Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 2, 1 February 1986 — Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop

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A three-pronged program marking the Kamehameha Schools' 98th Annual Founder's Day Dec. 19 included two campus activities and memorial services at Mauna Ala. The Kamehameha family marked Founder's Day with an early morning program of songs, dances, chants and prayers at Kekuhaupi'o to honor the schools' founder, Princess Ber niee Pauahi Bishop. The next stop was at Mauna Ala where the Kamehameha family, whieh included the Board of Trustees, schools officials, students, alumni and Hawaiian organizations, held a prayer worship and heard a tribute to the princess from

senior student U'ilani Kalalau of Hana, Maui. Intermediate student Kanani Kauleinamoku and Puanani Kini, director of the continuing education program, offered two bible readings and alumni Rocky T okuhara gave the pule ho'omaka. In her tribute to Pauahi, Kalalau noted how frightened she was at being a boarder during her first year. "However," she explained, "I was able to overcome my fear and learned to be

independent and more responsible." "Because Princess Pauahi gave me this challenge, I took it and I now consider myself a better person. I thank the Princess for giving me this ehanee. I now take great pride in what I do for Kamehameha." She called Pauahi "a woman of great love and aloha. Because of her I will be able to get higher education following my graduation from Kamehameha." Kahu David Kaupu conducted the Mauna Ala services as well as the program for the laying of the cornerstone for the

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Memorial Chapel and Heritage Center on the schools' upper compus near the Paki building. The cornerstone of the ehapel rests on a foundation designed to resembie a heiau whieh is symbolic today as Kaupu recalled how in the 1940s he was reprimanded for speaking Hawaiian while a student at Kamehameha. Kamehameha students then were not allowed to do the hula or to perform old chants. Kaupu said it is different today because the compulsory religion course includes the study of the four major gods (Ku, Kaneloa, Kane and Lono) of old Hawaii and Christianity.

Kaupu teaches ancient religion and his associate teaches Christianity. lt is taught in a four-year cycle. The Schools have been without a ehapel for 52 years and since 1937 Sunday services have been held in the school auditorium. There was a ehapel at the original Kamehameha Schools site where Bishop Museum is now located. Following prayers and responses from those in attendanee, the hookupu followed. Trustees, schools officials, students, contractor, architect and others placed manuscripts, tapes, publications and other items in a square brass box whieh was then covered and placed in a receptacle at a corner of the ehapel. After eaeh one placed mortar over the slot, a crane lifted a large slab of rock and Architect Dwight Pauahi Kauahikaua, a 1970 Kamehameha graduate, and Kaupu positioned it into plaee. Kauahikaua, a native Hawaiian who went on to Purdue University, and Daniel Chun are partners in the architectural firm whieh bears their name. Kauahikaua and Chun, Architects, is located in Kawaiahao Plaza, around the corner from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Trustee Moses K. Keale Sr. represented OHA at Mauna Ala and at the laying of the cornerstone program.

Kanani Kauleinamoku, intermediate student at The Kamehameha Schools, delivers a reading from the Bible before assembled crowds of the Schools' family and Hawaiian orgarrirations at Mauna 'Ala.

Kahu David Kaupu of The Kamehameha Schools watches as Richard Lyman, chairman of the Bishop Estate board of trustees, piaee manuscript in bronze box during cornerstone laying ceremonies.

Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Moses K. Keale Sr. places ho'okupu at tomb of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop during Mauna 'Ala ceremonies Dec. 19.