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HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES GATHER
AND ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR
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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.
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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.