The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-27
WOMAN s NATIONAL
RIVERS ANO
HARB0RS CONGRESS

NOAMAL ONl1OOl4
FOR CONSERVATION
On invitation of Mr. Wood OF the
Normal School Mrs. Augustus Knud-
sen, vice president for Hawaii of the
Woman's National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, on Friday morning March
18th addressed the students Of the Nor
NAL School and the pupils of grade
eight from the Central Grammar
School. She told the story Of the adj
vance of the great wave of interest in
/ the conservation OF our natural re-
sources, and the future teachers of our
Territory passed rapidly through the
stage of interest to that OF enthusiasm
as they listened to the inspiring pre-
sentation of the meaning and extent of
our natural resources, the value and
need of the preservation Of our for
ests and improvement of our water
ways, and the story of the work al
ready accomplished by MI Clifford Pin
chot and Mr. f. II. Newell.
At the close of Mrs. Knudsen's ad-
dress, the pupils rendered to her a
most hearty vote of thanks and at once
nominated a committee to consider
the organization of a Normal School
] Conservation Club
/ On call of this committee the students
3 assembled at S:15 Monday morning for
organization. Mrs. Knudsen and Mrs.
Hendrick, chairman of the Educational
Committee of the Woman's National
Rivers and Harbors Congress for Ha-
wall, rere present.
Miss Gulick, teacher of Nature Study,
presented briefly, but forcibly the pur-
pose and Importance of the Conserva-
ton work The meeting was then in
charge of the chairman of the students
committee. The following officers were
nominated and elected; President, Miss
Lulu Law 90; vice president, Miss
Mary Grote 10; secretary, Miss PHOEBE
Heen 90; treasurer Miss Rosalind Tam
Yau II.
The platform of "The Woman's Ma
tional Rivers and HarbOrs Congress
was then read and endorsed.
The name adopted for the club is
Normal School Conservation Club. BY
unanimous vote it was decided that the
club become member of the Woman's
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Mrs. Knudsen then congratulated the
Normal students on the opportunity
before them in the schools of Hawaii
emphasizing the need of education anC
the significance of the Normal Schoo
being the pioneer in school organiza.
ton.
Mrs. Hendrick in a few apt words
emphasized the Importance of this
great, Conservation movement anC
spoke of its rapid growth and the work
already accomplished.
Befre the meeting adjourned the
president, Miss Law, was empowered
to appoint a committee to call upon
Mr.. Hosmer of the Forestry Depart.
ment and learn if there was anything
he could suggest either for conserva,
ton or for civic improvement as the
first work to be undertaken by the
Normal School Conservation Club or
ganized for educational and training by
doing of actual work.
At the close the students sang with
a new thrill of patriotism and enthu-
sism the words Of the national hymn:
Il love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills,
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above"
The Kunuwela Camping Club is the
first organization in Honolulu to join
the Womans National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress. The members of the
lKunuwela club spend their summers in
camps in the forests of these islands,
and therefore feel a particular interest
in the work Of cOnSarVa tiOn