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THE CHEMA WA AMERICAN
Chemawa Hosts
Foreign Visitors
More Students Are Enrolled
Students at Chemawa were hosts
to a group of foreign students who
are enrolled at Oregon State Uni
versity, Corvallis. Countries rep re
sented by the group were: Figi
Islyands, Iran, Laos, Peru, and
Thailand.
These students are studing the
American school systems and will
return home to become teachers
in their own lands,
While they were on campus our
students h ad an opportunity to get
a social studies lesson in the flesh.
Some of the visitors spoke to our
social studies groups and gave
demonstrations of, writing and
speaking in th eir native language.
Sharon Velarde
Merle Amaktoolik
Don’t Be a Dropout
CHURCH BASKETBALL TEAM
The church basketball team has
started to raise money to buy uni
forms and pay entry fees.
The church team entered the
league last" year and did real well
for the first year. Many of th e boys
that have previously played for
Chemawa varsity team will be par
ticipating in the league.
They should have a good team
this season,.
Anderson Tullie
BEST EFFORT NEEDED
All students th at attend school
at Chemawa can learn many things
if we put forth our best at all
times. I hope all students are en
joying themselves here at school
and are cooperating with their
teachers to learn more each year.
Edward Fachine
LIKES AND DISLIKES
OF STUDY HALL
W hat I like and dislike about our
stiidy hall:
What I like about our auditor
ium study hall is: It is always
quiet making our studying easier.
The students are very cooperative
and have respect for each other
and our teacher Mr. Cahill.
There are a couple of things I
don’t like about our study hall.
Our study hall has no tables on
which to do our writing. We could
not go to the library for the first
five weeks because of such a large
group of students. Now on Tues
days and Thursdays we can go if
we get a pass.
Evie McLaughlin
On my first trip away from home
I was eleven years old, and head
ing for a boarding school. Through
several years away from home I
have often thought of going home,
but coming back to school each
year, has made me know that there
is knowledge to be learned. You
can’t learn by going home or drop
ping out of school for a year. You
will only fall further behind.
I’ve learned to look back on my
mistakes and try to see why they
were made. And ask myself what I
could do to correct them.
Now that school has started and
I am back in class, I really want to
study. Would you rath er goof off
and go home and say you’re sm art
er than I?
Clifford Charlie
Library
The Cliemawa School Library
started the year with one period
orientation for every student. This
was to acquaint the sthdents with
thé facilities and the rules of the
library.
This is.being followed by instruc
tion every two weeks for the stu
dents in Freshm an and Sophomore
classes. They are learning how to
use the many kinds of reference
books so that they may be able to
find the things they are looking for
without having to wait for the Li
brarian’s assistance.
All of the students of the school
are enjoying the library this year
and every week the circulation is
increasing.
Many new books have ben pur
chased for the library and are now
in the process of being added to the
shelves.
Recreation Club
Being a member of The Recrea
tion Club is fun, but one has to put
a lot of effort and enthusiasm into
iti
The Recreation Club now has
ninety boys and girls as members
and is divided into six committees.
Each committee is responsible for
certain duties.
The newly elected officers are:
President, Alfred Andre; Vice Pres:
ident, Stanley Begay; Secretary,
Robert A rthur; Treasurer, Wasillie
Fannie T ritt in front of Winona to Greet
New Students.
Enrollment this year at Chemawa
is the highest it has been for sever
al years. Total enrollment has
reached 942 with 233 Navaho and
709 Alaskan students.
Boys outnumber girls by 112 with
527 distributed through these dorm
itories: Mitchell Hall 133, Brewer
217, and McNary 177. The 415 girls
are housed 269 in Winona Hall and
146 in McBride.
In spite of this high enrollment
many admission applications had to
be rejected.
No increase in dormitory person
nel was required to take care of
this increased num ber of students.
The students seem to be enjoying
the chance to make additional ac
quaintances and form, new friend
ships.
Cyrus Savetilik
Judy Nagaruk
Tagotuk; Sergeant-At-Arms, Jim
Lewis Jr. and Tommy Wheeler.
Each student is capable of carrying
on the duties that they are respon
sible for.
The recreation program has al-
ready begun with 140 boys signed
up for basketball and 160 signed
up for weight training. They work
out .every Monday and Tuesday
from 4:00 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 8:30
p.m. Intram ural basketball will be
gin on November 1.
The recreation program also has
plans for a bulletin board contest
in which a trophy will be given
each month to the best decorated
bulletin board in the dormitories.
Anderson Tullie