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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1931)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Page 2 CHEMAWA^)AMERICAN PublishedWeekly at the U. S. Indian School, Chemawa Oregon. <£Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager 50 Cts per Annum Subscription LOCAL The painters have just completed the task of paint ing the interior of the laundry. Conductor VosBurgh and his bandboys give an im promptu concert out on the lawn nearly every evening to the delight of all. The carpenters have completed the second “bleach er” for our athletic field. They will make no more bleachers this season. Quite a number of our people, young and old, at tended the circus in Salem last Saturday and saw the same old elephants, monkeys and clowns. The senate committee and representatives of the In dian Office will visit Chemawa next Saturday after noon. The gentleman will be most welcome. Mr. Hatch, a Salem electrician, has just completed the task of rewiring the laundry plant, with assistance from our school apprentices who are studying this work. We are happy to acknowledge a most pleasant visit from Mr. Bruce Kinney, director of Baptist Indian Missions, whose headquarters are in Denver, Colo rado. David Brewer of Tacoma was a visitor at the school recently. He was trying to arrange for a game of baseball between our boys and a team that he repre sents. Urban Brunoe and Frank Dumont, two of our ap prentice auto mechanics, just recently overhauled and repaired the school mowing machine, and have a good job to their credit. The junior class in domestic science gave two din ners last week, one on Wednesday evening and the other on Thursday. Both proved most creditable and aixl gave great pleasure to the invited guests. The afternoon division of the boys on the kitchen detail enjoyed a banquet last Thursday evening. To morrow the morning division boys of the same detail will be banqueted. Not bad for either side! We trust that others may feel the same regarding The American as do Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brown. Writing from Wanblee, S. Dakota, recently they said: “We find many interesting lessons in your little pa per. We’ve used a number of them in our club dis cussions. We note a great progress in your work of educating our Indian boys and girls. ‘Indian Prog ress’ is the theme of our clubs.” Our two troops of Girl Scouts enjoyed a joint meet ing last Thursday evening under the direction of their captains, Mrs. Middleton and Miss Lundquist. Mr. Francisco, ex-Scout official of our boy troops, was the guest of honor. Mrs. Melovidoff’s freshman class of girls in dom estic science gave a tea last Wednesday evening, in viting a few employes and quite a number of their student friends. The affair was in every way an enjoyable event. About 60 members of the Little Flower Society went to Hazel Green Saturday afternoon for a picnic. Miss Roddy, Miss Peters and Mr. and Mrs. Sanders accom panied the girls and all report that it was a most enjoy able occasion in every way. Next Sunday our baccalaureate address will be de livered by Dr. William Wallace Youngson, a scholarly and affable gentleman who is well known throughout the west. The graduation exercises will be held on the following evening, June 1st. Just as we were going to press we learned that Supt. and Mrs. Ryan attended the Indian Pageant, “Red Pio neers,” at McMinnville last Monday evening, Mr. Ryan as the special representative of Commissioner Rhoads. Some of our students were included in the cast of 125. There will be one more issue of The Chemawa American this school year—it will be put out as soon after graduation next Monday as possible, and will chronicle the various events attending what is certainly destined to go down in Chernawa’s history as a good year. Our trio, Mr. Melovidoff and Mr. and Mrs. Turney, provided music last Friday evening in Salem for the reception given in the Masonic Temple by the Oregon “Business and Professional Women” at their conven tion. The affair was outstanding both as a business and social event. Last week was a busy one at the Wigwam, and the girls under direction of Mrs. Mayne and Mrs. Melo vidoff gave four dinners and teas—one on Tuesday, two on Wednesday and one on Thursday. All were most excellent and no doubt entailed a great deal of work for instructors and students. Russel Adams, a former graduate, visited at Che mawa during the past week while enroute from Pen dleton, where he now resides, to his boyhood home at Siletz. For quite a number of years Russel has been employed in the railroad shops of the Union Pacific at Pendleton. Supt. Ryan was in charge of our chapel exercises last Sunday evening and gave in detail a talk explaining what is planned for our students next year. We gather that the academic courses will be strengthened, rather than weakened as many seem to have feared, while the vocational courses will be made far better in every way. It was a good talk and timely—of real interest to all of us. In addition to Mr. Ryan’s talk a quartet of boys sang a couple of numbers, the choir contribut ed, and the orchestra was heard in a fine selection.
