The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-02
EAST MAUI FEMALE SEMINARY.
Early History OF the Institution Its
Anniversary ExaminatiOn-Suggest

Early History of the Institution Its
Anniversary Examination-Suggest
ions, Etc.
1t is twenty years since few good
people on Maui secured Charter for
girls boarding school. The school build
ings were not erected nor teachers Sc
cured till about June, 1871. Miss II. T.
Carpenter, who then began her labors III
connection with this school, and for III
teen years has been the efficient, beloved,
and honored Principal, has given the
school its character and reputation as al
attractive home as we'll as well
managed training school for Hawaiian
girls. The Christian influences, and the
| domestic as we'll as intellectual training,
for which the school has been noted,
have self perpetuating testimony to
their inestimable value in many Hawai-
ian homes to-day in every island OF the
group.
Changes in the population ard occu-
patton of Mtakawao, where the school IS
located have been as great and noticeable
as in every other district. Hawaiians
have disappeared, foreign resident ar
tisans have grown fewer and fewer dur
ing the last decade. Within the last five
years Chinese and Portuguese have been
occupying the lands and residences, and
the stiffness of a sparsely populated graz
ing district has taken the place OF the
sounds of the kappa beating, and the later
cries ofhousehold domestic animals. Now
the solitary traveller winds his lonely
way for miles of well-fenced roads with
few habitations.
But anniversary day at the East Maui
Female Seminary is still regarded as one
of the great festival days, and from every
quarter people come up the long ascent
to "Maunaolu." Last Thursday, June
81, at O'Clock the spacious school-yard
was occupied by horses and brakes and
wagonettes, while the various rooms were
thronged with an assemblage of visitors,
eagerly inspecting the specimens OF
school work, or fancy work, or the ap-
petizing cakes and breads from the
kitchen department.
Presently the changing of the big bell
"a gift from w. w. Hail. summons the
crowd to the school hall where the
various teachers conduct recitations in
the special topics of study they have
been teaching their pupils. Glasses in
Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, His
tory, English Literature, show the care
full and successful training they have re-
ceived, though the Primary Department,
in their cosy room attract more
than their share of the company
to hear the little tongues and lips frame
in clear and distinct English articulation
the mysteries of the printed page, or sing
with bird-like trills the simple songs OF
youthful glee or pathos. Then, all
gather in the hall for the closing rhetorl-
cal exercises, and these ended, crowd
the verandahs to see the graceful group
ings in the calisthenic drill on the lawn.
Brief addresses follow from the President
of the Board of Trustees, g. E. Beck
with, of Haiku, and the various visiting
ministers from the different parishes on
Maui. The lunch is deity served, and
quickly despatched. and soon there Is
scurrying down, the different roads, for
it is many mile back to the far away
homes; and night will fall ere some can
return to the distant locality whence
they started in the early hours OF the
long summer day.
Miss Carpenter, burdened with new
and increasing cares, has resigned the
charge of the school, with whose history
and success she has so closely identified
herself All honor to the woman, whose
Christian conservation has blessed SO
many hearts and homes with heavenly
light and love. Her fifteen years of de-
voted service deserve some special me-
mortal from those who know her worth
and work. Miss Wykof returns to Cali
fernia.
I The trustees are in diligent search of
new teachers, and hope to open the
| school in September, with an enlarged
corps of experienced and approved
teachers. Mrs. Locke still continues in
| charge of the Sewing Department, Miss
Simpson in the Academic, and Miss
Anderson in the Domestic Department.
Like others of our Christian schools, the
East Maui Female Seminary, needs adj
ditional funds. It ought to have at once
a permanent endowment of $4,000, and
as many annual scholarships of $50 each
as it's friends can furnish. With the aid
| of grant from the Board of Education
the tract of land on the upper side has
| been purchased. A generous donation
| from Hon. III. P. Baldwin has enabled
the Trustees to purchase a wagonette,
and baggage Wagon, and build car
riage house and stables. Other i'm
provements are contemplated, a supply
of water from the Makawao aqueduct, a
range with hot water tank, ETC., etc.
Our men of means, who wish to know
where to put money so that it can do the
most good, will not 60 far astray if they
send few thousands to Mr.. Beckwith, at
Haiku, for the E. M. F. S.