The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current, March 01, 1962, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE CHEMA WA AMERICAN 6 AT THE DORMITORIES NEVER A DULL MOMENT Activities are going on most of the time at Brewer Hall where I stay with 180 other boys. There are basketball games for Brewer Hall boys every Tuesday evening. We have ten or more teams. An other activity is the party for the best unit every two weeks. The unit winning the trophy for two times in a month wins a party. Every month the two best rooms go to the Y. W. in Salem. Joshua Wongittilin These are the things I do to use my leisure time: I listen to records which I have received from the club of which I am a member; sometimes I go to the other* dormi tory for a visit, and I read books which I think might be good to read. Randolph Willie Every Thursday there is gym night for all girls. Girls from the two dormitories go a t different times. We girls’ recreation leaders plan for gym night. We help the girls; learn new games and help them participate in the activities. We sometimes have games like kickball and volleyball. Units play against each other. The champion units from both halls play against each other, and the losers play to see who is the real loser. Rita Rose Joe I have fun going roller skating on Saturday afternoons. At first I didn’t know how to skate; I just fell here and there. But now it’s lots of fun. I hardly miss a Satur day afternoon. We just rbll on and roll on until it’s time to stop. I’ll try to skate with only one foot when I go roller skating next time. Betsy Seetook Last Saturday Nick Chocknok and I got passes and walked to Haysville. I bought some beef. Then we walked over to the Green Ap ple and bought some large apples. After we ate our apples we went back to Chemawa. The next day we fried the meat in the boys’ kitchen. We didn’t have any lard or salt, so Johnny Yellowmexican gave us some. Nick and I ate all the meat. Stephen Eneyuk Two pool tables were put in a room upstairs at the gym. So many boys want to play pool that they made up a tournament. Thirty boys from McNary Hall and thirty boys from Brewer Hall signed up for it. In this way they can take turns to play. Two boys play at a table at a time. Each two boys play three games. The winner gods on and plays with another boy, and so on. We find pool an interesting game. Thomas Brown We have bulletin boards at our dormitory. Each room has onej and also the hall to ' the living lfoom. The boys are decorating the bulletin boards. They sometimes draw pictures of themselves and put them up. Roger Neal SPECIAL OCCASIONS A few days before Christmas some of us boys and girls walked around the campus from 7:30 to 9:|)0 P.M. singing Christmas carols. When yve got through we had a cup of coffee at the girls’ dormitory., Orrin John On New Year’s Eve all the Wi nona Hall gii*ls stayed up 12 o’clock. We all surely had big fun that time. They let us watch tele vision until midnight, we danced in the' court, and we had refresh ments. Exenia Roberts On New Year’s Eve in McBride Hall we had a little treat from our matrons. After 'we did our night detail we older girls watched television until midnight: In the morning when it was time to get up, we could hardly keep our eyes open, we were so sleepy. We didn’t have to go to school because it was New Year’s Day. Agnes Damian We had a unit 1 party. We in vited the girls to be at the party. They Said it was very nice. The party had dancing and games, and coffee and cookies. George Tohonnie This coming Friday night there will be an invitational dance. We invite a girl to go to the dance. We escort the girls to their dor mitory after the dance. We all know we must get a hair- Salem Group Entertains At All-Student Assembly Students from different schools in Salem came to our campus on January 25 to give a program. There were four boys and two girls. One of the girls was Mr. Freder- ickson’s daughter, Barbara. She did a clever reading. I thought she was really crying, but she was just p r e tending she was a little girl crying about something her mother did. The other girl played' an ac cordion. She- did very well with her fast fingers moving rapidly from here to there. _We really en joyed watching and hearing such a fine player. The Blue Tones — four boys ||g sang some very good songs. They sang without music and without instruments, but they sounded as if they had instruments. They* 1 were dressed alike in black and white s u i t s . E l l a Pleasant cut before we go to the invitation al dance. We need short hair, shiny shoesj and pressed clothes. 1 Joseph James Some of us boys and girls went to a donkey show at the Salem Ar- mory^on Sunday,, February 2. That was the first time I ever saw a live donkey. I was scared when they went close to me. Some men rode on the donkeys :and played basketball. When the donkeys bucked, they always fell off. One man had a hard time .get ting on his. donkey. Whenever he tried to get on, the donkey bucked. I think they were having, fun playing. I had fun. .watchiig them. I laughed at them. Edna Bekoalok Last month on a Sunday night some boys and girls came to Che mawa from Salem and played songs and danced for us. They played gtutai’s and drums, and Mrs. Evans played the piano with them. One of the boys was John Evans. Those girls danced like the girls that I see in western movies. They had the same kind of clothes on. They were cute in those pretty dresses. Pauline Flynn It was real nice of those students to give their time arid talent to entertain us. It wasn’t a very good night for them to come out to play for us. I was wondering how they could have found their way out here on such a foggy, foggy night. Tommy Wheeler