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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Mrs. Brewer made a short visit to her people near Tacoma early last week. H company of Hawley Hall girls, Thelma Sando val, captain, marched best during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Ball of Klamath Agency spent the week-end at Chemawa visiting their daughter, Clar inda. Applications are already being received from our tenth grade graduates of former years for re-entrance at Chemawa. The club people are indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Gib son for large quantities of beautiful tulips for dining room decorations. Dr. and Mrs. Wedge are giving talks to the students several times each day and the students derive much benefit therefrom. The ninth and tenth grade girls and Mrs. Brickell served an afternoon tea on Friday to sixteen of the campus ladies in honor of Mrs. Wedge. Chemawa has five students who will receive diplo mas this year from the Salem High School. In addi tion we learn that Addie Merrill will finish highschool this year at Eureka, California. A delegation of girls attended the Older Girls’ Conference in Salem on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There were over 500 girls from various points in Oregon in attendance at this conference. Sam Pablo, of Kooskia, Idaho, who left Chemawa in 1921, was a school visitor last Saturday. Sam learned tailoring while at Chemawa and has been following that vocation since leaving school. The carpenter shop forces have about completed making the list of furniture required for Hawley Hall. The greater part of it has been delivered. That dormi tory is a thing of beauty and a source of pride for all of us. A truck load or more of girls and several auto loads of boys, as well as a number of employes, attended the Indian operetta given at the St. Joseph’s auditorium by the pupils of Sacred Heart Academy in Salem on Friday evening. We want to impress upon our students, particularly the present tenth grade class, that those who are so fortunate as to continue on and graduate as members of our first class to complete the full high school course at our school will place themselves favorably in Che- mawa’s history for all time. Mark our words, this is an opportunity not to be treated lightly; it is especially within the grasp of the present 10th graders at Che- mawa. Members of this class hold an option on the honor that is to especially distinguish them in 1927— if they “stick.” PAGE 3 The carpenter force is busy completing three gar ages. We have been officially notified by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Chemawa is to have the complete high school course, starting with the 11th grade next September. This means that Chemawa will not have a graduating class until 1927. The student’s all seem to rejoice greatly over this good news and to appre ciate the advantage they will have in this increased course. Dr. Wedge addressed those assembled in chapel last Sunday evening. His talk was of more than the usual interest and was of special value. The Doctor made it clear that in life it is of vital importance that all complete the course laid out—no “halfway” procedure will ever land a person in a desirable position. The singing was good and all the exercises were of great interest. HIGH SCHOOL WORTH MONEY Chemawa is to have a full high school course. Note the value that attaches to such a course, according to eminent authority: It is said that a high school grad uate on the average earns $33,000 more money by the time he is 60 years of age than does a boy who goes to work before reaching that grade of public education. If he goes through a college or technical school, his earnings are $72,000 more. This means that the uni versity graduate, on the average, earns $150,000, a high school graduate $78,000 and the product of the grades only $45,000. During the four years the high school student is learning, the grade boy earns about $2000 and pays $33,000 for it in after life. During the period the col lege student is improving his education, the high school graduate who has gone to work earns also about $2000 and sacrifices later earning of $72,000 in order to do so. There is no question of the actual cash value of an education. We need to spend more money for it and upon a larger number of persons and for a longer per iod of time, but at the same time we need to consider something besides the earning capacity of the individ ual. We need to be solicitous about his citizenship quality, his moral standards and the degree to which his life is spiritualized. Our nation is not founded on a purely material education nor the earning capacity of its citizens, but upon the character of its citizenship. DETAIL FOR WEEK Sunday escort for girls, April 26 McBride Hall Winona Hall Landscape Gardener Asst. Gardener H. M. McNary Laborer Escort girls to Salem April 25 Teacher No. 6
