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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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PUPILS 1CGIHS
Patsie Bairett has entered the printing
office.
Grace Benjamin made very nice bread
at the hospita.
Tom Cox is now the afternoon janitor
in the school building.
Hugh Jackson is taking lessons on the
guitar and he is learning very fast.
Mr. Burdett left Wednesday for Idaho,
where he will make his future home.
The girls of the Sixth Grade are very
glad to see Ruth Brewer in school again.
Olive Harris and Lenore Rainville
are the best bread cutters in the dining
hall. .
Alice Chalcraft has a new piece to
play on the piano. Its name is Medi
tation. Mr. Fickle gave the fifth grade a very
interesting talk last Friday about the
growing of corn.
Miss Evelyn Woods has been the vic
tim of an attack of pleurisy during the
past week, but we understand that she is
now convalescent.
A sad letter was received from Mrs.
Joe McArthur, nee Ellen Olney, saying
that Josie Guriyon, one of our ex-pupils,
is very sick and not expected to live.
We are all very sorry to hear of Josie's
illness, and we hope that she will recover.
We sixth grade boys extend a hearty
welcome to Luther Clements, Gideon
Hanbury and Geo. Carrau, who were
promoted from the fifth grade. We wers
glad but sorry to lose Ben. Wilcox and
Geo. Howard who were promoted to the
seventh grade.
THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
' , The Chemawa Indian school celebrated
the. 30th anniversary of its establishment
Friday. As is the custom of the school
the employes and the pupils of the insti
tution assembled in the school chapel in
the evening. More than 40 impromptu
speeches were made by the pupils of the
school,showing their appreciation of what
the school and the government has done
for them and their race.
. The Chemawa school was established
by Captain M. C. Wilkinson. U. S. A.,
Febuary 25, 1880, at Forest Grove, and
the school was moved from there to its
present location in 1885. Chemawa was
established almost simultaneously with
the Carlisle school.
The records show that Oregon's school
has had more industrial successes than
any chool in the Indian service. Among
the graduates and ex-pupils are a bank
president, a bank teller, a capitalist, an
executor of $300,000 estate, lawyers,
clerks, a general land office clerk in
Washington, merchant, tailors, black
smiths, harnessmakers, tailors who have
their own shops; dressmakers nurses and
telephone girls; chief engineers in the
Indian service, on steamships, in large
manufacturing plants, in logging camps;
carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors, bakers,
printers harnessmakers, journeyman
numbering more than 300, and farmers
over 400.
Since the establishment of the Che
mawa school, it has been visited by
four presidents. President Hayes,
called in 1880; President Harrison in
1891; Roosevelt in 1904, and President
Taft visited the Institution last year.
Oregonian.