FRESHMEN
NEWS AND VIEWS
of the boys have had calf or
The Freshman class of '48-'49 pig projects.
We are proud of our mem
has 63 members, divided into
two groups. There are 40 girls bers who have taken part in
school activities. Many Fresh
and 23 boys.
The general theme of our men were in the band and on
school work is learning how to all of the athletic teams Three
get along with people. Some of our girls are twirlers for the
other units that were valuable band and two of them were
were liguor and tobacco and princesses for Chemawa's birth
diet. We learned what effects day.
The class has benefited from
liquor and tobacco have upon
the body. We learned what the studies that we have taken,
foods are necessary to keep us especially the studies on social
healthy and we planned meals adjustment which we are sure
will help us become better-ad-
including all these foods.
Some of the magazines we justed young men and women
have enjoyed are the Reader's in our growth toward adult
Digest and Current Events We hood. Following are officers:
President, Violet bane; Vice
enjoyed our short story books,
too. Our oral work, especially President, William Shellal; Sec
the reading of i?cems, has been retaries, Wilma Celestine and
Maney Butler; Treasurer, Rod
valuable to us.
For our assembly program, ney Davis; Sergeants-at-Arms,
we had a variety show which Vesta Lane and Billy Bourgeau.
had group songs, specialty
songs, play, skit, band num INVENTORY
The Freshmen wrote an edu
bers, harmonica solo, and
dances. One of the dances was cational inventory evaluating
by some of the boys dressed as their education in all phases of
chorus girls; this number was their life at Chemawa this year.
very popular. The other dance Following are excerpts from
was by some of the girls; they their papers:
This year our theme has been
designed and made their cos
social-adjustment. I've learned
tumes.
We had dancing lessons and hew to win and keep friends
studied behavior at parties. and why people act the way
Then we had class parties to they do I might otherwise have
misunderstood them and lost
practice our new skills.
We had a very interesting many valuable friendships. I
field trip to the capitol and leg have come to a better under
islature and the penitentiary. standing of human nature.
We learned a lot and enjoyed it. (Roselie Wilkinson)
In the dormitory I have learn
The Freshmen have had a
well-rounded vocational pro ed to keep my room clean and
gram. The girls have had sew to consider my roommates as
ing, quantity cooking, and laun well as myself. I have learned
dry. The boys have had agricul also to plan what I'm going to
ture and shop training. Some do ahead of time. (Donna Stone)
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Dancing helped me to get ac
quainted with my schoolmates
and I learned to dance better
than I did before I came here.
(Bill Cagey)
Doing oral work was fun- it
made me get used to talking in
front of the class. (Delores Tash-
wick)
In Ag we learned about the
pests that attack plants and how
to get rid of them, and we saw
movies to illustrate ti em. Some
of us had pig projects. We
worked for the school to pay
for the pigs and then feed. We
keep a record of the number of
hours each boy works and the
amount of feed used. We learn
the names of different kinds of
pigs and how to care for them
and how to feed them. We will
be selling our pigs soon and
each of us will get ar out $20..
(Rodney Davis and Bill Cagey)
In our dormitory we learned
a lot from our adviser and ma
trons. We were lectured on how
to make good habits and break
bad ones. I think I have accom
plished more this year than any
other year of school. I have ma
tured and grown more mentally
than any other year. (Chris
topher Revey)
The farm is the place I like
best. We learn how to judge
livestock, how to do dairy work,
and prune trees. In the dairy
we have learned how to put
milking machines together and
wash them out. (Charles Samp
son)
I worked in the plumbing
shop. There I learned soldering
different parts of pipes, how to
put in pipes, then put lead in
them to keep them from leak
ing, and how to prepare them
for fitting. (William Shellal)