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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1928)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Miss Strout visited her home in Amity last week-end. Reggie DePoe and Coquelle Thompson were Mr. and Mrs. Downie’s dinner guests on Sunday. Mr. Davis was a campus visitor last week-end. He returned to Longview, Wash., on Monday. The old woodshed has been torn down. The good lumber was saved and that unfit for any other purpose will be utilized for kindling. Mr. Walter Colvert, of Ketchikan, Alaska, was a most welcome recent school visitor. Mr. Colvert is Raymond Haldane’s and Reno and Terrance Booth’s uncle. Replacing valves and cleaning boilers has been the order of the day at the power plant of late. It is to be noted that the electricians have started at the task of rewiring the power house. Leander Wilson of the Junior class returned to Klamath Falls last Saturday. Leander intends to go to high school ne irer his home. His many friends regretted to see Leander leave. Coquelle Thompson, now attending O. A. C. at Corvallis, and Elwood Towner, practicing law in Salem, were out of town guests who attended the Excelsior Social on Saturday evening. It has been reported to us that plans are here for a new building at Chemawa and that Mr. Iliff is looking into the details of building, etc., and itemizing bills preparatory to beginning construction. Quite a number of employees attended the Wil lamette-Columbia basketball game last Saturday even ing. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Downie and Mr. and Mrs. DePoe. The apartment houses located on the western part of the campus are nearing completion. One cottage will accomodate two families, with three rooms and bath for each family. The other apartment will ac comodate six of our bachelor employes. Fred Sandburg spoke for the first time from the auditorium stage recently. Supt. Lipps spoke the approving “well done” to Fred’s recitation. Fred was speaking for the Excelsior Literary Society. Each of the senior societies will have one of their number speak during chapel each Sunday evening. Mrs. Grace E. Hall of Portland visited Chemawa friends over the week-end. She is a writer on The Oregonian and a contributor to many eastern publi cations, as well as the author of two volumes of verse which have been published and are very fine indeed. Just prior to her visit to the home of Chemawa friends she had been to Corvallis to address the young ladies of the State College and while there was the guest of honor of Dean Jamison. Mrs. Hall is a most highly gifted writer and is possessed of those many admirable traits of character which make her admired and be loved by all. She will always be a welcome guest at Chemawa. PAGE 3 The Eixcelsior Literary Society gave their annual social on Saturday evening. The gym was beautiful ly decorated in the Society colors. John Edelman acted as floor manager and made things move with a “pep” that kept the guests busy and happy during the entire evening. Clifford McLeod made a brief welcoming address. Delicious refreshments were served by a group of girls under the direction of Mrs. Davis. In another column will be found an article on the life of Dr. Carlos Montezuma. Read it. We know of nothing more remarkable in all history than the life of this wonderful man. Dr. Montezuma visited Chemawa about twenty years ago—if our memory is correct, it was in 1908. His visit here was considered epochal at the time and he made a profound impres sion upon all who were fortunate enough to meet him at that time. Last Sunday evening aside from the Lord’s Prayer, an orchestral number, singing of the Star Spangled Banner and the school song, the program consisted of a debate put on by a team coached by Dr. J. O. Hall of Willamette University. Supt. Lipps presided dur ing our short program and then introduced Dr. Hall, who spoke briefly of the subject of the debate and of the team and then introduced the chairman, who as sumed charge, and the debate was on. Mr. Carroll, our school principal, and Miss Evangeline Hall of Salem, acted as time keepers. For more than an hour the debaters presented their arguments pro and con and gave ample evidence of natural ability and of the fact that they had done an immense amount of re search work. Every member of the team proved himself a worthy representative of “Old Willamette, ” and all Chemawa gives a vote of thanks to those who so kindly made it possible for us to enjoy an intellec tual treat. At the first Joint Session of the Catholic Boys’ Association and the Society of the Little Flower held at the Catholic Chapel on Friday evening a very ex cellent program consisting of vocal numbers and discussions of a serious nature on religious questions was presented. The program consisted of the follow ing numbers: Introductions by Jacob Atkins and Dorothy Parker, presidents of the respective organiza tions; The Mass by Moses George; The Rosary by Rosemond Ecoffey; The Holy Eucharist by Clifford McLeod; Life of the Little Flower of Jesus by Anna Augusta; Confession by Joe Matte; vocal solos, The Rosary by Matilda Turcotte and The Holy City by Moses George, together with a number by the choir. Supt. Lipps gave a very fine short talk and the clos ing remarks were made by Father Gall. The program was arranged by Miss Roddy and Mrs. Turney, who had charge of the music. A number of people from Salem attended and altogether it was considered very much of a success. At the close of the program those taking part were served with a delicious luncheon prepared by Miss Peters and Cecile Sfnith, while listening to the radio.
