The Chemawa American, October 22, 1940, Page 5, Image 5

Home Room A ctivities
Flathead—Chairman, Ben Finley, and secre­
tary,
Dorothy Clark.
Starting where they left off last year, with
Northern
Idaho—Chairman,Mylie Allman,and
more interest, the Home Room groups elected offi­
secretary,
Serena
Harrison.
cers and are anxious to study more about their
Ft.
Hall—Chairman,
Josephine Hevewah, and
own reservations. This year’s program is slighty
secretary,
Alice
Teton.
diffierent from last year. Instead of just working
Colville No. 1—Chairman, Pete George, and
on one project all year they were advised to in­
clude the study of the most important thing in secretary, Christine Covington.
Colville N o.2—Chairman,Ferris Tatahama,and
this generation and that is the study of health.
secretary,
Clara Reynolds.
Miss Gerken, health educator, was on the campus
Yakima—Chairman,
Theda Ashue, and secre­
studying the health conditions. We were for­
tunate in meeting with her in chapel as she spoke tary, Margaret Skahan.
Tulalip No. 1 —Chairman, Milo Enick, and
to us about the care of our health, and gave us
secretary,
Bena Davis.
a few suggestions for study in our Home Rooms.
Tulalip
No.2
—Chairman, Henry Hillaire,and
She advised us to select as many as three to five
secretary,
Carol
Severson.
students on the health committee with one as
Klamath—Chairman, Elnathan Davis, and sec­
chairman. These committees were to select a
health project to study in their respective Home retary, Ralph Foster.
Umatilla—Chairman, Bill Jackson, and secre­
Rooms.
tary,
Cecelia Charley.
On Thursday, October 7th, the health chair­
Taholah—Chairman, Blanche Shale, and sec­
men met with the employees. They gave their
retary, Preston Davis.
ideas, the project that they had selected, what
Warmsprings—Chairman, Roosevelt Suppah,
they were going to do about the matter, why they
and secretary, Rosanna Stacona.
had selected the topic, and what they were going
Alaska—Chairman, Roswell Edenshaw, and
to do to increase the study of health upon the
secretary, Eugene Booth.
campus.
Siletz—Chairman, Emmett Douthit, and sec­
Some of the topics that were brought up in the
retary, June Simmons.
meeting were: first aid in the cannery, chewing
Grande Ronde—Chairman, Ivy McKenny, and
of snuff, more trash cans about the campus, im­
secretary, Katherine Jones.
provement of the boys smoking room, as well as
California—Chairman, Borraine Short, and
the girls smoking room, appearance of the boys
secretary, Elizabeth Dalson.
and girls on the campus, ventilation, and foods
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that we eat. The chairmen will meet again the
first part of November to discuss the progress Interclass Sports
of the health project.
Due to the lack of suits to be issued out to each of the
This year there are exactly twenty Home Room boys, this year’s interclass football will be touch football
groups on the campus and each one of them is instead of the real game of football. The fact one of
the boys might get injured in regular football has in ­
determined to learn more than last year.
Besides the study of health, the groups are fluenced the change to this new type of game.
The touch football rules are different from these of
continuing their drawings of their maps, and the
real football. The rules are:
study of the problems on their respective res­
No one is allowed to block the defensive players down,
ervations.
if so, a penalty of 15 yards will be given to the offensive
The following are the chairman and secretaries team. One must touch the ball carrier with two hands
of the different tribes in their own Home Rooms: below the belt; anyone is allowed to receive a pass; there
Crow Agency—Chairman, Thelma Shane, and are six men on the line on the defensive team, and
five men in the backfield.
secretary, Pearl Deernose.
The teams are the* ‘Green” Freshmen, the Sophomores,
Ft. Belnap—Chairman, Fred Bodge, and sec­ the Juniors, and the “ Mighty” Seniors. The Specials
retary, Ramona Phares.
are to play for the Seniors since they haven’t enough
Ft. Peck—Chairman, Clarence BaRoque, and players. This coming Saturday, the classes are to have a
jamboree and each team is to play fifteen minutes of touch
secretary, Viola Redelk
Tongue River—Chairman, Bill Bighead, and football. The purpose of the inter-class football is to
enable the boys that are not on the Varsity or “ Bee”
secretary, Melvin Woundedeye.
teams, to get the feel of the game. At the present, there
Blackfoot—Chairman, Marie Hall, and secre­ are at least two or three boys on the Varsity squad
tary, Bttcille Nessbaum.
that got their start in last year’s interclass football.