Chilocco Indian Agricultural School - Chiloccoan Yearbook (Chilocco, OK)

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A dministration L. E. CORRELL Superintendent Greetings to the Senior Class: You young people are rapidly approaching the completion of the second goal in your efforts to obtain a good education. Please remember that an education is only valuable if you make use of it. If you have learned some- thing worthwhile here at Chilocco, put it to work immediately because only by usage and repetition can you hope to continue to improve on what you now think you know. If you leave a piece of brand new machinery standing 6 N

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Dedication MARTIN SANDERS Martin Sanders Instructor in Carpentry, has endeared himself to Chilocco d Chl o I-le is students during the past nineteen years he has been employe at iocc . an alumnus of the Class of '29, I-Iis work has included instructor in cleaning and Dressing, and he served for many years as Scout Master. He now sponsors the Trades Club. As a student, Mr, Sanders was a member of Company C, l8Oth Infantry and for the past six years he has been Staff Sergeant in the local National Guard. his family golfing and the Masonic Lodge of Among his personal interests are , , which he is Past Master of Blue Lodge, Knight Templar and a 32 degree Mason. -le is a member of the Cherokee tribe. Mr. Sanders, while training boys in the skills of carpentry, helps them gain a fine sense of responsibility for being a good workman and a good citizen. It is in appreciation of Mr. Sanders as an instructor and as o favorite Chilocco alumnus ' ' ' h I949 CHILOCCOAN. that the Senior Class dedicate to him t e 5

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idle without care it takes only a few months until it becomes rusty and cannot be used economically in the future without a lot of effort, brushing up, re- greasing and reconditioning. The very same thing is true with an education. lf you use it, it will always be a source of pleasure and will be useful to you and to those who live around you, but if you do not put it to use, it is soon forgotten and will be of little value. Time will tell what use you have made of what you have learned while here at Chilocco but then it will be too late if you have not taken advantage of the skills and knowledge learned while in our school. I am writing this brief ,greeting for your little class booklet, the Chil- occoan, which, when printed, will make a written as well as pictorial record of your high school days. l hope you will read and reread this booklet from time to time so it will serve as a reminder of the things you did well while you were students at this school. I hope that it will stimulate you to do bigger and better things as graduates. lt now looks as if there will be 87 graduates in this year's class--49 boys and 38 girls-not a very big class. ln this year's class we have one member who represents the third generation to attend the Chilocco School which, as you know, was started in 1884. The fathers and mothers of many of this year's graduates attended this school, and the value of the total train- ing of the people who have been students in this school is hard to measure but it certainly has played a very important part in the gradual raising of the living standards of the Indian people. In this year's class we have at least five girls who are definitely planning to take nurse's training and at least ten boys who will go on to college besides several others who plan to take up special courses above the high school level. There is one unusual thing about this class. For the first time in the history of the school every honor student in the senior class comes on the boys' side of the list. Most years in the past it has been top heavy the other way--the girls have been in the majority, but for some reason the boys in this class seem to have a monopoly on the top grades, and undoubtedly, your valedictorian and salu- tatorian will be boys. You have a fine class motto: Either we will find a way or make one. lf you would actually live the thought in that motto, nothing could keep you from succeeding. You have called yourselves the '49ers. What a wonderful thing it would be if you could do as worthwhile a job as the real '49ers did when they opened up this midwestern country. Remember that when you leave the doors of the Chilocco Indian Agri- :ultural School you literally leave your protected guidance behind, for what- ever you do in the future will be more or less on your own initiative and your own responsibility with very little personal tutorage from the people you will look to for future educational or business guidance. lt has been a pleasure to be your superintendent and l hope you will join the ranks of the Chilocco Alumni Association with the sincere desire to make your diploma mean something. 7