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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1949)
The Chemawa American Dormitory Hews WINONA HALL Joyce James and Eulalie Minthorn are the Winona hall reporters. Miss Challis, with the help of the house councillors, are doing their best in trying to help the new girls get adjusted to the life and new ways of Chemawa. The councillors of Winona hall have elected five of the house coun cil members to represent Winona hall at the student council meetings that have met twice so far. They are Georgianna Young, Janice Rambeau, Eulalie Minthorn, Mabelle Edwards, and Helen George. Under the supervision of Miss Challis and with the direction of tne house councillors we have organized a court at Winona hall in which at recent meetings we have had to take considerable action. Winona hall's "Rec" room is now having a paint job done by two of our girls—Joyce James and Jeanette Blake. They are doing a fine job and we are all anxious for it to be com pleted with the grey and green walls, red woodwork and the new "gay" curtains we will purchase from the candy fund. Jeanette Blake and her team, "The Buckaroos," have won the Intramur al basketball tournament for this quarter—undefeated. The prize that Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have given is an invitation to their home in Salem for a "Hot Dog" feed and then afterwards they will all attend a Willamette football game. Girls on this famous team are Jeanette Blake, captain, Eleanor Charley, Tullulah Tulee, Joan Foster, Sarah Lewis, and Betty Pays. We congratulate Eulalie Minthorn and her Unit IV for winning the sec ond unit award trip this year. They went to Salem to a movie which everyone enjoyed very much and which was their reward for their efforts. Georgianna Young's Unit II won the award trip in September. The guest room at Winona hall has been filled practically every week end. Among the visiters the past week were former students Juanita McDevitt, Violet Lane, Mary Jo Hall White and her mother Mrs. Moors, besides the mothers of Sylvia Wil liams, Pauline Brown and Thelma Northover. BREWER HALL Brewer hall has 132 Navajo boys enrolled this year. The boys seem to be working hard to make Brewer hall a good home. Thev have elected of ficers for the school year. The office and general manager is Joe Harney Lee. Leaders for the Units are as fol lows: Unit I, Timothy Benally and John James; Unit II, Louis Silner and Jimmie Dickson; Unit III, Chester Franklin and Tony Nelson; Unit IV, Julius Bennett and Charley Casuse. McNARY NEWS McNary Hall is really on the beam and the boys are a happy group. Everything is organized and on schedule. Unit and House meetings are held once a week, as well as Lettermen's meetings. The Senior Hall managers are Joe Felsman and Don Cooke; Junior Hall managers Robert Davis and Alex Samuels; Canteen Manager and clerk, George Plummer. The man agers for the units are as follows: Unit 1, Reginald Wells; Unit II, Ervin Goodwin; Unit III, Edward Lopez; Unit IV, Lawrence Head; detail man ager, Clifford Matt; gym manager, Horace Ironpipe. The Court judges are Reginald Wells, Auggie Dick and Ray Pete. All the boys are contributing their part to make McNary hall a happy place to live. M c B ride hall A news reporter and McBride hall house officers have been elected at our weekly house officers meeting. Roberta McDevitt is the news re porter. Eloise Butler is McBride hall president, Alice Cornelius is vice- president and Maxine Elwell is the secretary. The house officers are Peggy Washington and Alice Cor nelius for Groups 1, 2, 3; Roberta McDevitt for Group 4; Maxine Elwell for Groun 5; Chalode Moses for Group 6 and Eloise Butler for Group 7. Miss Challis, the girls' adviser, and Mrs. Reifel have been helping us. We discuss the problems of our groups and how to make McBride a bette’- building. McBride hall house officers meet ing is on every Wednesday night. Last Wednesday we talked about our new curtains for the windows and showers in the wash room and how nice the room will look when it is finished. It is painted yellow, our curtains are green plastic whh aold- fish on them. Everyone is going to try to keep our curtains and room looking nice because they cost $40.80. We are naving for them every week out of our candy fund. They cost a lot but ' re think we can manage to pay for them if everyone co-operates. Our candv money is used fn aet nice things for the girls in McBride hall that we couldn't have otherwise. Monday night is always a big Usscmbly Programs On October 20 the members of the senior class gave an assembly. It was a one-act play dealing with the trials and tribulations of getting out a newspaper, this one being (no less) "The Chemawa American." The tenth grade gave their assem- by October 28, 1949. The program opened with the boys singing "That Lucky Old Sun," followed by a clari net solo by Laura Mae Conway. A variety of well-prepared and well- re-ceived numbers rounded out the program. CAMPUS VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Archie MacDonald were campus visitors of Mr. and Mrs. James MacDonald. Mr. Archie was a Chemawa Student in 1913 and 1914.' Mr. Robert Brush, assistant pro fessor of education at the University of Oregon, and wife visited Mr. Brush's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brush recently. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chappell and sons, Joedy and Terry, of Salinas, California, were the house guests of the William B. Showalter family dur ing Thanksgiving week. Mrs. Chap pell is the sister of Mrs. Showalter. The following ex-students have visited Chemawa in recent months: Nick Hatch from Florence, Oregon; Henry Darnell, Prince Rupert, B. C.; Mrs. Violet (Johnson) Ford, Portland, Oregon; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilder (Eleanor Sanderson), Orleans, Calif. night in McBride hall now because that is when we have our weekly amateur hour or play night. Every one gathers in the rumpus room and we have ten numbers on the pro gram with one of the officer girls in charge. The girls dance, sing, say poems or give a little olay. The three winning girls win prizes. Miss Chal lis, Mrs. Reifel, Mrs. A.shcutt, and Mrs. Shoemate are the judges—they judge bv the gmount of clapping the girls get. I think McBride girls have great talent which we have never kn^-m before. The 14 girls who h^d the most points for the month of October went with the Winona hall girls on the Unit Award trip last Saturday. The house officers voted to have a oarty for the group in McBride vrh’^h keens their rooms the best and a’-e the best citizens for one mon’h. We plan to have a aroun narty onre a month on Wednesday niaht in nlace of our officers meeting. We know everyone will have a aood time but it will be more work for the officer girls but fun for them, too.
