BIA Comm. Philleo Nosh to Dedicate
School Buildings at Barrow, Kotzebue
MILLION DOLLAR SCHOOL AT BARROW—Recently completed, the new million dollar elementary
school at Barrow will be dedicated by Commissioner Nash, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The
new school has been in operation since last fall.
NEW APARTMENT HOUSE FOR TEACHERS—Beside the new million-dollar school building at Bar
row, a new apartment house for teachers will be dedicated. It has 4 two-bedroom units, 2 three-bed
room units. One duplex, located next to the six-unit apartment building, contains two bedrooms in
each unit. The new quarters do have running water, but no flushes. —Staff Photo
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT VISITS—William R. Wood, president of University of Alaska, is seen talk
ing with John Gordon, principal of Barrow Bureau of Indian Affairs elementary school. The new mil
lion dollar school is to be dedicated by Commissioner Philleo Nash on bis visit to Barrow.
Study to Decrease Dropouts...
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Developing in adults an increased
interest in education will provide
greater family support of the total
school program.
11.School rules and regulations
need to be reviewed. Students, pos
sibly elected school councils, should
help formulate regulations to gov
ern their own behavior.
12. Increases in guidance person
nel are dtitically needed.
13. Dormitory proctors should be
carefully selected and should pos
sess training which will enable them
to deal with the special problems
encountered by homesick youth.
14. Cumulative records should be
kept for each child in every school.
Personal folders should be sent with
the child if he transfers to another
school. Such records are invaluable
in helping school personnel recog
nize the symptoms of dropouts and
related problems.
15. Future research studies are
needed on these topics:
a. Development of an appropriate
curriculum for Alaska native
schools, including construction of
teachers’ manuals, resource units,
subject guides, and provisions (or
consultative help in special areas.
b. Determination of qualifications
of teachers and administrators who
are most successful in working in
rural areas.
c. Establishment of suitable high
school facilities in appropriate geo
graphical regions.
d. The dropout problem at the
elementary school level.
e. Educational programs for out
of-school youth—both dropouts and
those who have completed high
school but remain unemployed.
f. Community attitudes toward
education.
Kuskokwim Club
Visits Fairbanks,
Circle Hot Springs
Forty persons from Bethel visited
Fairbanks and Circle Hot Springs
over the weekend via a special
chartered prop.iet sponsored by the
Kuskokwim Club.
The Kuskokwim Club was organ
ized last summer among the em
ployees of the Alaska Native Health
Hospital at Bethel as a means to
allow them to see various places in
the state.
By banding together, they are able
to get transportation at only a frac
tion of the cost it would be on
scheduled airlines.
President of the club is Don An
gler; vice president. John Miescher;
treasurer, Elizabeth Nicholai, and
secretary, Ignatius Dan. All are em
ployees of the hospital.
Naturally, all members of the hos
pital staff cannot go on a trip so
reservations for space on a charter
is thrown open for residents of
Bethel village.
“We hardly get through one trip
and we are promoting another one,”
said one member of the club, Mrs.
Elaine Clement.
Mrs. Clement, nurse, Miss Elsie
Pavil, practical nurse, and Miss
Maggie Richards, nurse’s aide, vis
ited Tundra Times while in Fair
banks.
About a month ago, the Kusko
kwim Club went to Nome and Kot
zebue. According to members, the
next trip is a planned visit of Ko
diak Island.
Barrow School
To Be Dedicated
The new million-dollar school
building at Barrow. Alaska, will be
dedicated this week by Philleo
Nash. Commissioner of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs.
The school, built in the form of
a “T,” has eight classrooms. Each
classroom has 900 square feet of
floor space; there are water foun
tains in each classroom.
The equipment in this building
is of modern design; the latest edu
cational and teaching materials are
used.
The school has a well-equipped
diet kitchen, which prepares and
serves to 450 children one hot meal
per day; the lunch room has 1,600
square feet of floor space.
The school, a six-unit apartment
building, and duplex building lo
cated nearby have circulating heat.
The heat for the living quarters
comes from two natural gas boil
ers, located in the center of the
apartment building; the heat for
the school building is supplied by
two natural gas boilers, located in
the center of the school building.
The school has a large, heated
garage which houses a caterpillar
and vehicles. The caterpillar is used
to haul water and refuse.
The garage and the school’s warm
storage area has 1.200 square feet
of floor space each. In addition,
Barrow also has two large walk-in
type deep freezers.
Dogmushers Organized
At University of Alaska
If one might happen to see
student carrying away scraps from
the cafeteria of the University of
Alaska, it’s very likely that the
student is a member of the Uni
versity Dog Mushers.
The group of thirteen is probably
the most newly organized club on
the University Campus.
Some of its members are from
the lower states and will be learn
ing to mush while other members
are from villages and have “grown
up” with dogmushing.
According to Pete Balch, chair
man of the group, it has four chief
purposes:
1. To establish dogmushing as a
college sport on the competitive
basis. Eventually the club hopes to
have an entry in the North Ameri
can Sled Dog Championship race
in Fairbanks.
2. To give students who are not
financially able to support a dog
team an opportunity to continue
mushing while at college.
3. To act as a social adjustment
for native students who are familiar
with mushing but not familiar
with regular varsity sport.
4. To promote dog mushing as an
Alaskan sport.
Two Fairbanks mushers donated to
the group some dogs and another
individual donated a sled. The dogs
are kept about a half-mile from
campus in some donated kennels
and the students are now building
a warm up shack there.
The students, two at a time, take
turns feeding the dogs for a week at
a time. At present they feed them
mostly cereal and what scraps they
can procure from the college cafe
teria. Later on, they will start feed
ing them fish.
In addition to mushing, the club
members hope to try skijoring—in
which three or four dogs pull a
skier.
The members of the club are:
Carol Rudnick, Neil Jure, Fred
Landru, Mary Bishop, John Paul
(Holy Cross), Francis Hunter
(Hooper Bay); Robbie Neithercoat,
Patsy Popejoy, Rosy Rosey, Mike
Jones, Katie Egowa, Dick- Weiss,
and Pete Balch. Miss Joan Ryan is
faculty advisor.