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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1930)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Page 2 CHEMAWA(^)AMERICAN aNMiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiitiiiiuiiiiiiiiii^^ Published Weekly at the U. S. Indian School. Chemawa Oregon. Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager uiiiiuiiiiiuiMiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuuuiniiwiuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiii^ 60 Cts per Annum Subscription LOCAL F ound —a pair of eye glasses. Prove property and get spectacles at this office. Supt. Perkins of Warmsprings Agency was a recent visitor at Chemawa, and a most welcome guest, too. This issue completes The American volume for this year. We will greet you again in September. We bespeak for our readers a happy and prosperous sum mer. One of the outstanding addresses made at Chemawa recently was the Memorial Day talk made by Mr. J. W. Mott, a Salem attorney. It was truly very fine— a treat and a lesson for all. It is with regret that we report the death last Wednes day of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Decorah of Chemawa. This couple have had more than their share of trouble recently and our people all sympathize with them and trust that their lot will soon be rendered more bearable. Mr. R. H. Davis, Superintendent of Construction in the Indian Service, was a recent visitor at Chemawa. He proved himself a most affable gentleman and we were happy to meet him. He does a great deal of his traveling by airplane and is his own pilot, we under stand, as he is the owner of a plane. We cannot express our regret at our inability to give special mention to all of our personal friends and the good friends of the school who were our guests during the commencement days just passed. To our great pleasure, there was a most praiseworthy number here on this occasion and their presence, their interest, and the wholesome atmosphere that they brought here with them was an inspiration and a tonic for us. We trust that they will visit us more often in the future— our doors will be open. Memorial Day was a day of real endeavor for Mr. Kunkel and his band boys. In the forenoon, after the exercises in our school auditorium the band headed the procession that marched to the local cemetery and took part in the program rendered in memory of our “dear departed.” In the afternoon the band went to Salem and after playing for a special ceremony on the Mari on-Polk bridge across the Willamette river marched in the parade to the Salem armory. Someday! Mr. Bent played with the band in Salem. Mr. Lobdell was called back to Iowa recently on ac count of the serious illness of his mother. Already our students are scattering out over the Northwest in search of work and recreation. Miss Merle French, domestic science teacher, left a few days ago for a visit in her home in Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Robert DePoe, government employes, came down from Neah Bay, Wash., to attend our closing exercises. Many of our teachers are planning to study a part of the summer at various colleges and universities on the coast. This is really a fine scheme. Mr. Mason, Mr. Downie and perhaps Mrs. Downie, are planning on taking special work at the Washing ton State College at Pullman during the vacation period. Our academic force and other employes enjoyed a picnic at the park in Silverton last Friday afternoon. From accounts to reach us there were no dull moments —fine time! Classroom work is being continued at Chemawa for those students who for some particular reason did not make “passing grades” in the final examination held here recently. A good idea we think. A copy of the Sherman Institute class annual, The Purple and Gold, has reached our desk and we are happy to congratulate the school and the printers thereof on the excellence of their volume. Friends of Miss Idaho Lipps were pleased to greet her on her return to her Chemawa home a week or two ago. She has taught for the past year or two in the city schools at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Prof, and Mrs. Paul Petri, heads of the School of Music at the Oregon State College at Corvallis, were here visiting Chemawa friends last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Arnold were also here with the Petri party. Mr. Arnold is a very fine pianist and he, too, is connected with the O. S. C. School of Music. During several days last week Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Davis were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Mason of Chemawa. Mr. Davis is an inspector in the U. S. Immigration Service and is located at San Francisco, California. He is a wide-awake and likeable gentle man and his wife is a very pleasant lady—both are friend winners wherever they go. Mr. Chas. E. Larsen, our clerk and school historian, spared no pains in preparing headquarters appropriate to the needs of our recent visitors and alumni guests. The rooms selected were on the second floor of the old Brewer Hall. There was a collection of pictures and photos on exhibition in one of the rooms which was most surprising for its size and completeness. This exhibit was gathered from various sections of the country and proves the interest our people have main tained in the life of this great school.
