Hawaiian Colony Music follows Hawaiians just as naturally as flowers follow the spring as Weber's singing islanders have proved. Wesley Kehaoha, Charles Baranaba and Henry Chai, all members of the colony music group that topped all competitors in the recent talent show, team up with Ora Fay Iverson and Martha Ann Graham in a hopped-up version of the Hawaiian War Chant. The prevailing belief among mainlanders is that Hawaiians are born to the water. While the boys of the dorm claim no more relationship to the fish than anybody else, they do know what to do in case they fall overboard, as Rudolph Meyer and Henry Granberg demonstrate. By RICHARD SHORTEN In 1778 Captain James Cook, the famous English explorer, rediscovered the Hawaiian Islands and immediately set about to claim them for his queen. In 1928, a century and a half later, a band of Weber college gridders invaded those same islands with full intentions of walloping the daylights out of the McKinley high school alumni eleven on the football field. In neither case was the conquest successful. Cook met with disaster at the hands of the Polynesians who inhabited the group of islands. As Queen Liliuokaloui so aptly put it in a conversation with Queen Victoria, "I, too, have English blood in my veins my ancestors ate Captain Cook." The Weber football team was more fortunate. Although their first venture at spanning the Pacific to win football games was unsuccessful, they did win many friends for Weber college and out of that first giant jaunt from Ogden to Honolulu was laid the foundation for a lasting tie between the peoples of the two areas. The next year the Micks repaid the visit by traveling to Ogden to engage the Weber eleven on Utah soil. The Wildcats successfully turned the tables on the Micks and evened the score at one-up in a hard fought tussle at the Ogden stadium. (continued on page 18) page sixteen The Weber-Hawaiian relationship began in 1928 when the first Wildcat eleven made the long jaunt to Honolulu to play the Mickalums on the gridiron. Out of that first meeting and the ones that followed grew a great bond that spanned the Pacific and carried a feeling of brotherhood from the shores of Hawaii's many islands to the heart of the Rockies and back again. The Hawaiian students who have enrolled at Weber since the first group came over in 1931 have been the welders of that bond. Eighteen Islanders are attendinq the college this year, the largest number yet. The story behind the latest Hawaiian immigration makes interesting telling and here it is. Picture taking is supposed to be a painless process and at any place except the Weber College dorm it probably is, but with everybody anxious to shoot a few to take back home, one never knows what to expect next. Paul Chickamori goes through endless agony to appease the photographic genius of Lehman Henry, the dorm's number one camera fan, who usually expects handsprings, no less. page seventeen