest. Did you notice that he wore a Junior Class cap? Our class “originated” when he become superintendent of this school. We are proud to say that we are his class. We had our class meeting last Friday. The presi dent opened the meeting by calling the house to order and asked for business. There was no business to be discussed, so the meeting proceeded with a program which was as follows: Speech, President Atkins; recitation, George Flack; prophecy, Royal Holst; tricks, Jacob Atkins; dialogue, William Johnson and Joseph Connors. After a most helpful talk from Supt. Hall and our teacher, Mrs. Leavenw’orth, we adjourned.
