THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Our Christmas Tree at Home Economics
CHEMAWA STUDENTS ATTEND
4th NAVAHO YOUTH MEET
Margaret Coffee admiring the greens be
low the modernistic Christmas Tree.
We took egg cartons and spray
painted them with silver paint. We
then cut dividers from apple car
tons in the shape of a tree. We cut
the egg cartons into star shapes and
glued them On the center round of
each divider from the apple car
tons. In the center of each star we
glued glass Christmas balls in dif
fèrent.. colors. For the bottom of
the tree we sprayed the egg carton
silver and cut it in the shape of a
flower pot. We cut the side from a
paper towel box into a tree shape
and mounted the tree form on this
for a support. The edges of the
backing were covered with alumin
um foil which we had saved from
meat wrappings. We bent a wire
coat hanger to the shape of the top
of the tree and used this for hang
ing the tree on the wall. This was
hung out in the hall above a table.
A glass bowl filled with greens and
colored Christmas balls set on a
blue-purple piece of construction
paper was set on the table.
Barbara Manycattle
Eva Benally
Five students represented Che
mawa at the 4th Annual Navaho
Youth Conference at Shiprock, New
Mexico, December 5-7. They were
Diana Shorty, Jane Griest, Maggie
Pete, Earl Cleveland and Robert
Arthur. Mr. Fredrickson was spon
sor.
The theme of the conference this
year was “Education Beyond High
School”. Each representative at
tended | general meetings and also
took part in small group sessions.
Maggie Pete took part in the ses
sion on “Preparatory to Post High
School Training” ; J a n e Griest,
“Dropouts” ; Diana Shorty, “Voca
tional and Technical Training” ;
Earl Cleveland, | “University and
College” ; Robert Arthur, “Improv
ing: Self-Total Image of Navaho
Youth”.
In addition to the general and
group sessions there was an orator
ical contest, entertainment, and on
the final evening a banquet and
dance. Mr. Allan Yazzie gave the
closing address at the conference.
Jane? Griest
Diana Shorty
Maggie Pete
group of Winona Hall girls were
hostesses. There were about 95
guests from all parts of Oregon.
Arlene Garner
MR. M A X PENROD
SUFFERS FATAL ATTACK
Mr. Max Penrod, former super
intendent of C h e m a w a Indian
School, suffered a heart attack on
December 28, from which he did
not recover. Mr. Penrod came to
Chemawa from Alaska. Many Alas
kan students knew him from his
years of service theje. Mr. Penrod
had 28 years of service in the Bu-
rea uof Indian Affairs before bis
retirement a year ago. He is sur
vived by his widow, a son and a
daughter and two grandchildren.
VISITING THE McNARY
WEATHER STATION
One afternoon our class visited
the McNary Weather Station. While
we were there we sent up a balloon.
An instrument called a Radio
sonde was in the balloon. When the
balloon burst, it was recovered with
the Radiosonde.
This instrument takes high ele
vation records of weather so the
meteorologists can send weather in
formation to newspapers, TV sta
tions and radio stations as well as
airlines.
Fannie Tritt
Annie Olin
HORSE SHOW
One Sunday afternoon we went
to a Horse Show in town. There
were many horses and ponies. The
contestants rode around and the
judges picked out the best ones and
they were given ribbons. This was
my first Horse Show and was very
interesting.
Carol Kompkoff
SOPHOMORE CLASS MEETING
DAR HONORS INDIANS
Recently Regents and members
of the DAR Indian Committee hon
ored the American Indian at a
luncheon at the Chemawa Indian
School. A representative of Gov.
Hatfield spoke. Among outstand
ing Oregon Indian citizens were:
Mrs. June Poitras and Mr. Arthur
Junaluska. Mrs. Poitras, an alumna
of Chemawa, is a well known speak
er and singer. Mr. Junaluska, a
Cherokee, is an Indian playwright
and director of the Indian Festival
of Arts held each year at LaGrande.
Mrs. Nell V. Brannon spoke. A
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Effie Curley and Ruth Nez talk to snow
man at Christmas Dance.
The regular joint meeting of the
Sophomore Class was held in Wi
nona Hall Living Room January 8.
The meeting was conducted by the
President, Anderson Tüllie. The
group agreed to hold the next meet
ing in McNary Hall Living Room on
February 5.
Guests at the meeting were Mrs.
Brannon, Principal, and Mr. Fred
rickson, Dept. Head Guidance. Mrs;
Brannon spoke on the factors in
volved in attaining secondary
school accreditation for Chemawa.
Mr. Frederickson spoke on the im
portance of maintaining good grade
point averages.
The group adjourned to the Wi
nona Dining Room where they en
joyed refreshments of coffee and
cookies.