Punahou High School - Oahuan Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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ALAI ALULI Alai does everything with what Webster terms alacrity, — be it typing, driving her Ford, or playing a basketball game. Her swift- flying fingers won her the position of typist on the Oahuan Staff. In athletic competitions she stars in volleyball, baseball, and basketball games. Business looks up at the Chink Store every noontime when she and Elva land there after a leisurely (?) jaunt via Alai ' s Ford. If asked her favorite dish, she would no doubt answer pink carnation leis. JOHN ANDERSON John, the Paauhau Bull, is one of the farm school gang chiefly responsible for many a dance described as slick. For two years he has led the bleachers in cheers at football games, is Commissioner of Boys ' Athletics on the Student Council, and Adjutant of the Puna- hou Rotcy battalion. In his Sophomore year a feminine admirer enthusiastically described him as the cutest boy in the class, and he has been trying to live down that description ever since. FRANCIS ATKINS Hallowea is the manager of the track team, the modern-hula dancer (hula skirt and striped shorts), and the annual chairman of the class picnic clean-up committee. He is our oflicial sign post, being unanimously elected to make mechanical drawings on the least provo- cation. Among his hobbies is the wearing of baggy golf pants and rolled socks. Among his souvenirs must be a razor, since at times he reminds us of Rip. Doing his best always places him high in the ranks of good sports- manship by the Class of ' 30. MARY AULT Mary is the class sphinx. Altho ' she is often seen around school, very few really know her. She keeps close tab on the styles and is always dressed a la vogue. Possessing a set of nimble fingers, she uses them to advantage in typing and as a pianist. Probably she feels it her duty to uphold the class dignity, at any rate class of chatterboxes. Mary ' s aloof ; makes her unique. m a lence 28

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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

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RICHARD BALDWIN Richaril, like Mark Twain, can ' t resist the lure of Hawaii Nei. So strong is his sentiment that when he was away from Punahou in his Sophomore year, Richie sent Bull Wright two whole bucks and a hungry appeal for crack- seed. He plays number one on the hard riding Maui polo four which won the island cham- pionship last fall. Richie seems subdued around school, but the fact that he is a mem- ber of the Kailua gang speaks eloquently to the contrary. ELEANOR BICKERTON Though Bickie has a big outside interest, she has nevertheless proved to be one of the most popular members of this honorable class, with both male and female. There could be no other Battalion Sponsor than Bickie, and as a song leailer we couldn ' t ask for more. We shall never forget the cheery manner in which she starts us otf every morning in chapel with her, Come on, everybody sing! Bickie is good-nature personified and as for personality, we ' ll leave that to you. WALDO BOWMAN Racers, roadsters, cabriolets, — all take shape under Waldo ' s pencil whenever he has, or hasn ' t, a moment to spare. Waldo ' s hands are never idle, so the devil can find no opening here. His chief claim to honor is that he once went to sleep during an English achievement test. His slow drawl and smile are dis- tinctive, — as are his wise-cracks in class. LILA BROWN A big percentage of the giggles ami feminine chortles which daily jazz up our dignified halls of learning can be attributed to Spit Brown. She has a funny bone that sees humor in every- thing, everywhere. In P. G. A. A. Lila piles up points nonchalantly, and she won her let- ter in her Junior year. Tho ' happy, she is anything but go-lucky . Had it not been for her conscientious work as costume chair- man, it is certain that the Spring Play could not ha ' e been produced. 29