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.
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"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
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Qhristmas Greetings
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