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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1954)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 4 McBride Has Birthday Party On March 31, the matrons at McBride Hall, all of whom had birthdays in thè preceding three weeks, gave a birthday party for all the girls who live in the dormi tory. > Mrs. Faulkner, dining hall ma tron, was a guest, and played^the piano for the girls. A delicious birthday cake and ice cream were served. The girls enjoyed the party very much. Portland Group Visits We had visitors from Portland. They ,visited all the buildings at Chemawa school. At noontime they ate lunch in the home economics dining room. Some of the fourth year Navajo girls helped to, serve the women. In the afternoon they came into our classroom. All the, girls were doing something. Some of the girls were cooking, two of them were washing the gas stbve outside and inside. Another two girls were washing windows. Some of the visitors came to our program at assembly. We had a short western program. ' ’ t — Étta R. Yàzzie Learn English We should always talk English to each other .every day when S are in the classroom or when we are in the dining hall or in the building. If you want to say some thing, say it in English, not in Navajo. If we speak English all the time we will learn lots of things. When we speak English we will get a job easily^ but when we talk Navajo we will not"1 get a job. — Mary Helen Betselie Thank You The girls of McBride Hall ate enjoying the use of the basketball goals, voUeybalbnets, and bulletin board .recently put up for them by men from the shops. They say, “Thank you for such nice things!” Campus Trip Combines Business and Pleasure Our classroom girls went io r a walk yesterday after the boys went to shop. Our' teacher, Miss Dora Bender, told us the names of the different trees and plants. Later she asked us questions about the new names^ We certainly enjoyed our walk,; and we know all the trees” and plants’ names now. E The large cherry .orchard is blooming. It is very beautiful, The boys and girls here next summer will eat the ripe cherries#*.'I wish all of us could be here and help eat them. When we go to the apple orch ard the boys are going too. — Mary Rose Gleason Group Presents Program Katie Yazzie, Jane Wauneka, and their teacher, Mr. James John ston, were guests at a meeting of the P. T. A. of the Mountain View school on Friday, March 26. Since the beginners at the school had been studying Indians, all of them were present at the meeting to see some of Mr. Bramlet’s color sfideslpf the Navajo country. During the question and answer sesMon following the pictures, Mr. Johnston told the group about Che- mawa’s O. J. T. program, and an swered many questions pertaining to job training for boys and girls. ’ .Cake and coffee were served afterwards. During the refresh ment time, Katie and Jane sang a Navajo song. The girls wore Nava jo costumes, and the people at Mountain View asked them many questions about their sflyer, shoes, and skirts. Visitors from Germany I On Friday, March 26, there were some German peopler^yi&iting our campus. It’s rather interesting to have people from far off countries come to Chemawa. To Us, they were strangers, but to them, we were the strange ones.. They took pidtnres of students and visited with some of us. I believe they en7 joyed talking to us as well as to the- employees. — Margaret Wesley Older Boys Visit Army Reserves Last night we went to visit the army reserves. It ,is south of, Salem: We could see how we liked; it. , There we saw many guns. Some army men told us how to ^use the machine guns and how to do other things. After we all had doughnuts and coffee or pop, we went to differ ent places. AU th e; seventeen year old boys went upstairs. I went up there. The boys all sat down in a classroom. A man said, “We are going to have a test.” Some of it was easy and some of it was too hard. I surely enjoyed the army re-, serve visit. I — Jack Raymond Yazzie Navajo Boys Visit Auto Shop Some time ago we visited auto shop to get an idea about it.- Maybe some of us are going to choose auto shop for our vocational training next year. One of the bdys showed us around and told us about the parts of a car. We appreciate that.. There were’ some boys working on cars and some were doing weld ing. Mr. George Speed is the instruc tor of the auto-shop. He answered a few'questions which we decided to ask him. One of the things he said' whs that you have to know arithmetic ‘to work in shop. We learned some interesting things. —Johnnie Pohl Navajo Students Return All Navajo students who have been hospitalized at Tacoma Indian Hospital for surgery, have now re* turned to Chemawa. Kee Bahe Lake, Maizie Blake, and Guy John son were the last to return. We Learn from Movies We go to an educational show every Tuesday'morning. We go to thq, show at 10:8|. I learn many things from the show. Don’t just look at the show; learn something from the show. —John Begay
