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.