The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.
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'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.
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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.