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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1936)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN ' - ~3>QC~ | C am p u s N e w s c $ HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES GATHER AND ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR Oft *0» MX*- -------- j£) Miss Newell has recently returned from a visit with her sister in California. For the year nineteen hundred thirty- six the four high school classes have elected their class officers. Mr. Allen and his shop boys have been kept busy repairing the corn cutter for the farmers. President, Flla Bellinger; Vice Presi dent, William Hilburn; Secretary, Verdi Evans; Treasurers, Verdi Evans, Albert Myers; Yell Leaders, Verdi Evans, Hec tor Bazil; Sergeant-at-Arms^ Edward Hilburn. The other night our campus crooners, the famous Serenaders, were visiting parts of the campus. Dowd Franklin, graduate of ’32, drove in from Warm Springs recently to see a football game on the campus. Other week-end visitors seen about the campus were Betty Polotkin, a graduate ¡of ‘36, Fred Motchman and Karl Muller. The painters are doing wonderful work on the machine shop and bakery by giv ing each a new coat of paint. The different tribes of girls met and elected their officers. At the end of the year the groups will see who has the best record. Marguerite Arcasa, a graduate of the 1936 class, spent the week-end with friends about the campus. Marguerite is attending college at Monmouth, Oregon. Mrs. Melovidoff, head of the Home Economics department, has resigned her position here to be with her husband who is working in Tacoma. Mrs. Cronk has taken over Mrs. Melovidoff’s work. ( Many improvements have been made in the rooms. The walls in some of the school rooms have received paint. The academic building looks like a different place on the inside. The Misses Florence Booth and Dor othy Hayward were present at the Salem Woman’s Club meeting, October 12, at the request of the club president. Quest ions about Alaska were asked of them at that time. Another successful year has been start ed. in Winona hall under Mrs. Cassutt, the girls’ advisor. There has been twelve officers appointed as follows: Jo sephine Jupeau, Josephine Reynolds, Adeline Sampson, Lillian Morin, Theda Murphy, Naomi Mespli, Wilma Mespli, Gladys Bird, Virginia Wolfe, Martha Bingham, Norma Minnick, and Marga ret Andrews. F reshman C ra ^ s S ophomore C rass President Donald McCrea; Vice Pres ident, Trma Chamberlain; Secretary, Rosemary Young; Treasurer, Phyllis Applegate; Song Leader, Bertha Blakes lee; Yell Leader, Lincoln Jamison. J unior C rass President, Mildred McCrory; Vice President, Roy Track; Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph Shippentower; Song Leader, Vivian McCleod; Yell Leader, Gale Bobb. S enior C rass President, Harry Wilder; Vice Presi dent, Wilma Mesplie; Secretary/ and Treasurer, Florence Wolft'ail; Song and Yell Leaders, Henry Sijohn and George Christian. Sad H om ecom ing Last Wednesday forenoon practically the entire population of Chemawa await ed the arrival of the south-bound train in order to welcome home an esteemed employee of theschool, Mr E. R. Mason. It was an occasion of joyand sadness-joy in welcoming home Mr. Mason, who is convalescing from a tragic auto accident, and sorrow in the absence of Mrs. Katie B. Mason, who was a victim of the same accident and whose remains are interred in the family burial lot in a Tacoma cemetery. For six weeks after the acci dent (in. which Mr. Mason was held blameless) Mr. Mason was 'at the home of relatives in Tacoma under the care of a doctor. To the joy of all his many friends he is now able“to get around to some extent and ere long will be his normal self. Mrs. Katie L. Brewer, al most a life-time'employee at Chemawa, accompanied Mr. Mason home and she, too, was warmly greeted by a host of friends. In response to a request from Mr. Mason and all other relatives, we are, in their behalf, thanking Superintendent Jackson and faculty, and friends far and near, for kindly aid and sympathy in the untimely death of Mrs. Mason—a wo man beloved by all. 3 ■◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►◄►-OB VOCATIONS H om e E conom ics The girls from Mrs. James and Mrs. Hauser’s classes of Thursday morning and afternoon went down to the Chemawa Grange hall to help get the exhibits ready for the Chemawa Grange Fair. Chemawa had a very lovely exhibit, consisting of Indian bead work, crafts, black prints of different kinds, fruit, vegetables, jams, pastry and many-other articles of various kinds. All of these different kinds of crafts were made by former and present girls of Chemawa, Mrs. Hauser’s junior, sophomore, and freshman classes have been working on productive sewing. They have made doctors’ aprons, barber aprons, kitchen aprons, curtains, etc. They hope to start on the regular crafts work soon. H artm an T ells of Philippine E ducation Continued from page I The journey that Mr. Hartman made to the Philippine Islands was by way of Japan, China, and then to the Port of Manila, where he was employed as a teacher a t the • Agricultural s c h o o l . Among other interesting things, Mr. Hartman told that the chief crops are rice, tobacco, and sugar. A great deal of rain there makes the soil and climate ideal for rice growing. The temperature never gets below 68 and never goes above 100 degrees. The boys of the school where Mr. Hartman was employed start to school as freshmen and their subjects are horti culture, science, farming, and English. The main idea of the school is to learn while you earn and earn while you learn. A four year course is offered and after this period expires, students are gradu ated and if they have been dependable and lived up to all of their requirements, the superintendent or principal will rec ommend them for positions. There is hardly a boy that fails to get a job when he has once been recommended. The chief aim of the pupils of this school is to learn how to do things that will benefit them and their children after they return home so they can raise the standard of living among their peo ple. That should also be the set goal of every Indian youth.
