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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1950)
Vol. 50 Chemawa, Oregon • February, 1950 OUR 70TH BIRTHDAY On February 25 the Chemawa In dian School had been in existence seventy years. This year the cele bration was held on February 24. The celebration started at 7:30 p.m. with the crowning of the queen. This ceremony was followed by a program of Indian dancing, the cut ting of the huge birthday cake and informal dancing. The program took place in the gym. The slogan for the anniversary is “Seventy Years of Service; A Future of Responsibility" JUNIORS Students of the eleventh grade are making plans for the prom to be given in honor of the senior class this spring. Class meetings, com mittee assignments, and the con ducting of class room parties are regular class activities in prepara tion for the responsibility of the larger undertaking. BOOKS I like books. Books are good to read. Books are our friends. Do not ruin your books. I like the dictionary too. I like health books. I learned about the moon from the bocks. I like to read my school books best of all.—Bernadine Johnson, Grade 3 A NEW QUEEN IS CHOSEN When the votes were counted and tabulated, the results showed that Eleanor Charley, a junior from Pen dleton, Oregon, was the students' choice to reign as Queen for the Seventieth birthday celebration. Queen Eleanor is from the Walla Walla - Yakima tribe. The members of the royal court who served Queen Eleanor were Georgianna Young, Loretta Quaempts, Martina Quaempts and Isabelle Patchpe KNOW YOUR CAMPUS Students, do you really know your camnus? Do you know the history of it? Do you know how the various dormitories and other buildings got their names? A knowledge of all these things will be of interest to you and will give you a greater store of information that you may pass on to our many visitors when you are escorting them around the campus. Do you know the story of the two bears? No, I don't mean the Goldi locks story; I mean the story of the tvzo live Pears that once called Che mawa their home. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were two bears here at school. One of the bears was ac quired at Scotts Mills when the stu dents were there for a band concert and the other bear came from Falls City. For awhile the students kept the bears chained -up on the baseball field. Once in a while the bears x ould get loose and wander through the buildings. Everyone kept out of their reach, so no one ever got hurt by them. Later a pit was built where the grade school now stands. The bears were kept for some time, then one of them died. The other bear got out of the pit one day and was ■'tranglcd bv a rone as the boys tried to return it to the pit This interesting piece of campus historv was riven by Mr. Rube Sanders Sr., and I wish to thank him for it—loe Felsman, Student editor HAVE PICTURES TAKEN Queen Eleanor and her court— Georgianna, Martina, Isabelle and Loretta—had a busy day posing for pictures which the Salem photog raphers took for the local news papers. No. 4 NOTED INDIAN PASSES Dr. Henry Roe Cloud, one of the outstanding Indian leaders, died in Siletz, Oregon, February 9, 1950. Dr. Roe Cloud was from the Winnebago tribe. He was a graduate of Yale university. At the time of his death he was a regional representative for the Grande Ronde and Siletz reser vations. The student body and staff members of the Chemawa school ex tend their sincere sympathy to Mrs. Roe Cloud at this time. Those who attended the funeral services for Dr. Henry Roe Cloud from Chemawa were Mr. Kelley, Mr. Ashcutt, Mr. Shepard, Mrs. James, Mrs. Brannon, Mrs. Rube Sanders Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Rube Sanders Sr. kh? services were held at Oregon City and interment was at Beaverton, Oregon LIBRARY NOTES When is a library not a library? When the books get piled so high that you can not even see a librari an behind them. Such is the situation in the school library at the present writing. The books from the reading room have been moved to the south annex where they are being kept temporarily until the reading room is all decorated. The ceiling of the library has been covered with fir-tex, the walls of the south room are to be paoered with a yellow paper con taining vertical and horizontal lines which form the pattern, the south rojm will have the same type paper only the color will be a soft shade of green while behind the bookstacks splashes of sunshine yellow, brick red, and green will be seen behind the books. While all this activity is going on in the library, the assistant 1'brarians give service to the stu dents by going to the various rooms getting the list of requests and de livering the books, they also take the latest magazines and newspapers to the classrooms. The library assistants are Georgianna Yo mq, Helen Georg? and Carolyn Burke.
