The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-05-25
CHAMBER HOLDS FAREWELL
FOR INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

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veIt's birthday. As mayor" said
Mr.. Kirkland, II know that l am
expressing the sentiment of the
town when l say that we are sorry
to see you go, but that we wish you
all happiness and success in your
new work.
Proud of Member
K. w. j. Reed, U. S. Customs Col
lector at Wrangell, said, I'VE shall
certainly miss Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson
and their son and daughter. We also
feel pretty proud that we have had
a member of the Chamber of Com
merce who was competent to come
out first in a civil service examina-
ton in which 500 school men par
ticipated. We have enjoyed the
jackson family and shall always re-
member them with pleasure. We
hope they can do the same by US
School Projects Practical
Mr.. Barnes then mentioned his
recent visit to the Institute when
he had been invited to address the
salmon science class on the topic
of cost of production and methods
of marketing canned salmon, the
last two units of the project under
taken by this class under the super
vision of G. E. Silver. The previous
units involved in the study of the
life history of the salmon were ana
tony, biology, types of fishing gear,
processing and areas of eonsump-
ton.
He was deeply impressed, said
Mr.. Barnes, by the practically OF
the project and the methods used
in it's development and declared
that if the other subjects taught
were approached in the same spirit
and effectiveness, the school was
we'll worth all the money the gov
eminent was expanding on it.
On behalf of the chamber, Mr..
Barnes then presented to Mr.. Jack
son a gold mounted fountain pen
desk set fashioned of fossil ivory
and onyx, as a farewell gift from
The membership.
Interesting Experience
Mr.. Jackson in reply thanked the
members of the chamber for their
kind words of appreciation and gift
of remembrance. He stated that his
two years in Wrangell had been as
interesting an experience as he had
ever had in his life. The country
had been different and the job had
been different in many respects.
81 was selected to open up Wran-
CELL Institute, l presume, said Mr.
jackson, because l had spent nine
years on a project In North Caro-
lima which had much in common
with the Wrangell situation. The
two problems, differing of course in
detail, both the preparation
of young people with an unusual
social background for modern liv-
ing.
1.-The work at Wrangell Institute
during the past two years." Mr..
Jackson continued, has been carry
ing out instructions from both the
Washington and Juneau offices in
an effort to meet the peculiar needs
of the Indian young people.
THE desire has been to work out
gradually a curriculum of studies
of practical and cultural value based
on the experience and interests of
the Indian young people.
'In the second place the effort
has been to set up for the students
place in which to live as they
learn-to establish ideals, habit in
terests and the principles of leader
ship and fellowship. The method has
not been coercive but directed
growth"
Mr.. Jackson closed by stating that
the nearer the date for his leaving
arrived the more both he and Mrs.
Jackson realized how hard it was
to leave. I'VE have found in Wran-
gell," he said, IAN unusually
friendly spirit, and l have never
known a place with so many fine
people in proportion to the general
population"