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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1943)
Zke Ckemawa 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 ROBERT THOMAS MRS. VIRGINIA WEIGEL Superintendent Printer Journalism Instructor Editorial We all feel we have a purpose to fulfill in our walks of life, that is success. In order that we may fulfill this, we have many problems to overcome. One is that we should try to understand each other and be helpful in our work and problems. We should not try to make goals by ourselves. A football player cannot make a goal without the rest of the players to help him. It takes teamwork by everyone. When a hero in our armed service is decorated for an honor, he has a feeling that he is accepting it for the whole outfit, and he makes them feel like they are accepting it too. We should try to help each other. Life is not at all happiness and glory. There are some mean, un pleasant jobs, some with a bit of humor, and some without. How can we help each other succeed? We can be most helpfid by showing our classmates we are glad that they have achieved in a task. And another wav is by showing no sign of jealousy by razzing them for what they have done—J ulia B erys Items of Interest Several students have had the measles this past month and the hospital staff has been busy caring for die large number. The Hi-Y invites all the employees, faculty mem bers, officers of the girl reserves, and the glee club members to attend the reception after the Sunday chapel on February 14. Gilbert Pepper, who is working in a shipyard at Portland. Mrs. Pepper taught the freshmen cooking class and took charge of the junior Practice house. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 11:00 a.m., a Pep Rally was held in the auditorium for the basketball boys who were to play that evening. It was successful with Miss Rector and her two assistants, Luella Wilson and Edith Markishtum, as the leaders in yells and songs. The new a.ito shop instructor is Mr. Earl Du- Chien from Salem, Oregon. In the summer of 1941 Mr. DuChien was employed by the Salem public schools and the state vocational department to teach anto mechanics under the war training program. He has nine boys now taking auto mechanics. The auto shop is being remodeled. A Red Cross Sewing Club was recently organized on the campus for employees and families. There are two divisions: a sewing group under Mrs. James and a knitting group under Mrs. Sanders. Mrs. Jackson is general chairman of the club and Mrs. Cleek is secretary. They meet every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and evenings. Miss Ila Scott recently filled the position as Head of the Home Economics Department vacated by Mrs. Leila Black. She is from Oxford, Indiana, but has been teaching at Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma, for the last ten years. Senior Practice House and Home Relations will be under her super vision besides other classes with the juniors and grade school girls. She is also sponsor of the Card Club. News From Alumni Sam Scott, ’35, who is in officers training at the Adjutant General’s School, at Fort Wn , Maryland, has sent his address so he may get in touch with some of his old classmates and friends. Candidate Sam Scott. Co. A Bks. Ill, class 13 Officers’ candidate School Fort Washington, Maryland. Audrey O’Conner’s editorial for the Chemawa American on Honesty, was published in the Inde pendence Hopster Herald. We thank the Ind. H. H. for honoring us, and for sending us a copy of their paper. Manford Weeks, ’40, stopped at Chemawa Jan. 21, on his way to Montana, from New Mexico where he has been for his health. Previous to that he was employed in the war depannent in Wash., D. C. Manford was accompanied by Rex Redhouse, who is in the army. Mr. Redhouse visited Miss Wehunt and Mr. Totten, who had been his teachers at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. Mrs. Floy Pepper recently resigned her position as Home Economics teacher to join her husband, Look pleasant if you don’t feel so—keep your temper, no one else has any use for it.
