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.