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THE CHEMAWA A M E R IC A «
FLIGHT STUDENTS
SOLO
James Toovak models a s h i r t fee made SB Boys’ Home Economics
¿ l a s s fo r Demetri Oaks and Alexie M orris.
VISITORS COME FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD
When 80 e n th u s ia s tic e ig h th
g rad ers from John James E le­
m e n ta ry S c h o o l, P o r t l a n d ,
Oregon, v is ite d the campus on
A p r il 9 , th e y w ere o n ly a
p a r t o f th e more th an 600
v i s i t o r s th a t have been h ere
t h i s y e a r.
N et o n ly do t h e v i s i t o r s
come from a l l over th e s ta t e ,
but they come from th e neigh­
b o rin g s t a t e s o f Washington
and C a l i f o r n i a a s w e ll- We
have had v i s i t o r s from South
D akota, A la s k a , M ic h ig a n ,
I l l i n o i s and Washington D.C.
a l so.
Age o f th e v i s i t o r s v a r ie s
from very young to very old-
The youngest t h i s y e a r was a
group o f t h i r d grade Brownie
S c o u ts and th e o l d e s t was a
79 y e a r - o ld alum nus. •School
groups have v a rie d from lower
e le m e n ta ry to t h e g r a d u a te
c o lle g e l e v e l .
F oreign c o u n tr ie s have been
prominent an th e l i s t o f v i s ­
i t o r s w ith v i s i t o r s coming
from South Vi etnam, T hailand,
Belgium, Korea, Mexico, West
I n d i e s . P e r u . W est A f r ic a ,
I r a n , P arag u ay , Formosa and
Jap an —
S tu d e n ts re p o rt i t i s a l o t
o f fu n l i v i n g on a campus
■where t h e y g e t t o m eet so
many d i f f e r e n t and i n t e r e s t ­
in g p e o p le .
CHEMAWA ATTENDS
MESIC FESTIVAL
Chemawa* s Band and C h o ir,
a lo n g w ith th o s e o f t h r e e
o th e r s c h o o ls in th e a r e a ,
took p a rt in the C a p ita l Con­
ference Music F e s tiv a l, held
a t Cascade High School, S tay-
ton, Oregon, March 24, 1969.
Each in d iv id u a l band played
two numbers and then the four
bands combined in to one b ig
band fo r two more numbers.
The c h o ir s went th ro u g h a
s im i la r r o u tin e .
I t was a r e a l t h r i l l f o r our
s tu d e n ts to perform w ith th e
o t h e r s c h o o ls .
I t was a ls o a good ¡oppor­
t u n i t y f o r n s t o make new
f rie n d s and t e l l o th e r s t u ­
d e n ts about our school.
Other schools taking p a r t an
t h e f e s t i v a l were: Cascajde,
Gervais and Salem Academy.
Homer Warren
WINONA HALL TO HOST
SENIOR TEA
Winona H a ll w ill h o s t a t e a
f o r g r a d u a t i n g S e n i o r s on
May 7 th , from 2 :00 to 4: 00,
in th e re c e p tio n room o f th e
dorm. A ll S e n io rs and s t a f f
a r e i n v i t e d t o a t t e n d . The
stu d e n t cooks and w a itre s s e s
have a c c e p te d th e r e s p o n s i­
b i l i t y o f c a te r in g th e o c c a ­
s io n .
I f you have never gone wing-
in g o f f i n t o t h e w ild b lu e
yonder a l l by y o u r s e l f , you
w i l l n o t be a b le to a p p re ­
c i a t e th e f e e l i n g s o f e ig h t
s tu d e n ts e n r o l l e d i n F lig h t
T ra in in g .
M artin Alexie, June B a llu ta ,
Herman Anderson, Edward Dull,
Steven Nowatak, Donald Tyson
and R o b e rt V anderpool have
had th e t h r i l l o f s o lo in g a t
th e F lig h t S chool. They a re
now busy p r e p a r in g to ta k e
t h e i r w r itte n t e s t s f o r th e
FAA.
F lig h t t r a i n i n g h as been a
p a r t o f th e expanded educa­
l l i*ia I program a t Chemawa.
S in c e th e A la sk an s tu d e n t s
depend so much on a i r tr a n s ­
p o r t a t i o n , i t was f e l t by
stu d e n ts th a t f lig h t tra in in g
would be one o f th e m ost be­
n e f ic ia l e le c tiv e c o u rse s
th a t they could ta k e .
The c o u rse i s ta u g h t fey a r ­
rangem ents w ith th e f l i g h t
school a t th e Salem A irp o rt.
A ll ground school in s tru c tio n
as well as the fly in g tim e i s
given by th e re g u la r in s tr u c ­
to rs a t th e school- O f f ic ia ls
a t th e s c h o o l r e p o r t t h a t
Chemawa s t u d e n t s a r e v e ry
good w ith t h e i r *in th e air*
tra in in g , b a t th a t th e d i f f i ­
c u l t v o c a b u la ry g iv e s them
some tro u b le in t h e i r ground
school in s tr u c tio n .
CHEMAWA - A MEETING PLACE
We come from A la s k a , t h e
Southwest and th e N orthw est.
O ur homes a r e th o u sa n d s o f
m iles a p a rt, but h e re a t Che­
mawa a f r ie n d ly handshake i s
a l l we n e e d t o cem ent o u r
f r i e n d s h i p s and u n i t e o n r
h e a r ts . We a r e h e re f o r t h a t
g r e a t common purpose o f g e t­
tin g an ed u catio n and l i t t l e
d iffe re n c e s a re p u t a s id e fo r
th e g re a te r parpose f o r which
we a re to il in g - We le a r n a l l
about ou r frie n d s on the cam­
p u s and t h e p e o p le o f t h e
community and th e p e o p le o f
the community le a rn about ns.
Many v i s i t o r s from f o r e ig n
la n d s come on o u r campus and
when th e y le a v e t h e r e i s a
f e e lin g th a t we have le a rn e d
as much as they..
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