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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1934)
T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE FROM OUR SUPERINTENDENT Supt. Ryan gave the following talk to the students at chapel Sunday evening, Dec. 31: We are approaching the New Year and as a hope for all of you I wish each will resolve with determination to make his life a success. And to do this we must live the kind of lives that success demands. I remember a small boy who prayed that the Lord would make him strong enough so that he could be successful in licking one of his playmates. The next day he put this prayer to a test and from the results of this battle decided that prayers were “bad.” An old Chinese proverb says: ‘ ‘A wise man revenges himself for injuries by kindness.” It seems to me that ordinary good sense would teach us that to pray for vengeance or selfish personal wants would be fu tile. But to pray for health and wisdom for our friends and ourselves, or that those who dislike us will learn to understand us better would be far from useless. In Revelations we read: “Behold, I have set before thee an open door.” But it is only when disaster strikes that many people turn to prayer and then only because they have no place to go for help. I believe there is a very direct connection between prayer and success. Prayer clears one’s thinking, it makes one more just in his dealing with others and helps in many ways. Of course it would not do much good to pray only once or to pray thoughtlessly, but to pray sin cerely and consistently I know to be essential for real success. I remember a little five year old girl telling me that she had fallen and as a result had a stiff knee so she could not say her prayers. I told her that I felt sure her prayers would be heard just as well if she said them while lying in bed. Sometimes boys think praying is unmanly. May I call your attention to the fact that presidents and others in positions having high responsibility pray al most without exception? This one thought I want to leave with you: Pray for things which you know are good for you and others and refrain from praying for things which are selfish or spiteful. LOCAL Miss Wallace of Salem was the guest of Miss Se- manski Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Miss Stella Wentzel went to St. Ignatius and Dixon, Montana, to visit friends for the season of Noel. A letter from R. D. Holt, class of 1897, expresses his wish to all for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Mr. Holt is a resident of Yakima, Wash., at 318 West Walnut St. P age 3 Theo Bird, who is on outing in Portland, visited her sister, Ernestine, here last week. Carl Muller, graduate of Chemawa, was a guest of Mr. Larnard at the club for Christmas dinner. Mrs. Wilcox had her grandchildren to dinner with her at the employees’ club on New Year’s day. Rudolph May see and Cyril Archambeau returned to Chemawa recently to take up their school work. Mrs. Charles E. Larsen was visited during the hol idays by her sisters from their home in Indianola, Wn. Miss Jasmine Lundquist spent her Christmas va cation in Tacoma, Wash., visiting friends and rela tives. Louis Pitt was a school visitor during the holidays. He traveled over from Warmspring with Frank Du mont. Miss Charlotte Jordan of Linfield college at McMinn ville, Oregon, spent the Yuletide season here among her friends. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mason motored to Tacoma on Friday, Dec. 29, to visit Mrs. Mason’s mother who resides in that city. Robert Thomas and Harold Masten, graduates of Chemawa, were Christmas week visitors. Both young men are working at Hoopa, California. Frank Dumont dropped over from Old Mill camp at Warmspring, Oregon, to wish all his Chemawa friends a happy holiday. “Lindy” is a graduate of 1932. Mrs. Wilcox was visited by her grandchildren, Weezi, Wally and Punkie and their mother during the Christmas season. They returned home Tuesday January 2. THE HOLIDAYS AT CHEMAWA (Continued from page 1) contests by the score of 25-40. The grand finale, the “last round-up,” the climax to the whole week was the student dance on New Year’s night. Fine music and a happy but decorous crowd all contributed to ward making the evening successful and unforgetable in every respect. It was a full week. Most mornings there was school in the shops and class-rooms. In the after noons there were games and social events. For every evening something was planned. All are to be con gratulated on the way the events were run off. In spite of the overlapping of some affairs no hitches oc- cured to mar the week. We hope that the dash and speed, the energy, the interest shown throughout the week will carry into the new year and make 1934 a memorable year for Chemawa.
