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
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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.
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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