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*3 7 1 .9 7 5 SALEM IN D IA N SCH O O L, CHEMAWA, V0LUME6S__ MO” __ CHEMAWA. OREGON. SEPTEMBER 1968. “ RE-BIROLL AT C H EM A W A SCHOOL HAS SMOOTH START CHEMAWA AMERICAN HAS NEW LOOK A f t e r an absence o f 13 y e a rs th e s t u d e n t bo d y is a g a in pleased to have amqng i t s mem b e r s h i p s t u d e n t s fr o m th e P a c if ic N o rth w e s t. At the tim e o f t h i s w r i t i n g , most o f th e g ro u p a re fro m th e S ta te o f W ashington . They a re : D a r r e ll Abrahamson—Spokane, Washington; D o u g la s H a n s e n -L e a v e n w o rth , W a s h in g to n ; Joanne L a d u c e r- M a n s o n , W a s h in g to n ; L a r r y M oses^-Nespelern, W a s h in g to n * Lew Y a llup-W apa to, W ashington. From Id a h o t h e r e a r e Velm a B r o n c h o - B la c k fo o t* Idaho and B erdina Da.nn-Fort H a ll, Idaho. At th e p re s e n t tim e th e r e is o n ly one Oregon s tu d e n t, Roger Smith, Warm S prings. O ther s tu d e n ts w i l l be coming; in a t a l a t e r da te and we wjsh them a l l a h e a rty welcome and hope th a t Chemawa w i l l become Doreen Edwardson and V ir g in ia as m e a n in g fu l! in t h e i r l i v e s O yagak t r y o u t th e V a r iT y p e as i t has in ours. Joyce BlácKstone Georgia Eckstrom The Business Department has a new lo o k t h i s y e a r . F i r s t , a npw te a c h e r , M r. H anson, who comes to Chemawa fro m C o sta M esa, C a lifo r n ia . S e cond, th e d e p a rtm e n t has acq u ire d some a d d itio n a l pieces o f equipm ent— a V a ri—ty p e r and a H e a d lin e r, both o f which a re shown in the above p ic tu r e and were used to prepare t h is issue o f t e CHEMAWA AM ERI CAM. Although i t is s t i l l necessary to ty p e th e copy t w ic e , th e Varj i V a r i - t y p e r a u t o m a t ic a lly ad ju s t s each lin e o f type to make th e r i g h t m a rg in to come o u t e v e n ly . T h is a u to m a tic a d ju s t ment is accom plished by,m aking a few a d ju s tm e n ts on th e ma chine b e fo re beginn ing to typ e . The H e a d lin e r is ve ry s im ila r to a camera. A p ic tu r e is taken o f each l e t t e r on a paper f ilm and then put th ro u g h 'a develop HARRY MOORE WORKS in g p ro c e s s j u s t l i k e a f i l m from y o u r camera. WITH THE OFFSET PRESS H O M E C O M IN G O CTO BER 25 _______________NUMBER 1 Over 800 e n th u s ia s tic stu d e n ts have a rriv e d fo r the opening o f s c h o o l on Septem ber 9, 1968. Addi tio n a T s tu d e n ts a re a r r i v in g d a i l y and i t is e x p e c te d they w i l l con tim e to a r r iv e fo r se ve ra l weeks. Some o f the la t e comers have been out on summer employment and were u n a h le to le a v e t n e i r jo b f o r th e open in g d ay o f s c h o o l . O t h e r s m is s e d t h e i r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s c h e d u le and had to be r e scheduled a t a la t e r date. T h is y e a r, fo r the f i r s t tim e s in c e 1957, s tu d e n ts are being a c c e p te d fro m Id a h o , O regon, and W a s h in g to n . W h ih c th e N o rth w e st S tu d e n ts a re few in number we are g la d to welcome them and we a re lo o k in g f o r w ard to t h e i r m a kin g a r e a l c o n t r i b u t i o n to s c h o o l l i f e . Chemawa S c h o o l i s l o c a t e d j u s t s ix m ile s n o rth o f Salem, O re g o n , The S t a t e C a p j t o l , and is the o ld e s t c o n t in u a lly operated boarding schooT in the In d ia n S e r v ic e , h a v in g been e s t a b l i s h e d in 1881 by th e mi 1 it a r y . Ruth Sheldon P A IN T IN G S ON D IS P L A Y Chemawa is p r i v i l e g e d to be th e f i r s t b o a rd in g s c h o o l' to e x h i b i t th e M cK e n n e y H a l l L ith o g r a p h s o f Famous In d ia n Leaders. The e x h i b i t c o n s is t s o f n e a r ly a h u n d re d p ic t u r e s o f great le a d e rs o f the p a st. T h e s e p i c t u r e s h a v e been loaned to the Bureau o f In d ia n A f f a ir s , and w i l l be c ir c u la te d amongst o th e r b o a rd in g sc h o o ls la t e r in the ye a r. The p ic tu re s are now on d is p la y in s ix d i f f e r e n t b u ild in g s on the Campus and have c re a te d a g r e a t d e a l o f i n t e r e s t among s tu d e n ts . A paper bound volume o f b io g ra p h ie s accompanies the p ic tu re s , and gives v a lu a b le in f o r m a t io n a b o u t th e p e rs o n p a in te d .