Punahou High School - Oahuan Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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Now, as aptly expressed by Shakespeare, we have played our little parts — and many of us in our time have played many parts. After twelve years we sing Oahu-a, Oahu-a, Punahou our Punahou for the last time as students. With the work of these years have been many compensating joys in the way of happy times and binding friendships. Punahou has given to us freely, fully, and of her best ; now she sends us forth, but we take her with us, — a part of our very life blood. This description of the class of 1930 is quite inadequate. Justice cannot be done it until a second Webster thinks up a few bigger and better words. 26

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So we come to the last lap — Senior Academy. Some have left us, many have joined us. The Lincoln moh descends upon us en masse. In the three years that follow we carve our names in the class of 1930 Roster of Who ' s Vho according to our ambitions and inclinations. Bunny, Marian, Bug, Trent, Cedie, and Euclid choose dramatics as their special interest and scintillate before the footlights in The Great Broxopp and The Devil in the Cheese. From the moment Marian lands a la freight until her final lines, she has her audience on the very edge of their seats and all agog lest they miss one wise-crack. Euclid in Lindy attire is a real story book hero. While in The Great Broxopp, ' Bunny and Bug captivate their audience — as the press agents say. Porky, Gosling, and Catherine win literary medals. Dorrance, Marguerite, and Trent talk the judges into giving them Damon Contest honors. Francis, Wire Jane, and Tommy get the honor roll habit and can ' t stop it. The gridiron attracts Field, Campbell, Rice, W ong, Fernandez, Buscher, Cutter, Newport, and Kishi, where they do their best for Punahou. In swimming we produce se eral mermaids and others who are mere men. Gin Gin, Julia, Anita, Spotler, Bill, David, P. S. Gage, Jr., and Sexton rre among those who splash for time and place. Out on the track David and Gosling burn up the mile, and Captain Rice proves him elf the king of the prep school sprinters. Pete goes over the top with ease and eclat plus the aid of a pole. Campbell, Cutter, Piltz, and Fernandez make the diamond glitter and baseball fans sit up and take notice. But none of these sport write-ups is complete without a tribute to Hop and Hoggie, who as managers were on the job sixty seconds of every minute. No class has produced finer sportsmen or better examples of Punahou Spirit — the real stuff. Betty Judd, Lila, Izzy, Marie, and Elaine do their stuff in P. G. A. A. and proudly sew yellow P ' s to their sweaters. Dorrance, Doris, and Marian Warren dance their way into the hearts of Caprice ' s audiences and sta - there. We are the first class to hold chapel in Dillingham Hall. In our Junior year, the Student Body is organized, and Leabert is its Senior year President. He conducts chapel and asks us to be early at Hui as we are going to have an interesting speaker. To give all the high-up apropos of this wonder class would mean a second Britannica. Our fame goes forth, and new members annex themsehes until the class is the largest on record The faculty, too, breaks a record, for they abso- lutely agree on one subject, that being that no more satisfactory class has ever passed through the Wilder Avenue, the Alexander, or the Hasting Street gates, — going out. 25

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MARY ABSHER Mary is an army lass who joined our ranks last year. She had been with us but a very short while when she won for herself a reputa- tion for quiet industriousness. She has an en- viable record of consistently having her home- work prepared. Mary ' s out of school activities are her music and her hair. Practicing requires a chunk of her time, and her hair too demands the attention that any growing concern does. Mary has a marvelous Fort De Russy tan that she is planning to take back to the mainland. MARIE ACHONG Marie — a maid so quiet and thoughtful — in short, a regular person. The Class of 30 claimed her in her Sophomore year. Her in- terests have been varied. For the first two years here, Marie was especially taken up with girls ' athletics, being a star on the volleyball, basketball, and baseball teams. However, she changed this interest, this year, to something more useful, namely, Home Ec. We wonder what this sudden interest implies. LUCILLE ACKERMAN Lucille has been an important member of the Class since Elementary School Hays. She is on the Student Council and is class secretary, song leader, and sponsor for Company F, in which she has a personal interest. In the week she hangs out at the hash house, but if she were ever there during the week end, the other inmates woidd die of the shock. She will soon he at V. C. L. A., where she can tell her inimitable ranch stories without having someone say, You ' ve told that story in every class since vou were in Elementary. WALTER ACKERMAN To the boys Pat is a darn good guy, but to the girls well — he ' s just got it. A per- fectly darling smile, adorable hair, fas- cinating eyes, and the most magnetic person- ality — that ' s Pat as idolized and described by an overwhelming majority of the fair sex. Despite this he has a reputed high scholastic standing, and when he starts that slow drawl everyone stops, listens, and learns. If this were a talking picture it might reveal to us the solution of that indefinable something and his power over women. 27