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Concert A n d Choir Tour H eld
There were thirty six students from
the Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska, chorus
and band who came to Chemawa on
April 24th until April 30th. There
were eighteen students from the choir
and eighteen from the band. The stu
dents and their directors stayed in the
dorms during their stay at Chemawa.
The Spring Concert was held at the
auditorium on Thursday, April 29th at
7:30 p.m. The choir from Mt. Edge
cumbe and Chemawa and both bands
put on a performance. On Friday, the
Mt. Edgecumbe choir put on another
concert by themselves during the 4th
period. The Choir director was Mrs.
Sophia Porter and the Band director
was Mr. Lance Eagleman. The Mt.
Edgecumbe students left Saturday
morning at two o’clock.
On May 2nd, the Chemawa “ A ”
Choir and Choral Ensemble went on a
tour to many different places. There
were forty eight students and two ad
visors, Mr. Wolfe, the music director
and Mrs. Lane, chaperone. They left
here early Sunday morning and theii
first stop was at Okanogan, Washing
ton, for one day. The second stop, on
Monday, was in Northern Idaho, at
Plummer and Lapwai where they sang.
On Tuesday, they went to Pendleton
and sang at the high school and had
an evening performance. Wednesday
they went to Warm Springs and sang.
They left Warm Springs at 9:30 p.m.
and got back to Chemawa at 2:00 a.m.
Not every member of the choir got
to go. Most of the tour group were
Juniors and Seniors who had worked
hard in the program for two or three
years. A few Freshmen who had also
shown exceptional ability, got to go
along.
Mr. Wolfe thougnt that the tour was a
success. “ Those who saw us thought
we gave a good performance,” he
said. He also said that the students,
most of them Alaskans, saw a lot of
new territory.
The Home Economics Intermediate
and Advanced Clothing classes had
an open house on April 7th from 8:30
to 4:00 in the Home Economics Build
ing. The girls and boys from other
Home Ec. classes visited.
There are seventy girls that have
enrolled in the Intermediate and Ad
vanced Clothing classes this year.
They have made dresses, formals,
and pants, and have had small pro
jects like crocheting and making hand
bags. There were twenty-five formals
made by the girls this year.
In the Intermediate class, the girls
made a dress or formal; then they
made a pair of pants. The Advanced
clothing girls each made a double
knit dress. Then they had the choice
of picking any project they wanted to
work on. The girls went shopping for
their material.
On April 27th, the Intermediate
class went on a trip to visit the Pen
dleton Woolen Mills in Washougal,
Washington, and White Stag in Port
land. The Advanced clothing girls
went to Jantzen, Inc., and White Stag
Rose Fitka and Jim Aleck won then .in Portland on April 21st.
awards for their contributions to the
student body and the school.
Herbert Sheldon, Marie Neakok and
Miles Cleveland were given awards
for their contributions to dorm life and
Cheri Stephan won the award for out
standing member of the pep club.
The agriculture department present
ed its awards to John Henry and David
Enock, and the reading lab awards
for the greatest improvement in read
ing ability went to Ed Pungalik and
Eva Merculief.
Explorer Post 123 was also honored
at the same assembly for placing sec
ond out of 13 teams in the annual
search and rescue competition spon
sored by the Northwest Sheriffs Asso
ciation.
The contest was held at
McGowan Creek Camp in the Mohawk
Valley near Eugene.
Team members were Pat Madros.
George Sam, Herb McIntyre, Roy Wil
liams, Tom Napoka, Harry Wassilly,
Robert Sheldon and Harold Yatlin. ¡amie Williams clears the bar at a
Roy Williams and Tom Napoka won record 11’ 3” to set a new standard
their senior scout award at this com in the pole vault. The old record was
10’ 8”.
petition.
A w a rd s Given A t A ssem bly
Eighteen outstanding students re
ceived watches and certificates for
their contributions to Chemawa at a
special awards assembly on May 11.
Percy Frisby and Kathy Olson re
ceived awards for their contributions
to the community. Bert Merculief and
Linda Panamarioff were given awards
for friendliness.
Oliver Kirk and Laverne Willoya
won the awards for leadership, and
the athlete of the year awards went
to William Albert and Lorean Driggs.
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published by the joint efforts of the
Business Education Department and
the Journalism class.
Reporters:
Daryle Marchand, Patty
Phair, Sharon Clark, Harriet Samato,
Linda Kirsteatter, D. J. Taylor, Jim
Aleck, Mabel Kudraluk,
Staff Advisors:
Mr. Dashney
Mrs. Sturgeon
Principal:
William J. Tucker
Superintendent: Gordon W. Gunderson
Hom e Ec C lasses
H old Open H ouse