Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIX, Number 37, 3 Ianuali 1945 — News From Boys, Girls Kamehameha School [ARTICLE]

News From Boys, Girls Kamehameha School

BOY SOOtTT Tik>OP 75 WOHmi Haina K«n«hameha Schoof for Boys' Troop 75 has annoiinced Boy, Beout pl«na for JanuaiV. The foramliua ōf & board of review, appointlng of m<?rit bHdg<? eounellk>rs and creatlon , A of |a court of iiaaor are the main events sched- ' tiled. ' i'

Faculty members whd have already hs4 some experience with scoutiii£ will rria!te these new scout <llvlsions.

Troop 75 at ia increaiiing ainro it hegan n frw Wecks ago. Th« two neweat scoutfl to atta(n tenderfoot rank iire Richard Kila and Henry Sheldon. At preaent, includlng the Prep »chool, there are 19 tendcrfoot, iivē secondelaaa Bcouta and four first-class scouts in the troop. Working for star soout requircments are PirstClass Scouts Lester Chambers, Mervin Ferreira, Joseph Kapiko; and the" Cobra under the guidance of Alvin Chung. A senior patrol i leader will be elected at the next meeWin#. 1

KAM STUDENT WINS ABT AWABDS By Heniy Lee Melfred Xum, sophomore at the Kamehameha School for boys, recently received $10 prize money froin t.he Women's National Institute for hls painting wh|ch was Bubmitted to the Ingersoll Award Art CompeUtion. It had been selected as oq,e of the 200 pictures djaplayed at thc 21st annual Women's Intemational Exposition in Madison Square Garden, New York, Noveniber 14tli to 19lh, 1941.

The Jury of Award corisiders the two hundred selected for the Exposition outstanding among the thousands of pictures sent in from schools throughout the United State3. Twelve of the paintings will be reproduced in a 1945 calendar to be published by the United States Time Corporation.

Melfred painted his pictruce, whieh is a watcr color sketch of the mountains that surround the aehool, two years «go when he was in the eighth grade urider the guidance of Miss Claire Chapin, instructtor ot arts at K.S.B. at that Lime.

In 1942 his paintirig was serit to the Academy of Arts tn Honolulu at the annual school exhition. hcld eaeli May. There hia work received an honorab!e mention.. ■

It was then sent with paintings by students of the Territory to different cities throughout the Mainland. In May of 1944 he received word that his work had earned a' certificate of merit in the 1944 National Scholastic Awards. -The contest was sponsored by the American Crayon Company.

FOT T NDER'S DAY MEMOKIAL ! SEBVIC£ By HaruW Baile>y Services houoring Mrs. Bernice Pauahi Bishop's birthday were held in the Kamehameha School ehapel Sunday morning December 10, at 11 o'eloek. Rev. Stephen Desha, aehool ehaplain, spoke on the topic. of "Pauahi Ke Alii."

The rest of service was eondueted toy alumni of the Kamehameha schools. A chair composed of graduates was under the direcILon of Mrs. Martha Poepoe Hohu |class of '25. She wa» also the I organist. j Mrs. Ida Mae Sims Todd, class 'of '37, and George Kahoiwai, class of '29, read the scriptures. All spngs during the service was sung in Hawaiian. i BATTAIJON PROMOTIONS By Harold Bailey . Coloncl Adna G. Clarke, director of the Kamehameha school battalion announced the promotions of eight officers and noncommissioned officers. The promotions are as follows: Charles Puuohau, Peter Perkins and Oarl |Thoeue to i"iist liout« I, ..aats; īlomoo Chang", Harold Silra and luho Plumley to be sergeants. Those appotnted corporals are :.Ciaude Kakalia and David Pila.

FTOimVG WABRIOHS , By Paul Kekoa 1 Sfecord Lieut. George Kekauoha sraduat« of the K&mehiameha Sobool for Boys in the eUuū of '36, «on of Mr. and Mrs. George tf*k»u»ha ol Laie, Oahu, U a oommunleaUon maintenance officer of a eervice group in Georgia. Be£orq «ntering into the armed iorcea, he attexided the University of Hawaii for two years, and iater waa transferred to Coiorado uniyersity.

George graduated from Colorado univereity with a bachelor of science degree in March ( 1943 v and jo!ned the army In Aprtt ot !the «ame year.

i i<ieut. Kekauoha spent most of his army life tn training oempa. He hB4 ft>ur montha of apeelal tramw«: at Bell Laboratory in i New York.

Training made it possible for him to travel through 29 states, a part of Canada and met Delegate Joseph Farrington on frequent tours through Washington, ,D. C.

His brother, Clifford, and sisterr, Barbara, are both attendmg Kameh^meha.