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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1927)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Next Saturday evening the orchestra and boys’ octette will put on a program at Siletz. Sunday was known in the Willamette Valley as “Blossom Day” and many thousands of people took advantage of the lovely weather and toured through the valley and visioned such natural beauty as is seen but once a year. Our orchestra and boys’ octette put on a program at Marquam last Friday night. The work of our organizations went over big and to the credit of our school. An unusually fine banquet was served our party at the conclusion of the program. Raymond Jones is making a library table as his assignment in the carpenter shop. The wood used is yellow poplar which was taken from the house in Indiana in which Mrs. McGregor was born. Ray mond is said to be doing fine work on it. An up-to-date fire escape is being installed at the hospital. It is a chute-de-chute affair and we fancy that convalescants will find it hard to resist the temp tation to try a “slide” now and then. It seems to us that this was a good move on the part of Supt. Mc Gregor. Supervisor Roy Bradley arrived about a week ago from Fort Wingate, N. Mex., in response to a tele gram informing him of the serious injury of his father in an auto accident. In addition to work at Chemawa Mr. Bradley has on hand an immense project in New Mexico. Mrs. Brickell entertained a delegation of ladies rep resenting the Salem P.E.O.s last Monday evening. The boys’ and girls’ singing organizations provided music for the guests. Extended mention cannot be made for lack of space, but the occasion is reported to have been enjoyable in every way. The work of rehearsals for the operetta to be given as a part of our commencement program is well un der way. This is always a big undertaking. Mrs. Turney has the musical end of it in hand, while Miss White looks after the dramatic. The work chosen for this year promises to be most interesting in every way. Our chapel exercises last Sunday evening were in charge of Supt. McGregor and a feature of more than ordinary interest and merit was an oration by Mr. Charles Redding, a member of Dr. J. O. Hall’s class at Willamette University. His oration was fine. Supt. McGregor closed the exercises with a splendid talk to the students along practical lines. His appeal to them evidently hit the mark, to judge by the re ception he received. In addition to the above the orchestra contributed a number, the octette girls sang “June Brought the Roses” by Reichardt, and the choir sang a splendid number. PAGE 3 In our last issue we cited an old saw to the effect that if it rains on Easter Sunday we are in for “seven rainy Sundays” immediately following. We asked our readers to “keep books” on this and prove or disprove the saw for themselves. Well, last Sunday proved there is nothing in it, so you might just as well close your books. We are pleased to report that Mrs. McGregor, who recently submitted to a mastoid operation in a Salem hospital, is gradually recovering. Also that Mr. H. S. Bradley, who was badly hurt recently and who is in a hospital in Salem, is improving. It is hoped that it will be but a matter of time when these good people will be with us again at Chemawa. Last Sunday forenoon photographers from Salem operated on our campus, taking pictures of various groups composing school societies, and of the entire student body in different formations, the latter being panoramic in character. The band was also “in the pictures.” It is thought that the work will prove satisfactory for it seemed that the day was ideal for photography. We are informed that the Haskell orchestra is en- tour and will probably pass through Oregon sometime during the summer. Mr. Nelson, a well-known mu sician, is in charge of the orchestra. Cruz McDaniels, for a time a student at Chemawa, and for the past year or two band and orchestra director at Haskell, is with the organization—one of the most prominent members beyond doubt. Mr. Fisher was in charge of affairs during the Wednesday school assemblies of last week, and he turned the matter over to the Reliance Society and a splendid program was rendered, as follows: Recita tion, George Flach; vocal solo, Reno Booth; dialogue, Moses George and Raymond Jones; vocal number by Wm. Markishtum, Tom Anayah, Reno Booth, Moses George and Raymond Haldane; current events by William Johnson. Among many ex-students who have responded to the school invitation to our alumni members to be with us during our coming commencement exercises was R. D. Holt, who graduated as a tailor more than twenty years ago. Mr. Holt probably will not be with us on the occasion mentioned, as he is a very busy man, but he wrote a commendatory letter to the graduating class and supplied some interesting data regarding himself. Since leaving Chemawa Mr. Holt completed a course of cutting at the John J. Mitchell Cutting School at New York City and then established himself as a tailor in Yakima, Washing ton, where he enjoys a splendid reputation as a citizen and a tailor and has a lucrative business. He is in every sense a credit to his alma mater.
