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Show J3ij3eaj 'uasj3punc) ;a: f lodL?u!'dfPOJD H!S JooyS lojua TBUfleiad vl rfxm liKiunnr . ' principal, Miss 'Wilma ; Victor. old with a future. was called on the carJimmie He is a Navajo who last sumpet. mer could see little in the years "Did you write your father ahead but a life of herding last week? questioned Miss ' sheep on desert dry Texas cot Victor. v . ton. Last year he could expect No, mam. to live his life in a floorless Do you have enough money depend on a medicine doc- for stamps?" tor when he was ill and. if he Yes, mam. was an average Navajo, ean You go right down to your about $150 for a years work. room and write him a. letter. can Jimmie if expect, Today his motiviation doesnt subside, , Yes mam. about ' : to school and go hisJimmy made, no bones complete high n? t , offense, bashfully told the on to college if he wishes. truth and promised to be more Jimmie is a typical student at faithful. He has never missed the Intermountain Indian school " ' week since. in Brigham City, perhaps a bit a. With three room , mates, above average academically and Jimmie his hits the deck about socially, but as average as you 7:30 oclock in' the morning can get. Dr. George A. Boyce when his dorm father, Mr. An He is healthy. He has bronze tonio, raps on the door to their covers a husky private room. First duty of the fresh skin that . . who is charged with the but trim little body. His eyes day is to make his bed, dust the education of- the 1000 Navajo are piercing black and they table and chairs, sweep the friendliness in return for floor and straighten i up his youths now at the Intermoun-tai- n aflash smile. He is probably one of clothes. , school. Indian Superin- the happiest youngsters in. the A11 of this was easily learned tendent Boyce was appointed world for coming to Intermoun-tai- by , Jimmie, for In spite of liv- changing from a ing in a cramped hog an on- the director of the Navajo schools pauperwasto like prince at the wave of reservation, he was taught ' to in 1941 at Window Rock, a wan for him. keep himself and his living ' .. I like it here, would be his quarters clean. Arizona, and for years served After eating a balanced and complete answer to a quese on the Navajo curt, tion on his happiness at the large breakfast at the school planning program. After com- school, and it would be typical cafeteria, Jimmie returns to his room for a final check on neating to the school here in June of his understatements. hang-ove- r a Still to brush his teeth, which ness, very shy, old he transformed the 1949, from the culture, Jimmy he does after every meal, and Bushnell general hospital into finds it a Navajo little difficult to look for a little horse play, with the school it is now. Con- you squarely in the eye and his buddies. Often the ? reservation as does scuffle gets rough struction has been going on talk without school for someone to , come bis counterpart. public enough continually since his arrival Hell waste no words on you out of it with a black eye or a and it is not expected to be you might think he was boast- skinned nose, but practically if he talked too much and never rough enough to hurt feelcomplete until next fall when ful if you mention how fine his art ings. the school will have 2,000 work is or how- well he swims, Jimmie and his buddies probto trastudents enrolled. The Inter- he ducks his head in embarrass- ably have less distance ' to school a In in that little fear vel ment than and anyone mountain Indian school is the you might see his grin of satis- Box Elder county fof his class room is in the same building In largest of , its type in.the faction. world and will be the leading Jimmie writes to his father at which he lives. Once a lounging room at the trading post, via Galof its type in promoting new the Coyote lup, New Mexico, regularly but end of a hospital barracks for educational ideas. one week he missed. Imme- wounded G. Ls, the same space diately his father wrote to his (Continued on Following Page) . . i - ho-ga- . . - HANSENS GORNER GROCERY - - - , . n - . - long-rang- post-breakfa- st - ' - Jimmy Begay, Typical Intermountain Indian School Student . i 1 f! s i s can usually be found in this pose in his classroom. A good student, the like any young man of his aget prefers swimming and basketball to reading and writing. , . , -- |