The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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LOCAL
Mr. and Mrs. VosBurgh, Mr. and Mrs. Davis and
Mrs. Brickell made a trip to Portland by motor last
Friday. The trip was made on account of school
business.
“Yippy” Nelson, a student here 28 years ago, and
at that time a member of our school band, was a visi
tor here last week. For some time he has been locat
ed near, or in, Seattle, Wash., and seems to have done
well by himself.
Mr. Teter and Mr. Austin, both on our faculty,
made a trip to Corvallis last Friday to confer with
people at O. S. C. on dairy stock and also to get some
data regarding the purchase of ten head of holstein
milch cows for our school.
Members of the Ecclesia luncheon club met last
Thursday noon at The Spa in Salem for their weekly
meeting. Supt. Lipps was the special guest and also
the speaker of the day and was reported by a Salem
paper as having given “a most interesting talk on the
early ownership of the country by the Indians.”
An announcement has been received by Mrs. Lipps
of the birth of a baby boy, Thomas Clayton, to Mr.
and Mrs. Lee C. Davis, on Nov. 20, at Port Town
send, Wash. Mrs. Davis, as will be remembered,
was economic’s teacher at Chemawa in ’27 and ’28.
Their friends at Chemawa extend congratulations.
The detail of Mr. Boyes at the students’ kitchen
were reported recently as determined to make 750 gal
lons of saur kraut. We have been informed that they
did not stop at 750 gallons but put up 950 gallons.
It seems that once they got on the job their enthusi
asm became so great that they ran over their mark
200 gallons before they could stop. Ahem!
Last Friday evening Mr. Lobdell and his harmoni
ca band and Mr. Carl Turner’s magicians made their
public debut at the Buena Vista school house, a few
miles northwest of Chemawa. Our young people
really acquitted themselves in a most pleasing manner
and proved themselves a credit to our school and their
instructors mentioned above. There was a packed
house to greet them.
We had Mr. O. P. West and Mr. F. Douglas Haw
ley, high boy scout executives, with us during our
chapel exercises last Sunday evening and Supt. Lipps
introduced Mr. West who in turn made known Mr.
Hawley, who made the principal talk of the evening.
It was an enlightening address that Mr. Hawley gave
us and his knowledge of Indian history, the customs
and arts of the various Indian tribes seems almost un-
believeable, so vast is its scope. There is much of
Indian art of great value and worthy of cherishing,
according to the speaker, and in this his views are in
line with what Supt. Lipps has time and again ad
vocated. Mr. Hawley knows more about Indians
than we know about ourselves—he is a writer of works
on our Indian people and their arts. In addition to
the address of Mr. Hawley, Mr. Nelson, who was on
the platform, was introduced as an old-time student,
and he made a most earnest talk to our students, ad
monishing them to adhere strictly to a half-dozen fine
points that he enumerated for them. His, too, was
a good talk. During the evening there was a special
choir number, Melba Arnoux sang a fine selection, and
the orchestra played an overture.
PROMINENT VISITORS
Last Saturday morning a delegation of prominent
ladies connected with the Oregon State College at Cor
vallis arrived at Chemawa for an inspection of our
school with its various vocational departments and its
many evidences of unusual artistic ability on the part
of students enrolled here. Mrs. Lipps met the ladies
and conducted them on a tour of our campus and we
can truthfully state that they were a delightfully
pleasant group of ladies to meet as they were all eager
for information regarding our fine school and the work
we are doing.
After a couple or more hours spent in visiting our
numerous departments the luncheon hour arrived and
the party repaired to the Wigwam, where Miss Nye
and Mrs. Steward and the girls of the ninth B grade
in domestic science had everything in readiness to re
ceive our visitors. During the luncheon hour our
ever popular “sextet vocalists” gave some pleasing
musical numbers, each of the girls of the organization
being introduced by Miss Judd. During the luncheon
Cecile Steve played a piano number. In every respect
our musical young ladies did themselves and the school
proud. Supt. and Mrs. Lipps were in attendance at
the luncheon and both were kept busy answering
and giving detailed information on various matters.
It was a great occasion for Chemawa.
We are happy to be able to give the following list
of those who were present on this occasion from the
college extension service: Miss Ava B. Milam, Dean
School of Home Economics; Miss A. Grace Johnson,
Head Household Administration; Mrs. Jessamine C.
Williams, Head Foods and Nutrition; Miss Alma
Fritchoff, Head Clothing and Textiles; Miss Melissa
Hunter, Director of Dormitories; Mrs. Merle Davis,
Home Economics Education; Miss Mildred Chamber-
lain, Clothing and Related Arts; Miss Claribel Nye,
State Leader of Home Economics Extension; Mrs.
Zelta F. Rodenwold, Specialist in Household Admin
istration Extension; Mrs. Harriet K. Sinnard, Spec
ialist in Clothing Extension; and Miss Frances Clinton,
Extension Agent-at-large.