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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1954)
OREGON SIATE LIBRARY Documents Section CH ER I ^1955 _ I__ OREGON COLfcECTWW r ^ mr. Bramlet's Message Chemawa congratulates you on this* issue' of the Chemawa Ameri can devoted particularly to the spe cial Navajo program. The empha- . -sis in the next issue will be on the, regular program. - The training at Chemawa is in four major fields,—academic, vo cational, health, and citizenship. Of these, the citizenship objectives are them ost important, but without the other three we are greatly handi capped. Chemawa hopes that you have learned your lessons well, and that you will always» be a credit to this .seventy-four year old school. Best wishes. —-Paul W. Bramlet, superintendent Mrs. Brannon's Message We have completed another year at Chemawa and for most. Of you it has been a happy and" fruitful year. We hope that those , of you who are going home will have a nice time*‘visiting with your family and friends, and that you will re turn to Chemawa for school next fall. To those who have completed their school work and are planning to find jobs, we wish the very best of luck and happiness in your fu ture undertakings. Nell V. Brannon, principal McBride Hall Talent The Winona Hall girls found out that t^e^ ybungep-girls “ can do a good jola of acting and singing. A group of McBride Hall g-irls put on a program for the Solder Chemawa girls on Sunday evening, March 28. Betty Kennerly was the master of ceremonies'" Other girls in the pro gram were Rose.Mary Washington, Elsie Me Joe, Marcella Punkin, Ma vis Tavishee-,'? Mary Ella Wyman, Esther Watah Jewel Sharp, Evelyn Brahman, Clarice Faulkner, Mar garet Wyman, and Norma McKen zie. The numbers were singing, skits, and Indian songs sung by the Idaho girls, Mavis and Marcella. CHEMAWA, OREGON, MAY 1, 1954 Number 7 Navajo Students Present Program At Portland Women's Club 'A. group of sjecond, third, and fourth year students in the special Navajo prog-ram, presented num bers for the Portland Women’s Club on Friday afternoon, April 9. Mr. Paul Bramlet, superintendent at Chemawa Indian School, and Mrs. Lillian Uentillie, Navajo teacher-in terpreter, accompanied the group. John Paddock performed the eagle dance and George Brown did a hoop dance. Leo Jackson, Jeffer son Lee, and Roy Dempsey sang for the dancing. Ella Albert, a fourth year stu dent, .spoke before the club. The text of her speech follows: Chemawa To Graduate Class On M ay 14 Eighteen high school seniors and thirty-four students in the special five, year Navajo program at Che mawa Indian School will graduate at*- Ceremonies on May 14. The commencement speaker will be Mr. L. P. Towle, assistant director of the Portland area. Baccalaureate services will be held on Sunday, May 9. Elder Don Landon, Salem, Oregon, missionary of the R.L.D.S. church, will speak. Valedictorian for the high school graduating class, is Beverly Carl son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Carlson of Richland, Washington. Salutatorian is Sarah Lewis, who makes her home with her aunt, Mrs. Elsie Seelatsee o'f White Swan, Washington. Honor students for the Navajo class are Jane , Badoni, valedicto rian. and Louise Benally, salutato- rian. Jane is the daughter of Mr. Man Badoni of Shiprock, New Mexico. £ Louise’s parents are Mr. and Mfs. Ben C. Benally, also of Shiprock, New Mexico. My name is Ella Albert, and I am seventeen years old. My home the Toadlena area on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. This year I am finishing my fourth year in the special Navajo program at C hem aw a Indian SchoolifflNext year, at the end of my fifth year of training, I will be ready to make my living on my own in home service. I can wash, iron, keep hou^e, scrub, and take care of children. I will want to find a happy home to work .in, with respectable people^ I expect to earn my wages. Many of our Navajo young people, like me, are expecting to go out into communities and become a part Qf those. com m unity. If you could see some of our reservation, -you would understand why some pf .us m ust/find a life away from it. Our reservation is oyer-grazed, depleted, and over- populated. Our resources will not niaintain the pepple, and still keep a fair standard o f ’living.' The five-year special Navajo program was started in £ order to help with this problem. Also, there were thousands of Navajo children between twelve and eighteen years of age, who had never been to school. Now we have special Navajo pro gram schppl^ at Intermountain, near Brigham City in Utah'; at Phoenix 'Indian School, Phoenix, Arizona; at Sherman, Riverside, California; at Stewart, hear Carson City, Nevada; and at our own Che mawa. Our boys are going out and tak ing jobs in agriculture, carpentry, shoe repairing, painting,. service station: attending, and other semi skilled trades. W e . are eager to take our place and accept our re sponsibilities as American citizens.
