Chemawa American
REPORTERS—Joe Hayward, Stanley Williams, Marjorie Skahan,
Manraret Skahan
to school next year and have you made plans for
it? To you, who are graduating and know you
aren’t going to school anymore, who are going
right to work, we wish much success and we
hope that you feel able to do what will be required
of you. To think' you] can do it, is the job
half done. But to you, who aren’t graduating,
yet want to quit, give it another thought. Do
you want to join the millions who are unemployed
and untrained? If not, then let’s go on, if you
quit now, it will always be easy for you to quit
in anything that you may be doing.
—S tanley W illiams
Editorial
Alumni News
Published every third Friday during the school year by
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Published in accordance with the Interior Department
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PAUL T. JACKSON
ROBAIR THOMAS
ROSALIND E. CRUISE
Superintendent
Printer and Manager
Journalism Instructor
Yes, you can be a leader! You can d eve lop
your inner self and talents to become an out
standing student and leader right here among
your friends and associates.
Leadership is a
thing that can be accomplished by people just
like yourself.
But, you must put forth a lot of effort. You
must know the “do’s” and “don’ts” of leader
ship, and apply yourself to it wholeheartedly. In
the first place, you should have initiative. That
is, you must be a “self-starter”—be capable of
starting new and interesting as well as worth
while projects. Then, secondly, you have to
show enthusiasm and interest for the proposed
project. In other words, you should be “sold”
on the idea yourself, making your enthusiasm
genuine. Thirdly, you must possess courage—to
face your followers critics—and determination to
carry through once you have begun. It takes
courage and determination; and gives sincere
poise to fellow workers. You have been challenged
to become leaders—why not start now? You can
accomplish leadership if you try!
—M arjorie S kahan
This school term will soon be over and it will
be the last school term for some students here,
but it isn’t the end of your education. It is only
the beginning. Some of you might not have re
ceived good grades in classwork, memorizing facts
but you didn’t come here to get the highest grades
possible. You came here to learn to think—to
think for yourself. Thinking is classed as one of
the hardest things to do. If you have started to
learn to think and to concentrate, your stay here
has been well worthwhile.
Before you leave school this year, think this
over. Is your summer vacation well planned? Do
you know what you want to do? Are you going
Everett Oatman, ’40, is in the 93rd of the Air
Corps Squadron at Scotts Field, Illinois. During
inspection of the troops in Calfornia, Everett was
promoted as assistant to the Sargeant.
Charlotte Jordan, class of ’32, is employed as
a teacher at Turtle Mountain, North Dakota.
Willie Miller, who graduated last spring, is
working on the ground crew at McChord Flying
Field in Tacoma, Washington.
Roy Track and Dorothy Jones, graduates of
’38 were married recently in Wolf Point, Mon
tana, and are living there for the present time.
Tommy Pablo, ’40, has been transferred from
Angel Island, California, to the Canal Zone in
Panama.
Ruby McHenry, ’39, was a visitor onthecam-
pus on Easter Suday. Ruby is employed as a sten
ographer by her step-father in Seattle, Wash
ington.
Preston Bell and Bill Saluskin, who are enlisted
in the army at a California training camp, are
now at Tacoma, Washington, for the manuevers
being held there.
Agnes Skahan, former student, is now Mrs.
Chester Adams, and is living in Yakima, Wash
ington. Mrs. Adams was a recent visitor on the
campus.
“Can You Imagine”
Demo and “Small Frye’’ neglecting each other atmeal
time? June Simmons going around with “Curly’’? Miss
Semanski as our roller skating Sonja Henie? A check
found on the campus for $20,000 to be divided between
Mildred “Skahan” and Maiselle “Van Pelt”? Marie
Hall having a “cinch”? Esther Matt and Harvey Whit
ford not quarreling? Mylie Allman learning to shoe a
horse? Mary Wolftail worried about her man, Crow
Eyes? “Talkie” with tears in her eyes?___ she dried
them, though. Celia Charley in Warmsprings? “Moony’’
saying, “I’ll never give up”! How happy the CCC girls
girls are? Francis Berger happy now that “Mrs.” is out
of the hospital? “Johnnie’’ and the “Ornery Kid” are
doing fine?