The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.