The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-12-01
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WELL CELEBRATED
AT KAWAIAHAO
Pretty Maidens in Pageant Are
Admired BY ManyAADepiCt
the Kawaiahao Ideal
SPEAKERS TELL OF
THE YEARS GONE BY
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History Of the School is History
Of the Missionary Work
In The Islands
(From Sunday Advertiser.)

(From Sunday Advertiser.)
Up In Manoa valley on the broad
greensward Of Kawaiahao seminary, in
the shadow Of the upright Washila, a eel.
ebration was held yesterday afternoon
and evening, to commemorate an event
which happened fifty years ago IN the
cradle days Of Honolulu, when DR.. and
Mrs. l.. H. Gulick opened the doors Of
their home 10 Hawaiian girls, and thus
brought into existence the Kawaiahao
seminary.
That day was celebrated yesterday on
the soft grass Of new Kawaiahao,
when girls Of varying ages, and in the
chosen costumes Of their particular ma.
tive lands enacted pageant which
several hundred Honolulans witnessed
with great delight. They celebrated the
birth Of Kawaiahoa, and In their pa.
geant they told the meaning Of il, and
limited at its futurc-when children Of
all nations will romp together there In
youthful glee, and study the same les
sons.
Happiness and Equality
In quite another way their elders eel
ebrated the occasion, but the spirit man
ifestod by the children in their pageant
was contagious and was reflected in the
actions Of. those who witnessed it.
Therefore, the reception which took place
in Atherton Hall--after the young girls
had finished their parts, and had dropped
out Of sight, charming costumes and all
caught the spirit Of the pageant; which
was, more than anything else, happiness
and equality.
These elders, II they are to be called
that, followed the reception with a din
nor to which the alumnae was especially
invited. This dinner was given in Ather.
ton Hall and, as in the ease Of the re-
ception, was under the auspices OF the
trustees Of the institution. Frank O.
Atherton was toastmaster, Rev. w. B.
Oleson pronounced the Invocation. Sew
eral read papers, including one by w. r.
Castle, on the history Of the institution
from the day Of its founding to the
present time.
semi Centennial
Il was, from beginning to end, 4 day
Of celebration at Kawaiahao. No birth
day Of the fifty which it has to its credit
had been celebrated as this one was. The
children who took part in the pageant
had waited impatiently for yesterday,
when they were TO appear in their Orient.
al or Occidental raiments to march, to
dance and to sing, and to tell a story
with 1t all Of Kawaiahao's history and
its aims.
"Kuu home, home mani
o ka olu Olu Ia Kawaiahao
Hooheno ka manao no Ia home
DIN ka maka 0 ka malihini.
Thus they sang in chorus, and their
clear young voices rose against the sheer
ide of Waahila.
spirit in Kawaiahao
Tho pageant opens with the Spirit Of
Sawaiahao--which part is played by Ann
Kamau--visiting the home of the Ha-
waiian people, calling them to the pur-
suit Of industrial education.
There were groups of girls of diner.
emit nationalities, in their colored cos
tunes, at different places over the
great lawn of the school. The group
representing the Hawaiians is in a
small grass house, and they appear at
the signal Of the spirit Of Kawaiahao
W tahC lnCiI INDUSTRIAL WI :.
In the same manner she calls the Chi.
nese, the Japanese and the Koreans,
and together they dance. At length
the spirit sends for the Spirit Of Mills
School, and three little lads respond,
running the incident representing the
consolidation Of the two institutions.
Kawsaahao's Notes
sYear after year the Spirit Of ka
waiahao sends out her girl graduates
who, covered with leis and radiant with
hope of the future, leads forth tho
representatives Of many nations to car
nv the influence of the school TO every
corner Of Hawaii. And as she goes,
the Spirit blesses her with the Kawal'
ahao motto:
Not to be mihistered unto but TO
Recevtion and Banquet
At the dinner last erening the
speakers mentioned enthusiastically the
success Of the afternoon program.
Mr.. Atherton, as POSTMASTER, called
upSh RB6. iOgUtig Gulick aniopg the
first speakers. His subject was, Early
Beginnings. He went back TO the
early days of the institution, aud the
odds il was pitted against, and tho
fight IL had for its life.
The First Principal
Mrs Coan's paper was extremely In
tcresting. In II she told many remi-
niscenees OF the early day when she
came here, In 1865.
ga voyage Of four months, she
Said, drought us 10 Honolulu and on
thenlSth, Qf March, 1861, we were vel
cohed Nv lbbctde6 lDplirk and othor
friends and were soon conveyed TO the
mission premises at Kawaiahao. Or
our way thither ] had my first impress
sions OF the holoku; ii was Of blue cot
ton velvet. / thought II STRANGE mate
rial for nightgown and strange a
woman should be wearing II on the
street Mother Hubbards had not then
come into vogue, and the one in ques-
tion was of course a novelty TO me.
HThree buildings stood upon the
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