The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
SENIOR ROTATERS
During the past week the members of the Senior Ro-
taters Club have been occupied with the initiation of
twelve members of the Junior Commercial Class who
will “carry on” next year in the places of those Sen
ior Rotaters who organized the club and under whose
proficient leadership it has taken its place among the
long-established clubs of Chemawa.
A committee was appointed by President Frank
Johnson and its task was to pick twelve juniors who
would be acceptible Rotaters. Scholarship, personal
ity, leadership, and co-operative spirit were features
considered in choosing Everett Sandberg, Wendell Sil
verthorne, Matthew John, Peter Paquette, LeRoy Pep-
ion, Harry Archambault, Essie Bedard, Anna Baine,
Ethel Proctor, Verna Starr, Theo Bird and Ellen Nich
olson to further the work of the club in the future.
On Wednesday night, May 6, the business of initi
ation was undertaken. The officers of the club, Frank
Johnson, Armenia Plouffe, Lottie^Kipp and Louis Par-
azeau, presiding, conducted the ceremonies. The
newly-elected members wore pledge ribbons of purple
and white during the week that followed, and presented
themselves for the “clowning,” which rounded off the
serious part of the program, May 13.
Following directions which had been sent to them,
the initiates wore fearful and wonderful costumes all
day, but were compensated by being given a jolly par
ty on Wednesday night in the commercial room at the
high school building. Stunts of all kinds were per
formed, jokes and tricks were perpetrated by the older
Rotaters upon the “baby” members, and a most deli
cious collation, which had been prepared by Armenia
Plouffe, Edith Doore, Nedra Galbreath and Lottie
Kipp, was served just in time to revive the entire crowd.
Mr. Ryan, who is a full-fledged Rotater himself,
came to the meeting late in the evening and brought
Mrs. Ryan with him. Mrs. Herlits was the official
chaperone.
The Rotaters will not meet again this year, but will
be called together next September by the temporary
chairman, at which time the year’s work will be out
lined and officers elected.—Lottie Kipp, Secretary.
HONOR ROLL
Honor roll—Term ending May 1, 1931.
H igh H onor R oll
(Students who have no grade below 90)
12th
Herman Goudy, Thelma Norman and Ida Pelican.
11th
Matthew John, Peter Paquette, Benjamin Pikutarik,
Essie Bedard, Margaret Hoptowit, Everett Sandberg
and Theresa Newman.
10th
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Alice Jones, Mariel Stanger, Lucy Billy and Della
Snider.
H onor R oll
(Students who have no grade below 85, with an ave
rage of 90)
12th
Nedra Galbreath.
11th
Veda Lajeunesse, Christine Muller, Hazel Pete,
Wendall Silverthorne, Frank Plaster, Dowd Franklin
and Josephine Hughes.
10th
Lillian Billy.
9th
Lottie Dewey, Oletta Edsall, Maggie Sam, Arlie
Stanger, Inez Wocatse, Eunice Buck, Leslie Hender
son, Luke Markishtum, Ruby Deane, /Anita Farrow,
David Berger, Maude Marshall.
8th
Adam Williams, Cyrus Katchia, Lester Jefferson
and Floyd Miller.
5th
James Large, Orville Leno, Annie Stevens, Rose
Bellecourt and Lawrence Smith.
THEIR ANCESTRAL HOME
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the war, and at that time high class servitors, with
ambition and ideas of their own personal consequence,
were fain to call themselves by the names of their mas
ters especially when to the manor born; and they ranked
in importance among their fellows as well as among
the white people themselves, according to the social
status of their households. In these crucial days when
credentials are indispensable and references are re
quired, where or how can the unfortunate black man
come in? This is the misery of it, to him; and the
most devoted of his friends cannot help him establish
a pedigree.
Is it not a fact that any Ethiopian with a title and
an authenticated pedigree is at once feted and patron
ized by society leaders as soon as he appears, whether
in this country or others? One such was the late Hen
ry Highland Garnett, Virginia born, and black as the
ace of spades, who was eminent in his day, 50 years
ago; as much so, perhaps, as the distinguished Booker
T. Washington would be now.
He was tall, erect
and kindly in his carriage.
No sculptor ever drew
facial lines more exquisitely chiseled. No typical ne
gro features were there.
As has been mentioned, while very few blacks in
this country have the slightest idea as to what part of
Africa their ancestors came from, he knew the very
spot on St. Paul’s river in Liberia where his great
grandfather was a petty chief at the time he was seized
by native slave dealers and shipped off to America;
and it is a singular coincidence that this same Dr. Gar
nett was sent by the United States to represent this
country in the land of his forebears, while Garnetts’
daughter taught school at Brewersville, Liberia, the
identical place where her progenitor formerly lived.