Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XL, Number 3, 9 May 1945 — News From Boys, Girls Kamehameha School [ARTICLE]

News From Boys, Girls Kamehameha School

Mitchell, member of the KSB fa- " cxilty, replaced him. Mr. Milton E. Ballengee, Selective Service director for the Territory of Hawaii, reeēntly left to attend the National Confeienee of Satesmen of the Selective t-cr-vice at Washington, D. C. After 15 years of teaching"lit Kame&ameha, Mr. Ballengee beeame secretary of the postwar plannlng committee at the Honolulu Chamber of ,Commerce. He reaigned on Augua 15 to accept the Selective Service position. Ballengee was formerly chairman of the selective service loeal board seven where Mr. Donald INCHES OF REPORTERS Fletcher Aleong leads the junior news reporters at" Kamehameha' wlth 277 printed eolumn inehea to his credit. Following in close pursuit is Edgar Bell, his nearest eompetitor, wi.th 262 inches. William Kuai and William Haina follow in third and fourtK plaeea witft 255 and 234 inches, respectively. Oth6r reporters over the 2ŌO ineh mark include Abraham Cockett, 220; and Henry Lee, 210. Qthers wlth their total inches are Harold Bailey, 185; Leonar4 Wong, 183; Calvin Werner, 164; 01ney Roy, 137; Eric Carbbe, 135; Paul Kekoa, 125; Edwin Kellett, 124; ;and Alvin Aona and Lowell Deering, 120 inehea apieee.

EVELYN DESHA ATTENDS UNIVERSITy By Bernioe Honda Evelyn Desha KSG '44 is now a freshmen at the University of Hawaii. ■ Evelyn, formerly from Kealakekua, Hawaii, now resides with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Stephen Desha, at the Kamehameha Cottages in Waialae, Oahu. * - While attending the Kamehameha School for Girls, ohe held the positions of class president and treasurer. She also earned gold and silver pin awards, waa l a member of Ka Moi staff and [ was Ka Buke art editor. \ By Julia Stewart

r-- Formcr prmeipal of the -Kamehameha School for Girls, Miss Maude E. Schaeffer, died on Wednesday, April 18 at her home in i Fresno, Califomia. She was born on April 20, 1889 and was buried |oa her sixty-fifth birthday.

Miss Schaeffer was a graduate of the University of California. She did graduate work at the Teachers Oollege of Columbia University and special work at Oxford university in England. She began her teaching career in the elementary and high school of Fresno. Later, Dean of Women and assistant professor of "English.

| In 1927 Miss Schaeffer eame to j Honolulu as principal of the jschool for girls where she remainled for 15 years. She was one of [the most influential and popular women ever to be connected with [ the schools. She not only believed iiii efficient administration but i also the devek>pment of finer in- ! stincts, the setting of higher jstandards and the awakening of ia desire for better things in life lin the girls who attended the school.

The school steadily progT«ssed and high standards of scholarship and citiEenship were achieved undMr her leadership, She inaugwated pegular attendance of Junior girls at child health eonferences «nd pre-natal clinies and jai*anged to have the aenior girls [act as assistants at different kln!dergartens. The introduction «>f HousehoUl Phystcs and Chemistry course and Weaving. Leathercraft an« courses were part of tne growth of the schooī under Miss Schaeffer.

R«tiring as principal ia Hay, Miss Schaeffer returned to Caltfomia where she spent eonsiderai>le time in Red Cro»ss work and tn iecturing: on H&wali b«fore Ca«fomia clubs. * i Surv*vins is a «ister. Mrs. A. Ds Warner and a brother Reed , SchaetTer, both ot Fr«&au, ! - -