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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1925)
PAGE 3 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL A gorgeous bouquet of carnations was sent from Portland by Julia and Martha Fratis and Anna La- Rance to their Sigma mother and sisters. Marguerite and Henrietta Chamberlin, who are now Mrs. Tweed and Mrs. Bulgin, with their husbands were in attendance at the Sigma party on Saturday evening last. Supt. and Mrs. Chalcraft and daughter, Miss Hallie, spent Monday night with friends at the school. They were out to the valley on a combined business and pleasure trip. Julia Fratis, Louise Silverthorne, Catherine Brooks, Mrs. Anna Stone Brown, from Portland, were week end visitors at Chemawa, being here to attend the Sigma Phi Delta party. Mrs. Effie Davis White, class of ’22, writes from Salyer, Calif., that she and her husband, Ray White, have just started a community store and are doing a good business. They work hard, but are well and happy. Effie was a rustler when at school. Miss Catherine Reed, a Chemawa graduate, is now a full-fledged graduate nurse in a hospital in Los Angeles. She is at the head of one of the three largest wards. Catherine says she feels it is quite an honor on account of its being the largest hospital in Los An geles, and graduates from all over the United States are employed. During chapel last Sunday evening Supt. Hall gave a splendid talk on the value of time in which he stressed the importance of punctuality. It was a good talk on a live topic. The orchestra played “Land o’ Dreams” by Schumann, Reno Booth sang “Smiling Through” by Penn, a mixed quartet sang “Only Thee” by Berge, and the choir sang “Out O’er the Deep” by Wilson. Addie Merrill writes from Eureka, Calif., that she read with great joy, also with regret, that Chemawa was to have a complete High School Course. She rejoices at the opportunity afforded the students here now. but regrets that she could not have had the same oppor tunity. Addie graduates from Eureka High on June 12. She will then take up a secretarial course which she has already half finished. Mrs. Hall very nicely announced the engagement of Louise Silverthorn, a graduate of Chemawa, 1920, and Catherine Brooks, an ex-student, who are em ployed at Portland, at the Sigma party. They will be married this summer. Mrs. Hall read during the even ing various radiograms from the Sigma girls scattered all over the coast country and northwest, including Alaska. This society has grown stronger and better each year since it has been organized and has up-lift ed hundreds of girls, and an effort is made to keep in touch with them all. The Annual Spring Party given on Saturday evening last by the Sigma Phi Delta girls was certainly a “hummer.” This is the eighth social given by this popular organization and at no previous one was there more joy unconfined. Sufficient to say the gym, in the language of the guests, “was like fairy land.” There was nothing neglected for the pleasure and happiness of the 180 hostesses and guests present. The program opened with a mock initiation portraying the ideals for which Sigma Phi Delta stands and the ten blocks on which Sigma was founded. This cere mony was very impressive and beautiful. Refresh ments were served in beautiful May baskets of all colors and hues. There were favors presented to all in the shape of beautiful paper caps, with umbrellas for girls and noise makers for boys. The evening ended amid much merriment with the throwing of confetti, sepentine, and large balloons in profusion. This party, attended by our older students and faculty, is the social event of the year and is always looked for ward to. ACADEMIC NOTES The questions in current events were especially good last Wednesday. Since the number of questions that may be asked is restricted to three there is no time for any but the most important items in national events. News of prize fights and murders not wanted. This is the last week for the supervised study hour. This does not mean that we are going to quit studying. Not by any means! It means that every available moment must be utilized from now until after the final examinations, for who wants to be a failure after a year of work? Even though it is the merry month of May, exam inations are here, a few of them—just enough to whet the appetite for what is coming later. This is the schedule: May 4, Conversational exercises, grades 3 to 6 inclusive; Penmanship, grades 3 to 10 inclusive; May 5, Reading, grades 3 to 8 inclusive; Music, grades 3 to 10 inclusive. Representatives of the second and the third grades responded nobly with their assignment for the school assembly last Wednesday. Edward Anderson read a story on the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, and Eliza beth Kirn recited one of his poems, “My Shadow,” as representatives of the third grade. The second grade pupils were Norman Plummer, who read a short essay on Stevenson’s life to the 1st division, and little Mary Gardipe who recited “The Swing.” DETAIL FOR WEEK Sunday escort for girls, May 10 McBride Hall Winona Hall Carpenter Teacher No. 10 * D. S. Teacher Dairyman Escort for girls to Salem, May 9 Teacher No. 7
