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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1942)
First Graduation Exercises in 1885. Held Between the Practice Home and Kola Tepee Chemawa Celebrates Sixty-Second Anniversary, Feb. 25th Chemawa was first founded in Forest Grove, Ore gon, on Feb. 25, 1880, by Lieut. L. C. Wilkinson with only 14 boys and 4 girls in attendence. The school was first known as the Forest Grove Indian school. The school plant was located on 4 acres belonging to Pacific University. The land for farm operation was rented from nearby farmers. The school continued at Forest Grove for 5 years when it outgrew its quarters and was moved to its present location. The first portion of our present farm was donated to the government by the citizens of Salem, and later on the boys and girls picked hops and paid for a 40 acre tract which they donated to the government. Mr. David Brewer, with a party of 46 on the morn ing of the school’s 5th anniversary, left for their new home, Chemawa. They came by the way of Portland and than finally to the present school. The boys put up the temporary buildings. Former Students in Defense and on Land and Sea A number of former Chemawa students who are now with the armed forces were recently pictured in the paper. Those pictured were: Mason Two- Crows, full-blood Gros Ventre, shown in Navy attire right after joining the Navy at the Pier; Wilson Spencer, Yakima-Warm Springs Indian, shown in his Indian Costume as he enlisted in the Navy in Hutchinson, Kansas; and Sargeant Joe Reddoor, Sioux, pictured with a gun on guard on the Pacific Coast defenses. Preston Bell, class of 1938, was a campus visitor from Fort Lewis on Feb. 1. George Bearcloud who finished the sheetmetal course here last fall and has been working at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle since then, visited the campus on Feb. 1. Jay Hedderick, class of ’38, and his wife, came from Fort Lewis where he is employed as a tailor, to visit friends on the campus on Feb 1. Frank Ain- yotte, another former student graduate, who is em ployed in Pat Kelly’s tailor shop in Seattle accom panied Jay for a visit at Chemawa. Friends of Miss Rita Hall, former classmate of the class of ’42, this week received word of her marriage on February 2, to Mr. James SpottedEagle of Browning, Montana. All of her classmates and friends in Chemawa wish these young people much happiness. A wind storm which hit Chemawa on January 24, caused much damage around the campus. The power lines were down and the electricity for the campus was off most of the night. Several of the large fir trees from in front of the Practice House were blown over and the lawn and the side walk were damaged.
