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Show Band & Mr. Orchestra Paul Philip irs. B $cience KK. Gantt — Mr. William F. Geiger Mr. Walter Davis Mrs. Doris Keppeler Miss Lucy Koehler Miss Louise Larrabee Mr. Robert Smith Mrs. Lucile Manley Miss Social Science Sarah Mathews Mrs. Edith Callard Miss Lottie Dimick Miss Blanche Donahue Mr. Edward Kendall Mrs. Janet Landgraf Mr. Merlin McGrew Mrs. Edna Matson Miss Ruth Mylroie Mrs. Clare Smith Mrs. Louise Smith Miss Helen Strickler Mr. L. A. Walworth Special Mrs. Elmira Kalauokalani Mr. Harata Kimura Miss Golda Moore Miss Jessie Purdy Miss Anna D. Schwartz Mrs. Mrs. Marion Metrriam M. Brown 6 HISTORY Sanders By Romance, OF McKINLEY SCHOOL Charles HIGH Choy ’27 a hazy origin and governor of Alaska, public schools of the to one United of the States, the romance of a _ Steady growth through the years marks the progre ss of McKinley High School: from a tiny private school in 1834 for the few English-speaking childre n of five or so Spaniards from California, and the son of the Russian largest modern a school in whose halls children, and west. north and south, are gathered from blended under : ag. first located private develop at King and Alapai Streets school, the institution that into McKinley High School as a east one tiny was was destined to soon moved consuls subscribed to a site near the Library of Hawaii. From there, after a few years, it was again moved to a_ spot nearer town and named “Charity School’? becatise tuition was not The local merchants funds for its distinguished the hoard of required of everyone. and the upkeep, and Mr. Richard Charlton, British consul, was elected to sit trustees. Before long, the school was moved Hoor of the old Fort Street Church, G. Beckwith speaking imperative corner of in charge. children that a Fort’and But soon new the building School to the ground with Rev. E. number made larger was Streets. Rev. Beckwith still as the principal known as the Fort Street School, the on of English- quarters erected The was on school, so the with thereafter At about this time, the Department of Education took over the school and a tuition fee of fifty cents a week was charged each pupil. Mr. A. T. Atkinson Succeeded Rev. Beckwith as principal, and was in turn course term. succeeded by Prof M. M. Scott. No regular of study had been pursued until Mr. Scott’s Up to that time the primary and grammar 7 |