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.”
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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
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