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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1962)
6 THE CHEMA WA AMERICAN Junior High School News This year Chemawa has a Junior High. About 150 students are in HELPING OTHERS IN ACTION Junior High. There are five teach Last summer I went for a sum ers. They are Miss Morse, Mrs. Cor dell, Mrs. Hudson, Mr. Oetinger and mer vacation to place called Anak Mr. Reimer. Every forty-five minutes we tuvak Pass. The people there live change classes tout in our language in sod houses. These houses are arts class we stay for two forty-five made of logs and covered with minute periods. The time really ground. These people are very goes fast when we change classes. friendly and kind, although they We think we will learn more be are very poor. They always are will cause the teachers teach us differ ing to share what they have with ent things in different ways. The those who have less. They help subjects are more interesting when those who need help. a different teacher is teaching. Sometimes the days, in Anaktu- We are studying many different vak Pass, are clear and warm in subjects. AU of the students take math, history, science, reading, the summer time. Then some of the spelling and English. All of the people get together and go out boys take Ag or Shop. All of the chopping willows or berry picking. girls take Home Ec. Some of the They pick blueberries and black students take P.E. and some of the berries. Many families go together girls take a health course taught to pick berries. When one gets all by-Mrs. Browning from the health the berries he wants then he goes and helps the others pick, These clinic. We are all glad that we came people show how to put helping back to Chemawa this year. We others into action. I wish you could think we will learn more than we visit Anaktuvak Pass sometime and have ever learned before. And we see how nicely it works. are surely getting educated. Alice Aklook Calvin Brown, Jane Greist, Or linda Johnson, Albert Vent, Ben WATERMELON FEED Charley, Bernice Green, Ira Isaac, We had a watermelon feed about Olga Muktoyuk. two weeks ago. The students lined up in a single line in front of the JUNIOR HIGH ASSEMBLY The first Junior High assembly dining hall. It was an exciting time was held Friday morning, October for students who like watermelon, 12. Jane Greist introduced the can but some of the students don’t like didates for Student Council offices. it. From the looks of them, some The candidates for president were made funny looking faces, but some Bertha Koyuk, Maggie Pete, Jane looked as if they were enjoying, Lind, Arthur Ahkinga, Earl Cleve watermelon. land and Henry Barber. The candi Lila Foxglove dates for secretary were Olga Muk toyuk, Rebecca Katungazoc, Mari VISITOR FROM GREENLAND lyn Downey, Albert Vent, Calvin Two, weeks ago a visitor from Brown and Lee L. Begay. Greenland visited Chemawa. He al After the introductions, we vot ed. Then Mr. Oetinger took some so visited our class room. One of the students and they counted afternoon he came to our class the ballots. While they were count room. Our teacher asked him to ing, we saw two movies. The first write his name on the blackboard. one was about how to write a good So he did write his name. His name paragraph; the second one was was Mr. Christensen. After that he about bear country. The bear pic looked around in the classroom. ture was really interesting. Franklin Tritt By the time the movies were over the ballots had been counted and the winners were announced. RUDOLPH N. KITTO Students and staff members were MY PET saddened and shocked at learning I have a pet. His name is Skippy. of the sudden death of Mr. Kitto. He always sleeps in the house and Mr. Kitto was a teacher in the gets in the way. He is black and Rural Science department: He will white. My pet is a dog. be greatly missed toy his students Lillie Jim and all who worked with him. The Kick-Off Dance I went to the Kick-Off Dance with my two friends. We each paid fifteen cents to get into the dance. It was held in the. gym. The Junior High classes were in charge of it. At first we did not know what a Kick-Off dance was so We asked some of the older boys. They told us it was called a Kick-Off dance because the first football game was to toe played in the afternoon. The kick-off comes at the beginning of the game. The music was played, by John Evan’s band. The music sounded real nice. Lots of twisters were on the floor doing the twist while the music was playing. While the dancing was go ing on, coffee; pop and peanuts were being sold. Everyone surely had lots of fun at the dance. Bobby Tullie CLASS OFFICERS ELECTED Miss Kringlee’s class elected the following officers for their room for this school year. President, Damon Begay; Vice President, Sherman Thomas; Secre tary, Ella Mae Yazzie; Treasurer, Jerry Bennett; Student Council rep resentative/ Bertha Paul. Ella Mae Yazzie Miss Morse’s class room elected the following officers for the year 1961-62: President, a Linda Boyd; Vice President, Dorothy Tawksj- nea; Secretary-Treasurer, K a t h y Jones; Student Council representa tive, Marie Kozeunikoff. Kathy Jones SUMMER 1962 Last spring I went to Dayton, Washington, with thirteen other Chemawa boys. We worked for the Green Giant Company. We finished our work on July 18. I wenf to the World’s Fair in Seattle, Washington, with my broth er Tommy B. Sam and my sister Jane Rose Francisco. We surely had a nice time at the Fair. We went to the top of the Space Needle and when I looked down everything looked like little toys. I went with my brother, who works at Bremerton, Washington. He is staying on his job. I came back to Chemawa to school on Aug ust 25. I want to get more educa tion this year. I am a Vocational I student this year. Mr. Albert Smith is my teacher. I hope that we have another wonderful year like we did last year. Franklin B. Siam
