Kamehameha High School - Ka Nai Aupuni Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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UA PAU, UA HALA LAKOU, A KOE NO NA PUA It is over, they are gone, only the flowers remain. I learned to sing Na Ali'i as a seventh grader at Prep. Do you still call it Prep. School? No, it's Inter- mediate Unit. Or 7th and 8th Grade Unit. Whateverg it'll al- ways be Prep. to me. Back to the song. I didn't know its meaning, but Miss Lord allowed us to sing it fast and jazzy after lunch, and I re- member that Clara Gilbert, my eighth grade hostess, who was beautiful beyond belief, sang it that way, one word tumbling to the next, and I wanted to catch her eye by being able to do the sa e.Eti6lish boy: she never noirfk? Wifi nfeaeggc f ' ff' 'ppvygfj I 2655!-' So that was the first o all the and one of the last I ever found out about. I'll tell you what I found: there is nothing fast and jazzy in the song's meaning. It mixes sorrow and hope. It says: We love the chiefs, but they are deadg only the flowers - the children - remain. I used to think that we were pretty hot childreng we'd carry on Pauahi's legacy fwhatever that meantj just fine. Now I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm scared. I feel the tides of sorrow and hope tug at me. If we were flowers, many of us have long since wilted. Some of my best Kamehameha friends haven't come home from college . . . or from Vietnamese rice paddies Some are angry Hawaiians. Most are just wondering if they'll ever wonder if anyone still tries to grow flowers up on Kapalama hill. Strong flowers? Or more wilters? Or just weeds? I've seen some weeds. I've seen a Founder's Day where the seniors honored my Princess with a foot- ball stadium wave. Real class. I've seen a Song Contest where a class threw away its lei because it lost. Real class. I got no business pointing my finger. I've done some no class things in my time, too. Still, if anybody up there would listen. I would say: Imua Kam School. Earn your full name. Pull your weeds. Grow your flowers, put them out front and hold them up high. Thegfare otgfjhope. 1 Hawaiian songs I ever learned do more than make ends meet. 'XJ V my 1. vc F X If g V , r V g Q V - wry? q,1,,, pg T, jff fpqf 1f7'L3gf' '17 A W 74,7 7 V:'V'f7 '7 P7 Qtfcf'7ff I ftfpgp, ' 951' fwfgfeo P7 wtpm 7 Qwff F757 lf Ctlflv O I , - 1 . ,1 I .A ' I QV VVL9' 7 f any Qfvtgzxgoo my X wwivgvqf 1710 1 fy QQ 71 Y QU vw pp? ,. f! A flaftgvjy 72'7f717 YV Z3 yp L vw qfwk t.ef,Q14Q' ff't77J2f -Qrvmp VD Uri NUR . , l f' ,957 fjo 507.137 CY? 1 1,26 QQ M0157 flftftf- vw yovtfa' ffvpf CDU Afl- . 1 A A Q10 '2717f 'iff ,.. YQ 14,19 Ulf WMV in 'XfYl,t jg Q wo VY-so CW oft' oo Nfve6t'w'ef'MDfO ' ' ' XJNXYTYU X Q TTT' I I 1 Y , A EQ VFD jQO,.,fy g On the cover: detail of the wrought iron fence surrounding Mauna 'Ala, the Royal Mausoleum on Nu'uanu Q Avenue. The gilt crown is a replica of King David Kalakaua's Royal Crown ofHa Wai? which was designed in 1' ' ' ' ' Liverpool, England, for his l883 coronation. Ornamentation at the bottom of the replica imitates the royal -BJ crown's many delicate jewels: diamonds, opals, emeralds, rubies, and highly polished kukui nuts. The curved . jx bars above the base join kalo leaves in an unbroken circle. Kalo, taro, is the staple food of the Hawaiian people , in A A D . I 5 and is symbolic of the Hawaiian family itself. Eight bands surfaced with half-round knobs define the crown's 3 an 5, , , if contour as they ascend from the kalo-leaf circlet and unite at the cross-topped globe at the apex of the ' ,tafwt ' 'M ,U . . .Q kalaunu. This symbolizes the union of the eight islands of Hawai'i under the one Christian rule of Kalakaua - fm 2 jig- , I who, for his part, claimed descent and authority from Kamehameha I, the original conqueror of the island , V' I kingdom. I . r 445 'sr - f The crown motif is repeated at regular intervals on the Mausoleum fence and signifies the royal lineage of r . Q K I. those buried within. Out of respect for the chiefs who rest here, the American government allows the ,L g W2 ' 15' .K '31 Mausoleum to remain as property of the Hawaiian Nation. The Stars and Stripes does not fly here, only the ' ' ' R' 7 QQ . sns.1.a-.3-.-.in A flag of a country whose existence except for these few acres, is entirely spiritual. ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Q l W5 .Q 5 tiekijlf- flieosi LQWVLU iw eQ,tw.,v-I .,,,t.J., Q .QV