Chemawa American
Published every third Friday during the school year by
the Chemawa Indian School. Address all communications
to the CHEMAWA AMERICAN, Chemawa, Oregon.
Published in accordance with the Interior Department
appropriation Act, 1940, approved May 10, 1939.
Subscription 50 cents a year.
PAUL T. JACKSON
Superintendent
ROBAIR THOMAS
ROSALIND E. CRUISE
Printer and Manager
Journalism Instructor
REPORTERS—Joe Hayward, Stanley Williams, Marjorie Skahan,
Margaret Skahan
Editorial
Students of the Chemawa Indian School paid
tribute once again on the birthday of this insti
tution, the oldest non-reservation Indian school
in the Northwest, on February 25, 1941.
Sixy-one years ago Lieutenant M.C. Wilkinson,
the first superintendent of what is now Chemawa
Indian School, started the education of the Indian
youth in the Northwest with an enrollment of
eighteen students. The school was then located
on four acres of land belonging to Pacific Uni
versity at Forest Grove, Oregon, with other land
for farming rented from near-by farmers. The
school was continued on this location for five
years when it outgrew its quarters, and was
moved to its present location at Chemawa, Oregon.
Chemawa has made much progress since Feb
ruary 25, 1880. The first students and employees
would probably be greatly surprised and pleased as
well to see their first buildings now replaced
by fine, large brick buildings, wooden structures
and other buildings of various sizes and descrip
tions. In order to show our appreciation to the
older students for the hard work that was done
to make this a wonderful school, let us make use
of all the facilities that were made possible by
the old students and get an education that will be
of some value to us in the future.—J oe H ayward
People have many friends, wherever they go,
but one friend we all have is the library. We
couldn’t find a friend that is more helpful to us
everyday, for within the library are hundreds of
books that are all our friends, there on the shelves
eager to help us.
The books stand there, day by day, through
out the year, and we use only the ones we need
for pleasure or reference. Perhaps we haven’t
meant to disregard our other friends, those other
books that we seldom glance at, but, being loyal
friends, they remain at our service. Everything
we learn from these books, al ways stays w i t h
us. We cannot forget our friends who are always
ready at our call. Use the library for obtaining
a higher aim in life, for greater satisfaction of
living, and of knowing the ways of the world.
It is there for you to use.
Remember, too, the librarian, is one of the
best friends you have in the library. She is there
to help you in anyway that she can. Consider
her duties as a librarian, and co-operate with her
whole-heaitedly, for a better library. If you have
the privilege to use the library for a study period,
use it for that, and don’t violate that privilege.
The librarian must keep silence in the library,
for people use the library for learning, and con
centrating, and one cannot concentrate with a lot
of commotion. So co-operate with the librarian,
and keep your privilege of using the library.
Then too, make it a point to remember the
feelings of your friends, the books themselves.
They cannot live and be at your service if you
treat them roughly. Take care of them. Do not
turn their leaves down, and do not tear them, or
throw them around. Remember that others want
to read them after you, and that they want a clean
book, as well as you. —M argaret S kahan
THERE WAS A TIME
WHEN—
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there will appear items
from earlier editions of the CHEMAWA
AMERICAN, and also from such other
sources as they may be secured. What have
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Send in your items to Charles E. Larsen.
C lass of 1920
Fred Wilder, Ruby White, Elizabeth Montgomery,
Klamath; William Kennedy, Blackfeet; Charles A. Wil
liams, Anna Sexton, Marina Nelson, Alaska; Arthur W.
Johnson, Shasta; Andrew White, Ponco; Gus Gartiez,
Paiute; George Berry, Assiniboine; Theodore Fayes,
Pind’D’Reille; Louis Silverthorne, PittRiver; Effie Davis,
Hoopa; Margaret Chamberlin, Gros Ventre; Rose Goff,
Chippewa; Mary D. Ware, Osage; Anna D. Miller, Cop
per River; Hattie Martin, Rogue River.
C lass of 1921
Louis Colby, Opal Pearson, Klamath; Clarence Ed
wards, Mable Blodgett, Clara Morais, Flathead; William
Frazier, Hoopa; Edwin Liligren, Katherine Loftus,
Nancy Matheson, Alaska; Roy Nuckolls, Digger; Daniel
Orton, Rogue River; Ellen Beall, San Poil; Theresa Gua,
Colville; Harriett Cain, Assiniboine.
C lass of 1922
Lawrence Dans, Wilfred J. Evans, Frank Sookim, Alex
Petillin, Charles J. Evans, Rosa Gray, Dorothy Anna
Host. Tacoma Snyder, Alaska; Charles Ell, Wallace Mor
gan, Joseph Racine, Albert Spearson, Piegan; George
Thomas, Blackfeet; Stanley Orton, Rogue River; Joseph
Spencer, Cowlitz; Elizabeth Churchill, Thlinget; Ethel
Henry, Ione Henry, Suquamish; Joyce Simmons, Squo-
xin; Laura Waun, Snohomish; Frances Fitzpatrick,
Edna Hill, Klamath; Dewy Sampson, Paiute.