Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-20
new ItACAERS
Of MID.PACIFIC
ARE ANNOUNCED
Miss Matte Paine Of Long
Beach. CaI.. to Be Principal
of Kawaiahao; H. Minor
Blowers to Temporarily Head
Mills School

DR. Robert Day Williams, president
OF Mid-PacLc institute. today an
! nounced the list of new teachers for
Kawaiahao seminary and Mills school
for the coming year.
Both OF these departments of Mid.
, Pacific Institute will be under new
heads Miss Matte Paine OF Long
Beach, California, will be the new
principal Of Kawaiahao taking the
place of Miss Katherine n Adams,
who returned to the states At Mills
school, H. Minor Blowers is to serve
as acting principal in place OF John
F. Nelson. who is spending his sab
batical year at his former home in
Loveland, Colorado.
Miss Paine has been an instructor
in the Long Beach high school for a
number Of years, and has been active
as well in church and Y. w. c. A.
work. Other changes at Kawaiahao
seminary are as follows
Miss Ruth Mylroie, a teacher at the
Korean girls school Of this city dur
ing the last year, will fill the place
left by Miss Mary F. Kinney, who has
been granted a years leave Of absence
for rest and study in the states.
Miss Mary F. Marley Of Oxnard,
California, comes to take the place OF
Miss Edith V. Currier, who has been
granted half-year's leave Of absence.
After Miss Curriers' return it is the
intention of Miss Varley to introduce
some new courses in hand work Miss
Ferne Haynes has resigned to return
to her home in the states and her
place will be filled by Miss Hazel NJ.
Abel of Berkeley, California. Miss
Abells specially is lower grade and
industrial work. l
Miss Roselle F. Faast, who has been
absent for two years in California, will
return this fall to resume her work.
Even more changes than at Kawaia-
hao are to be made this year in the
staff of Mills school, the boys depart
ment of Mid-Pacific Institute
Besides the change IN principalship
already announced, there will be one
in the farm managership. H. H. Yost,
farm manager for two years, has re-
turned to California to accept an i'm
portant position under the state uni
versity agricultural department. His
place is already taken by Harry Stone,
Berkeley man, and brtEher OF
Robert Stone of the school faculty.
Miss Edith Cold has been appointed
for a year to take the place of Miss
Elizabeth Jones of the primary de-
partment, who is spending her Saba
tical year on the mainland.
Miss Cold was a missionary and
educator in Turkey until the outbreak
of the war, having spent six years in
that country. She is sister of Mrs
Clyde Manley of Honolulu.
Miss Rue H. Beatty Of Lead, South
Dakota, a teacher of seven years ex.
perience, will take the third and
fourth grade work in place Of Miss
Austa McKitrick, who has returned to
her home in Ohio.
Leslie Abel, former instructor in
the Oakland Technical High School,
will be in charge OF the manual train |
ing department in place of Jerome L. |
Mears, returned to the mainland.
MERIT A. Major Of Glenwood, Min |
nesota, succeeds Roy I. Garfield in the |
department, and Norman |
T. Booth takes the place of George
Bettin in the seventh and eighth
grades. Mr.. Bettin is one Of the sue |
cessful candidates for the training |
camp at Schofield Barracks
willard C. Ross, coach and physical
instructor during the past year, is
also to enter the camp. His successor
is not vet announced. !