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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1972)
2 E d ito ria l S e c tio n CAEC H e lp fo r M r s . B e lg a r d C h o s e n B o o ze P ro b le m s To H e lp a t C e n te r Alcohol and drug abuse is this nation’s number one health problem and lately has it been Chemawa’s? Mrs. Belgard and Mr. LaBuff, who work at Chemawa’s Alcohol Abuse Education Center, not only are taking care of Chemawa’s students but are educating them in alcoholism. Every week-end there are getting to be quite a few students who are caught drinking. The question is wliv? and can anv one help them? From past experience, drinking and tfcftWg drugs do not help solve a problem. Sure it may be fun, you may forget problems, but do become aware that the actions you do while under the influence of alcohol may make’ a bigger problem, after you are sober. The Alcohol Abuse Education Center program is not being forced on you, as a student, not is it to scare you. It’s here to help you and your future. Take advantage of it, cause only Chemawa has this program to help us students. So please, Chemawa students, respect yourself and let’s open our eyes to make our world a better place. ( Think next time. There is a new acting counselor, Mrs. Victoria Belgard, at the Chem awa Alcohol Education Center. Mis. Belgard once attended Chemawa as a student and is a member of the Yurok Tribe from California. She began working here at Chemawa on December 10. Before coming to work at Chemawa, she was a super visor at the Libby, McNeil & Libby cannery in Salem. Mrs. Belgard said that she was very concerned with her new job because the number one health problem facing Indians is alcoholism. She added that the Alcohol Abuse Center would be scheduling many programs and activi ties. N e w S tu d io S e t Up There will be special counseling programs, films, special education A new radio-television studio is programs to get at problems, student group counseling at the clinic and being set up in the Academic II in the area formerly used by the Reading dorms, plus special speakers. Work on the studio started The Alcohol Abuse Center is d i Lab. rected by Mr. Stephan LaBuff, who before Christmas and should be com was featured in a story in the Decem pleted shortly. Television broadcasts from the ber issue of the American. studio will be seen on a closed-cir cuit system on the campus as soon as the cables from Academic I are set up. All projectors and film strips will be checked out of the studio. Mr. Simmons is in charge of the studio and will have three or four students helping him run it. ' Seventeen Students Graduate In Special Mid-year Ceremonies Graduation was held Jahuary 14 for seventeen mid-term graduates in the Chemawa auditorium. Mr. Louis, academic counselor, and Mr. Ouchi, superintendent, gave a message to the students. Mr. Ouchi also pre sented the diplomas. These seventeen seniors fulfilled ¡all basic requirements for graduation. They turned in a written request to Mr; Louis, which included a brief run- dOWni of their future plans. Mr. Louis proudly stated, “ Nearly all of them have signed up for ad vanced training, either in colleges or vocational schools.” These seventeen seniors were: Peducia Andrew Annie Herman Mike Ayagalria Daryle Marchand Miria Bailey Anita Prokpiof Rosa Booth Roger Smith M ari's Gallery THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Member of Oregon Scholastic Press Tony Boyd Clara Stevens Lincoln Enoch Dorothy Weston Published by the joint efforts of the Harold Fairbanks Phillip Yupanik Business Education Department and Moses Friendly Theresa Merculief Joe Garney I the Journalism class. The mid-term graduates may return Ronni Wesley I in the spring graduation ceremony if Editor: Feature Editors: Georgianne Charles \they wish. Mildred Ward M c B r id e G e ts G o o d ie s Sports Editor: Harold Yatlin During Christmas vacation, McBride Artwork: Mari Sioux McDonald Hall received a prize of a 5 lb. box Reporters: Echo BigSpring of chocolates for being the best deco Daisy Bodfish rated dorm. Locks were also put on Mildred Quaempts the doors of each girl’s rooms. The Ron Smartlowit keys will soon be issued after the Daryl Sullivan screens to each room are put in or Printing: Graphic Art classes Mr. Dashney repaired. Staff Advisors: Mrs. Kolb The dorm also gave a chicken din Victor LaCourse ner on January 13 for the twelve stu Principal: Albert Y. Ouchi dents who graduated during mid-term. Superintendent: