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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1937)
The CHEMAW A AM ERICAN 2 •^Chemawa l& A m ericans A tri-weekly paper devoted to Indian education. Published and printed on every third Friday during the school year by the students of the Chemawa Vocational School, Chemawa, Oregon. EDITORIAL STAFF Harry Wilder, Henry Sijohn, William Settler, Agnes Hal'l, Mildred McCrory, Wilma Mesplie • REPORTERS Hazel Charles, June Cornville,'Dorothy Hayward, Josephine Juneau, Vivian McCleod^ Zena Hogsed, Lillian Morin, Martha-Bingham, Naomi Mesplie, Josephine Reynolds .Florence Wolf tail, Agnes Thorpe, George Bostwick, George Christian, Vernon Jackson, Noble Sanderville. P aul T. J ackson ~ R osalind E C ruise ' Superintendent Journalism Class ' ▲ ▼ R obert T homas - Manager and Printer H arry W ilder Student Foreman — E d ito ria l— O most of the former and present Chemawa students there remains a great love for the old school. . We little realize what a good time we have in school until we are grown up and are out in the world for ourselves. It is then that we really come to the conclusion that school days are the happy days. W e, the present student body, do not know how fortunate we "really 'are. When we stop to think of the hardships that the first students had to endure in order that this school could be built we should feel quite lucky. Even then, des pite those hardships, they went about their work happily and with a goad attitude never ta.forget those days, Eater, after -Chemawa had been in existence for so/ne time, the military training came into effect. In spite of the severe-punishment and strict rules the same loyalty for Chemawa was shown. A t .present our rules are less Jiarsh and we have good food and shelter which the first students lacked. Our time is well filled with varidus kinds of enter tainment such as games, shows, and dances. Some of our present privileges have been given us quite recently. Among these privileges are social hours, store hours, and town days. Let us all keep the Chemawa loyalty such as has been shown by the former students.— M a r g a r e t A rcasa S N eighteen hundred and eighty, fifty-seven years ago, in Forest Grove, Oregon, the school of Chemawa was founded. In the openihg of the school there were twenty-five students enrolled. Crude buildings were thrown up for the use of dormitories and academie buildings. , In later years the school was moved to its present location. During that time Chfemawa was nothing but a forest of trees and stumps, x T h e students of that period had, a lot to do with the building of the school of Chemawa. From then on Chemawa has successfully grown to its present standing. Students from year to year have raised the standard of the school. < . Chemawa students of the present highly appreciate the work of the students before them. Their hard' work of building the school to be what it is today, gives the present more time to devote to their studies. They, at that time, were under strict discipline and their time svas so fully scheduled that it left them little time for recreation. The advantages of the students now cannot beeompared to the disadvantages and hardships that the first students faced. ' We, the students of today, give our thanks and appreciation to the founders of Chemawa.— D orothy H ayw ard I Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it,— L incoln . Miss Gertrude Eakin Gives Chapel Talk Continued from page 1 ;In her missionary work, she stated that •she frequently met many students that she had known in the different Indian schools where she has worked, and that many of thèse boys and girls are holding responsible positions. . One of the illustrations that Miss F akip g ave was that of a student who had left Haskell to teach in a very deso late and lonely place where she had eighty three pupils in one room. ' Since the motto of the Y W girls is “ Ready for Service,” the girls from Haskell very helpfully sent Christmas boxes- and let- ' ters of encouragement to this -teacher. Miss Fakih -further illustrated her Y W motto by recounting the story of a skill-^_ iu l . clock maker who was not. satisfied^^L "with his place in life until he had done ** something for all of the people of his village and thus made the town a better place for all. T h e studentsappreciated Miss Eakin’s helpful speech with it’s suggestions for better living and join with Mr. Jackson in hoping that7 she will speak again to them in the ,near"future. “ SCRIP SYSTEM” DISCUSSED AT CHAPEL BY CHARLES E. LARSON On Sunday, February 14, our chairman Naomi Mesplie, introduced the speaker, Mr. Larsen who had Just returned from a recent trip to Oklahoma. His subject^^ g was “ Our Scrip System,” a discussiod^^* of which "Was the main purpose for his trip. The’ purpose of his trip was to explain to the Chilocco school how our Scrip Sys- «« tern was operated. Mr. Larsen told how the other speakers stood up to talk and had question after question fired at them to be answered. Tljen he got up to speak he was very disappointed when nobody attempted to interrupt him. W hile the sessions were going'on, it was decided that the student council should attend.the meetings. My. Lar sen remarked that many questions were then asked. Some of these questions were: “ What do they do when they don’t have enough Scfip to pay their board?’ ’ ‘ ‘What is done with the extra Scrip?’ ’ In his conclusion, Mr. Larsen said.that they came to no definite decision except that the Scrip System wouldn’t be used there, unless they had actual cash to back the Scrip money.
