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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1962)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 2 EDITORIAL PAGE . . . CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published quarterly during the school year by students of the Chemewa Indian School. ■^Publication Staff: Max W. Penrod, Superintendent; Mrs. Nell V. Bran non, Principal. Mr. Edward Sipes, Chairman. Mrs. Louise B. Johannaber, Sponsor. Mr. Allan Shepard, Lay out. Mrs. Estelle Cordell, Circulation. ^-Student Staff: Ernest Berry, Pauline Davis, Henry Barber; Loretta Dundas, Mary Ann Allockeok Midas Koenig, Diana Shorty. CONGRATULATIONS, CHEMAWA Thè beginning of Chemawa In dian School—the first day and the first classes—took place 82 years ago. During those 82 years, school has been held every year. Boys and girls from many tribes have been enrolled at Chemawa—more than 15,000 of them. Chemawa has helped many stu dents, learn and grow, and many of them have been successful. Some have become outstanding leaders in Indian affairs. This has always been, and still is, Chemawa’s p u r pose—to help students become good and successful people. Let us, through good use of our time, carry on the good name of Cthemawa. Let us rem em ber Chem awa’s purpose and standards. Let each of us try, not only to keep the high standards of our school, but make Chemawa a b etter place be cause we are here. CLASSES HEAR THE PRESIDENT P art of the speech the President gave was about schools. The gov ernm ent spends millions of dollars for education, and it is planning to build more schools. Education is im portant for peo ple. Jobs go to those who are well- educated. The government spends a great deal of money for each one of us here. It pays fo r our fares and our board, heat, light, housing, sup plies, and other things. We could not be here if it w eren’t for the government. Jane Greist Job Placement Is the End Goal Students entering Chemawa soon come to know th eir relation to the placement program. Placement is, to aI large extent, the end goal of t h e i r schooling a t Chemawa. Through their part in the daily campus and building maintenance, their first small-paying jobs, Sat urday employment, summer place ment, and special training in both vocational and academic classes, they become aware of the qualities they must, have for successful placement. In their writing, students reflect their development. They write of responsible citizenship, good per sonality, right attitudes, satisfacto ry work, employer - worker rela- tions, and of their hopes- and little fears. It is this writing th at we use for our ¡editorial page in this place ment number of Chemawa Ameri can. When we get back to our dormii tories after breakfast, we start do ing our details. We work until 8:20. The details I’m talking about are not details in an index or an out line—they are the jobs all of us do to clean in the dormitories or around th e campus. We do details to have every place look nice and be sanitary. There are other good reasons for having to do details. We learn to do work th at we will later do on jobs. We m ust learn everything the attendants teach us about working —they won’t stay with us all our lives, watching over us. We must be able to know what to do on our own. Another thing, we m ust get into the habit of w anting to work, and of finishing th e job we have start ed. Leaving a job to enjoy yourself for a while is not a good habit, and you can get fired for doing it. M idas K o enig Last Saturday Phyllis Yazzie and I washed Mrs. Salter’s car. We washed it with warm w ater and now it is dean. Mrs . Salter paid us 50c each. Rena David I ¡enjoyed working out on weekends -—I mean when we went out to pick beans and fruits. I liked it because I got paid for it. Ella Mae Clah On our Saturday jobs we iron and do general house cleaning. Be ginners get 40c an hour, ¡girls with some experience get 50c an hour, and m ore experienced girls g et 65c an hour. Ju lie David Oh January 6, two of us girls worked for Mrs. Pentacost. First we washed the outside windows, and a fte r we got through we sat down and drank a cup of coffee with Mrs. PentacoiSt. T hen we “wash ed the windows inside and swept and vacuumed th e floors; and dust ed. We sat down for another cup of coffee, and then we cleaned the woodwork. Mrs. Pentacost le t us watch television for a while. It was good to work. I hope I can work again. Teresa Coppock Last Saturday I was substituting for a girl who goes to work in town. She couldn’t go, so she paid me money to w ork for her. M artha Fall I have worked at John Day, Ore gon, for two summers. They told me I made a good record. I would like to tell you about how I made a good record. 1 got up on tim e in the morning, and I reported to my job on tim e every day. I did everything th at my boss told me to do, and I worked hard, g If you want to stay and work this summer, you m ust get yourself in good Shape before you go on the job. If you don’t, you will be lazy and you won’t be able to get up on •time, and you probably can’t finish your sum m er job. Why don’t you practice getting up on time, and do good work on your details? You have to make a record here at Chemawa before you can go out to work. Theodore Dodson j If we speak only our own lan guage, how can be get along in the white people’s world? If we don’t know how to speak English, we might be afraid to go but into the world. Then we ¡might as well go back to herding sheep. Why not learn to speak good English now? Try to speak English all the time. Don’t be afraid to say (Continued on page ilX f :
