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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1951)
CM Vol. 51 A NEW QUEEN IS ELECTED As everyone knows, each year a new Queen is chosen to rule over the activities on Chemawa's birthday. The candidates are selected from the ninth grade, senior high and from the Navajo group. There are two candidates from each room. This year, after the candidates were se lected, last year's queen Eleanor Charley took the candidates to all the rooms from the sixth through the high school and to the Navajo groups to introduce them to the student body. Then came the campaigning followed by the voting. A committee consisting of 12th, 11th, Navajo boys and Miss Morse counted and tabu lated the votes. The ballots showed that Martina Quaempts from the 10th grade was to be Queen of Che mawa's seventy-first birthday party. The voting was close, proving that the students had chosen their candi dates well. The princesses are Loret ta Quaempts, Isabelle Patchpe, Mitzi Charley and Ioan Smith. Now comes the long wait until February 26, before we see the Queen and her royal court all dressed in their beau tiful costumes. Chemawa's birthday is really on February 25th, but as that day comes on Sunday this year the celebration will be held on Mon day, February 26th. STUDENTS RETURN The Juniors are glad to have Justin Pinkham and Ida Jean McCash back in school. Justin was at Cushman hospital in Tacoma for some time. Ida Jean was called home by the illness and death of her mother. GUIDANCE CLASS In guidance class we are learning about good grooming, how to take care of ourselves, and how to keep our clothes clean and neat. A person who is well groomed should have neat, clean clothes, hair combed, and fingernails neat and trimmed.— Wilma Olsen Chemawa, Oregon • Feb., 1951 IS YOUR CONDUCT SUPPING? Once again it becomes necessary to mention our movie conduct. We have been doing pretty well so far but once in a while we get too ex cited and forget the other person who is sitting next to us. We seem to forget that they too would like to hear what is being said by the pic ture. Perhaps you liked all the show or maybe you only liked a part of it, but don't manifest your likes and dislikes so loudly that you disturb everyone else in the audience. Let us show more consideration for other people and not be so selfish that we just think of ourselves. After all, we all go to the movies for the enjoy ment of it, so give everyone a chance to enjoy it.—Sylvia Winnier. Grade Whisperings OUR SPELL DOWN On Friday afternoon, February 9, the "A" class had a spell down. Ivan Sam and Joseph Moses chose sides. Elliot Taguanah was the only one left on Ivan Sam's side and Joseph Moses was the only one on his side. Mrs. Mason said that she thought that they could not be spelled down. So both sides were even. They spelled all the words that we had studied this year. We had to stop because it was time for school to be out.—Clara Ives, 4th grade. FOURTH GRADE PROGRAM Our program on February 8th was for everyone to see. It was for you to see I hope you liked it. Our teacher worked hard to make it good for you to see. We helped her as much as we could. Mrs. Johannaber helped us with our program. She played the piano. She taught us the songs and dances. We drew the pictures for the shadow play about the "Tiger and the Brahman." We hope you enjoyed it.—William Men- inick 4th grade No. 4 JUNIOR HIGH NEWS On January 15 an article appeared in the Oregon Statesman saying that radio station KSLM is sponsoring a spelling contest. Only seventh and eighth graders will compete. The three top winners from our school will go to the Keiser school on March 16th to spell down contestants from other schools. All the schools in Marion and Polk counties will be in the contest. There will be 106 schools represented in the contest. There are many good spellers in our 8th grade so it will be hard to select the best. I wish we could all be in the contest. The first prize will be a $100 War Bond, the second prize a $50 bond and the third a $25 bond. Let's hope that someone from Chemawa wins.— Ramona Calvin, 8th Grade. The Grade school basketball team has played four games so far. Two of the games were home games and two away. The first game was with St. Luke; they beat us; the score was 26-24 in their favor. That was a home game. The first game away was with Gervais and we beat them. That was our first victory. The score was 30-18 in our favor. Our last game to date was with Keiser and they beat us 13 to 6. Thomas Hugues and Duko Morton were ineligible for three games but have now returned to the line-up for the rest of the games and the tournament. It will be held March 1-3. We hope to bring back a trophy. Those playing on the grade school team are Thomas Hugues, Duke Mor ton, Clyde Sampson, Gilbert Jake, Layfette Jerry, Fred Reed, Lloyd San ders, Ralph Copeland, Charles Wy man, and Petie Henthorne. Our Coach is Alec Samuels from grade 11.—Duke Morton
