Chemawa American
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Aviation Here
Bertha Peterson fire s her homemade rocket during a physical science class
experim ent.
Watching the experim ent are (from le ft) Steve Jackson, Elena
P e tlu s k a , Eunice Beans, R ita Paul and Joe Hawk.
Chemawa Students Get High,
Teacher Says They Took Off
Students in Mr. Morrow’s Physical
Science classes have been building
rockets, flying them, and finding out
that what goes up must come down.
According to Mr. Morrow, his stu
dents’ work with rockets is related
to acceleration experiments being
cohducted in class. Each student
built a model rocket and fired it
three times. The rockets used solid-
fuel engines ignited by an electric
current.
Blast-offs were held during March
12—16 behind Hawley Hall in the
field where the horses are kept.
(There were no horses present jChen
the firings took place.)
Each student had to provide an
experimental passenger for his rock
et. Seeds, plants, meal worms and
even three small fish were used by
students in their experiments. Every
thing, even the fish, survived the
space flights’^ ?
Mr. Morrow was contacted by a
local rocket club and his students
were invited to a rocket show? Che
mawa students were also asked to
display the rockets they had built.
The student-built rockets were
also displayed in Academic One.
Mr. Morrow said that the rockets, on
display reached altitudes of two to
four hundred feet.
Mr. Morrow was invited to Cape
.Kennedy to watch the blastoff of the
sky lab vehicle and the sky lab crew
on May 14—15. This will be Amer
ica’s first space station.
He will meet with a NASA scient
ist to discuss the space program and
will bring back film of the launch to
show to his classes.
Running W ild
B uck P lays B a ll
Two of Chemawa’s three pet deer,
a doe and a buck, broke loose from
their pen and ran loose on the cam
pus until students rounded them up
and herded them back.
The doe ran over to the track,
while the buck decided to go out for
baseball. He appeared just as one
of the players hit the ball out of the
infield, and he made it to first base,
easily. In fact he circled the bases?
twice before the students formed a?
circle and herded him back to his
pen.
“ If it wasn’t for the students, we
would have lost them,” said ag
teacher Mr. Robert Morrow.
Morrow and Mr. Will Wood are in
charge of the animals, along with
students Cliff Jack, Walter Hill and
Wayne Henry. Along with the deer,
the animal compound contains ducks,
geese, roosters, chickens, turkeys,
horses and four different species of
pheasant.
Aviation at Chemawa is an elec
tive course taught by Mr. Ellis Mon-
crief. The course is open to girls
as well as boys. The main purpose
of the course is to prepare students
to become private pilots.
Mr. Moncrief says that aviation is
not an easy course. It requires a
lot of reading and studying. Moncrief
teaches the class during 5th and 6th
period.
After many weeks of studying, the
student is given a fifty-question
exam which takes three-and-a-half
hours to complete. Then the student
is ready for actual flying practice.
Helicopter practice took place in
the field behind the trailers, and the
regular airplane flying practice is
held in Albany. Each ^student gets
a chance to taxi, prepare for flight,
take off and land the plane. Mr. Mon
crief flies with the students at all-
times.
Students now enrolled in the class
are Morris George,Nels Martin, Rich
ard Merculief, Wallace Cleveland,
Jack Williams, Lloyd Davis, Carl
Hoffman, Moses Peter and Harry
Wassily. George, Martin, Merculief
and Peter have already taken their
private pilot’s license test in Port
land.
Mr. Moncrief gave the tests in
class earlier this year so that stud
ents who failed it the first time could
have another chance at it. He added
that there w ilt be no more flying this
year because the budget can’t handle
the cost of any more airplane or heli
copter rentals.
Two P lays G iven
The Drama Class has put on two
plays so far, and is working on a
third play. They have been present-'
ing their plays for some of the sixth-
hour English classes.
Most of the students who have seen
the plays seem to enjoy them.
All of the plays that the Drama
Class is doing areone-act comedies.
In “ Not My Cup of Tea” the actres
ses were Angelina Gromoff, Flora
Deacon and Valerie Kay Boyd. The
two actresses in “ Girls Will Be
Girls” were Zoya Melovidov and
Debbie Thomas. In the upcoming
play, “ Girls Ask Boys” are Ron
Morris, Iva Smith, Rhonda Semoe,
Sally McCloud and James Jackson.
These will be the only plays put
on this year. Next year Miss Graham
wants to see if the class can do
some three-act plays.
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