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Show Odobar i, 1972 Friday, The Ute Bulletin Americans in Paris Include Ute Indian College Student is the month Peris inspires April Recreation Expert post-hig- h ! ! school. To obtain additional subjects during his post high school years at the Institute, Boots enrolled in College of Santa Fe, a private, Catholic school, as a parttime student. The summer of 69 he was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Phillip Exeter School, Exeter, New Hamp., where he studied History of American Indians, Spanish and Studio Art. The scholarship was presented because of his honor roll achievements. During the summers of 1971 and 72 Boots attended the Connecticut College American Dance Festival's 24 session. He received another dance certificate at the completion of the session. Boots has merit awards, or outstanding student citations, from the Institute of Indian Arts for dance, ceramics, music and chorus. He was a cheerleader while at the school. IN PARIS in Paris he will live with a French family now being selected by the school. Boots will be the only American Indian student enrolled and will enter as a college freshman. He will be receiving his mail at the school, 9, Rue des Ursu-llne- s, Paris 5, France. In a letter from Richard Roy director of the Paris American Academy, he said the dance faculty read like a Whos Who in Paris and he feels the school will be ideal for Boots needs. Boots will spend the evening of Oct. 12 in New York City where he will be met While by Save the Children Foundation personnel who will take him to the airport Oct. 13. A representative of the school will greet Boots in Paris. Tuition is being granted by Save the Children Foundation, Ute Tribe and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Boots Sireech Leaves for Paris Boots to Dance a t Federation Dinner It might be called a "command performance" but Instead of dancing for the Queen, Boots Sireech will be entertaining members and patrons of Save the Children Federation in Albuquerque, N. M. The occasion is the 40th anniversary of the Board of Directors of the Albuquerque office which is the Indian headquarters of the Federation. Boots will be starring during the entertainment after the banquet with his dancing troope from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe. . Cecelia Jenks Returns To Accounting Office According to Dallas Johnson, Director of the Albuquerque office, the anniversary celebration is being presented as a benefit for college scholarships. Dinner will be served tomorrow evening (Friday, Oct. 6) at the Western Skies Motor Hotel, Albuquerque. Also in attendance will be Mrs . Irene Cuch representing the Ute Tribe Business Committee and Mrs. Anne Platt,' Bureau of Indian Affairs Education Officer. Prompting Boots pefor mance is the scholarship granted to him by the Federation to further his dance studies in Paris (see related story). Save the Children Federation is a private profit, nonor- ganization devoted to working with childOfat Tribal the to work ren around the world. Offices are locaReturning fice this week after being employed out ted in 16 countries and on every major of the area for eight years is Miss Indian reservation in the nation. The Cecelia Jenks. Albuquerque office is the headquarters for Cecelia recently resigned from her the reservation operations. position as clerk typist with the Roads Clothing and school supplies are Department in the Phoenix Area office provided to 14,000 elementary and seconof the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix, children through the dary school-ag- e Arlz. She began tribal employment MonFederations patron system. Sponsors send money to the children who in turn day as an accounting clerk in the exOffice. panding Accounting with the donors thus creaA graduate of Union High School, Miss correspond al exchange. ting an Jenks also holds a degree from Lamson The Federation endeavors to improve Business College, Phoenix. Before ob- all aspects of community living through taining employment in Phoenix, she community projects, scholarships and worked for the tribe in the Individual aiding children in emergency situations. Mr. Johnson o' the Federation visited Indian Monies department as a posting clerk. the Uintah and 'ay Reservation last In Phoenix, Miss Jenks resided with spring and met a tribal and BIA perher sister, Dorothy Jenks. She is now sonnel in what is hoped to be the first Making her home with her brother, Glenn step of establishing the Federation on the and his family. U O Reservation. inter-cultur- v t BE SURE TO ATTEND Tuesday's meeting at the Ute Leaning issue, plus other Center, Fort Duchesne. Up for debate Is the long-ha- ir aspects of the Uintah School Board dress code. 10:00 AM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 197& was named to fill the Programs Coordinator by the Community Action Personnel Committee. Barry Inscore was added to the C.A.P, staff to work with the youth of the Ute Tribe. He said this newly established position is primarily to supplement and support the existing programs and to act as an advocate of the youth. He will be working with the recreation department, BIA, proeducation, and other grams. His job wiU also define the needs of the youth through direct input of the people and then try to meet the needs in the overall social