The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
Institute Courses Train Students
 To Live and Make Living in Alaska

] drawing to a close the first textbook 1 was issued. While this was used as basis for the following years l courses, the second book issued was completely revised and new mater i ial added. The third book issued last spring had three times the content l of the first with greatly improved l yari-colored diagrams and drawings. The salmon book has been the ob- 1 ject of highest praise from those 1 who are connected with the fishing industry in it's commercial aspects as well as those engaged in scien- ] tific research. It is acclaimed be- cause it is practical and a superior l type of textbook
 Shares HOnors
 Mr. Silver modestly acknowledges all praise received for his achieve ment and insists on sharing honors with Leroy F. Jackson, the Insti- tute's first director and Charles W. Miller, present director whose eu- Couragement and cooperation were necessary in carrying out the pre- ject so successfully.
 Practical Training
 The objective of each of the In stitutes departments is toward prac- tical training of the boys and girls who have finished the grammar grades in the village schools main tained by the Indian Bureau.
 The main departments of the h. stitute are Health, Business, Social Science, Marine Mechanics, Wool i Working, Physical Education and Home Making. Extra curricular ac- tiyities include basketball, football, track, glee club. orchestra, camera, radio, woodcraft, art and dramatic clubs. The girls have a homemak- ing club which they call the stitch and chatter.
 The purpose of the Institute is not to train for professional life. The Indian boy or girl who wants to be a lawyer or doctor is not encour- aged to spend his high school years at the Institute. As not one in one hundred Indian students of high school age aspire to the professions, it is manifestly right to direct the Institutes work to the ninety nine who will for the rest of their lives derive their living from some phase of the fishing industry It is far more important to those boys that they learn diesel and gas en- zine mechanics than to have two years in Latin or other foreign lan- guage; far more important that the only mathematics taught is com mercial arithmetic; that algebra and geometry are ignored and boat building, wood working and health education substituted. As it hap pens three of the graduates in the past four years who wanted to go on to college had no difficulty in gaining admittance.
 Director Charles w. Miller for the latest edition of MT. Sflver's Salmon Book wrote the following foreWord:
 Salmon Cycle Significant
 "The life-story of the salmon de- termines to a large extent the life stories of the people living in South eastern Alaska. The most signif- icant event in the life-cycle of the salmon is it's seasonal return to spawn in the waters which have their sources in island mountain tops and snOw-cOvered ranges. Up on the complex of events connected with this return of the salmon are built the intense seasonal activities of thousands of Alaskans who are salmon fishermen or who are work CTS connected with the fishing and fish-canning industries. These hu- man beings are directly concerned There are as many others who are more or less directly concerned: namely, those who locally sell goods and render services to the fishermen, cannery workers, and fish traders.
 More indirectly concerned, and yet yitally affected, are the produc- CTS of the goods required by the fishermen and by those connected with the fishing industry These are the workers in the worlds in- dustries, representing a vast variety of productions, as varied as the growing of the coffee bean in Brazil