Two Students
Attend Montana
Youth Conference
Two Mt. Edgecumbe High School
students. Miss Miranda Hildebrand
and Edward Itta, attended the
Northwest Reginal Indian Youth
Conference at Montana State Col
lege, Bozeman. Mont.
Miss Hildebrand, an Athabascan
from Nulato, and Itta, an Eskimo
from Barrow, attended the confer
ence with delegates from Idaho,
Montana. North Dakota, South Da
kota, Oregon. Utah, Washingtcn.
and Wyoming.
“Success in Two Worlds” was the
theme of the conference.
Miss Hildebrand. 17, is Secretary
of the Student Council. She lives
with her parents, Eddie and Alice
Hildebrand, at Nulato. She has two
brothers and three sisters.
She attended grade school at Nu
lato from the first to the eighth
grade with the exception of the
third, fourth and fifth grades which
she took at Pius X Mission at Skag
way.
After graduation in 1960, she en
rolled at Mt. Edgecumbe and this
year, as a junior, was secretary of
the Student Council and member
of the Debate Club. She plans to
attend the University of Alaska or
the University of Washington after
graduating.
Edward Jtta, 17. was recently
elected to be editor of the Mt. Edge
cumbe school newspaper. Channel
Light, for 1963-64. He was president
of the Sophomore Class.
He lives with his parents, Noath
and Mollie Itta. seven sisters and
three brothers in Barrow.
Itta went to grade school up
through the seventh grade at Bar
row Day School and then went to
Wrangell Institute to complete his
eighth grade year. He is now a
junior at Mt. Edgecumbe High
School. He plans to take vocational
training at Haskell Institute after
graduating.
Dwight Youpee, president of the
Council of American Indian stu
dents, states the prupose of the
Montana conference are to stress the
importance of higher education to
Indian youth, to create an atmos
phere of better understanding of
Indian cultures by Indians and non
Indian. and to understand and con
tribute to the improvement and sta
bilizing of socio-economic condi
tions.
Flood Victims
Evacuated
To Fairbanks
About 112 women and children
from several flooded Interior Alas
ka villages were evacuated into
Fairbanks over the weekend.
V'llsgers from Huslia. Nulato. and
Royuki k were first evacuated to
Galena, then flown to Fairbanks,
according to Leonard Lobban, re
gional Civil Defense Director.
The American Red Cross is taking
care of the flood victims in Fair
banks’ Barnette School.
Lobban said the water was about
six feet from the top of the dike at
Galena Air Base above Koyukuk
©bout 2 a.m. today.
Ninety children and 22 adults
Were evacuated from the flood wat
ers by helicopters and C-123’s.
Meanwhile, flood waters from the
Kuskokwim River have surged
through the village of Bethel, a
community of about 2,000 people.
Water is the highest ever recorded
there.
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MT. EDGECUMBE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE TEAM, 1963-64—The youngsters above made an excellent
showing this year, in the S. E. Alaska Debate Tournament which Sitka won. From left to right, hack
Row: Reva Wulf, Shageluk; Miranda Hildebrand, Nulato: Billy Atseriak, Quinhagak; Mary B. Ferguson,
Kotzebue; Diane Hoff, King Cove. Front row: Edna Ahgeak, Barrow; Elizabeth Nasliaknik, Barrow;
Helga Eakon, Unalakleet; Marie Snigaroff, Atka.
Eskimo Tourist Promoters Make
Unexpected Side Trip in Seattle
By Howard Rock
Times Editor
“I thought he was going to take
us to the airport when he got us
into his car. We traveled a few
blocks and then he stopped. When
we got out. he took each of our
arms and we went into a building.
My goodness, it was a bar!” Helen
Seveck. of Kotzebue, said of her
experience in Seattle recently.
Helen and Chester Seveck have
been touring the lower states and
Hawaii, promoting tourism for Wien
Alaska Airlines. Frank Whaley, In
terline and Tour Manager for that
airline, accompanied the couple and
arranged for their many appear
ances on television and radio.
Helen is a strict teetotaler. Her
husband Chester—well, he will take
one or two now and then. His wife
frowns on this indulgence and us
ually limits him to just one or two
anyway. Chester never minds it. As
husband and wife, they get along
wonderfully well.
However, a year or so ago at Las
Vegas, Chester managed to get
around his wife's tight restriction.
They attended a banquet at that
city during their tourist promo
tional tour.
‘‘There were big long tables and
there were many people," recalled
Chester. Soon after they were
seated, a pretty waitress came by
the long table and started to fill
dainty stemmed glasses with a clear
liquid.
When the waitress came close to
where they were sitting. Helen
asked Chester in Eskimo, "What is
she pouring in those glasses?” Ches
ter answered casually “It's only
some kind of soda pop.”
When the waitress filled their
glasses. Chester picked his glass up
and drank it. Helen sipped hers
and said to her husband. “I don't
like this kind of soda pop.” “I’ll
drink it for you,” Chester quickly
offered.
“Almost as soon as our glasses
were empty, the waitress would
come around and refill them,” re
called Helen. “I kept wondering
why Chester kept drinking that
awful soda pop, his and mine.”
As the banquet progressed Chester
became happier and happier. Helen
began to suspect that something was
amiss. By the time the banquet was
over, Helen found out that her hus
band had been drinking champagne,
which he, of course, had sampled
some years previously. Helen had no
idea what the white sparkling liquid
was.
“Since that day. Chester has not
fooled me once. Not once”’ Helen
said.
A week or so ago, the Sevecks had
been window shopping in Seattle,
when a man came to them and
shook their hands.
“He was so nice and he knew our
names,” Helen said. “He wanted
to take us some place but Chester
told him that we had to be at the
airport to come to Fairbanks. The
man said something about his wife,
but all the time I thought he was
taking us to the airport.
“When we wound up at that bar,
the man started to introduce us
around. Pretty soon, they invited us
to sit down at a booth and have a
drink. Chester was very happy and
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said. ‘Fine.’ He was in the act of
sitting down when I said, ‘Come on,
let's go!”
“I grabbed his arm and marched
him out the door." Helen concluded.
Chester added, ‘‘Yes, that’s what
she did.”
Mt. Edgecumbe
Debate Team
Fares Well
Mt. Edgecumbe's debate team
I made an excellent shewing in the
S. E. Alaska Debate Tournament
which Sitka won.
The Edgecumbe negative teams
won the first two debates. Edna
Ahgcak and Elizabeth Nashaknik,
both of Barrow, won the fir-t one.
Miss Ahgeak was judged one of
the top 10 speakers. Marie Snigaroff
of Atka in the Aleutians and Helga
Eakon from Unalakleet won the se
cond debate.
Diane Hoff of King Cove and
Bill Atseriak of Quinhagak. on the
affirmative side, lost jhe third de
bate to Sitka.
Mary B. Ferguson of Kotzebue
and Miranda Hildebrand of Nulato,
on the affirmative side, lost to Ju
neau's negative team.
Members of the debate team. Mr.
and Mrs. Irving Carr, and Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Hopkins had a meeting
and steak dinner at Lowell's Cafe
on April 30.
At this time, the president, Helga
Eakon. presented Mrs. Carr with
an ivory desk set from the eight
; who debated in appreciation of the
work she has done.
Mrs. Donna Carr, the debate
coach, the staff, and students are
pleased with the enthusiasm and
hard work of the debate team.
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