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Page 10 June 2 9 ,1 9 7 9 Spilyay Tymoo Graduates ‘79 Four grads end five-year effort with degrees by Donna Behrend THE GRADUATES — These four Warm springs residents, after five years, graduated from Mt. H ood Community College with Associate of Arts Degrees June 2. The years of hard work and dedication earned them the honor they are all proud of. Left to right are Hamilton Greeley, who is Juvenile Judge fo r the tribal court. Cheryl Kennedy, Evelyn Greeley and Arlene Boileau all workfor the Family and Childrens Services Department. Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Behrend Macy studying management The desk of the operations manager at Warm springs Forest Products Industries will be empty most of the summer. Its occupant, Bob Macy, is taking an eight-week leave to gather more experience in management. Macy is joining 180 other managers from around the world for Stanford University’s executive program. For eight h o u rs a d ay , they will “ exchange ideas and pro b le m s,” in creasin g th e ir exposure to the business end of management, said Macy. Team training will bring managers together to find solutions to case problems similar to those they may encounter on the job. The intensive course is equivalent to a regular year-long course. Macy has a degree in forest management from Oregon State University, but seeks to strengthen his business skills, While the course does not offer graduate credits, “ in the business world it carries the weight of academic creden tials,” said WSFPL manager Ralph DeMoisy . The operations manager is not expecting a salary increase or job change upon completion of the course, but hopes to bring even more skills to his presen t role in W SFPI management. s o c io lo g y a n d h u m a n Fifteen people began their development as well as adding a d v e n t u r e in t o h ig h e r writing and mental health care education during the winter and skills. They accumulated -term of 1974 commuting to Mt. credits from COCC, Portland Hood Community College. On State U niversity, Eastern June 2, four of those people Oregon State College and graduated with an Associate of LaVerne College in California. Arts degree. Hamilton Greelev. “We appreciate the help and A rle n e B o ile a u , -C heryl support the tribe has given us” Kennedy and Evelyn Greeley, said all the students. But dressed in cap and gown, because of the length of time it marched with over 600 other has taken for them to get their Mt. Hood Community College degrees and because they were graduates to receive their not continually involved in a diplomas. campus situation, they feel the accomplishment was not as Arlene, Cheryl and Evelyn exciting and rewarding as it are employed by the Family could have been. a n d C h ild r e n ’s S e rv ic e s All the graduates attribute department and Hamilton is the privilege of a college Juvenile Judge for the Tribal education to former Mental court. Four others of the original 15 Health Director Bill Jordan stu d e n ts, L ola S o h ap p y , and Gloria Edelhart. “Gloria Mildred Kirk, Prunie Williams really pushed,” says Arlene. and Urbana Manion, will “So much so that I nearly graduate with the class of 1980, resented her.” Arlene, as well as also from Mt. Hood. The the others, say that their remaining seven apparently families were very supportive. “Without their support, we dropped the courses. wouldn’t have been able to During the winter term icy continue,” they said. roads and foul weather often The day that culminated the made it difficult to travel to entire five years was June 2. Portland. But by the end of the What was really exciting about term all of the students had graduation was all the tribal accumulated six credit hours, people who showed up to thus beginning a long, difficult congratulate us,” said Cheryl. struggle to their eventural “Some of them weren’t even degrees. invited. It was great!” The next years came a little Those connected with the easier, since traveling was Group Home or Tribal Court somewhat less and several of can be assured of a job well the classes were brought to done because' of those four Warm Springs. They continued people who worked so hard to their studies in psychology, obtain their degrees. NAIWA annual conference a display of unity T here are over 1,000 were scheduled to speak at the it’s slowly disappearing.” She return to our traditional ways.” by Donna Behrer < T h e c o n f e r e n c e a n d NAIWA members, with 115 advised to “teach the very conference, but apparently Several Warm Springs tribal young about their culture, workshops stirred awareness of different tribes represented. members traveled to Yakima there were conflicts which language and religion. They the Indian women, as many With six regions, Arizona has Washington to attend the ninth made it impossible for them to the largest number of members, have a longtime to learn other indicated that more informa- attend. annual North American Indian Yakima Nation members things in life.” Concluding, she ' tion should be available on the comprising 30 percent of the Womens’s Association con eave brief but com plete said, “If we are ever going to subject of child abuse and Continued on page 16 ference June 17-20, joining feel comfortable, we must neglect and suicide. more than 400 other Indian descriptions of their reserva tion and membership. Martha women from across the nation. As the association’s preamble Y a llu p , Y a k im a T r ib a l states, the women united “with .Education Director, listed the determination to promote, s ta tis tic s co n c e rn in g the through unity of purpose, the Yakima nation. “The average level of Yakimas is general well-being of Indian education seventh grade,” she stated. People.” Warm Springs was well “Seventy-five percent of those represented by Miss Oregon living on the reservation are NAIWA Lucinda Heath and non-Indians. Alcohol, in one her court Lyda Scott, Sheilah way or another, affect 75 W a h n e ta h a n d M e lis s a percent of our tribal members.” Johnson; Miss Warm Springs The crowd appeared to agree, Sally Rhoan; as well as local recognizing the fact that similar chapter members and officers. things were happening on their As guest speaker, Vernonica reservations. Because the theme of this M u rd o c k , P r e s id e n t of N a t i o n a l C o n g r e s s o f y e a r ’s c o n f e r e n c e w as American Indians (NCAI), “International Year of the urged unity and organization. Child” (IYC), three workshops “Indians need to get their act were presented concerning together before presenting children: “Child Abuse and anything to Congress. It has Neglect,” “Recent Develop been the common opinion (of ments in Indian Education for Congress) that Indians don’t the Handicapped Child”, and have their act together.” She “Suicide and the Indian Child”. continued, saying that all Those at the conference had the national organizations should choice of attending one of the support each other and that three. The suicide workshop each “ should prove their was presented by Prunie accountability and responsibil Williams of Warm Springs, and had the highest attendance. ity ” Prunie, drawing an analogy Assistant Secretary of Indian between traditional ways and Affairs Forrest Gerard and land, stated, “There is an American Indian Womens Association in Yakima, Prunie Williams gave a brief workshop on Helen Schierbeck, a member of the U.S. Commission on e r o s io n o f o u r c u ltu r e “Suicide and the Indian Child”. Prunie, whose workshop was well attended, said one way to prevent International Year of the Child and heritage-just like the land- suicide is to make something positive happen in the life o f a person who threatens suicide. Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Behrend ¡
