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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1963)
THE CHEM AW A AMERICAN 8 STUDENT BRIEFS FOOTBALL MY SATURDAY JOB I would like to tell you about our football team. Two of the plac ers, Robert Joe and Julius John are in our class. The team manager, Frank Etcitty, is in our class, too. Tomorrow the team will play their last game for this season. The game will be played at MacLaren. We hope that our boys will win this one as we have won only one game this season. We hope that Chemawa Will have a good -football team next year. Nelson Tso King Brown Robert Joe I have had a Saturday job since I came to Chemawa. I am working for Mrs. Poindexter at Northgate Shopping Center in Salem. I usu ally do most of the outdoor jobs like planting flowers, raking leaves and mowing the lawn. I enjoy having work to do every Saturday. Eddie Joe METAL SHOP In metal shop the students are making anchors for the Winona arts and crafts sale. The sale will be on December 2nd. Every year the met al shop students make anchors and many other things. These anchors áre made of heavy metal. They are welded together. Tommy Agiak ROLLER SKATING To me roller skating is very en joyable especially When there is music. I like the slow music. Some boys and girls like to skate fast but I think it is beitter to skate slowly in crowded places. There is less dstnger if you skate slowly. On Saturday we sign up for skat ing. I usually sigh Up When I do not go to town. Mark Harrison BOOK REPORTS It is a good thing that we have book reports or else some students would never read a book. In out English class we must read at least one book each quarter and then we make a report on the book. During the first quarter of this school year I read and reported on seven books. I like to read good books. Martin Oktollik CHOOSING EDUCATIONAL TRIP Our teacher left the choice of our educational trip up to our class. This is how we made our choice. First, we suggested some places that we could go, like the zoo, mu seum, cheese factory, paper mill and the coast. The trip to the coast received the most votes. We will be going to the coast soon. Betty Cleveland MISTAKE! This morning, when the boys in our class, went to the shop a man came into the shop. He. asked us who the station man around here Was. I said, “this is not a station. We just have gas for the farmer.” Hudson Sam BASKETBALL TURNOUT This week thirty-five boys turned out for basketball. There were eight managers helping the adviser, in giving out balls to. the boys and sweeping the gym floor before the game. First, the boys made thirty laps and then they took twenty-five foul shots. After that some of the boys had to learn how to make a good shot at the goal. I surely enjoyed watching the boys practicing for their games later on in the season. Alfred Keyonnie WE VISIT On Sunday, October 28, 1962, Jane Griest, Roselihe Lai kin, Fan ny Moses, Harriet Baldwin and some boys went to the Nazarene Church in Salem. There were col lege students there too. The Alaskan students talked about their life in Alaska, while the Navajo students talked about living on the reservation in the Southwest. All students enjoyed visit the church and meeting the people there. Harriet Baldwin Every two weeks students from McNary, Brewer, and Winona go to the YWCA. Those that do hot swim can help with the cookies and coffee. After the students swim, they can play games. Then they go into another room for the cookies and coffee. We learn how to behave our selves at the YWCA. Ruth Marie Nez MY HOME TOWN Barrow, Alaska, “On top of the world,” is the farthest north town on the North American continent. It is just three minutes’ walk from the beach of the Arctic Ocean. There are 1500 people living in Barrow. In town there are six stores, four cafes, a show house, a bank, a big post office, a hospital and two elementary schools with 450 students enrolled. There is a weather bureau near town and four miles from town there is a military base. There are two churches in Barrow, the Presbyterian church and the Assembly of God church. Barrow is in a cold country, no trees or grass grows there. A green moss grows, which reindeer, cari bou and moose live on. The winters are long. In September it gets cold, then the ice and snow comes. Each day gets shorter until by November 18th the sun goes down below the horizon. It does not show up again until January 23rd. Then it just comes up and goes right back down. So the winters are long, co® and dark. Sometimes it is 55° be low zero. The cold winds blow, too. The northern lights give a beau tiful light in the dark, season. The moon shines Very brightly, too. If it is cloudy, it is very dark. For eighty days in summer the sun never sets— there is no night. In May the ducks and géese return to nest in the marshy country far east of Barrow. In summer it is warm, the average temperature is 42° above zero. You see, my home is in a very different country from Oregon where the trees and grass stay green all winter. Margaret Kittick EYE EXAMINATION A few days ago five of the Che mawa students went to a Salem hospital to have their eyes exam ined. I was one of the five. We went up to the fourth floor and.then we went into a waitiftg room. We sat there and waited until it was our turn. The first thing that happened to us was that we had our eyes dia- lated. This was done so that our eyes could be tested to fit the true lens that each of us needed. After our eyes were dilated we walked into another room where we choose the frames for our new glasses. After they were through with us at the hospital we returned to Chemawa. I really appreciate the doctors and nurses who help us to get well and see better. Rachael Aveoganna
