The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-05-07
LAUDABLE ORGANIZATION.
sIsunt Holyoke AIumns. Association OF
Hawaii-ResoIutions Of Sympathy
with an Honored Member.

hons that exist IN Honolulu, is ont
known TO Its members as the Holyokt
Alumna Association of Hawaii. 1t:
tenth anniversary was celebrated last
Wednesday. when ten alumna en-
50ved feast Of reasen and flow Of
soul" al the home of Mrs. W. D.
Alexander. The object of this Asso-
Cisu01. Ike that of the numerous
Holvoke Associations scattered
throughout the United States, is to
stimulate interest in their Alma
Mater. and to aid financially in
keeping her IN the front rank of
educational institutions. The Asso-
cation numbers nineteen members,
a whom eleven reside in Honolulu,
four on Maui. two on Hawaii, and
two on Kauai. Four Of these were
pupils OF Miss Lyon, the noble
founder Of the Institution, one of
whom. Mrs Malvina Rowell, was the
first graduate who went to foreign
mission field
Since Its organization this Associ
alton has had the privilege of enter
tanning two honored members of the
Mount Holyoke Faculty: Miss Julia
L Ward, for ten years the success
Tul principal, and Miss Lydia d.
ShEttuck. well known throughout
the United States as an enthusiastic
botsuist. Her many friends in the
Islands viii regret to hear that
she ls now IN feeble health.
II view Of the fact that one of the
Esterh0od, Miss Helen Z. Carpenter,
has lately resigned her position as
Principal of Makawao Female Sem
Iusry. the alumna at their last meet
ing expressed their appreciation of
her long and faithful labors IN the
following resolutions:
Resolved, that the Holyoke Alum |
ua Association of Hawaii do here |
put on record their affectienate
esteem and regard for the long life |
Of benevolence and usefulness of |
their sister. Helen L. Carpenter, on
these Islands, continued through |
eighteen years, in which time she
has built up a large and fourishing
Institution Of learning for Hawaiian
girls. and has had under her excel
lent training and moulding infu-
ence many hundred pupils, and sent
out many TO form Christian homes,
as well as to engage successfully in
teaching their own people, and some
10 20 IS missionaries to the heather
lands Of Micronesia;
Resolved, that in this failure Of
her physical ability to continue in
tins arduOUs work, we deeply sym
pathize with her, and pray our
father to grant her many years in
some quiet home here. where she
may still note the progress of the
and reap the fruit of her
sowing.
The Holyoke alumna have found
these gatherings to be a neces-
sIty, II they would keep informed
Of the progress of the institution,
for n the last ten years she has
made such rapid advancement that
only those who are keenly alive to
whatever concerns her could recog-
ME their foster-mother to-day.
Mount Holyoke Is now a College,
with q course of study and power of
degrees like that of other
colleges. The following extract is
from tie New York Mail and Elk )
press
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke
and College in a special
meeting at Northampton, Mass,
unanimously and with great en-
elected Miss Mary a. Brig
ham. OF Brooklyn Heights Seminary,
y. Y, to be the first pres .
ldent Of Mount Holyoke Seminary /
and College.
Following the granting of the col t
.ege charter IN March, 1888, com
Dlete college course was introduced,
ind the diploma Of a Mount Holyoke !
g. B. VIII now signify four years of !
solid advanced study, marked with
.be same stamp of thoroughness and
genuine intellectual achievement
which has always been connected
With the name Of Mount Holyoke. :
With so grand a model :
q Christian womanhood as Mary :
Lyon to head the long line of princi-
1sls who for more than fifty years I
nave held more or less undisputed
WAY in the cid halls, the friends of 7
he institution have felt that the !
ssk Of selecting the first president :
would be no ordinary one. But the !,
zane which has been secured will :
rouse tie enthusiasm and interest Z
Z al the friends of Mount Holyoke l
nc viii gain for her many more. .
Iiss Brigham is well known IN .
educational. social, and benevolent Z
ircles ID New York and Brooklyn !;
s q woman Of unusual mental power :
nd executive ability, and of superior Z
refinement and tact :
Tor years she has steadily refused \
ONE OF the leading educational Il
.ositons in the country. The first -
of Wellesley College was +
rged upon her. and later professor n
hips at Smith and Wellesley were l
/ her disposal. For three years 3
he was a teacher at Mount Holyoke, =
nd was offered the principalship "
sveral years ago. AT a half dozen a. q,
Their New England Seminaries, and g
D the West, and in New York City, .
ar name has been honored as the
hoice for principal. Her best record
not II any printed words, but in
~. 575z-as of hundreds of vounp la VI