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LOCAL
Tomorrow night Roy Meachem, Howard Churchill,
Ben lyall, Leonard Vivette and Leonard John make
their last appearance in Chemawa football suits. Watch
’em go!
The school band participated in the Armistice day
parade in Salem. The band boys also gave a concert
on the evening of Nov. 4. They covered themselves
with glory on both occasions.
Mr. and Mrs. Burney Wilson visited friends at Che
mawa recently. Mr. Wilson is an old time student
at Chemawa and both he and his wife are Haskell
alumni. Their home is at Klamath agency in south
ern Oregon where Mr. Wilson is a clerk in the agency
office.
The operetta cast is working very hard to have
“The Belle of Bagdad’’ ready by December 2nd and
3rd. This will prove to be one of the most interest
ing and intertaining events of the year. It is free on
Dec. 2nd. but on Dec. 3rd there is to be admission of
15 cents.
The marriage of Mrs. Mary Peacher and F. M.
Knapp took place November 3 at the Methodist par
sonage at Chehalis, Wash. Mrs. Peacher has been a
matron at McBride hall for several years and will cer
tainly be missed when she leaves at the close of school
to make her home in Chehalis. Mr. Knapp is a build
er and contractor of Chehalis.
Chapel last Sunday night consisted of a program
furnished by the boys of the school. Supt. Ryan pre
sided and gave a short talk, Mr. Gilliam made a few
announcements concerning arrangements for the Che-
mawa-Salem game and the following numbers were
contributed by the boys: Saxophone quartet, oration
by James Rosario and a vocal quartet. A boys or
chestra also played for the processional and recessional.
It was an enjoyable chapel.
At chapel Sunday night, Nov. 13, the student body
once more had the pleasure of listening to one of
George P. LaVatta’s fine heart-to-heart talks. Mr.
LaVatta’s doctrine is “Work and self-reliance.’’ He
lives it himself and, in a straight-from-the-shoulder
manner, preaches it to our young people everywhere as
the solution to their life problems. Supt. Ryan made a
number of announcements, a boys’ chorus sang Indian
Dawn by Zamecnik and the orchestra played Les Adieu
by Sarasate.
FROM THE CLASS-ROOMS
SENIOR NOTES
The girls all went up town to have their pictures tak
en for the annual, Saturday. The boys posed yester
day. We all hope the camera isn’t broken.
Only three more boys to get their season tickets.
Come on you’re doing fine! Keep up the good work
and we will be sure to win.
Miss Font gave five senior girls a party at Doctor’s
cottage E'riday evening. What a break! Who says
the seniors aren’t popular?
Two Senior nurses, Margaret Sampson and Esther
Hillman, cooked and served a dinner at the hospital.
Those present were Mrs. Peacher, Mrs. Wilcox, Miss
Fout and Miss Shafer.
We take pride in announcing that the senior boys
won championships in the class volley ball and foot
ball games. The girls were defeated by the juniors.
Shades of Berzelues! We have been having exper
iments in Chemistry which we thought plenty difficult,
but now that we have come to chemistry problems.
Oh my!
We have two excellent students in the senior class.
Onia Woodcock and Leo Ceotionoir who both made the
“A” honor roll for the first quarter. What’s the mat
ter with the rest of the class? Come on! Get hot!
In the tenth grade biology class we are studying
different species of birds, namely owls, mudhens and
cranes. The other sections of the tenth grade are
studying about grass-hoppers, which are very inter
esting.
Mrs. Lobdell is the sponsor for the eighth grade
classes. We are now working on the selection of
class officers. We have an excellent captain for our
volleyball team; she is Rubina Scott. Naomi Nesplie
was appointed class reporter for the eighth grade.
Mr. Lobdell has been made sponsor of the seventh
grade class. Edna Joe was elected class reporter for
the class. She is also the volleyball captain of the
class. All the seventh grade classes took a standard
ized test in English. The only way to learn good
English is to practice it. Every day in our English
class we give a short oral recitation using the correct
word we have just learned. The girls of our class
are very sorry to know that Mrs. Fisher, our matron
at Hawley hall two years ago, passed away during
the summer.
The eighth grade students held a meeting in the
auditorium on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock, Nov.
15, 1932. They elected the following class officers:
President, John Blacketeer; vice-president, Juanita
Juneau; secretary, Lawrence Bennett; treasurer, Sam
Shoulderblade; sergeant-at-arms, Alice Walters; report
er, Hugh Edmo; yell leader, Vernon Jackson; song
leader, Bernice Frye. The 8-B-2 boys made up a club
and called it the “eight two bees.” They then elect
ed officers.