The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-02
LAUDABLE ORGANIZATION.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of sympathy
with an HOnored Member.

Among the numerous Organlza-
tiOns that exist in Honolulu, Is one
known to its members as the HOlyOke
Alumna Association of Hawaii. It's
tenth anniversary was celebrated last
Wednesday, when ten alumne en-
ioyed feast of reason and flow Of
soul" at the home of Mrs w. d.
Alexander. The object of this AssO-
citation, like that of the numerous
Holyoke 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-
citation numbers nineteen members,
of 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
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mission field.
Since its organization this AssOcl-
alton has had the privilege OF enter
tanning two hOnored members of the
Mount Holyoke Faculty: NJ 8 Julia
e. Ward, for ten years the success
full principal, and Miss Lydia ID.
Shattuck, we'll known throughout
the United States as an enthusiastic
botanist. Her many friends III the
Islands will regret to hear that
she is now in feeble health.
In view Of the fact that one OF the
sisterhOOd, Miss Helen E. Carpenter,
has lately resigned her position as
Principal of Makawao Female Sem
mary, the alumn@ at their last meet
ing expressed their appreciation of
her long and faithful labors in the
following resolutions:
Resolved, that the Holyoke Alum
nae Association of Hawaii 90 here
put on record their afectionate
esteem and regard for the long life
of benevolence and usefulness &c
their sister, H66II6u 3. 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 we'll as to engage successfully in
teaching their own people, and some
to go as missionaries to the heather
lands of Micronesia:
Resolved, that in this failure of
her physical ability to continue in
this arduous work, we deeply sym
pathize with her, and pray our
father to grant her many years in
some quiet home here " here she
may still note the progress of the
institution, and reap the fruit of her
sowing.
The Holyoke alumna have found
these gatherings to be a neces-
sity, if they would keep informed
of the progress of the institution,
for in the last ten years she has
made such rapid advancement that
only those who are keenly alive to
whatever concerns her cOnld recOg-
nize their foster mother to-day
Mount Holyoke is now a College
with a course of study and power OF
comforting degrees like that of Other
| colleges. The following extract Is
from the New York Mail and Elk
| press:
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke
Seminary and College in a special
meeting at Northampton, Mass.
unanimously and with great Ell
thusiasm elected Miss Mary A. Brig
ham, of Brooklyn Heights Seminary
Brooklyn, n. Y, to be the first pres
ident of Mount Holyoke Seminary
and College. X * X
Following the granting of the col
lege charter in March, 1888, a com
! plete college course was introduced
and the diploma of Mount Holyoke
A. B. will now signify four years OF
solid advanced study, marked will
the same stamp of thOroughness anC
genuine intellectual achievement
which has always been connected
with the name of Mount HOiyoke
X With so grand a mode
of Christian womanhood as Mary
Lyon to head the long line of princi
pals who for more than fifty years
have held more or less undisputeC
sway in the old halls, the friends o.
the institution have felt that the
task of selecting the first president
would be no ordinary one. But the
name which has been secured vii
arouse the enthusiasm and interes
of all the friends of Mount Holyokt
and will gain for her many more
Miss Brigham is well known il
educational, social, and benevolen
circles in New York and Brooklyn
as a woman of unusual mental power
and executive ability, and of superior
! graciousness, refinement and tact
For years she has steadily refused
some of the leading educationa
positions in the country. The frs
presidency of Wellesley College was
urged upon her, and later professor
ships at Smith and Wellesley were
at her disposal. For three years
she was teacher at Mount Holyoke
and was offered the principalshiE
several years ago. At half dozer
other New England Seminaries, anc
in the West, and in New York City,
her name has been honOred as the
choice for principal. Her best record
is not in any printed words, but IL
the lives of hundreds Of young la
dies, whose first impulses to noble