The Chemawa American
EXPLORERS ORGANIZE
The first meeting of the Explorer
Scouts was held Thursday, January
24, 1952 in their new quarters on the
second deck, north end of the voca
tional building.
Those present for the meeting
were Kenneth Conner, George Um-
tuch, Mike Peo, William Meninick,
Gilbert Punkin and Explorer adviser,
Charles C. Holmes.
The Explorer scouts are an out
growth of the Boy Scout organiza
tion that seeks to give young men
a group feeling and congenial inter
ests in the spirit of exploring.
Older boys with previous scouting
Foster six, Copeland 5, Sealy 4, and
Osborne 3. Jimmy Whipple, Patter
son, and Eugene Frank made two
points each. The B's won their sec
ond game against Keizer by a score
of 23 to 8. High point man was
Wyman who made 8. Butler scored
six, McKenzie four, Mose three and
Lester Lowden two. Keizer said they
would like to play us again.
Friday, January 18, the A team
played Gervais there. It was a hot
game. We took and early lead and
were ahead by 14 to 7 at the half.
But Gervais came back and was
ahead of us for a while in the third
quarter. In the fourth quarter Che
mawa scored seven points while
Gervais made one free throw. Final
score was 25 to 19 in our favor.
Our game on Friday, Jan. 25, is
with St. Paul there. We hope to win.
Indoor Games
Brewer hall boys are now enjoy
ing many games which were order
ed for the boy's department. These
are the names-of some of the games:
checkers, monopoly, red herring,
pick up sticks, shuffle board and
bowling alley, pool, and indoor
horse shoe. That is only part of the
games. We all appreciate the games
very much and we thank Mr. Hack
ett for having them ordered.
Unit Award Trip
Each month the winning unit earns
an award trip. The unit with the
experience are especially invited to
attend the regular Thursday meet
ings from 7 to 9 P. M-
Other boys who are interested but
with little or no experience in scout
ing are cordially invited and will be
given a chance to approach the Ex
plorer program and to see what the
Explorer Scouts have to give in
return for sincere efforts in scouting.
Anyone who is interested and
wishes more information please con
tact on Explorer Scout or one of
the Scout Advisers, Mr. Suggs, Mr.
Short or Mr. Holmes.
When men speak ill of thee, live
so nobody may believe them.—Plato.
best dormitory record goes to a show
in town. The room with the best
record in each of the three units
that did not win also go on the trip
or wins a prize. Once each of the
three rooms won a box of candy
bars. So far each unit except unit
four has won an award trip. Unit
four came close to winning once.
Things We Want to Do
We want to do many things at
Brewer hall.
We got some ping
pong sets with our other games but
we do not have any tables. It will
be fun to play ping pong when we
get some tables. Also we could use
more monopoly games. Next spring
we want to play baseball with our
new equipment.
GIRLS INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL
Tuesday and Thursday nights are
the girls' gym nights. Sarah Lewis,
sports counselor, has worked out a
schedule for basketball playing on
those nights. Girls who wished to
play, singed up, and were placed
on teams.
After the intramural
games have been completed, there
will be a party for the winning
team.
Training is everything. The peach
was once a bitter almond. Cauli
flower is nothing but a cabbage
with a college education.—Mark
Twain.
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THE LIBRARY
With the start of the second se
mester the library lost some of its
assistants to other shops and ac
quired new ones. Eleanor Foster
still is with us and is busy alpha
betizing the shelves and re-arrang
ing some of the books. Ida Jean
McCash is new on the job so she is
struggling with the Dewey system
and filing book cards. Sarah Lewis,
also new at library work, is working
out a system of binding our last
years "Time'' and “Newsweek"
magazines so that they may be
used for future reference. Another
project under way is cataloging all
our visual aids material.
We have added a few interesting
new books to our shelves among
them being: “The Jim Thorpe Story,"
“The Jackie Robinson Story," “Snow
Dog," “Boru," “Daddy Long Legs,"
"Wolf," “Cinchfoot," “Wild Palo
mino," “Heidi's Children," “Kazan,"
“Indian Paint," “Grey Dawn," “The
Wild Dog of Edmonton" and “Sky
Girl." These books are all very pop
ular and about the only way you
can get hold of one is to come in
with your friend and check it out
as soon as he checks one in.
MY LETTER TO THE LIONS' CLUB
Chemawa, Oregon
December 27, 1951
Dear Lions,
I think your program was very
nice. I liked the clowns and the
lion. The ladies who sang Christ
mas carols sang very pretty. The
magician was very good at those
tricks. The little boy played his
violin nicely. I liked Santa, too. I
gave his a Christmas card. Santa
said it was snowing out and it was.
It looked pretty when we went out
side.
Thank you for putting on the pro
gram. Thank you for the treats, too.
Your friend,
Edith Dick.
God gives every bird its food, but
does not throw it into the nest.—J. G.
Holland.