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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1937)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN 2 -^Chemawa Am 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 Hall, Mildred McCrory, Wilma Mesplie REPORTERS Hazel Charles, June Courville, Dorothy Hayward, Josephine Juneau, Vivian McLeod, 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 1 R obert T homas H arry W ilder — E d ito ria l— . Manager and Printer Student Foreman GIRL SCOUTS HAVE ENJOYABLE EASTER PARTY AT PRACTICE HOUSE The Girl Scouts of Chemawa under the leadership of Mrs. Gropp and the scout leaders, Jennie, Nelson and Aleatha Whizz, enjoyed an Easter party at the Practice house on March 19th. The twenty Girl Scouts invited twenty guests for the evening. The evening was spent in playing games, roasting marsh- mellows and dancing. Later in the evening Mrs. Gropp, with the help of the refreshment committee, Arlene Bingham, Harriette Beach, Edith Switzler and Mildred Lorenz served the refreshments. All the Girl Scouts and their guests enjoyed the evening’s activ-~ ities of fun. w Easter was the resurrection or the rising of Christ from the tomb he was put in three days before. Girls Athletics To most people just what does Easter mean if anything at all? Why do the The Girl’s gym classes are “ goingin” bells ring and millions kneel in the shadow of the cross? The demonstration of love over hate, forgiveness over unforgiveness, and charity for baseball in a ‘ ‘big’ ’ way. They have over greed was made for all men of all races and all creeds by the example of Christ. found out the weather is on their side so You can picture The Resurrection and see Christ ascending above things, ma are coaxing Miss Wentzel to let them terial just as He rose superior to the pettiness of mankind and this is the meaning play each day. Girls, here are. two ways to cause your of Easter. Services will be in the small and lowly churches as well as the larger beautiful number of points toward a letter to soar: first, play your ping pong match off and ones. Millions will worship on Easter morning, greeting the dawning of a new day— do your best to keep in the race; second, new hope. The sense of ugliness is lost with beauty replacing it. All eyes are secure a place on the hockey team and help win a few games closed to the littleness of life. Mildred McCrory, while practicing Only the better things are thought of. Everybody has love in his heart. It basketball after s c h o o l o n e evening, is a day to rejoice and be happy, a day in which one can make others happy. bumped her head against substantial little —A gnes H all Louida Osborne and got herself “ knock 7 ^ ^ Little do we realize that each day of the year is filled with opportunities that ed out.” When the stretcher had we either take or leave without giving the matter much thought. We can grasp sent for, however, the unconscious one them by doing good work and by cooperation; or we can allow them to slip was either walking in her sleep or com ing out of it for she was seen walking through our fingers by our inattention. John Sharp’s speech on a “ fight for an education” should always be kept in about the campus. mind by all students of Chemawa. It should not only broaden our view of life, but Mrs. Jackson Shows Pictures it should encourage us to do all we can to keep our good records and to make use of our chances for success.—M atilda S am Cpntined from pase 1 students were interested in the inform What is “ spring fever?” How is it going to effect you this year? Most of us do not know what it is, exactly, but we have evidence of what it does. ation given by Mr. Jackson that a soldier It is, as most of us think of it, a lure for out door life and peaceful solitude away is on duty at the grave of the unknown from all care and worry. Although the effects of “ spring fever” may sometimes soldier all-the time. Interesting pictures of the N a v a jo be unnoticeable, it may develop into a serious illness. The main injuries it leaves behind on the character, probably, are bad habit formation and deprivation of a Indians and their quaint homes, beautiful pottery, and weaving were shown among certain amount of knowledge. Are we going to let the “ spring fever” cause us to become slack m ourdaily the pictures of the Southwest. Some of routine this year? Or are we going to prove that we can resist the temptation to the schools and hospitals for the Indians dream by continuing to show more interest in our education? These are questions there, were also pictured. Glimpses of we are all being confronted with now. We do not know for sure what may lie in the San Francisco bridge, although up the future for us either way we may choose. By summing-up past results and con side down, and other places in the South sulting our common sense we know that if “ spring fever” is permitted to advance, west were among these travel pictures the harm done will influence our futures and impair our lives.—D orothy J ones that everyone enjoyed.
