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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1930)
"""" ■ "" Page 3 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN ' ' = ¡.GCAL Mr. Downie was on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carson, students at Chemawa in 1893, weie recent visitors at Chemawa. Mr. William Pemberton is a new addition to our employe force. Mr. Pemberton will have charge of the students’ kitchen. O. D. Adams, state director of vocational education and a representative of the federal board for vocational education, visited Chemawa last week The shoe-making department is in a position to know that snow, rain and mud are hard on foot-wear. Dur ing the month of January they repaired 575 pairs of shoes. Last Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Larsen gave a dinner in honor of Elizabeth Codding prior to her departure for the training hospital for nurses at West Chester, Pa. Perry Smith is a new lodger at the hospital. He met with an accident at the carpenter shop which will disable him temporarily but we hope to see him about again in a few days. Sally Stahi, a student, left school recently to return to her home at White Salmon, Wash. Sally has been in poor health for the past two months. She was ac companied home by her mother. In spite of the fact that Mr. Ratzburg kept a fire going night and day in our “apple house” during the recent zero weather he has the sad duty of reporting the loss of a considerable quantity of our vegetables. However he was able to save all the carrots and on ions. Supt. Lipps left last Friday for the Yakima Agency where he will spend a few days going over school matters with Supt. Estep. Incidentally he expects to purchase a car load of Yakima potatoes for the school, our cr>»p of potatoes at Chemawa having been reduced last season on account of the drought. Sunday evening chapel was in charge of Assistant- Supt. Mote. During the exercises he introduced Dr. Sisco as the main speaker of the evening and a visitor, Mr. Archie Phinney, Haskell and Kansas University graduate. Both gentlemen gave interesting talks. In addition Messrs. H. A. Kunkel and G. W. Bent pre sented pleasing musical numbers. The Chemawa Alumni Association will welcome the gift or loan of any old pictures that might be in teresting in connection with the early days of the school. Any authentic records or history furnished by graduates and ex-students will also be thankfully received. Address information or pictures to Che mawa in care of Charles E. Larsen. Albert Orr, ex-student, of Okanogan, Wash., is a newly-enrolled student at Willamette University. The Chemawa academic teachers were interested visitors in the Salem schools last week. Arctic condi tions in our class rooms forbade work there and it was considered advisable to spend the day in this man ner. Miss L. Grace Holmes of the Oregon Tuberculosis Association, who was with us during the recent tu berculosis clinic, is here again working on statistical studies. She finds that the Indians are making a strong resistance against tuberculosis, and believes that the clinic statistics will reveal as much strength in this respect at Chemawa as in any white community of the same size. SENIOR NOTES Spring is here. Give the grass a chance. Keep off of it. Help keep the campus looking its best. The Seniors are busy working on the class play, which we expected to be the best play ever put on by the Senior class. Listen to w’hat the seniors have to say! Save your money. Senior Play is coming on Feb. 28th. “The Whole Town’s Talking” is the. name of it. Be ready to see it with a “friend.” The engineers worked hard and quite long hours on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of this month getting the oil run ning again through the pipe so we could have some thingwarm to eat and a warm place to study. The Senior girls are detailed to take class in the Wigwam. They are working on serving for breakfast. Each has to serve a group of six. Edna Aubrey assisted by Emily Selatsee served breakfast on Thurs day. The Seniors have started working on the 1930 Annual with the following staff: Editor-in-chief, Joe Matte; Assistant Editor, Cecile Pepion; Business Manager, James McKay; Cartoonist, Julian Smith; Snap Shots, Robert Perkins. Ex-President Flora Harper of the Nonpareil Society gave a breakfast at the Wigwam this morning honor ing the President-elect Mylie Lawyer. The other guests were Minnie Partain, Francis Tanner, Mrs. Stewart and Rose Punkinseed. Believe it or not The othet day when the sales lady from the Kennel-Ellis studio of Salem came out to take the order for our pictures she was so overcome by Charles Morgan’s picture that she recommended that he go to Hollywood. Hurrah for our side! ESCORTS Sat., Feb. 15—To Salem - - Sun., Feb. 16—McBride Winona Hawley - Mrs. James ... Miss White Ass’t Matron Winona - - Miss Earlougher Ass’t Carpenter - - Mrs. Codding Mr. P. Carrow
