The Chemawa American, November 01, 1943, Page 3, Image 3

New Employees
Mr. Manford Weeks, class of '40, has joined our
ranks as propertv clerk. Mr. Weeks came to us from
Boeing Aircraft, Seattle.
Mrs. Margaret Begody, formerly of Fort Wingate,
New Mexico, is now small girls’ matron. Mrs. Be-
gody is also instructor of girls’ physical education.
Mr. Wright Noel comes to us from Tuba City,
Arizona. Mr. Noel is the dairyman.
Dr. O. W. McClusky has joined us as school
physician. Dr. McClusky was formerly a general
practitioner in Ashton. Illinois.
Mr. Coquelle Thompson, class of 1927, is now
employed as boys’ adviser. Mr. Thompson gradu­
ated from Oregon State college in 1932. He is also
the boys’ athletic coach and physical education dir­
ector.
Mr. Allan Shepard returns to us after 9 years.
Mr. Shepard has been printer at Haskell Institute
during this time. He is a graduate of Chemawa.
class of 19.
Svi nth Js Students ’ Choice
Paul Svinili, Student Body President
f lic students of Chemawa held an election for
president of the student body. The candidates
were .Anita Gruniose. Glenn Fritzler, and Paul
Svinth. Paul was elected president.
The election was held in the high school build­
ing on the afternoon of Oct. 18. It was conducted
by the Senior class, using the Australian secret
ballot.
The election of the student hods Council will
be held in the near future.
Harvest
September and October were beautiful months in
Oregon. A passerby on the ( hemaw a campus could
have seen a bevy of girls in colorful sweaters and
slacks going to pick tomatoes, a group of boys on
trucks heading for the cornfield, or a whole class
on the wav to the prune orchard.
Students and employees have worked together
through the summer and autumn to produce and to
save food lor the students. We have been glad to
help fill our warehouse with food we produced as
we feel it helps win the war. We thus leave the food
in the public markets for the use ol the armed forces,
or for the civilians who cannot produce their own
food. There is a satisfaction about eating food grown
at home that one does not have from eating com-
mercially canned produce.
Mr. Schultz Passes
I he Chemawa community was shocked to learn
of the passing of Mr. Lewis E. Schultz on October
27. He had collapsed from a heart attack a week
before and was taken to a Sakin hospital.
Mr. Schultz came to Chemawa from the Indian
School at Pipestone. Minnesota. October 16. 1941.
as chief engineer and was an able, active, and help­
ful employee. He was a member of Local 241 N.-
F. F. E. He was chief Air Raid Warden of the ( ihe-
mawa Airplane Observation Post and conducted
that duty for nearly two years with an untiring zeal
and interest that will long be remembered. He is
survived by his wife, four daughters and two sons.
The deepest sympathy of the entire campus is
hereby expressed to Mrs. Schultz and the family.
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Student Dances
The first dance of the new school year was an­
other one of Chemawa’s gala affair. The students
and the employees all turned out with their names
on their lapels. Soon people w ho had been stran­
gers were speaking to each other as if they had
known each other for some time. Everyone had a
lovely time dancing, hut the food and punch, I be­
lieved, really helped to make us jolly.
Dances were also enjoyed on the evenings of
October fifteenth and October twenty-third.
A nickelodeon has been rented and is furnishing
good music for the dances.
Reginald George Downie
I he Chemawa American records with sorrow the
passing of one of Chemawa’s beloved sons. Reginald
George Downie died at the Veteran’s Hospital in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 26, 1943, after
lingering illness. Interment was at Tacoma, the home
of his parents, on July 1. Many friends and former
co-workers from Chemawa attended the funeral.
Mr. Downie is survived by
Mrs. Rose O’Brien
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Downie, ’16, and a son, Robert, who is in the Navy.
Lt. Barbara Whitelaw is with the Army Nurse
Corps at Camp Callan, California.
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