Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 17, Number 5, 1 Mei 2000 — KS [ARTICLE]

Jack Scaff's letter titled " Kame - hameha Schools Should be Open to All" ( Honolulu Advertiser) is a subjective interpretation of Pauahi's will. The only reference to race in Pauahi's will is "giving preference to Hawaiians of pure or part aboriginal blood." It says nothing about residents, out of staters and foreigners, as Scaff 's letter implies. All one has to do is view the student body of Kamehameha. What you see is a kaleidoscope of nationalities, virtual-

ly representative of every racial eombination in existence. All, however, as the benefactor desired, have the blood of her Hawaiian people. Pauahi knew that education was paramount to the survival of her people. Many of us today are living testimony to her insight and benevolence. The Hawaiian issues of today are no more than educated Hawaiians ehallenging the very precepts of democracy that have so blatantly been violated by the vain and self-serving. Scaff 's interpretation of Pauahi's will is fraught with surmise! Rod Ferreira President Waimea-Kohala Kamehameha Schools Alumni Association