Eskimos Are---

 

Alaskan Village Is Home
Of Two Summer Students

WL 1 4 939

By Frieda Cowles, c’40

In a land where dog teams are
used instead of automobile, and air-
planes ski over the hard-packed
snow to gather speed before whir-
ring into the air, Mr. and Mrs. Ne-
ville McMillan live in the Eskimo
village of Noatak, Alaska.

Working through the Department
of Indian Affairs, Mr. McMillan op-
erates the commercial radio station
KTKN; Mrs. McMillan teaches the
elementary grades in a government
school for Eskimo children. Both
are enrolled in the University Sum-
mer Session and will return to Alaska
in August.

Noatak stands at the foot of
spruce-timbered mountains, on the
bank of the river from which it takes
its name. In the winter, dog teams
‘and sleds provide a means of travel

| in and out of the village; in the sum- |

mer, boats go up and down the Nao-
tak river, and all the year round
there are planes to bring in passen-

 

gers, mail, and supplies.
“Fisher, Hunter, Trapper”
Mr. McMillan characterized. ‘ie.

Eskimo as a \ “fisher, a hunteryand “a

 

WPA Recreationa! Director
Starts Series of Lectures

To University seen 1939

Mr. Edgar Schmidt, A.B.’30, State
Director of Recreation under the
auspices of the Works Progress |.
Administration, began a series of
lectures in Dr. -Forrest C. Allen’s |

Community Recreation class yester-

day. These lectures will be given
each Thursday morning at 9:30

o‘clock, and will deal with recre- ||

ation as sponsored by the “Federal
W.P.A. organization.
Schmidt was a member of the

varsity football and baseball teams :

during his undergraduate days, win-
ning letters in football in 1927, ‘28,
29, and in baseball in 1928, ‘29, and |
£30. {

 

 

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trapper.” Mountain sheep, reindeer,
and caribou, fish from the river, wild
berries, and greens furnish him with
the essentials of his diet. Each sum-
mer he takes his family on a trip to
the coast—less than a day’s journey
by dog team, or about seven hours by
river boat—to fish for ee and
seal.

Mercury runs up the scale from 40
degrees below in the winter to 80
degrees in the summer months. “We
wear parkas and mukluks (fur
boots)”, Mrs. McMillan said. “They |
are warmer, lighter, and more com-
fortable than coats and shoes.”

School is held from 9 to 4 o’clock
in the frame schoolhouse wherein _
three teachers instruct 106 Eskimo
children in homemaking, native arts
and crafts, wood and metal work, and
in the fundamental subjects. Then

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Dr. Glenn Cunningham Talks:

To University Group Whe.
SUP 1/8 1939
Dr. Glenn Cunningham, well-
known Kansas track star now con-|
nected with the University exten-
‘sion division, spoke before the Com-
munity Recreation class on “Recre-
ational Facilities of the Future” yes-
terday morning.

Cunningham dealt with the prac-
tical aspects of Community Recre-
ation.

Cunningham spoke at the Central

‘State Teachers’ College at Warrens-
‘burg, Mo., Friday.

 

 

Schmidt Comp oe Series
Edgar S r

of Recreation of ae tae Projects
Administration, Topeka, who has
been giving a series of lectures to
the class in community Recreation,
completed the lectures last week. |
Schmidt has been dealing with re-|
creational programs and leadership.