spectrum. A committee is presently being formed which will involve the different programs working with the youth to attempt a united front for the youth, the schools, and This committee wiU meet at others. regular intervals to let each other know what is going on to avoid duplication of programs. Mr. Inscore was graduated from the University of Utah with a B. S. degree in Recreational Therapy last spring. He has worked in the psychology department as recreation therapist for the Primary Childrens Hospital in Salt lake City. A native Utahn position of Youth The son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Sireech, Randlett, cultivated his dance interest while attending the Institute of American Indian Arts. He completed his high school education at the Santa Fe, N. M., school and two years of poe- try. By spring a Ute student will feel like an oldtlmer in France and April is likely to seem much like any other month. Boots Slreech will leave next week for the City of Light to enroll in the renown Paris American Academy where he will study dance and French as well as other educational and cultural subjects available which Include painting, art history, sculp- ture, music, theater, photography, cinema and cuisine. GAP Employs Flew 4-- H, youth-orient- ed Barry Inscore New CAP Employee Ford Foundation Announces Scholarship Program The Ford Foundation is offering a limited number of graduate fellowships to American Indians who intend to pursue a career in higher education. In order to be considered for one of these fellowships, applicants must meet all of the following qualifications: 1. They must be citizens of the United States. 2. They must be enrolled in or planning to enter a U. S. graduate school offering the doctoral degree in their field of study. 3. They must be currently engaged in or planning to enter a career in higher Bulletin Adds Two Education Pages The importance of education has prompted the Ute Bulletin to add two pages of school-relat- ed news. One page, dealing with activities at the local schools, is being edited by Gloria Arrowgarp of the Uintah Basin Education education. Council. Reporters and coorEligibility is limited to (a) Applicants dinators have been assigned who plan to pursue full time study toward at of each the schools. the doctoral degree in the Arts or ScienThe second page is being ces or (b) applicants who hold a first professional degree-su- ch written in the Tribal Education as the MBA, MPA MSW or M.Ed. Office with. Carleen Ignacio and plan to continue on to the doctoral coordinating the editing. Cardegree in preparation for a career in leen is soliciting reporters higher education. from each of the Indian boarding These fellowships provide assistance up to a maximum of four years. They are schools and her news will be available as Course of Study Awards of with concerned primarily Dissertation Awards. school and the students boarding Course of Study Awards are for docI program in the local toral students who will be engaged in Title course work andor seminars schools, plus Indian participain preparation for the general, prelimition in local school issues. nary, or qualifying examinations. They Boarding school students are for one year only, but will be renew- to submit news should able for a maximum of two additional wishing to Carleen Ignacio, Eduwrite years if the awardee maintains satisfactory progress toward the doctorate. They cation Secretary, Ute Tribal will not, however, cover course work Office, Fort Duchesne. ate full-ti- me beyond the third year. Dissertation Awards are for doctoral candidates who have completed all of the requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation and who will be engaged in fulltime work on their dissertation. They are for one year only, and are not renewable. In making Dissertation Awards, preference will be given to applicants who now hold Ford Foundation Advanced Study awards and to applicants who have passed all preliminary examinations by the end of their, third year. Fellowship awards for 1973-7- 4 will include tin foil tuition and fees required by the graduate school, an allowance of $300 for books and supplies, and a monthly stipend of $250 to help meet living costs. A married Fellow may apply for an additional stipend of $50 a month for his her spouse and each dependent child, provided that dependency can be ted. The deadline for submitting completed applications and all supporting documents Is January 5, 1973. The names of the winners will be announced on March 25, 1973. Application forms must be requested by the individual applicant. No applications PBITU ARIES Phyllis M. Burson Phyllis Martines Burson, 37, died Sept. a Salt Lake hospital of a long illness. She was born Nov. 22, 1937 in Ft. Duchesne to Herbert and Alice Wyasket Martinez. She married Fred L. Burson in Vernal. Survivors include her husband, Vernal; a daughter, Matilda Wyasket, Jensen; two grandchildren; a brother and sister, Gerald Martinez, Whlterocks and 28 in Madeline Brock, Requlum Mass was held Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Helens Catholic Church. Burial was in the John Harmes Cemetery, Whlterocks. will be sent to intermediaries. For application forms and additional Information write to: Graduate Fellowships for American Indiana The Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street, New York, New York 10017 |
