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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1973)
CH EM AW A AMERICAN Volume 70, No. .3 Chemawa Indian School, Salem, OR 97303 November 30, 1973 SCHOOL REPORT Salem Design Firm Chosen Homecoming—and the bonfire s ilh o u e tte s groups of students aga in s t the dark ness. Roy Aishanna caught th is action on the night before the big game. For more Homecoming actio n see pages 4, 5 & 7 in s id e . L o n e fig h t Now New Super Mr. Ed Lonefight 34, has been chosen as Chemawa’s 31st superin tendent. He is a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian from North Dakota. Mr. Lonefight was a superinten dent for two years at Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, Okla homa. He worked as an academic counselor here at Chemawa in 1970- 71. He said, “ The superintendent oversees the total operation of the school. He also breaks the budget apart and sets the policy.” He said that the biggest problem he has run across as a superinten dent is not getting an adequate budget. “ The first thing I noticed when I came back was the walkway across the tracks,” he said. He thinks this change was a good idea. He added that the students seem to be open, polite and friendly. One advantage to Riverside, ne said, was that it has a cottage system instead of big dorms. He would very much like to see this here at Chemawa. He added that he came back to Chemawa because he likes to work with Northwest Indians, and he likes green things. A r t D e p a r t m e n t S c h e d u le s The Chemawa Art Department is sponsoring an art show and sale which will be held December 9 from 12 to 4 pm in the gymnasium. Some of the items being sold and and shown are drawings, painting, pottery, beadwork, woodcarving and artifacts. The work has been done by students from the art department, in dividuals from the dorm and faculty members. Sunday Winona Hall and the home economics classes will sell fried bread and baked goodies at the sale. An Eskimo parka and some Eskimo masks and moccasins will be sold, but the sale consists mostly of Northwest Indian items. Mr. Robert Morrow will display a painted skin which is a rare collector’s item and worth over $2500. A large collection of arrowheads belonging The Payne, Settecase & Smith architectural firm from Salem has been awarded the contract to design Chemawa’s new school. They will visit the school to talk with the students and staff about the new school. On the north side of the campus, across Chemawa Road where the white duplex was located, the State of Oregon had traded some land with Chemawa because the new freeway exit would be built there. For that piece of land the State gave Chema wa some land located on the east edge of the campus. The State also agreed to replace the duplex with a new house, which is being built north of the Haysville Park,halfway between Chemawa and 99E. The new house, when finished, will be assigned to somebody. Act ing Superintendent Y. T. Wither spoon said it would probably be for the new superintendent. Some of the schools that Payne, Settecase & Smith have designed are the Mount Angel Elementary School, an addition to Kennedy High in Mount Angel and a P. E. building, food service building and several dormitories at Oregon Col lege of Education. Most of Willam ette University since 1949 had been designed by this firm. They are now working on two more buildings at Willamette. Payne, Settecase & Smith have also designed what is now the Salem Civic Center. Show and S a le to Mr. Harlan Pigsley will also be shown. (These items are not for sale.) Coach Ben Lawver will display and sell beaded belts made of hard leather, and Mr. Jesse Matt and Mr. Trent Hen- dren will have displays of photographs. This year’s show will be bigger than last year’s and promises to be very good, says Ms Kathy Huffman, Art Director.
