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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Mr. Bruce was again a Sunday visitor and played with the orchestra during our chapel exercises. On account of the work being done on the stage settings in the auditorium by the carpenters and paint ers there will be no school assembly this week. The English department has some legends of Indian origin written up for the contest inaugurated by the D. A. R. ladies. These legends are said to be very interesting. Miss Roach, a school teacher of the Molalla district, was among those who attended our chapel services last Sunday. She was most enthusiastic over every thing she saw and heard. On all sides we bear favorable comment on the fine appearance of our students when they march by com panies about the campus. It always pleases us and should spur our students to greater endeavor. The primary grades are having their final exams this week. The prevocational and vocational departments will take their exams from May 25 to 30. Then comes the operetta, the athletic events, industrial demonstra tions, followed by the exodus for home. Mr. and Mr. Paul Petri and Mrs. Jeffreys, mother of Mrs. Petri, motored to Chemawa from their home in Corvallis and spent Sunday with friends at our school. They are all most loyal supporters of Che mawa and all that it stands for. Mr. Petri is now dean of the school of music at the Oregon Agricultur al College, while Mrs. Petri is the head of the course in piano and harmony. Mrs. Jeffreys has just returned to the Pacific coast from her home in New Jersey. During chapel last Sunday evening Supt. Hall gave one of his finest talks, in which he emphasized the necessity of serious purpose and right living, coupled with industry, as a course to be pursued by our young people if they hope to succeed in life. The orchestra played a number by Schumann, Reno Booth sang “You in Gondola” by Clarke, Edna Dean gave a reci tation, the boys’ quartet sang “Soldiers of the Cap tain” by Spohr, and the choir sang “Nancy Lee” by Adams. It proved a pleasing chapel service. Seventy-five titles were submitted in the contest recently held in the vocational department. The Gunnell studio submitted four beautiful photos of Che mawa students dressed in Indian costumes and posed to represent typical Indian scenes, with the offer of a prize of $5 each for appropriate titles. From these titles a committee will select the one which most aptly applies to each photograph, and the prizes, amounting to $20, will be awarded. Won’t it be jolly for some chap who needs the five dollars to receive one of these awards at the Jolly-Up? PAGE 3 Another lot of fat hogs are ready for the buyer. Employes are arranging for vacation periods this summer. Picnic supper on the lawn for students on Friday evening of this week. Mrs. Parks entertained 25 or 30 of her lady friends from Portland on Tuesday. Mrs. Iliff has her hands full these last few weeks of school, preparing for exams and other matters in con nection with her academic work. Onion growers in this vicinity use many of our boys to weed their onion patches. The boys slip off at all odd times to make a dollar or so. Drilling on the part of boys these fine mornings and evenings, before breakfast and after suppei, seems to be the chief order of those periods. Mrs. Downie is a busy woman, looking after Mc Nary Hall and drilling the hundreds of girls for the outdoor exhibition during closing week. Mr. H. W. Camp, traveling auditor, is with us offi cially, and is nearing the end of his work here. Mr. Camp is certainly a conscientious and faithful auditor. Splendid rains of late insure a fine strawberry crop on our six-acre patch. The farm and garden certainly appear well. Never before have we had a better pros pect for all kinds of crops. The Excelsior party last Saturday evening was the last special one of the season. As usual this society gave a splendid social. In the management of the function, Mr. Iliff, critic of the society, and Mr. Downie aided the committee in charge and there were no dull moments at any time. The ninth and tenth grades gave us literary treats that we shall never forget in their interpretation of sketches from Shakespeare’s plays, Burn’s poems as beautifully sang by the ninth grade girls, and Scott’s “Lady of the Lake.” The well-known characters selected from the collateral reading and presented, life size, in the “Freshmen’s Waxworks” made a pleasing impression. Each student should have a good store of literary gems gleaned from these exercises given each Wednesday; if no more lasting benefit is derived, they should help through the final exams, and, judg ing from the anxious faces, this is quite an item. DETAIL FOB WEEK Sunday escort for girls, May 24 McBride Hall Winona Hall Asst. Farmer Teacher No. 15 Teacher No. 5 Poultryman Escort for girls to Salem, May 23 Teacher No. 8
