The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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CHEMAWA^)AMERICAN
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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.