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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1928)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Baseball! Baseball! Study for examinations! Who will win the class championship? Miss Strout visited friends in Amity this week-end. The framework of the new print shop is “knocking’ ’ its way up! Mr. Klein made a business trip to Corvallis on Friday evening. Peter Bighair of the Sophomore class is now attend ing school in Billings, Montana. One of the large ranges at the students’ kitchen is being repaired. The plumbers have the work in hand. The plumbers are making wash trays for use at the bachelors’ cottage on the western portion of our cam pus. Rehearsals for the operetta to be given at the close of school must have the “right-o’-way” from now on. Not any too much time left. Mrs. Brickell is with us for a few days from Port land. Her daughter, Virginia, now attending Reed College, came with her on this visit. Supt. Lipps was absent a good part of last week. We understand that official business took him to Idaho and Montana. His duties and responsibilities are many. Mr. Carrow, our mason and concrete worker, has recently placed two attractive large vases for flowers in front of the hospital. The vases represent mighty fine cement work. Next Friday evening our orchestra and Girls’ Oc tette are scheduled to put on a program at Oak Lawn. All are mightily interested in the matter of good weather for the trip. During the last few days the concrete work has been completed on the line shaft in the carpenter shop. At the present writing this work is just about finished, including the laying of the floor in the shaft. Mr. Ross and his yard detail are possessors of a power lawn mower. It is operated with a gasoline motor, and it is thoroughly appreciated by all. A special garage has just been fixed up for it at the green house. Martin Colby, one of our former students who has spent some time in California, visited us recently. He is well and states that the world looks good to him. He was enroute to the Young’s Bay country, near Astoria, where he will have work in the woods at log ging. Rev. Henry Roe Cloud, head of the American Indian Institute of Wichita, Kansas, was a visitor on our campus for a few hours on Saturday. He is traveling under the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, making a survey of all the schools and hospitals which have religious work under this Board. A group of about one hundred boys gathered in the Y room shortly after dinner to meet Mr. Roe Cloud and to listen to a most interest ing talk from him. It is the regret of all that he could not have remained with us longer so that all of the students might have had an opportunity to meet him. PAGE 3 The bandboys gave their annual social last Satur day evening. The gym was beautifully decorated in music motifs, dogwood blossoms, and the school colors. Aaron Isaacs, assisted by Joe Webster, en gineered the activities of the evening. At the ap pointed time delicious refreshments were served. Mr. DePoe and his aggregation of bandboys deserve much praise for the good time they gave their friends. The Nonpareil and Excelsior Literary Societies held their annual joint meeting in the auditorium on Fri day evening. The following numbers were rendered in an all-to-be desired way: Song, Nonpareils; Song, Excelsiors; Play, “The Bat,” Zelma Johnson, Eliza beth Codding, Geraldine Dupuis and Pauline Pratt; Music, Cleo Plasteur, Martha Packineau and Dorothy Parker; Debate, “Resolved: That Capital Punish ment Should Be Abolished;” Affirmative, Alfreda Kipp, John Edelman; Negative, Cleo Plasteur and Peter Rassmussen; Music, DePoe Brothers. After a few words from the advisors of the two societies, Miss White and Mr. Stacy, the societies adjourned. Supt. Lipps being absent last Sunday evening, our chapel exercises were in charge of Mr. Carroll, our school principal. The orchestra played an overture, Raymond Haldane contributed a vocal number, Wa- sika Hauser gave a recitation, as did John Cadotte, and the choir sang as usual. After a few explanatory remarks by Mr. Carroll the stage was turned over to Bernice Blakeslee, who played the First Concerto of DeBeriot. Bernice is to compete at Forest Grove in the inter-state musical contests of next Saturday and is entered as a violinist, the pupil of Miss Elizabeth Levy of Salem. The violin concerto in question is a very lengthy and difficult number and Bernice de serves great credit for the showing she made—it is an immense task even to do the memory work. A young lady from Salem will be her accompanist. We all wish Bernice success. The Y. W. C. A. has had a series of discussions on “The Ideal Girl,’’ which have proved very stimu lating and thought provoking, and which have added much interest to recent meetings. Following is the basis of the discussion: “The ideal girl is strong in body, is intelligent, believes in God and strives to obey His laws. She is not afraid to work and has courage to meet hardships if they come. She is in terested in pretty clothes and wants them for herself and others. She has what she can honestly afford, and she spends time and takes pains to get the very best she can for the money she has. She refuses to be extreme in style or to make herself ridiculous or conspicuous. She likes fun and good times. She will not indulge in things that unfit her for her work or study. She loves her friends and companions and has as many as she can. She chooses carefully her friends among girls and boys and lets neither word nor act lower in the least degree their respect for her. She looks forward to the day when she shall have a home of her own, and fits herself to care for it with intelligence and skill. She is honest and faithful to present tasks. She is kindly, generous, helpful, cheerful—just the sort of girl one would like to live with every day.”
