VOLUME 67
CHEMAWA OREGON JANUARY 1971
Advanced Placement
Begun For Students
Under a new program ju st begun this
year, several Chemawa Juniors have
been advanced to the Sen:or c la ss and
will graduate one year early with the
c la ss of 1971. The new system e n ti
tles a student to graduate when he or
she has accum ulated enough credits
and has sa tisfie d State of Oregon and
B.I.A. requirem ents rather than having
to w ait a full four years no m atter how
many cred its he has.
T his is the first year for such a
program at Chemawa. although several
of the public schools in the area have
adopted it. The staff is en th u sia stic
about the proposal and Mr. Tucker
hopes it w ill continue.
The requirem ents which stud en ts
must m eet 'to graduate from Chemawa
are com pletion of 18 c re d its, which
must include four years of E nglish,
two years of math, one year of home
econom ics or shop, two years of s c i
ence, two years of P E one year of
history and one year of modern pro
blem s. Sociology or psychology may
be su b stitu ted for half of the year of
modern problem s.
T his year is the first year that
Chemawa has given Seniors the oppor
tunity of graduating during mid-year
if they have met requirem ents se t by
the B I A and the Slate of Oregon.
Sixteen members of the c la ss of 1971
'lave met these requirem ents and have
'aken the opportunity to graduate.
Most of them will be going on to fur
ther training or to co lleg e.
C ongratulations io Chemawa s six
teen new est graduates
Lorena Jo h n
son. Flora Edwin. Dorothy Foxglove
Mary McGinty , Anna Barr. Peggv Caw
ston. H azel Adams. N atalia Macar
Don Standifer. Harry Hugo. Leonard
Boyd. Peter Luke. Chris N ickoli,
Joseph Edw ards. Isaac W assillie and
Lewis Jam es. We hope that more stu
dents will take advantage of this
program in the future.
Several Chemawa students along with Reverend McCray examine works ol
native art produced by Chemawa students at a recent exhibition The art pro
gram at Chemawa has been developed ex ten siv ely this year
C ouncil Travels
The E xecutive Committee of the
Student Council recently took a five-
day trip to v isit Sherman Indian School
in R iv erside. C alifornia. Percy F risb y ,
George Wilson. Rose F itka and Jim
A leck made the trip, along with Mr.
Azure and Mr. Coburn, who went along
as a d v iso rs.
The purpose of the trip was to
study the model dormitory setup that
Sherman u s e s , since Chemawa is a lso
putting in a model dorm program.
According to Jim A leck, this model
dorm, called Wigwam Lodge, was
co-ed. Boys lived in one wing of the
dorm and girls lived in another wing.
Each room in the dorm had its own
lock and kev. There was a lso a main
pass key to get into the dorm from the
outs id e .
The committee spent most of the
five days in conferences with students
and o fficials at the school. They also
went to some Indian cultural events
and a couple of b ask etb all gam es.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Work experience is involved with
Senior boys and girls who have exper
ience in typing and office work. They
earn a credit and a half during this
course.
Students work in different
offices downtown.
Some work from
8:15 to 11 45 a.m. and others work
from 1 00 to 4 00 p.m. T ransportation
for the workers is paid for out of the
T itle I (89-10) m onies.
Here are some of the p laces that the
Chemawa students work
Bureau of Roads F rances Wilson
S elective Service
Sharon L estenkof.
C harlene Cook. H arriet Samato.
Herbert Sheldon
Bureau of Land Management
D aniel
N elson. Margaret Samson. Mae
Kignak
Social Security A dm inistration
Evelyn W assillie. Beverly Beers
United States Army
Marion Shavings
Pilgrim Printer • Wilson W assillie
Bureau of R eclam ation
Glenn Skin.
Payne Brower