The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-11
KAN" REUNION
WELL ATTENDED
Oscar Cox of WaiaIua and E.
FaxOn Bishop Make
Addresses.
(ErOm Mondays Adyertiser.l

(from MONDAY AdVertlSer.)
For the twenty fifth time the alumni
of the Kamehameha Schools met in re-
union Saturday night at the annual
alumni luau at the school, one of the
events of the season with hundreds of
the graduates, students and friends of
the big institution. The addresses Of
the evening, three in number, reflected
an appreciation on the part of the
speakers of the growing value of the
schools which the peculiar stage reach
ed by the Hawaiians make so important
to the community as a whole.
One of the speakers, Oscar Cox, dep
uty-sheriff of Waialua and an old grad.
uate, was particularly emphatic in re-
gard to the difficulties of the life Of
the student leaving the schools and the
lack of thought which often marked
his plans for a career. Few of them
came to the school he said, with any
definite plan, but most of them because
they were made to.
1t was up to the trustees of the
schools and the estate which supported
it, he continued, to see that teachers
were kept on the faculty, and he called
attention to the fact that as a general
rule the teacher left shortly after be-
coming acquainted with her charges
and was followed by one who not on.
ly did not know them but was often un.
acquainted with the Hawaiians as a
race.
Back to Farm.
He strenuously advised the boys to
ego back to the farm upon the com
Ipletion of their schooling. Work was
more plentiful in the country districts,
he said, and life held less temptation.
Most of them, he was sure, would be
cOntented on plantation where their
technical training would open remun.
erative and steady positions to them
He referred to the difficulty the grad.
uated student often found, when once
the head of family he found himself
supporting it and providing for the
education of his children. In this con
nection Mr.. Cox referred to thousand
acres of arabic land owned by the
Bishop Estate at Waialua which is ly
ing iuIe and recommended that it be
thrown open to the graduates in order
that they might stand a better chance
of making their own independent liv
ing
MIR. Bishops Talk.
r. Faxon Bishop, one of the trustees
was another speaker. He referred II
the reunion as one of the significan
gatherings of the year, reminding hin
of the old days and the time when h,
was in school He referred to the mum
| Of 1noal nf M M
the Coast visiting their alma matters
and said that such reunions always in
culcated an aloha for the school.
Their main business at school, sal
Mr., Bishop, was to get an educatio
permitting them to earn living. A
there had been considerable discussio
a in the press and elsewhere he said h
|, had prepared statistics showing how tn
curriculum of the Kamehameha School
resulted eventually. The followin
table, the accuracy of which he guaral
teed, accounts for all of the 26l gra,
q yates of the school, except four.
In mechanical position, So; clerk
. bookkeepers, Office, so; deceased, q
teachers, Is; in agriculture, II; musi
d 10; postoffice, 81 students, 9; rapi
a transit, q; police positions. 7; she
ifs. 6; architects, 6 customhouse,
u road work, 4; do not know, A; arm
e. and navy, 3; drivers, 81 law, 2; ed
It tors, .; steyedores, .; board of healt
: 2; day laborers, .; ticket agents,
s. superintendent receiving station, / II
y dertaker. I teller in bank, ] mini
lie ter, /; lighthouse keeper, /; store ma
. ager, J.; Kalihi camp, ].
President Horne.
nc President Horne of the schools W
g. the first speaker, welcoming those prs
emit and in his address emphasizing t
debt of each student and graduate
Of the school, the community and the ecu
he try. and above all the debt of gratitu
ba to the memory of Mrs. Berniee Paua
Bishop.
to The program for the evening was
follows;
/. Song, All; .. song, "Poor W
l, lie,' Glee Club; g. address, Preside
ui Horne; 4. music, Girls School; 5. 1