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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1928)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL We believe that tomorrow is “Ground Hog Day.” How these national events roll around! We thank The Oregon Statesman for splendid publi city given our school in the issue of last Sunday. Leander Wilson entered the Chiloquin High School last Monday. Chemawa’s best wishes are with him. The members of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. are very happy over the gift of fifty new hymn books for the “Y” room. The gift was a total surprise to these groups, coming as a New Year’s remembrance from the Presbyterian church of Grove City, Pennsylvania. A dispatch from Washington, D. C., says: Kiutus Tecumseh, who claims direct descent from the famous Indian chief, Tecumseh, presented President Coolidge today with a box of apples grown on his father’s farm at Wenatchee, Wash. He was clad in full Indian re galia. Joseph Alexander of the Sophomore Class won the first one dollar prize for the best article turned in for publication in the Chemawa American. Joe’s article was reprinted in the Statesman. The interesting way that Joe told the life of Dr. Carlos Montezuma deserves the recognition that Joe is receiving. The Y. W. C. A. meeting on Sunday afternoon was attended by a large group of girls who discussed the topic, “How to build character.” Lorraine Jude was the leader for the meeting and the devotional service conducted by Olive Diaz and Cleo Plasteur. Special music for the afternoon was an instrumental solo by Josephine Redstone. Our orchestra and an octette of boy vocalists made the trip to Silverton last Friday evening and put on a program in one of the churches. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd in attendance and the efforts of our musical organizations “went over” in fine style. In every way the trip and everything attending it was a splendid success. The public school department of Portland is inaugurating a broadcasting series of national historical events and will begin with “The American Indian” on next Tuesday evening from 7:00 td 7:45 o’clock, February 7th. Mr. Bent will go down and confront the microphone in a talk of some length and the or chestra will also be in attendance and broadcast one of Mr. Turney’s “Indian Suites.” Rev. H. S. Killen of Olympia, Washington, was a guest at Chemawa on Sunday and preached to the as sembly of Protestant students at the Sunday School hour. Mr. Killen is a very interesting and unusual speaker and his address on “The Wise Men’s Search for God” held the close attention of every listener. He is always a welcome visitor on this campus. The Sunday School choir added to the pleasure of the ser vice by singing a prayer anthem. PAGE 3 A report from the hospital reads: There is very little serious illness at the hospital these days. Leona Normandin and Charlotte James, who have been with us for several weeks, have both been given their free dom. Wayne Backman, who has been very sick with pneumonia and complications, is responding wonder fully to treatments. We hope he will soon be able to walk again. We seem to be having favorable results in the treatment of acne and impetigo and expect to clear the school of them before long. Supt. Lipps gave a splendid talk to our students during the course of chapel exercises last Sunday even ing. He is absolutely correct in his ideas on thorough ness in all things, as thoroughness leads to mastery, and we trust that our students will remember what he had to say and profit thereby. In addition to the fine talk of our Superintendent the Nonpareil Society was represented in a recitation by Carmen Chamberlain, the octette girls sang a pleasing number, as did the choir, and there was the usual number by the orchestra. The Excelsiors and Winonas gave an open door pro gram on Friday evening. These societies meet in ad joining rooms and the door between was opened and the following program rendered in an excellent way: Music (guitar solo), Charles DePoe; Recitation, Dor othy Green; Vocal solo, Lawrence Bozeroff; Vocal duet, Helen Peratrovich and Lucy Craig; Life of Washington Irving, John Edelman; Prophecy, Joseph ine Redstone; Things that never happen, Nathel Stagner; Recitation, Bernice Blakeslee; Dialogue, Lor raine Jude, Margaret Ball, Helen Peratrovich. Superintendent Davis of the Genoa school opened two new entrances to the dining room so that four lines of pupils could enter at a time instead of only two. The main element, however, was the installa tion of a series of electric bells which can be rung by the dining room matron when the food is starting to appear on the tables as a warning to the pupils to line up in their buildings. A second alarm rung when the food is nearly all on the tables warns the matrons and disciplinarians to start the pupils for the dining room, with the result that they appear at that place just as the food is served and while it is still hot. Here is an opportunity for some Chemawa student, who may perchance be bubbling over with originality, to make a little “pin money.” The Salem Ad Club offers $10 as a prize for the best plan, or design, for an arch with appropriate wording, for placement at the Chemawa-Hazelgreen and Salem-Portland inter section, better known as the “Four Corners.” The purpose is to tell the traveling public that “One-half mile to the west of the sign is located the most impor tant school for Indians in the world. ’ ’ Now, students, get busy. Here is a real opportunity—somebody is going to get $10 for this task. Address your efforts to: Secretary, Salem Ad Club, Room 301, U. S. National Bank Bldg., Salem, Oregon.
