The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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Next thing we know we will see the dawning of
Groundhog Day.
Goldie Day spent the last week-end at Marylhurst
Academy, near Portland, the guest of friends.
Rose Pablo returned last week from her home at
Dixon, Montana, and is again enrolled at the school.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk and Mr. Briggs motored to
Brownsville, Oregon, last Sunday and spent the day
with relatives.
We are informed that 500 boxes of choice apples
have been ordered for our students and that delivery
will be made shortly.
Business was good, as usual, at the shoe shop dur
ing December. Mr. Decorah and his details repaired
535 pairs of shoes during the month.
Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Turner arrived home recently
from a trip to Los Angeles, California, where Mr.
Turner passed a good part of his annual vacation.
Evelyn lyall of Nisqually, Washington, is now reg
ularly employed in our administrative office, having
taken the position recently vacated by Sylvia Peterson.
The Y. W. held their meeting Sunday afternoon at
the usual hour. A song service was held and then
everyone was checked on Girl Reserve Ring require
ments.
Mr. Al DeRyke, a decorative artist of Silverton,
Oregon, is again at work on the interior of our Catho
lic Chapel. Beyond question Mr. DeRyke is an un
usually fine artist.
The tenth grade girls’ cooking class gave a dinner
to their boy friends last Wednesday evening. It
proved an enjoyable event for the boys in every
particular. Miss Nye was in charge.
Miss Irene Middleton, who passed the Christmas
holidays with her mother here at the school, returned
last week to Berkeley, California, where she will
resume her studies at the state university.
Word has been received from Sylvia Peterson to the
effect that she has entered upon her duties as deputy
county treasurer at Cutbank, Montana, and that she
likes her new position very much. We are all inter
ested in Sylvia and are anxious for her to make good
in every particular.
Mrs. Cecile Porter, who is now employed at the
North Pacific Dental College, visited Chemawa friends
last Sunday, being the special guest of Miss Peters.
Mrs. Porter will be remembered by old-time students
as Cecile Smith.
Mrs. Ada Mayne, of Portland, Oregon, has been
secured to fill the vacancy in the domestic science
department caused by the recent resignation of Miss
French. Mrs. Mayne comes to us highly recom
mended and we trust that she will like Chemawa.
Supt. Lipps made a trip to Corvallis early last week
for consultation with those in charge of extension
work at the Oregon State College. He is much grati
fied with the spirit of the college authorities in the
matter of assistance in extension work in our Indian
settlements.
Wonderful to relate, it seems that the Willamette
Valley is changing its reputation as to climate. We
used to be twitted about webs between our toes on ac
count of so much rainfall, but no longer should we
meekly accept the insinuation for since the first of last
September there is registered a deficiency of precipita
tion in excess of eight inches.
Many friends of Miss Merle French, who recently
resigned her position and returned to her home in
Tennessee, have received announcements of her mar
riage on December 21 to Dr. Jasper M. Wiggins of
Las Cruces, New Mexico. The wedding occurred at
the home of the parents of Miss French in Paris, Tenn.
A host of Chemawa friends wish the young couple
much happiness, prosperity and long life.
In the absence of Supt. Lipps from the school Asst.
Supt. Ryan was in charge of our chapel exercises last
Sunday evening. Mr. Ryan took pains to set forth
in detail the effect that bad habits will have on our
careers, in many instances wrecking us. He pointed
out the fact that the habits of the students of any in
stitution are a factor in giving it a good or bad name,
and he made it most clear that any student will find
himself handicapped in later years when he seeks em
ployment and is forced to admit that he comes from a
certain school and the reputation of that school is not
good. Selfish reasons, if none other, should prompt
our students to guard the good name of “Our Che
mawa.” There are enough “real” students here to
hold the few who may be‘ * sitting on the fence’ ’ in this
matter and to whip them into line, so Mr. Ryan seems to
think, and we are back of him. What any school
needs first, last and all the time, is clear-headed and
well-meaning student leaders, with courage enough
to blaze the path. We trust our students will give
heed to these hints. The orchestra and choir contri
buted the usual numbers during the evening.