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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1926)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Miss Gunnell was a school visitor on Wednesday last. Clifford McLeod was recently appointed a second lieutenant. Mrs. Seitz was out from Salem with Dr. Seitz on Wednesday. The Y. W. girls are very busy on their big sister plans for Christmas. The junior girls banqueted the junior class football team and Miss White on Wednesday. Mrs. Baughman has been visiting her daughter, Lucy, and her nephew, Louis Pitt, recently. Mrs. Hatch arrived recently from Tulalip to visit her son, Wallace, who has been ill for some time. Mrs. Brewer sprained her back and was “out of the running” for a day or so, but is now out and around as usual. Marion Packineau, who has been a patient at the hospital for some time, has returned to her home in North Dakota. The sewing room has had the Christmas Spirit for some time and they now have ready, or nearly so, many articles for the Christmas sale. Mr. Kline took the senior girls to study the con struction work of Cramton Hall. The class noted the work from a “physics point of view.” Mr. Joseph Alberts, a Salem banker, was a visitor at our chapel exercises last Sunday evening and was de lighted with what he observed. We were truly glad to have Mr. Alberts with us. Mrs. Lieurance and friends visited the different de partments of the school Friday morning. She was very enthusiastic in her praise of the work that is being accomplished in the domestic art department. The “Y” boys held their regular meeting on Sun day night in the “Y” room. The topic for discussion was “Friendship,” which proved to be an interesting one. Elmer Flowers and Victor Smith were chosen official delegates to the older boys’ conference to be held in Salem soon. Friends of Silas Moon were delighted to see him on his visit to the school last week. Mr. Moon is another of Chemawa s old-time boys who has always made good. During the past season he has held a respon sible position with a lumbering company in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Several truck loads of our students went to Salem on Thursday evening of last week to attend one of the Lieurance concerts. Supt. McGregor was delighted to have the students attend the concert and did every thing in his power to make it possible for them to do PAGE 3 so. Mr. Lieurance told the writer that the splendid attention and deportment of our students was a source of gratification and pride to him. Miss Caryl made an interesting talk to the pupils in one division, while Mr. Bent spoke on Indian Music to the other division. Ida Audette presided at this assembly and read the story of the red cross seals. Charley Morgan and Andrew Hogberg asked current event questions. Both were good assemblies. Last week Capt. Stacy and Joseph Kahklen ap peared at the luncheon of the Kiwanis Club of Salem. Joseph sang to the credit of himself and his school, while Capt. Stacy made a talk. It must have been a fine talk, too, for the substance of it traveled around the country until it got into the metropolitan press. Pretty good, eh? During chapel last Sunday evening the orchestra played “Neapolitan Nights” by Zamecnik, Bernice Blakeslee gave a recitation, and an octette of sophomore girls sang “Whispering Hope” by Hawthorne. The exercises of the evening were in charge of the sopho more girls and they had secured as the speaker of the evening Secretary Kells of the Salem Y. M. C. A. Mr. Kells made a good talk on lines that are practical and necessary if any person is to make a success in life. We were all pleased to welcome Mr. Kells to Che mawa. Martha Packineau acted as chairwoman of the evening, and she presided with credit to herself and her class. Thanks are due the sophomore girls for their interest in the evening and the success they made of it. We fancy that Supt. McGregor had a “tip” that Santa Claus was making a tour of investigation prior to his annual visit on Christmas, so he intercepted Santa and had him and his reindeer and their herder stop over here for a brief time Monday noon. The news of the arrival of Santa Claus and his reindeer spread like wild fire and youngsters shot into view from every direction and bounded about the campus as though charged with electricity. A more enthusi astic crowd Santa never had. Some seemed to think the reindeer would make good Christmas presents. The students were not alone in their excitement over Santa and his reindeer, as the employes took on the vigor of youth in “getting there.” Supt. McGregor made a master stroke when he hailed Santa. Mr. Thurlow Lieurance and his musical associates, Edna Wooley (his wife), soprano, and Miss Hicks, flutist, paid Chemawa a visit last Friday. The even ing before they had appeared in the Heilig theatre in Salem to a good-sized house. Many Chemawaites were at the concert of this artistic trio. No person in all the world is doing more than Mr. Lieurance to place Indian music and art on a high plane, where they belong. In every particular the work of this company is remarkably artistic, and finished to the nth degree. It was really a revelation. During the visit of these people to our school they proved de lightful socially and were loud in their praise of what Chemawa stands for. While they were here they called upon Supt. and Mrs McGregor and other friends.
