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.
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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
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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.