The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-11-07
High School Forms
Useful Organization
Officers Elected Landscape Garden
ing Course Beautifying Grounds
Students See Plans OF New Build
ing--Fine Outing Up lao
(By HIGH SCHOOL PUPILs)

activities; connecting the school with
the community by taking charge of
the schools share of any community
work to which it might be called and
maintaining a high standard of
scholarship, and school citizenship by
such rulings, prizes, contests, etc., as
the organization deems necessary.
The election of officers by ballot
on Tuesday of this week, had the
following returns: Nils Tavares,
president; Ruth Lindsay, secretary;
Arthur Baldwin, treasurer.
After the main meeting, each class
retired to its respective room in order
to elect a member for the executive
committee. The representative chosen
from the Senior class is Jack Walker,
from the Junior, Michio Ogawa, from
the S%ophomores, Inez MacPhee, and
from the Freshmen, Doris Hair.
Basket Ball A Feature x.
Battles for the supremacy on the
basket ball courts of the Maui High
School are under way, the battles be-
ing staged every Friday afternoon
The teams consist of students chosen
from the Seventh Grade to the SEM
orS.
The result of last weeks game for
the girls was the victory of the Semi
ors and their colleagues over the
Freshmen.
The boys game between the Junior
Senior and Sophomore teams was
played regardless of the rain. The
score at the finish was 8 to 4, in favor
of the Junior-Senior team.
Interesting Assembly
At the regular assembly of the
Maui High School held last Thursday,
a very enjoyable program was carried
out. The first number was the school
song by all the students. This was
followed by a solo, when the Ships
Come Sailing By" by the schools
talented vocalist, Eva Rodrigues.
The next number was a clever reci
tation, I'm the Usual Way" by Ruth
Lindsay.
Mr.. MacCaughey then called the |
students attention to two blue prints |
of the grounds and one of the new
school building, which when complet-
ed will be the finest, although not the
largest, high school building in the
Territory. 1t is to be hoped that the |
new building will possibly be COM
pleted by September, 1920.
5eautifying Grounds
The Maui High School has develop |
ed a course in landscape gardening.
This course is being carried On main
ly for the purpose of developing the
schools spacious grounds. The TWEEN
ty-four boys who have enrolled are
under Mr.. Charles Brown, a capable
instructor in this line of work. The
boys have begun their work by plant
ing a hedge of hibiscus to border the
campus which fronts On the road.
A Hike UP lao
A merry picnic party of twelve
High School students, including Elize-
beth Walsh, Eva Rodrigues, Helen
Palmatier, Ruth Whitehead, Francis
Field, Julia Tavares, Nils Tavares,
Jack Linton, Sevath Boyum, Floyd
Brown, Arthur Baldwin and Ralph
Baldwin, left the Maui Hotel last
Saturday at about nine o'clock, for a
trip up lao valley. Miss Patterson of
the Maui High School went along as
chaperon, thus bringing up the mum
Der to thirteen.
Autos carried the mixers to the end
of the valley road, where an earnest
debate was held as TO who should
carry the different parts of the menu,
these being finally apportioned among
the boys to the complete satisfaction
of the girls if not of the boys.
The party now got into motion only
to be halted upon the long narrow
foot-bridge which spans the rocky
stream-bed, while pictures We're taken
from both ends. The small concrete
foundationed bridge at the beginning
of the trail to the table lands was
reached after a ~leisurely walk of about
thirty minutes, and after a short pause
to drink water and adjust cameras,
the march was resumed.
Green guavas were continually fly
ing back and forth as the young
wanderers threaded their way up the
trail, and jokes and funny stories
showed the light-heartedness of the
crowd. Some of the boys tried to
have their pictures taken wearing the
broad-brimmed hats of the girls, but
found as usual hat these were in the
way,