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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1929)
1 he CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Well, again the American greets you! Mr. Lobdell spent his summer in special wqrk at the University of Washington at Seattle. Miss White visited her childhood home in California during the summer. She had a splendid trip. Miss Earlougher spent a portion of her vacation at Honolulu, T. H. She reported a wonderful trip. Miss Simanski passed a portion of her "annual leave” at her home in Iowa. Miss Gunn also was in the east for some weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Downie and son, "Bobbie,” motored as far south as old Mexico during the past summer. This in itself was quite a trip. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders and sons and Coquelle Thomp son, as a party, visited Glacier and Yellowstone parks in Montana and Wyoming, respectively, during the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Klein, members of Chemava’s academic force, are home again and on duty after having motored as far east as Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they took special courses at the university. Miss Idaho Lipps passed a portion of the summer with her parents in Chemawa. She departed not long ago for Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, w’here she is engaged as a teacher in the city schools. She is getting along famously. Dr. C. D. Fulkerson arrived at Chemawa a little more than a week ago in charge of a party of students from Poplar, Mont. Dr. Fulkerson was the physician at this school for eight years and he has many warm friends at Chemawa. Supt. Lipps is in receipt of a letter recently received from Mr. G. Wilder Fort, formerly an employe at Che mawa but now in Denver, Colorado, address "In care of Fitzsimons Hospital.” In his letter Mr. Fort sends greetings and kind wishes to all of his Chemawya friends. Chemawa will not soon forget a visit from our most prominent neighbor, U. S. Senator Chas. L. McNary. There is no secret regarding the reason of Senator McNary’s power in the U. S. Senate and out of it. His personality is one to inspire respect and confidence and his ability is recognized everywhere. His genu ine democracy of manner endears him to all. Supt. Lipps was absent about three weeks during the month of August, as he had been asked to attend a conference of Indian Service superintendents held at Washington, D. C., in conformity with the wishes of Commissioner Rhoads. Our Superintendent came home with the conviction that only good can result from the meeting and he was well pleased with his trip in every way. Page 3 Mr. John Dexter is down from his home in Golovin, Alaska. John is down on a strictly business trip and will probably return home on the next boat for the far north. Last Friday evening Supt. Lipps called a meeting of all employes and took occasion to talk over school matters fully, going into detail regarding his policies and plans. It was in truth a most important meeting. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Mason, accompanied by their niece, Miss Marjorie Keesing, of San Jose, California, enjoyed quite a tour by auto during the summer. Their trip took them to Ranier Park in Washington, Glacier National Park, Montana, and Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. Mr. Louis Baker of Elbowoods, N. Dakota, arrived at Chemawa last week, having escorted a party of new pupils to our school. Mr. Baker is the father of "our” Louis, and has been in government service for the past fifteen years as stockman and farmer. We were pleased to welcome him to Chemawa as a guest. Mr. and Mrs. Sharon R. Mote and family arrived at Chemawa last Sunday evening from Rapid City, S. Dak. Mr. Mote w’ill be Assistant Superintendent and Principal of our school, taking the place formerly held by Mr. Carroll. We trust that Mr. Mote and his family will like Chemawa and we extend to them a warm welcome. A month or two ago Dr. W. J. Cooper, United States Commissioner of Education, paid Chemawa a visit at the request of Secretary Wilbur. Dr. Cooper’s mis sion was to look over our plant and equipment and to confer with Supt. Lipps with regard to utilizing Che mawa as a vocational training school for carefully se lected students who have completed courses in the schools of Alaska. Dr. Cooper was enroute with his family to Juneau, Alaska. We were all delighted to have Dr. Cooper and his estimable family as our guests even for the brief time at their disposal. Our Sunday evening chapel service is again a weekly feature at Chemawa. We have not yet reached a point where we are able to show full strength in these exercises—it takes time. However, last Sunday even ing was of interest. There was on the platform with Supt. Lipps Mr. Louis Baker from Elbowoods, N. Dak., who, on invitation of Supt. Lipps, gave a good talk to our students. He compared school days of his boyhood with those of the present time and admon ished our boys and girls to make the most of their op portunities. Supt. Lipps gave his usual fine talk on school matters, the necessity of getting an education during the days of youth. He also spoke of the un usual advantages found at Chemawa.
