The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-27
.PUNAHOU STUDENTS
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS.
Class Of Nineteen-Six Con-
sistS OF Thirty-one Youths
and Girls

PunnhOu launched another feet Of
youthful fnces on the waves of world.
ly affair last night, when 500 interest.
cd spectators witnessed the entertain
ing commencement exercises Of that
seventy five yPar-Old institution.
Thirty.One youths and maidens, their
faces flushed with the glow OF victory,
stepped forward on the stage Of Bishop
Hall to accept a diploma from tho
hands of President Arthur T. Grifiths.
List Of the Graduates
The graduates were Tim Hung Au.
yong, George Herbert Cutter Bromley,
Herbert Francis Cullen, Kenneth Pike
Emory, Ruth harrington, John Sweeney
Clifford, Min Hin Ii. Kwai ShOon Lung,
Ernest Campbell MOtt-smith, Maude
Laulani Neal, Katie Gibson Single.
hurst, Mary Blossom Smith Lorrin Pot.
ter ThurstOn, GLADYS Martina Traut.
David Little Wilmington, Jr. Theodore
Awana, Florence Spring Davis, Marion
Pauline de Fries, Gladys Stansfeld Hal
stead; Catherine Helen johnson, Dora
Iidgate, Emily ouise LightfOOt, Oy
Cum Loo, Eliza beth Carlotta Rosen-
baum, Ruth Lemon SeybOlt, Emily
Myrtle Taylor, Olive Marian Vilhers
Dorothy Matilda Walker, Florence Al.
l"eu White, Nuong Lau, Aileen Lilinoe
Glib.
Occasion Made Memorable
Punahou exerted itself TO make the
occasion memorial. 1t was as If this
particular class, this class which quits
II on the seventy fifth anniversary Of
it's existence, stood for something i'm.
measurably more than it could quite ex.
press. The invocation of Rev. J. Char
les Villiers limited at this, the night
blooming cereus which girdled PunabOu
and Illuminated it like the torches of
angels seemed prophetic Of something
Of extraordinary import going on under
the arches of Bishop Hall.
II was an artistic and appropriate
close to the celebration which has Gov
cred three days since last Tuesday. In
that celebration Punahou revealed her
past-those seventy-fve years which
began before John Marshall 3 accident
in the Sacramento-but last evening
she showed the present, and presaged
her future; a future which everyone
understood without being told, saw and
left, intahgibly, but with the forceful-
ness and conviction of certainty.
Program Full Of Merit
After the invocation, Gladys Hal
stead, one of the graduates, opened the
Gladys Traut followed this with
" Dido's Plea, which was a transla.
ton from the "Aeneid" of Virgil
This tranlation, by the way, was orig
inal and won for the young Latin stu.
dent the enthusiastic applause of the
audience, who recognized in her per.
formaRce close adherence TO the orig.
inal text and sympathetic translation.
Ruth Harrington and John Clifford
were next on the program. Mr.. Gif.
ford's success on . violin Is quite well
known to Honolulu music, lovers al.
ready, and Miss Harrington has been
recognized as a gifted pianist for some
time. They did Grieg's "Allegretto
Quasi Andantino. /" splendidly. It was
well worth hearing.
A life-for.life fight between a Ha-
waiian and a maneating shark was told
IN a graphic little story by Kenneth
Emory, following which Katie Single.
hurst read an interesting paper on
Greek dancing. ~
Grecian Dance Il Given
This served as an introduction to o
Greek dance in which Florence Davis,
Catherine Johnson, Ruth Seybolt, Ka-
tie Singlehurst, Gladys Traut, and Dor.
othy Walker took graceful parts. The
accompanied was Olive Villiers.
Following this number, David With
ington, Jr., Maude Neal and Mary
Smith presented Ernest 'Hervilly
French comedy, event d'Oust." 1t
was a distinct success.
Emily Taylor played a pretty seIec-
ton from Schutt, which brought the
program, with the exception of the pre-
sentation of the class gift and the dis.
tribution of diplomas, to close.