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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1951)
2 The C hem aw a Am erican THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published during the school year by Chemawa Indian School. Address all communications to the Chemawa American, Chemawa, Oregon. Published in accord ance with the Interior Department Appro priation Act, 1940, approved May 10, 1939. Subscription 50c a year. also have pretty new plaid, bed spreads. On Dec. 4 we all returned to the "olden days" we had no lights from supper time to bed time except lan terns and candles. Eleanor Foster played the piano-and the girls gath ered in the living ¿room and sang songs and Christmas carols. Nancy Samuels and. Priscilla Jerry were welcomed, back to Winona Hall. W e are glad to see our Sen ior class growing larger. Forty-seven of the Winona Hall girls made up the Pep Squad and Cheer Leaders that went to the Jam boree at Willamette U. on Monday night. We think we have the best Pep Squad and cheer leaders we have had in a long time even though we did. not win anything.—Mary Lane, Ida Jean McCash. Martin N. B. Holm, Superintendent Mrs. Nell V. Brannon, Principal Miss Beatrice Morse, Journalism sponsor Allan Shepard, Printing Instructor STUDENT REPORTERS Mary Lane, Eleanor Foster, Kenneth Markussen, Augustine Phillips, Thelma Dick, Parker Williamson. HOME LIVING WINONA HALL NEWS Winona , Hall has nice shining floors and everything is spie and span, - the different Units- are compet ing- for points for the Unit award. Unit-No. VIII is to be congratulated for winning the award for the: second time in November.;-"Theyc¿chose to have a party and ; invited ' some guests from McNary and Brewer Hall for their party: ' ~ - - — ■ ■ We hope that some time during the year all thè units will' b"e able • to win, , Several of the older McBride Hall girls have been invited over to dance- in-pur recreation room with o u t. girls. The . girls_ all-, would like tor-this- to be continued thru-out the year as they albènjóyéd.- it; Our new Supt., Mr.'Holm,' and" Mrs. Holm are both .welcomed by rth'e Winona Hall girls and w.e-hope they like it here and stay a long time. Two of our councilors had to return home because of illness in the fam ilies. Nancy Butler to Siletz, Oregon and Emma Mae Phillips, to,New Mex ico. Lucetta Hahn, Peggy Washing ton and Mary Ella Williams are tak ing. over their duties.' " . . We have egme improvements in the dormitory, we" have a planter with lovely plants for the piano,four dining rogai choirs will soon- have new, covers- on the seats-of. a very pretty green plastic material. We in fe r io r -—C h e m c rw rr S c h o o l C hem crw er McNARY HALL "And the lights went out"— that was the night of December 4th when we had the big blow. It was really a big night in McNary Hall—by the way, Farrell; did you find your shoe yet? Some of the boys could not even find' their beds for they had been moved in the dark. Mr. Hudson, ' adviser, called a meeting in the reading room and then' things 'were quieter. Mitchell and h is' band of sheep started up in ' room 51; Mitchell and Frank strumming on the guitars while Jim. Coburn led the boys in singing. It really sounded nice in the dark. Many, of the radios were blown out so the electricians gathered them dll up and are having them repaired in Salem, About nine o’clock all were sleepy so in spite of the blackout the boys crawleld into bed and when they awoke in the morning the transform er had been repaired and all the buildings had lights a g a in —Parker Williamson. McBRIDE HALL - McBride Hall now has one hun dred girls. Our house officers are: Christine Thompson, president, has the fourth O re ç rn r SPORTS Your cheer-leading gang is com posed of members from the senior, junior, sophomore and freshman classes. Every member is new to the experience of leading ' a . large student body like' Chemawa. Practice has been the main aim of this group -and they even give over their Sunday evenings for this. At this year’s Jamboree our pep squad looked as nice as we have ever seen them'. White blouses and dark skirts really made a good back ground for our cheer-leaders. Cur leaders were clad in red and white skirts and sweaters—the girls wore headbands and feathers. The boys wore roaches. The leading was peppy and' pre cise but our team did not place in the judging. With a year's experi ence behind them they should go far in the finals at next year's jamboree. grade group; Caroline Millett, vice president, has the seventh grade group; LaVenia Johnson, secretary, has the sixth grade; Marie Barr, first, second and third grade group. Shir ley Johnley has eighth grade , group and Marilyn Luke has the fifth grade. Our matrons are Mrs.,: Reif el, Mrs. Ott and Miss ■ White. W e like our matrons and help them all we can. We were very sorry when we1 re turned this year and found that Mrs. Ashcutt was no longer to be our matron, She. had resigned. We miss her very much. On alternate Monday nights we have programs put on by different groups, and movies on our 8mm movie -machine. So far the movies we have seen are comedies . and travel pictures. The one.?aj3out Lake Louise and Banff fn Canacja was very beautiful. We usually have our house meet ing on Monday night, after our pro gram On Tuesday nights we go to the gym with the V/inona hall girls for intramural games. The seventh, and eighth grade girls like to ' go play games.—Christige Thompson.
