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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Rev. Father Raymond of Siletz was a campus visitor on Friday. Miss McFadden, an ex Chemawa employe who re sides in Salem, was visiting old friends on the campus last Friday. Martin Colby was down from Portland last week-end visiting the school and friends. Martin is always a welcome visitor. Solomon Fleury, a new student from South Dakota, arrived Saturday night and is welcomed among us. Solomon has entered the Junior class. Now that our basketball schedule is past the half way mark Manager Bent is preparing for us the base ball and track schedule which he expects to have out soon. Mr. George Stewart, who for years acted as plumber at Chemawa, but of recent years was employed in Cal ifornia, died at the Deaconess Hospital last Saturday of Brights Disease. The Boy Scouts have organized a basketball team and are meeting all comers of their size. They hung defeat on a team from the Parrish Junior High School by a one-sided score recently. Our cross-country runners are hard at work getting into shape for the race against Washington high school of Portland which is to take place soon. It is expected that the first trial run will be held this com ing Saturday. Mr. James took his tailor shop detail on a picnic Saturday. He is very proud of his boys and has been heard to say that his force of boys are the very best and most trustworthy of any boys at Chemawa. This speaks w’ell for the tailors. Mr. Henry Turner, school poultryman, has the incubators in operation with about 1300 eggs. On March 3id the first hatching will be completed. It is expected to complete three hatchings this spring with a production of 3000 chicks. Mr E. L. Chalcraft, Superintendent of the Siletz Indian jurisdiction, which covers all official matters pertaining to Indians in Oregon west of the Cascade range, spent a night at Chemawa last week while on an official trip in his territory. A recent letter from Charles Buchert, a graduate of the class of ’24, and an all around athlete, tells us that he is now playing on the Metlakatla basketball team which is to play off a tie with the Ketchikan, Alaska, team for the territorial championship soon. Sunday, being a balmy spring day, the school truck, driven by Mr. Briggs, was kept busy giving the Mc Bride Hall girls an outing. The rest of the girls went out walking into the country with chaperones. All of the girls look forward to the auto truck rides in their turn. This evening at 7 o’clock our team will play the Oregon Normal School team. To date the Normals are leading the Willamette Valley Non-Conference League and have a speedy combination. No doubt this will be one of the best games we will have this season. Saturday we will play the Northwest National Bank team of Portland here. PAGE 3 Mrs. Vesper has been reinstated as cook at the Children’s Mess. She took up her duties on Monday, February 9th. Miss Gunn sent a basketful of corsage boquets of violets to her various friends on the campus Saturday as Valentine remembrances. She is our florist and always has flowers in their proper season. She seems to know when and how to plant and take care of flowers for best results. She uses a small plat of ground around Cottage Hall. A group of Northwestern (Chicago, Illinois) Univer sity students visited Chemawa the other day. Seldom has it been that more interest was manifested than by these young men. One of them is captain of the varsity lootball team and another is captain of the baseball team. The college glee club is touring the coast and rendered a program in Salem. Child health work in this county is in charge of Dr. Walter H. Brown of New York. After a complete health survey by trained workers there will come to Salem a director of medical activities, a director of nursing service, a director of health education who will work with the schools; also a special corps of nurses to be put on as the health work progresses. Che- mawa is to have the benefit of this health educational work. It is understood the health program of the Child Health Demonstration Committee covers a period of five years and $50,000 has been set aside for this work. Dr. Brown spent some time recently looking over Chemawa and getting acquainted with conditions. The Senior annual Valentine party was most suc cessfully given on Saturday evening in the gymnasium. The hall was aglow with red streamers and hearts. A class program opened the happy event; there were numerous guessing games and cross-word puzzles as well as amusements suited for all. Mr. Bent and Mrs. Turney and the boys’ orchestra furnished most excel lent music throughout the evening. Supper was served by the Juniors in the dining hall of the Junior domestic science department under the direction of Miss Strout. Covers were laid for over one hundred. The table decorations were gorgeous and the menu ample and daintily served. All in all the Seniors did themselves proud. Miss White, senior teacher, and her class, received many compliments by the guests for a well planned party and a delightful evening. The first demonstration dinner in the Senior Domes tic Science department, which is called by the girls “The Senior Homemakers’ Wigwam,” took place on Thursday evening last, given by Florence Shuraveloff and Grace Peterson of the 1925 class. The beauty of the dining room is difficult to describe. The soft lighting effect produced through the use of artistic col ored lamp shades and lovely standard lamps, together with the furnishings, hanging baskets, a conservatory arrangement of plants and the general assembling in this room shows the work of an artist. Every article as well as the room itself is the handiwork of the students- -boys and girls. There is no prettier room in this state. The dinner was par excellent and by far the best cooked and served of any dinner given at Chemawa for some time. Mrs. Brickell, Principal of of Home Economics, expects to handle all senior dem onstrations usually given during the last semester each vear.
