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

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1 Roy Bass is a law and economics instructor in the High School Division. lt is virtually impossible to be complacent in any of his ' classes. An ability to look into the future. To see yourself in a competitive college class in UH or on the mainland. To arm yourself with hard brained stuff now instead of wishing later that you had. You must imagine yourself competing for a job and you should realize that you will spend decades of your life in the labor market. You must realize that the level of your success and self-sufficiency may be determined by what you take away from my classes and others at Kamehameha. You do not have to like me Qbut you will, once you're out there where the ribbon hits the roadl. But to succeed in my class you must help me to motivate you. You must want to learn. Together, we'll find a way to turn you on to the high of learning. Let me teach to your intel- lect, not to your memory. Ac- cept an issue-oriented atmos- phere. Accept problem- solving, not memorization as the coin of our realm. Realm -- a grandiose term L - . for a mere classroom in Konia Hall? Not so. Kamehameha must be a Camelot for learning which prepares you to be confident and competitive in today's society. Once upon a time, a princess left you her love and a legacy of the greatest of all gifts: education. If you want to succeed in my econo- mics and law classes you will help me find a true passion for pumping iron with your brain. You will go that last mile in problem-solving. You will try to recognize and understand issues . . . knowing that to do so is often frustrating. To do less would be unworthy of the realm of Camelot-learning that Kamehameha should be. Success in my classes requires joining me in hammering out for you a shield of knowledge of current issues and a double edged sword of problem-solving and keen intellect. If it were possible to requisition students made to order, the first item among my specifications would be intellectual curiosity. Students with that quality, whatever their level of intelligence, are always learning in school and out. For one thing, they are interested in reading as one way of acquiring knowledge. This interest is not limited to a few fields, but is wide- spread. When they read, they make connections with what they have already learned else- I Beth Powers is an English instructor in the High School Division. ln her many years at Kamehameha, she has acquired a reputation for high standards and no-nonsense teach- ing. where. If they find refer- ences in a literary work to something with which they are unfamiliar, perhaps from the Bible or from mythology, they look up the original ac- count and thus expand their knowledge in that area. Ano- ther thing they look up is un- familiar words, so that their vocabulary is constantly expanding. Good students have the convic tion of their ideas and are able to defend them with logic. At the same time, they are open to new ideas and wil- ling to reconsider their opinions. Whatever a student's mental skills, however, success in a class requires one other funda- mental quality, reliability. The work must be consistent and thorough. Assignments must be thoroughly read and papers carefully written and handed in on time if achieve- ment is to .be commensurate with ability.

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ix A.M. in Kaleiopapa. The clock of the light switch rudely echoes down the hallway as the feeble lights struggle to ba- nish the darkness. Instantly the dorm is a beehive. Metal beds screech on concrete floors, doors are thrown wide open, and bare- chested young men tumble out of their cells, eager to stake a claim at one of the basins in the central latrine. In the air there's an excitement born of new toothbrushes, new razors, new pajamas, new cadet officers, new seniors, ju- niors, sophomores, and even new high-schoolers: the freshmen. It's a new day, the first of the school year, 1962-63. And for Kamehameha, it will be a break from tradition. For the first time, coed classes will com- mence, if only experimentaly, for the incoming freshmen class. Right: A mixed class of honors math students in a 1966 Konia classroom. From left to right: Ted Blake I '67 - Ted was a self-styled 007 back thenj, Wanda Enos f'66j, Wynne Morrison I'67j, and Ray Chun K'67j. Members of the class of '66, see Kawilca Ma- lcanani 's copy on these pages, were the Hrst Kame- hameha High School students to experience the joys of mixed classes. At the time of this photo- graph, all 9 through 12 classes were in their first year of co-education. After breakfast and work squad, I slip into my new khaki uniform: pants starched and sharply creased, long sleeved shirt top- ped with a black tie tucked in- to the shirt at the chest. I look in the mirror, and I see a guinea pig in RCTC uniform. I'm a freshman assigned to take part in the experiement. Feeling spiffy, I step out to Boys' Road and start to climb the hill, dodging the down flow of older cadets from 'Iolani and Kapuaiwa Dorms. Eh, Makanani, you lolo, you going the wrong way. In- timidated, I play deaf ear and adopt an interest in my shoes, each taking reluctant steps into history. Right and below: We aren 't sure of the dates of either of these pictures, but two thoughts come immediately to our minds: 12 Look at all those books! The 80's student prides himself in how little he can carry around. And 22 No one slouched! Our parents' horror stories of both feet on the floor and hands on the desk-top weren 't stories after all. -is-Mvww By: Ola Souza, Muriel Kuroda, and Glori Kimokeo