The Chemawa American, April 24, 1929, Page 3, Image 3

The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
LOCAL
Daring chapel exercises last Sunday evening, Den“
nis Knauff gave a recitation.
Miss Prudence Freeman, of Tacoma, Wash.,, has
been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mason during the past
few days, ■
Milton ( ‘.‘Pete” ) Kipps will be a member of the
Salem high school graduating class this year. Good
for “ Pete!”
East Saturday Mrs. Wilson, son Vern and daughter
Marjorie, together with Mrs. Kipps and her son ‘ ‘Pete, ’ ’
journeyed to Portland and spent the day.
Members of our senior class are very anxious to
have a good pre-publication sale of this year’s “ An­
nual.” Price 50c. Now, “ plank down your coin.”
As announced by Supt. Kipps during chiapel last
Sunday evening the company rating the highest last
week for boys was B, and C company received the
honors for the girls.
Our orchestra rendered a program at North. Howell
last Friday evening and made good with a plus. Miss
Cleo PlasteUr was on the program as a reader, and
Sergie Bozeroff was also of the party and gave a reci­
tation;
The. Oregon Journal of last Sunday ran- a half-tone
of, Miss Flora.Dexter,/together with an article regard-:
ing her attendance at the State Normal School at Mon­
mouth and of her life in Northern Alaska, also touch­
ing upon . her aims for the future. . It was. a most
interesting “ mention” in every way,
Mr. Kunkel and his band, boys- more than made
good last Friday when they played in Salem for a ses­
sion of the convention of the Christian Endeavor As­
sociation. Representatives from all over the.state were
in attendance and our band was acclaimed by all. It
was another case of Chemawa to the fore.
A most enthusiastic group of boys attended the con­
cert of Our string quartet last Monday evening. There
were present iri addition to the group above-mentioned,
Mrs. Kipps, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk, MisSGunn, Mrs. Ma­
son, Mrs. Karsen, Mrs. Turney, Mr. Shepard, “ Bud”
James, Mr. Odona, MissKundquist, Miss Roddy, and
Miss Freeman of Tacoma, and Mr. P. F. Thomas and
Mr. Steinbaugh, the latter two being from Salem.
Kast Saturday Supt. Kipps, accompanied by Mr.
Peqirs and Mr. Proffitt, respectively from the Indian
Office and In te rio r D epartm ent at W ashington, D. C .,
were business visitors in Portland..,;.In the afternoon
they returned to Chemawa, where the .latter tjwp
gentlemen were joined by Mr. Holtz on their trip on
south. Chemawa enjoyed having these able and
affable gentlemen as guests and regretted that their
visit was so brief,
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The time for retribution is close at hand for any of
our students who may have been guilty of simply
‘ ‘drifting” during the recent months of school. Next
week is the time for the final exams at Chemawa. It
will probably be a case of history repeating itself
again—a small percentage will fail. It is nearly al­
ways so. Ket us hope for the best.
In The Oregonian editorial columns of last Sunday’s
edition was an article, the data of which was fur-
nishedby Mr. Henry Sicade,, educated and prominent
Indian business man of Tacoma, Wash. The article
dwelt with the origin and meaning of the Indian name,
“ Puyallup,” meaning always to give, or succor.
Vern Wilson, who will be a member of the class
graduated from the Salem High School this year, has
been selected by the faculty to appear on the gradu­
ating. program. Considering the large number to be
graduated and the very few selected to appear on this
particular program we consider that Vern has had
quite an honor bestowed upon him. He will appear
as a violin soloist,
Supt. Kipps gave a splendid talk last Sunday even-
ihg to our students assembled in the auditorium for
chapel exercises. He went to considerable pains to
explain the new ideas and plans which are developing
in the minds of all, both in government circles and
out, and made it very clear just what will be expected
of our young people in the future. Everything, indi­
cates that henceforth there are to be no drones in the.
hive—a good idea.
In addition to the address of
Supt. Kipps, John Dexter gave a most pleasing violin
solo and responded to a recall, and the orchestra and
choir contributed numbers.
During the past week Chemawa wâs host to three
very able and affable gentlemen who occupy positions
of importance with the government, Mr. H. B. Peairs,
general superintendent of Indian education; Mr*. M.
M. Proffitt, specialist in industrial education, and
Mr. John H. Holtz, supervisor of Indian education.
The two first-named gentlemen have their headquar­
ters in Washington, D. C., while Mr. Holtz is located
at the Sacramento Indian Agency, California; Che—
mawa people were all pleased with the visit paid us by
these gentlemen and appreèiated their kindly attitude
in a lt matters claiming their attention. One evening
during their visit Supt. and Mrs. Kipps entertained
them informally. On this occasion the Chemawa String
Quartet played for the visitors. In addition to the
officials honored there were present, Dr. Sisco, Mrs.
Wilson and her son and daughter, Vern and Marjorie,
Mrs. Brickell, host and hostess, Supt. and Mrs. Kipps,
and family. It was in every way an unforgetable oc­
casion and the evening passed all too quickly. Deli­
cious refreshments were served and thus terminated a
most enjoyable occasion for all.