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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.
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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.”
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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.
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