THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Religious Education
Offered
All students at Chemawa are
offered religious education and
church services. A new schedule
for Sunday church activities is be
ing used this year. While Protest
ant church services are being held,
the Catholic students attend cate
chism classes. Following this, the
Catholic Church has Mass, and
Protestant students go to Sunday
school.
Father Austin Johnson is in
charge of the campus Catholic
church services and catechism, and
Rev. A. A. Talbot has charge of
Protestant church services and
Sunday school. Chemawa appreci
ates the work of these men, and
also the services given by many
other persons in the religious edu
cation of students. Seminarians
and fraters from Mt. Angel Mon
astery, who assist Father Johnson
are William Johnson, Harver Tixix,
James Dieringer, Charles Pajot,
Maurice Clemons, Andrew Fischer,
Frater Placidus, Frater Timothy,
and Frater Ambrose.
Assisting Rev. Talbot in the
Protestant Sunday school, are Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Wright, Mrs. John
Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Silas M. Olson,
Mrs. Carl Wekander, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer J. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Kay Fenton, Betty Cogswell, Betty
Simrell, Roy Williams, Cal Brown,
and Kenneth Willis.
Passing of the
Yellow Hornet
It is with regret that we note
the passing of an old Chemawa
landmark,—the Yellow Hornet, or
Cracker Box, as it has been fa
miliarly known to students and
employees alike. It has served the
school faithfully and well for some
twenty-five years. From 1928, the
year of its purchase, until 1936, it
was used as a bus to transport stu
dents to Salem for special assign
ments, and for week-end coast
trips.
In 1936 it gave way to a Dodge
bus, and since then the Yellow
Hornet has served in the humble
capacity of a plumber’s service
truck. Plumbers Kunkle, Angus,
Springer, and Hardy have all
thrilled to the marvelous surge of
some 4 O-odd horsepower as they
pressed the accelerator, and have
delighted in the prompt response
to a featherlike touch of the brake
pedal.
We hope that some kind person
will give it a good home, but if fate
decrees that it go to the junk yard,
we wish for the Yellow Hornet an
imposing position up front as befits
its long record of service.
“So long, old pal, it’s been good
to know you.”
A drawing made by a student in
1928
showing the “Cracker
Box”
as a bus.
Chemawa Squads Take
Part in Jamboree
The schools of northern and
northwestern Marion County held
a basketball jamboree in the Wil
lamette Un versify gymnasium in
Salem Saturday evening, December
6. Chemawa played Detroit, De
troit winning 13-11. The Pep squad
took part in the cheering compe
tition.
Gervais won first place and Jef
ferson second place in the basket
ball competition. Mill City won the
cheering trophy.
Dancing at
Chemawa
There is dancing every Fri
day night in the gymnasium
from 7:30 to 10:00. Junior
high school students
may stay until 9:00.
The dances are al
ways well attended.
Students seem to en
joy them. We dance to records,
some new, some as old as the hills.
Classes take turns playing them.
For specially sponsored dances we
have an orchestra from Salem.
The Yellow Hornet, after many last minute reprieves, granted it as a
friend in need in countless emergencies, has at last reached the end
of the trail.