SpilyayTymoo
Warm Springs, Oregon
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A page commemorations offered for past employee
Photos show many facets of
talented, caring Spilyay employee
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Capturing traditional and cultural events was especially important to Marsha. The Huckleberry feast at HeHe was a great place for colorful and
meaningful photos.
The photos on the top ot this page were taken
by Marsha Shewczyk, Spilyay photographic
specialistfeature writer killed October 22, 1993
in a tragic accident in Madras. Current Spilyay
employees wanted to do something to
commemoratenotonly Marsha's work in Warm
Springs but what she meant to each of us
individually.
What was too difficult to verbalize last year
at the time of her death is still difficult to
express. We continually miss her and probably
always will. Not a day goes by that one of us
doesn't mention Marsha. She had a special
quality that caused us all to dig deep within
ourselves and pull out what we didn't know
was there. She caused us to want to better our
work performance as well as improve our
personal lives. Above all, she made us think
think beyond theboundariesof thereservation,
think about the future, think about our
contribution to the big picture.
Marsha was careful to reward her hard work
with well-deserved vacations. These vacations
were not the kick-back and relax types either. In
1992, she took three weeks to float the Colorado,
probably oneof theroughestrivers in the world.
She was an avid outdoors woman. She enjoyed
old movies, cooking and all kinds of music. She
worked hard at being well-informed and well
rounded. She did not sit idle as the world
marched by she was part of the band.
Those of us at Spilyay wanted to share with
readers a story or two we shared with Marsha.
Marsha and I always joked that my party-
fiving expertise was much like that of Mary
yler Moore's; parties at my house are often
boring flops. Sometimes, people don't even
show up. A few years ago, Ideaded to throw a
"come as you are" party. I thought this would
help break the boring party curse. I probably
called Marsha and six or eight couples and
asked mem to come over for a barbecue and
that they were required to come dressed exactly
as they were at the time of my call. Of course,
everyone came dressed pretty normally, except
for Marsha. She came dressed in her wedding
dress, complete with veil, argyle socks and old
Nike running shoes. I think sne broke the curse
on my parties. Donna
When I first came to Spilyay in 1987 as a
student worker I was introduced to Marsha as
well as the rest of the staff and told that Marsha
would be the one who would assign work to
me and evaluate what I did. And that she did
first thing. Writing became a great part of my
life. I took all the English classes I could in
school and came back toSpilyay every summer,
and half days of my senior year, and I'm still
here. I really feel I learned a lot at Spilyay and
a lot of it is due to her. She was a great influence
on me. She pushed me where I needed it, and
was always willing to listen when I just needed
someone to talk to. I know it's been almost a
year, and I miss her so much, but in many ways
it still feels like she's here. Saphronia
When I first came here to Spilyay as a trainee
Marsha kept me pretty busy, writing. She later
started training me in the darkroom, I liked
working in there with her. She had her way of
teaching that made it fun and easy to learn.
'Just put this in here first then put it in there."
Not getting too technical with her terms. She
, . helped me rmild my self-esteem by making me
believe in myself and pointing out my abilities.
Being a reporter photographer was something
I never thought I could do but Marsha helped
me to believe that it was possible. Today I go in
the darkroom and work and still think of her
and remember everything that she has taught
me about this and that. She helped develop the
confidence I now have. Selena
I came to work here at Spilyay in March 1989
and the first day, the first hour, I had news that
my 19-year-old son had committed suicide.
They all rallied around and told me to do what
I had to do and let me go. When I came back,
Marsha helped me learn alot of things I didn't
think I could do. In the darkroom, on the old
typesetter, cutting pictures (I got yelled at for
cutting it too short-end of my picture cutting
days), laying the paper out, taking photos and
exchanging information with each other (when
she needed to know who belonged to what
family and how they were related,! would give
a fast lesson on the person's family tree). Marsha
was a very knowledgable person in most
everything and still had that desire to learn
more. I really admired her for everything she
had accomplished for herself and her son. When
I moved on, she was one of my best friends I
would visit or take to lunch just to see how
everything was going with her. She opened my
eyes to a lot of new things and also made me
more aware of how blessed I was with my
marriage to Easton. She was always asking if he
had a twin tucked away somewhere. I feel that
because of her, my life is fuller and I'll never,
ever forget her. I'm glad the Lord blessed me
with her friendship. Tina
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