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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1962)
THE CHEMA WAAMERICAN 2 EDITORIAL PAGE . . CHEMAWA AMERICAN ■¿t'Published q uarterly during th e school year by students iof the Chemawa Indian School. Publication Staff: Max W. Penrod, Superintendent. Mrs. N ell V. B ran non, Principal. Mr. E dw ard Sipe®, Chairm an. Mrs. Louise B. Johnniaber, Sponsor. Miss B eatrice Morse, Co- Sponsor. Mr. A llan Shepard, Layout. Mrs. Estelle Cordell, Circulation. •fa Student Staff: Mack K vasnikoff, Sara Juneby, V ictor Joe, Jo h n P. Evans, Iren e Livingston, Tom m y Shorty, Aloysius Crane. VISITORS FROM THE DEAF SCHOOL 'Chemawa's Record Outstanding' STUDENTS ARE SAFETY-MINDED Everywhere you go there are safety rules to protect people from accidents. Here at Chemawa we have safety rules in the school buildings, dormitories, and on the campus. The rules protect you and me. Obey them at all times. Think, “Am I obeying the safety rules?” Johnny Evans We should always be careful with sharp things like knives, forks, and scissors. After we have used sharp things we should al ways put them in the right places. If we don’L someone might get hurt. Irene Livingston In March we had two students and a teacher as visitors in the ac celerated department from the Oregon School for the Deaf. Safety should be in your mind The teacher explained the meth when you go to town. It is dangerous when we are ods they used to teach them. The walking beside a highway' We teacher said they taught them how should always walk on the right to form words with their lips by side of a highway, Crossing a road using a mirror. They also learn to or a railroad, we should always understand each other by signs and look both ways, In town, cross the streets at the from lip reading. right places. Walk when the traffic When the students talked they light is green, and when it is red, didn’t pronounce their words cor wait at the com er or stay behind rectly because they cbuldn’t hear the yellow lino. We should never themselves speaking. permit ourselves td go between The visit was interesting and; we parked cars. Tommy Shorty learned many different things When we are walking on streets about handicapped people. and highways, we should walk on Robert Rock the left side. When we are walking on the streets in town, we should SPEECH CONTEST always cross when the crossing On April 17 we had a speech light says “walk.” We must never contest in the auditorium. There jay walk but must cross the streets were serious and humorous speech at the corners and in the safety es. There were two contestants lanes. We should never run across the streets. If you are careless, you from most of the rooms. will get hurt. So always watch all Tommy Shorty, who was a win around for cars that are coming ner last year was Master of Cere toward you. Aloysius Crane monies. Arthur Ahkinga and Wini fred Cleveland, also winners from SCHOOL IS PREPARATION last year, were ushers. FOR LIFE First place winners were Donna What is school? School is a place Begay, Marian Amos, Evelyn John where students can learn how to son, Jane Lind, Calvin Brown and do various things, such as learning Helen Thomas. E n g l i s h , mathematics, science, Jane Lind was really good. She trades, how to get along socially, dressed like a little girl with a big how to work. It is a place where bow on her hair and she had a big certain skills (are taught, that we candy sucker. The topic of her will need when we go on a job. speech was “Do You Like Boys?” School is a preparation for life. It Mary Ann Allockeok teaches us how to live, how to work,, Josephine Deacon in our future life. Mina Sage Victor Joe In his April 23 report to the Navajo Tribal Council, Superinen- dent Landblocm made the follow ing reference to Chemawa: “During the second week in April, j traveled to the Chemawa Boarding school in Chemawa, Ore gon, to give the Commencement ; Address. At that time 113 students, (88 of them being Navajo and 27 Alaskan) were graduated from the Sipecial Five-Year Program. All of them have been placed in some work opportunity. The Chemawa Boarding school has had an out standing record over a number of years in the placement of these graduates. I was greatly impressed with their knowledge of English, the training which these students had received and the poise; which they had achieved during their rel atively short time in -school. The Commencement Services which were in charge of Superintendent Max Penrod of the Chemawa School were attended by Area Director Robert Holtz, Assistant Area Di rector Richard Balsiger and Area Director of Schools Victor Hill, all of them from the Portland, Oregon office. I was glad to know of their interest in our Navajo students.” STUDY, LISTEN, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS . The reason for attending school is to better yourself for the future. In order to do this, we must study, listen and follow directions. Be on time and do the best we can in everything we are asked to do. We should respect our teachers and classmates. We should be help ful to one another, teachers and classmates, such as turning assign? ments in on time so the rest would not have to wait for us and not copy our classmates or allow them to copy us. We also learn to act and be friendly and honest in all our work and play. We learn to get along by these traits. Sara Juneby
