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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1949)
C H E M AWA O AM ERIC A N Vol. 50 Chemawa, Oregon • December, 1949 Breakfast Club Quests Supt. Kelley, Coach Patterson, Mr. E. Hudson, boys' adviser, Mr. Rube Sanders and five students, Don Cooke, George Plummer, Joe Fels- man, Ray Pete and Richard Thorpe, were guests of the Salem Breakfast club on Friday morning, November 18. The club voted to make a Che mawa breakfast an annual affair. BAND NEWS This year the band, consisting of 38 members under the direction of Mr. Matt, has gotten off to a good start. They have played during tie halves of all home football games. The band is now practicing for the concerts coming up this year. Ap pearances have been scheduled for December 15, March 17, and one the first part of May. The band plans on entering all soring festivals for bands in our district. The Pep band, composed of 12 pieces, is considered a part of the pep squad, but it does belong to the regular band. It has made ap pearances at Jefferson with the foot ball team, at Turner with the senior program and at a P-T. A. meeting at Keizer. They will join the pep squad for the Basketball Jamboree in Salem. The dance orchestra is composed of five students and three employees. The followinq are members of the dance orchestra: Miss LeDosquet playinq the piano, Mr. McDonald bass fiddle, M'. Matt and Vincent Matt cornets, Laura Mae Conway clarinet, Anna Mav Sharp guitar, Joanne Sicade violin and Beverly Hugus drums. FRESHIES '53 The freshman class has been di vided into two sections. One of the most interesting activi ties we have now is reviewing and discussing some educational movies. Some of the movies we have re viewed are "Feeling of Rejection" and "That Boy Joe." The nictures we have seen deal with such subjects as not getting along well with your parents, the law, and fellow friends. We learn why people act as they do and how problems are solved. These pictures have been very in teresting and we are looking for ward to having more like them. Mn and Mrs. Mason and Mrs. Nell V. Brannon attended the Home-com ing at the University of Oregon GIRLS VISIT NEWBERG Having received an invitation from our former schoolmate Vernon Lane to visit Newberg, Miss Morse and Mr. Matt took a group of girls to see George Fox college on Armistice Day. We arrived about two o'clock in the afternoon and took in the foot ball game. It was an exciting game in the rain and we were very happy to see the George Fox Quakers de feat their opponents, Lewis and Clark. Vernon was playing for George Fox. As we had one of our cheer lead ers with us, we gave an Indian cheer for the George Fox college. THE CARNIVAL Confetti, streamers, telegrams, bingo and hot-dogs—all these fun making activities, besides many more, went to make up the setting for Chemawa's all school carnival During this gala evening school books were forgotten. Even the teachers, our principal, our superin tendent, and all the other staff mem bers joined in the fun making. The result, ah yes, that is very important to the student fund. When all the bills were paid there was the neat sum of $290 to deposit. ATTEND JUNIOR RED CROSS MEET Christine Thompson, Caroline Mil- lette, Irene Sicade, Thelma Dick, and Darlene Lozeau, accompanied by Mrs. Seawright, attended the Junior Red Cross Conference meet at the Hillsboro union high school in Hills boro, Oregon, on the 29th of October. Mr. Don McCandless spoke on "Learning to Live in a World Com munity." The meeting was very edu cational and entertaining. VISITS CHEMAWA STUDENTS While on her recent trip to Tacoma Miss Cajete visited the following Chemawa students, who are in the Tacoma hospital: Jim Davis, Betty Brown, Lillian Mennick, Lucille Sampson, Herbert Pevo and Wallis Conrad. Thev all sent greetings to their school mates. larly-Day Hardships Do we appreciate all the efforts that the early students of the Che mawa school put forth? The follow ing is an excerpt from a letter of one of these first students, Mr. Clarence J. Duncan of Taholah, Wash., in which he writes: "I was one of the first pupils at Chemawa from Forest Grove. Came to Forest Grove on November 26. 1884, Thanksgiving evening, with my brother and sister. In December, 1884, the girls' building burned to the ground. In 1885 the older boys went to Chemawa to prepare a place for the younger students. I was one of them—nine years old. "The teachers trained us and we gave a concert at Hillsboro and at Portland, Salem, and then by spe cial train to Brooks and back to Chemawa. This was in May. "There were no habitable build ings at Chemawa then. The boys had only a shake building, no floor, and there were bunks upon bunks. Finally a barn was made into a schoolroom. In the meantime we worked to clear the ground, cut brush, grubbed and burned. The big boys got forty-five cents a day for felling the larae trees and the small boys received four cents a day. "The first graduation exercises were held on a platform covered by branches where the present mess hall now stands. "In the year of 1886 the students went to Euola, three miles south of Salem, to pick hops. Half of our earnings went to buy the first piano the school ever had. Again in 1887 the students went hop picking and half of the proceeds were taken to buy the southeast corner of the grounds. At that time Lake Labish was there." Think over the words of Mr. Dun can and th’nk of the hardships he and the other boys and girls under went to ma^e Chemawa. Then you will Vnow what we have to be thank ful for and vou will find it easier to do vour details and other jobs to improve vour school with a smile instead of a frown —Joe Felsman, student editor. —«o- ■ -'O-- "WEBSTERLINGS" Three sixth grade boys, Frederick Huqus, Allen LaPlant, and Franklin La Pena spelled over radio station KOAC, Corvallis, Oregon, on Novem ber 29 at 2:45 p.m No. 2 —-O------- -o------- — Qhristmas Greetings from Ghcmawa A W *
