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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1953)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN COMMITTEE STUDIES C H EM A W A PROGRAM Educators of the Indian Service, invited by the administration of the school to study and evaluate Che- mawa’s program, spent ten days on the campus.4'Heading the com mittee was Mr. Martin N. B. Holm, Area Director of Schools, former superintendent of Chemawa, now of the Portland office. Other mem bers were Mr. P. W. Danielson, Associate Chief, Branch of Educa tion, and Education Specialists Miss Cleora Helbing, Home Eco nomics, Miss Martha Hall, Navajo, and Mr. Edgar Wight, Agriculture, all of Washington, D. C. Members of the committee held conferences w i t h administrative and department heads of the school, and visited student groups at work and at leisure. They spent long hours in intensive study of their findings, and in formulating opin ions and suggestions. Their inter est and work is greatly appreciated by the staff and students of Che- mawa. We know we shall find their repprt valuable in our continuous efforts toward improving Che mawa. 3 M cBride H all McBride Hall is the dormitory for the smaller girls at Chemawa. The girls are from grades one through eight. The house officers are president, Virginia Scott; vice- president, Esther W atah; secretary, Isabelle Phillips. A house meeting is held every Monday night. All eighth grade girls have a chance at being a house councillor. At the present time they are Isa belle Phillips, Virginia Scott, Es ther Watah, Barbara Wapato, and Rose Mary Washington. The assist ant councilors are Beatrice Switz- ler, Avalon Kennedy, Evelyn Brah man, Donna Faulkner and Eleanor McKenzie. Our little girls have “big sis ters.” They are the girls who vol unteer to take care of a little girl, seeing that she is properly dressed, neatly groomed, and on time for lineup. Unit Award In Winona Hall the unit that has the most points at the end of the month gets to go to Salem on an award trip and see a movie, free. Unit I won the first trip. They saw two shows, S ioux U prising, and Houdini. McNary Hall Intramurals Coach Bartlett has started an in tram ural program for the McNary Hall boys, with all boys on some tearn. The season started off with volley ball but throughout the year the boys will take part in such sports as horseshoes, archery, bad minton, ping pong, speedball, and basketball. One night the boys and girls had mixed teams in volley ball. There were two courts of players. Our system was that the winners played the winners, and the losers played the losers. The official score keepers were Ralph Scott and Jay Harwood. There was a lot of noise, and everyone had a lot of fun. Joseph S. Spalding Chemawa employees and stu dents were saddened by the pass ing of Joseph S. Spalding on Oc tober 4. Mr. Spalding served' for thirteen years as fireman at the power house. Our sincere sym pathy is extended to members of the -family. Mary M. Jam es It was with deep regret that Chemawa- learned of the death of Mary M. James. Mrs. James lived for thirty years on the campus and was a devoted employée, teaching sewing in the home economics de partment. She retired from the Indian Service in 1950? Students tell of SUMMER ACTIVITIES ------------------ ★ —— — I went home to our ranch. I rode horseback, went swimming, and helped brand calves. In the middle of July we started haying. I did all the cooking. About the first of August we finished haying after which we went to the Great Falls Fair where we had a lot of fun. — Myrtle Racine ☆ I ■ BSE This summer I was nurse for rhy' mother. She was a bed patient at home and I tried to help her as much as I could. I cooked for the family and cleaned the house. I also took care of my brother and sister. The work kept me busy all the time, but it really was good experience. —Joan Sicade When I got home last spring I just stayed at home for about a month. Then I started to work at Durango, Colorado. I started work on July 13 and worked until Au gust 17. I worked on a farm. I worked to buy clothes for going back to school. I had a very good vacation. — Robert B. Wilson ☆ ■ VISITOR FROM INDIA During the summer my family was very fortunate to have a visitor from India, He was Prem Nath Agarwal who was with the Inter national Exchange Students. Prem and I became very good friends while he was with us. We harvested my father’s crop together and he told about a great many things that happen in India that I did not know. Prem left our home on Septem ber 19 and went to Butte, Montana, to spend three weeks. From there he went to Washington, D. C., and left the United States on October 19. He will arrive at New Delhi, India on November 15. —Jay Harwood Last summer I had a job on Whitmore Mountain. It was a very interesting job, and a lot of fun. I had to go up to the lookout fif teen minutes a t a time once every two hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:C0 p.m. I also had ground observation duties, so I had to report every air plane into the Fairchild Air Base. For pastime I took bird recordings for the Tri-State Bird Reserves, Chelan, Washington. To p’et the job I had to go to Fire School for three days. — Andy Joseph
