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D. S. NOTES
Jimmie Shauver entertained several little friends at
a birthday party the day after Christmas. His birth
day was on Christmas day.
Mr. and Mrs. Melovidoff, Buddy and Marjorie were
guests at a delicious turkey dinner at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Lobdell in Salem on Christmas day.
The foods class had the joy of helping play Santa
Claus by making enough candy of various kinds and
popcorn balls to fill 102 Christmas stockings for little
Indian children at Grand Ronde.
The club detail has changed and part of the girls
have moved into the practice house. They are Grace
Celestine, Hazel Scott, Clara Charles, Hazel Thomas,
Marjorie Martin and Hazel Charley. We hope they
make good. Before leaving the club, Mrs. Melovidoff
gave us a party in Hawley Hall. The evening was
spent participating in a peanut game. We surely
have enjoyed working with Miss Hoptowit and re
gret to have to leave so soon.
SENIOR NOTES
The senior class extends their sympathies to La-
Verne Ulmer in her bereavement.
Among the students who have returned to school
for the second semester, two are seniors. Welcome
back Cyril Archambeau and Elmer Hootchew!
All students are welcome to patronize the senior’s
candy store as the profits all go toward the making of
the family album and we want it to be an extra good
one.
Some of the honorable seniors who went home for
the Christmas holidays were Cassie Ball, Dorothy
Parker, Ruby Dean, Violet Johnson, LaVerne Ulmer
and Marjorie Martin.
We hope they have all had
a very Merry Christmas and we are wishing them all
a very happy New Year.
Thursday was a big day for the seniors. A pep
rally was held before the contest against the sopho
mores. The seniors come marching into the gym
with their orange and black banners and ribbons held
high; their singing and yelling showed the true spir
it of the class; and they boosted their team every
minute of the contest. The contest was close and ex
citing to the finish but the seniors won with an over
whelming score of 45-20. Rah! Rah! Rah! Seniors.
SUPERINTENDENT RYAN TO DIRECT C. W. A.
PROJECTS
The Civil Works Administration has authorized a
project under the direction of the superintendent of
the Salem Indian school covering improvements at
the school, improvements at the Siletz and at the
Grande Ronde reservations. Such work as fencing,
repair of roads and repairs to buildings are being
undertaken. At Grand Ronde a government building
is being repaired to afford a meeting place for Indians
doing extension work under a joint program carried
on by Chemawa and the State college at Corvallis. At
Siletz the agency grounds are being fenced and the
agency roads improved while at the Salem Indian
school roads and buildings are being improved. One
project at the school is the erection of a log cabin
camp in which some of the student activities will be
carried out. Indians are to be employed to do all work
connected with the reservations or Indian schools, ex
cept when it is impracticable to secure skilled labor
for special undertakings in which common labor may
be secured through the Salem relief headquarters.
DOINGS AT PRACTICE HOUSE
Hazel Scott is the first cook of the present group.
We predict that she will make a record hard to break.
Marjorie Martin, Hazel Charley and Hazel Thomas
spent the Christmas vacation at their respective homes.
Miss Newell and Ethel Jefferson were dinner guests
one evening during the last week of the stay of the
former group of girls.
The holidays being over, we are all making an ex
tra effort to get into a work-a-day mood again and
carry on to the best of our ability.
A new group of girls began at the practice house on
Dec. 26. They are Grace Celestine, Clara Charles,
Marjorie Martin, Hazel Charley and Hazel Thomas.
We are wondering how to distinguish between the
Hazels.
On Monday the girls of the practice house and in
structor were at home to a group of employees. Mrs.
Turney’s pupils and serenaders under the direction of
James Rosario furnished some musical numbers which
were greatly appreciated.
Mrs. Wilcox, girls advisor, offered a five-pound box
of candy as a prize to the best decorated room in Win
ona hall on the morning of Dec. 24.
After quite a
little consideration the judges picked room 34 as the
most attractive and neatly decorated room in the build
ing. Catherine Bailey, Evelyn and Myrtle Spanish,
Gertrude Adams and Thelma Moore are the girls whose
efforts were so fittingly rewarded.