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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.