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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1929)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Pfrge 4 LOCAL Mr. Myron Briggs, a brother of Mrs. Kirk, was up from the farm near Roseburg and passed the week-end with relatives at Chemawa. Martin Colby, one of our well-known graduates, was up from Portland and passed the week-end with Chemawa friends. Mr. Carl M. Moore, Supervisor of Indian Education, arrived at Chemawa on Monday for an official inspec tion of our school. He is both able and affable and we are all pleased to have him with us. Mr. Moore resides in Berkely, Californa. It often happens that we receive notes addressed to us on blanks of various descriptions. It takes time to print and keep up the many forms required at this school and we ask that our fellow-workers use scratch paper for their note writing. Many of our readers will remember Grace Monson as a sweet singer during her student days at Chema wa and will no doubt be interested to learn that she is now Mrs. Lawrence Olssen and living in Seldovia, Alaska. Friends here at the school have received an - nouncements of thearrival of a son, Charles Richard Ôlssen, at the Olssen home home on Nov. 28th. $anta (Claus 5. i. 'HERE is a Santa Claus! Through out the civilized world the Christmas season is one of joy, of thankfulness, of good cheer, generosity, and loving memories. The human heart ex pands with the spirit of kindliness and Good Will Toward Men. There is no season like it and from the spir it of it all we have developed a Santa Claus—a real personage to countless millions of our children. Who dares to reflect on the Christmases of his tender youth, on his hopes, his anticipations, on the joyous realization of all his desires, when in early years he was a member of the family circle, and then deny that Santa Claus lives? Dear old Santa dots live—his spirit will never die so long as there are human hearts and human intelligence. With the birth of Christ 1929 years ago a spirit was born. It was planted in human hearts and will never die. Santa Claus is a part of it. 1 ++ ATHLETICS Exactly thirty candidates started in earnest on Mon day evening to mould our basketball team. For some time our class teams have been playing and these games have acted as the preliminary try-outs for the thirty who will report for the next few weeks, when the final eliminations will be made and the regular squad is boiled down to about twenty men. At this early date it appears that ours will be a close-checking, defensive team. We gather that from the result of the class games, all of which sounded like baseball scores. One ended, after quite a strug gle, 6 to 1. Others ended with the tallies around 8 to 6; 10 to 4; and 9 to 7. Only one reached the high peak of sixteen points. All of this, however, might indicate only that the boys can’t locate the basket. It is, of course, too early to predict anything. But since it is points that wins games we are some what concerned about our basket-shooters. Just a quick squint at last year’s score book reveals that in the district and state tournament games Jesse Prettyman was our high point man with a total of 38, Eldred George came next with 35, and Marcus Simmons third with 30. These figures make the outlook a little brighter, and more so because this should be the best year so far for Jesse and Marcus. Leonard Vivette played his first basketball for us last fall and was a real hoopman though he had difficulty in finding the basket. We look for him to be among the best of them this winter. There are several others who are more than measuring up to the pace set by these three and it is evident that the battle for berths is on. John Marsden is the most promising of the new men. John has plenty of size and appears, at present, to be the best prospect for the center position. • Isaac Curley is another contender for the center job. But John’s ability to handle the ball, play under the basket and work the floor give him a slight edge over Isaac. However, Isaac was still battling the football while John was rambling around on the basketball court. • All this makes a difference. At any rate either of the two boys should take care of the position in an able way. Eldred George, center; Roy Peratrovich and George Meachem, guards and Isaac Brave Eagle are the boys from last year’s team who will have to be replaced. This will be no easy task. - Just at present these boys look the most promising and though they may be shifted later they would line up like this just now: Forwards: Marcus Simmons, Jesse Prettyman, Leonard Vivette, Perry Smith, An toine Howard, Herman Goudy, Clifford Case, Jesse Jabeth. Centers: John Marsden, Isaac Curley, Warren Wilder and Alonzo Hoover. Guards: William Jones, Albert Miller, Benny Charley, Joe Alexander, Julian Smith and Harry Archambeau. The dark horses have not shown up yet.
