Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-21
Thirty-eigh Future Teachers
Get Diplomas; W. R. Far
rington and H. w. Kin
ney Speakers

Thirty-eight prospective teachers OF
the territory received their diplomas
and certificates at the Normal School
graduation exercises held last even.
ing with Principal Edgar Wood pre-.
siding and an interested audience
filling the audience room to standing.
room capacity.
Fifteen Of these received in add
ton to the regular teachers diploma
or certificate a diploma In vocational
training, this as result of their work
and their future capacity to lead and
teach In the vocational activities that
include cooking, sewing and the do.
nestle arts as well as an intelligent
use OF tools.
Program Of Speaking and Music.
The program of the evening was
taken up principally with the speech
es of Supt. Henry w. Kinney and w.
r. Harrington, who. addressed the
graduates. The participation of the
school and the graduates was confined
to the splendid choruses under the di-
rection of Miss Cooke The Normal
School singing has always been ia.
nous and the numbers OF last evening
were grand demonstration of well
trained and remarkably disciplined
natural ability.
Bishop 2estarick, who is guardian
for a number Of students attending
the school, gave the invocation. -.
Supt Kinney, In referring to the
opportunities for the graduates of the
Normal, said, In part:
Normal Graduates Preferred.
1T is the policy of the department
and it is being carried out very faith
fully--to give the first chance for po-
sitions to the graduates of our own
Normal School. Owing to the fact
that the supply Of locally trained
teachers falls short Of the demand
graduates from this Institution are
assured of positions the moment they
graduate: and in this respect they
are far more fortunate than their fell
lows who graduate from the mainland
normal schools, as these are often
compelled to go far afield to find en-
ployment.
II do not wish to make any invi-
dious comparisons in respect to the
relative merits of the imported teach.
er and those of the teachers who have
been trained in Hawaii nei. This ter.
ritory has in its service too many ex-
cellent teachers from the mainland
who are doing so much for education
in the islands, and who are so loyal
and jealous in the cause in which we
are all working, that to say any
thing whatever which might SAVIOR in
even the slightest degree of lack OF
appreciation Of their work would be
lngratitude Of the basest kind.
Il am sure, however, that this nor
NAL school is able to produce gradu'
ates who are as capable as is anyone
to cope with the problems which they
have to solve, and they have the very
great advantage that they are famil
lar with the conditions and the people
with whom they will have to deal, an
advantage which, Of course, even the
best qualified stranger can secure
tonly through experience.
Vocational Training Praised.
a have spoken of vocational work
In its broad, general sense, but, while
I am on the subject, I wish to express
my appreciation of what has been
done by. this institution in the school
kitchens and the carpenter shops
which were first really started last
year by a number of members of the
graduating class of 1915. These younS
men and women went forth, confident
in the training which they had receiv
ed here, and built carpenter shops and
ran them; established kitchens and
conducted them without a single fail
ure. These were new tasks here il
Hawaii; they are practically new in
the world and visitors from the main
land who are competent critics have
expressed great surprise at what has
been done in this line in our schools
These young people furnished a fine
| example of vocational training anG