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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1930)
1 he CHEM AWA AMERICAN Page 2 CHEM AW a £)AMERIC AN Wllil|i|iimillillllllllillirilll;lillllilll|i iimh ' iii P iii P ii iiii nu.................1.111.1111 mi iili:llil miillll nil-in JH un ..ii > i ii n. । Hi nil III Published Weekly at the U. S. Indian School. C hemawa Oregon. Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager Hmiimn iiiiiMiiiiiiiifflnniiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniHitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim Subscription..............................................................60 Cts per Annum CONQUERING ADVERSITY (Continued irom page 1) where he stood.” And again this remark, “One must not be over-con cerned about advancement, but greatly concerned about getting the right thing done.”— Ambition. THE HONOR ROLL Below is listed the honor students tor the period ending January 24, 1930; HIGH HONOR ROLL Cecile Pepion - 12th grade - - Average - 93 Charles Morgan - “ ” - - - “ -91 Ira Booth - - 11th “ - - - “ -90 Frank Johnson - “ “ - - - “ -92 Fred Sandberg - “ “ - - - " - 93 Theresa Newman 10th - - “ - 94 Christine Muller - “ - - - “ - 93 Wesley Larson -““--- “ - 91 Helen Shaughnessy 7th “ ... “ - 93 Elizabeth Wynaco 6th - - “ - 92 Robert Hewson - “ “ - - - “ -91 Olive Bellcourt - 4th - - - “ - 93 The first financial transaction made by Frank A. Va 'derlip was the selling of a calf for$12.00. It was a reward for tending thirty-four calves on his father’s farm near Aurora, Ill, From that humble beginning his pathway led by a devious course to tne presidency of the National City Bank which he made the biggest bank in the world. HONOR STUDENTS Antone Howard - 12th grade - - Average - 90 When he was sixteen his father died. The farm Ella Contway - 11th “ - - “ - 90 was sold and the family moved to Aurora, where, at Anna Jackson - - “ - 90 the age of 16, he went to work in a machine shop for Grace Marshall - “ “ - - “ - 90 75c a day. After hours, he taught^ algebra to get Victor Smith - - “ “ - - “ - 90 Herman Goudy - “ - - “ - 90 money to pay for lessons in descriptive geometry, me Donald Brown - 10th “ - - “ - 91 chanical drawing and shorthand. - “ “ - - “ - 91 At thirty he was still going to school, while his Peter Paquette Hazel Pete “ - 92 “beats” and sound financial writing for a newspaper Essie Bedard - - “ - - “ - 92 won him such standing that when Lyman J. Gage Margaret Hoptowit - “ - - “ - 93 - “ “ - - “ - 90 went to Washington as Secretary of the Treasury he Matthew John Jessie Jabeth - 9th “ - - “ - 91 took Mr Vandtrlip along as private secretary. In a “ “ - - “ - 90 few months Gage surprised everybody by making this William Moore - Elsie Balch - - “ “ - - “ -90 young man Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Katie Gartleman - “ - - “ - 90 When the Washington term ended everybody was Nancy Reynolds - “ - - “ - 90 - 8th “ - - “ - 91 surprised—including Vanderlip—when James Stillman Eunice Buck Priscilla Hayashi - “ - - “ - 90 made him Vice-President of the National City Bank Violet Johnson - - - “ - 91 of New York. Elizabeth Kirn - - 6th “ - - “ - 90 He had never worked in a bank in his life. In eight Alma Palmer - - “ “ -- “ -90 years he was President, challenging world-wide atten Emma Charles - 4th “ - - “ - 90 “ “ - - “ -90 tion as one of the first $100,000 -alary men in history. Annie Stevens - - High honor students have no grade below 90 in any “I have often said that young men should do this,” remarked Mr. Vanderlip, “spend one day’s work at his subject including deportment, industrial and academic subjects. desk and another day’s studying finding out what his Honor students have an average of 90 or more with work means. What is its relation to the general scheme no grade below 85 in any industrial or academic sub of things.” jects, and not less than 90 in deportment. “The right kind of man should have lots of friends. Mr. Archie Phinney, full blood Nez Perce Indian, This does not mean being a good fellow, a clinker of whose home is at Fort Lapwai, Idaho, stopped off for glasses, or a mere hand-shaker. It means people must a one day visit at Chemawa on his way back to Colum respect him. bia University, New York. About eight years ago “Many an applicant has lost a job by telling how Mr. Phinney went to Haskell Institute after graduat cute he is, and some of the smart things he has done. ing from an Idaho high school. He attended the Uni In business we haven’t time to be cute. To succeed versity of Kansas for four years, received his B. A. degree there and was employed in the Indian Office, a man must be a team worker. Washington, D. C., for about two years. He is now “I made one man vice-president because I discovered doing research work and instructing at Columbia Uni that all the hard nuts were being passed to him to versity, while working for his Ph. D., degree, and hat crack; another succeeded because you always knew just enjoyed a five months’ leave on pay.
