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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1949)
The Chemawa American News Notes The McNary hall boys and matrons have been doing a little extra shin ing in the building. The boys want their 30 points each week. A request for a transcript of cred its for Doris Reeve, a former Che mawa student, was received from the Mt. Edgecombe school in Alaska Mrs. Mason, fourth grade teacher, was ill and confined to the Salem Me morial hospital. We are glad to see Mrs. Mason back in the school room again. Professor Charles Derthick, Assist ant Professor of Psychology at Wil lamette, conducted a discussion on use o fthe Binet and other mental abilities tests at the academic staff meeting, January 12. Miss Bertha Ellinger, elementary supervisor of Indian education, writes from Alaska that she enjoys her v/ork there very much. She is getting o be quite an airplane en thusiast, as that is the way they travel long distances there. Former student visitors since the last issue of the American have been Marion Placid, Joe Pete, Aloysius Slickpoo, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Sta- cona, Nellie Cooper, Alfred Lewis, Joe Pinkham, Richard Hillaire, Loy- ette Moppin and John Grant. Shirley L. Durand and Hal Ratze- burg, seniors at Willamette univer sity, have been administering the Binet tests to some of our younger students. They report they are re ceiving excellent cooperation from the students and that they a e en joying their work on our campus, Mr. Francis Rierson, health edu cator with the Marion county health deoartment, showed some films on restaurant food handling and dish washing at the auditorium on Mon day evening, January 10. Mr. Quinn member of the department, aided Mr. Rierson. Chemawa welcomed the first ap pearance of Mr. Matt's dance orch estra at the New Year's dance. Mr. Matt plays the cornet; Vinnie Matt, trumpet, Laura Mae Conway, clari net; Vernon Lane, drums; and Mrs. Jeanette Hauser, piano. We all did enjoy their good dance music. THE AMERICAN VISITS JAPAN Our Chemawa American is gain ing international fame. Miss Morse mailed a copy to a friend, Miss Jane Zink, who works for our government, in Tokyo, Japan. Miss Zink wrote she enjoyed reading our paper very much. She likes our style of writing and would like to receive a copy of this issue. EMILY POST—ON CHEWING GUM When and where? When is qum- chewing allowable? Mrs. Post: Whenever formal stan dards of behavior are not in force. Certainly not in church, during reci tation periods in school or when wearing formal clothes * ZERO WEATHER The sophomores have been hav ing zero weather in the classroom. Mr. Johannaber had to wear an over coat all through one morning. The girls toughed it out while the boys sat on the radiators. We are surely hooinq for warmer weather. 3 5TH GRADE ASSEMPLY The fifth grade gave the first As sembly program of the new year on January 6. The principal characters in "The Fun Makers" were as follows: Interlocutor Persimmon Sideswipe Lockjaw Fossil Creosote Eggplant Frederick Hugues Albert Doney Franklin Lewis Frank Spencer Wayne Hopper Roger McKenzie Billy Sharp The rest of the class made up the chorus which sang several songs, in cluding "Polly Wolly Doodle," "One More River," "She'll Be Cornin' Round the Mountain," "Camptown Races," "My Darling Clementine" and "Dixie Land." Regina Godowa, Beverly Morin, and Christine Thompson sang "Down in the Valley" and "Strolling Thru the Park One Day " Three high school girls, Nancy Butler, Elizabeth McDevitt and Laura Mae Conway, did a tap dance WINONA HALL BASKETBALL Members of the Campus Bridge club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Weigel, January 11 and a delicious dessert luncheon was served at the beginning of the evening. High score was won by Miss Challis, sec ond high by Mrs. R. M. Kelley. Unit II in McNary won the last award for having the most points. These points are given for neat rooms, cooperativeness, detail work well done, doing things on your own, being in line on time, and other items. All the boys have been co operating very well, we hope it con tinues the rest of the year. We are happy to see all the fa miliar faces back at their places of service -after being confined at their homes because of illness. At various times since, the last issue of the paper the following employees have returned to duty after brief encoun ters with flu and other germs: Miss Henry, Mrs. Brannon, Miss Winger, Mr. Angus, Mr. McDonald, Mr. Ash cut, Mrs. Hill and Miss Sunrise. We have in our building seven basketball teams. We play every Thursday evening for an hour. Six teams go to the gym at one time. One team stays at the building. So far Team One has won all their games. Teams Three and Six are tied, winning five games each and losing two games. Team Six hopes that they ran play Team One again Buy A Share of the U. S. A. / Mr. R. G. Henderson, our postmas ter, has new airmail postal cards for sale. The price is four cents. One may also send parcel post airmail although the rates are quite high Best of all for sale at the postoffirr Mr. Henderson says, are the United States Savings Bonds priced so low that we all may have the privilege of buying a share of the best country in the world, the aood old U.S A
