T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN
JOHN COLLIER BECOMES COMMISSIONER
OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
John Collier, who on April 21, 1933, was sworn in as
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, in 1884.
His academic training was at Co
lumbia University in New York and the College of
France in Paris.
In 1907 he became a staff member
of the Peoples Institute in New York City.
Under
that assignment he helped organize, in 1910, the Na
tional Board of Review of Motion Pictures and was its
general secretary for four years.
He was an organizer of the National Community Cen
ter Association founded in 1915, was its first secretary
and later its president.
He was the director of the
national training school for community centers from
1915 to 1919. In 1916 he helped to organize and served
on the board of directors of the Childs Health Organ
ization, later the American Child Health Association.
In 1919 he went to California where he became Di
rector of Community Organization, a position under
the State government. In 1920 he began traveling
among and studying the Indians of the Southwest. In
1923 the American Indian Defense Association was or
ganized and Mr. Collier was made its executive sec
retary. He held that position until his present ap
pointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
FIFTH ANNUAL REUNION
You are cordially invited to attend the Fifth Annual
Reunion of the Cushman Indian School, now known as
the Tacoma Hospital, Tacoma, Washington, on June
24, 1933.
For the past four years the former students and their
friends have gathered at Tacoma to attend this annual
event. Everyone looks forward to this Reunion.
Many of the employees and parents of the students
here were former students of the Tacoma school.
During the past years baseball games have been the
outstanding attraction of the day. Then, too, sports
of all kinds are featured. Races and contests are held
for both young and old, with prizes for the winners.
Free luncheon is served and there is a dance in the
evening.
We hope to have a bigger and better time this year,
and sincerely hope the students will inform their folks
of this event and bring them to Tacoma to have a
grand time.
1933 GRADUATES
Howard Abbott, Vocation and High School
Simeon Bean, Vocation and High School
Harold Berys, Vocation and High School
Oscar Braden, Vocation and High School
Howard Churchill, Vocation and High School
Leo Cottenoir, Vocation and High School
Melvin Davis, Vocation and High School
William Demmert, Vocation and High School
Frank Dumont, Vocation and High School
Kenneth Galbreath, Vocation and High Scnool
George Goujon, Vocation and High School
Leroy Grenier, Vocation and High School
Andrew Hatfield, Vocation and High School
Lawrence Horn, Vocation and High School
Raymond Ignace, Vocation and High School
Ben lyall, Vocation and High School
Leonard John, Vocation and High School
Wesley Larsen, Vocation and High School
Peter Levay, Vocation and High School
Fred Motschman, Vocation and High School
Mark Renter, Vocation and High School
Chester Pepion, Vocation and High School
George Pepion, Vocation and High School
Andrew Peterson, Vocation and High School
Louis Randell, Vocation and High School
Robert Thomas, High School
Louis Pitt, Vocation and High School
Vincent Pratt, Vocation and High School
Carl Whitman, Vocation and High School
Terrance Courtney, Vocation and High School
Charles Huber, Vocation
Charles De Poe, Vocation
Jessie Jim, Vocation
Janies Kelly, Vocation
Alex LaFromboise, Vocation
Eustace Markishtum, Vocation
Arnold McKay, Vocation
Peter Paquette, Vocation
John Peltier, Vocation
Eddie Nanpooya, Vocation
Andrew Desautel, Vocation
Violet Adams, Vocation and High School
Melba Arnoux, Vocation and High School
Zona Afraid-of-Horses, High School
Lillian Billy, Vocation and High School
Lucy Billy, Vocation and High School
Emma Celestine, Vocation and High School
Alleta Good bird, Vocation and High School
Alma Hatch, Vocation and High School
Esther Hillman, Vocation and High School
Elizabeth Ides, Vocation and High School
Nina Jack, High School
Alice Jones, Vocation and High School
Frances Jones, Vocation and High School
Alice Ladderoute, Vocation and High School
Dora LaFrance, Vocation and High School
Marie LaFrance, Vocation and High School
Lena Louie, Vocation and High School
Luella Moore, Vocation and High School
Caroline Parker, Vocation and High School
Sophia Powakee, Vocation and High School
Gertie Queahpama, Vocation and High School
Nancy Reynolds, Vocation and High School
Margaret Sampson, Vocation and High School
Alice Slater, Vocation and High School
Mildred Smith, Vocation and High School
Gertrude Thomas, High School
Edna Wesley, Vocation and High School
Anna White, Vocation and High School
Oma Woodcock, High School
Elsie Bartow, Vocation
Alice Clairmont, Vocation
Mae DeCelles, Vocation
Lydia Pepion, Vocation
Ethel Proctor, Vocation
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