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Show 1 ]TIHE re-opening of our school is always . a matter of importance and excitement. This year, our new teacher, Walter Robertson, enlisted the help of several older lads who were hanging around and doing nothing const ructive, and he painted and cleaned up t he building, in which we at last had laid a new floor of t & g fir, with the r esult that the room is lighter, cleaner, and far more cheerful in appearance than it has been in the past. Due to distance from homes, a few boar ders have to be cared for at the Mission, but most of the scholars are living with their parents or relatives. The Government bus has come and taken away the older children who are by this time hard at work - we hope-in the various of f-Reservation schools, or the larger on-Reservat ion boarding schools like Shiprock, Kayenta etc. I NIEW FLOOR in school, mentioned above, was only one of many projects under-taken by the Summer workers this year. These young people came to us from many parts of the country - as far apart as California and Washington, D.C. As we accepted these volunteers in the order of their applications, qualification being, of course, acceptable) ,it so happened that the girls were in the majority. While they wielded tools with skill and vigor, it still meant that activities had to be geared to some extent to their peculiar gifts, and we were very happy to find that they could rescue us f rom a deplorable back-log filing and posting of r ecords which in our eagerness to get other , things done we had necessarily post poned in the Winter and Spring. The earlier part of each day, before it got unbearably hot, the girls devoted to the gardens, with excellent results ; some helped in the clinic, all did 1 engthy KP assignments, accompanied the missionaries on distant or nearby outstation "" ''''''-UOrJ~" trips and assisted at the Daily Vacation Bible School which Katie Berton conducted during her all too brief stay. We squeezed in a few trips to "points of interest" in the area, including a picnic at Hovenweep National Monument. Sartorial talent approaching genius was discovered in one, with th~ result that a second cassock, made of material given by Christ Church, Canyon City, Colorado, will probably be in use by t he time you read t his. |