Punahou School
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Punahou School, once known as Oahu College, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school located in Honolulu CDP
, City and County of Honolulu in the U.S. State
of Hawaii
. With about 3,760 students attending the school, in kindergarten
through the twelfth grade
, it is the largest independent school in the United States
.
Originally founded in 1841, the school has a rich history, a wide variety of programs and many notable alumni.
Along with academics and athletics, Punahou also offers visual and performing arts programs. In 2006, Punahou School was ranked as the "greenest" school in America. The student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations. In 2008 and 2009, its sports program was ranked by Sports Illustrated
as the best in the country out of 38,000 high schools.
. Along with Ka Punahou, he gave a total of 225 acre (0.9105435 km²) of land (from the slope of Round Top down to the current Central Union Church, which included a 77 acres (311,608.2 m²)-tract of Kewalo Basin
) to chief Kameeiamoku as a reward for his loyalty. After Kameeiamoku died, the land was passed down to his son, Ulumāheihei Hoapili
, who lived there for twenty more years. When Ulumāheihei left to become the governor of Maui, he gave the land to his daughter, Kuini Liliha
. Ka Punahou was given in 1829 by Oahu's Governor Boki and his wife, Liliha to Reverend Hiram Bingham
, one of the first Christian missionaries in Hawaii.
Powerful leader Queen Kaahumanu was a strong supporter of the mission, and built a house for herself near the Binghams. A portion of the stone wall she had built to protect the compound from roaming cattle has been preserved. Founded in 1841, Punahou School was originally a school for the children of missionaries serving throughout the Pacific region
. The first class was held on July 11, 1842, and consisted of only fifteen students. It was the first school with classes only in the English language
west of the Rocky Mountains
.
Daniel Dole
(1808–1878) was its first principal. It was known as "Oahu College" from 1853 to 1934.
The campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu
on August 7, 1972.
During World War II
, much of the Punahou campus was commandeered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Castle Hall (the girls' dormitory) was used as a command center, buildings were connected with tunnels, athletic fields were used as parking lots, the library was cleared to become sleeping quarters and an officer's mess. The cereus
hedge on the campus lava rock wall was topped with barbed wire. Punahou students volunteered in hospitals and raised enough in war bonds to purchase two bombers and a fighter (among other airplanes) which were named after alumni who had fallen in service.
Many traditional events take place on the campus. On the first Friday and Saturday of each February, the campus hosts the Punahou Carnival, the proceeds of which benefit the Financial Aid program. Holoku Pageant is an annual day of celebration of the Hawaiian culture and arts. The campus also hosts the Alumni Luau
Weekend, where alumni come together and meet. The new graduates are invited as well.
put it at $180M, and Business Week recently claimed it as high as $501M. Although this figure is high among U.S. private schools, Honolulu also has Iolani School
with a comparable endowment (twice the endowment per pupil), and Kamehameha Schools
has a $5B to $9B endowment (30 times the endowment per pupil). (Maui
has Seabury Hall
which has twice the endowment per pupil, but is a much smaller school).
Before plans were made for a new middle school complex, America Online founder and alumnus Steve Case
('76) donated ten million dollars.
This led to construction of a new middle school for grades six through eight. The Case Middle School was actually named in honor of the donor's parents.
Sometime into the project, the school learned about Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
. The school then hired a design consultant, John Hara ('57) for sustainability
and found out that they could earn the LEED Gold certification.
At the time, few projects anywhere had earned this rating.
The middle school also won the Energy Project of the Year award in the Seventh Energy Efficiency Awards, sponsored by Hawaiian Electric Company.
Sensors shut off air conditioners if windows are opened to let in the breeze; the buildings are designed to take full use of the tradewinds, with the help of the Venturi effect
. There are also sensors in place that turn the lights on or off depending on whether motion is detected, and dim the lights on sunny days or brighten them on overcast or cloudy ones.
Air conditioning for the buildings is provided by three ice-making plants, one for each grade level's section. The units freeze and accumulate ice at night when electricity is cheaper, and allow the ice to melt during the day to cool the air.
The whole school cost more than $50 million USD and was made possible solely through donations. The new middle school opened on January 4, 2005, although the eighth graders had been using their buildings since the beginning of the 2004–2005 school year.
Case Middle School consists of nine color-coded buildings—green for sixth grade, blue for seventh, and red for eighth—on the lower east side of Punahou campus.
Teachers are encouraged to personalize their classroom spaces, and each of the 12 rooms has its own outdoor area that is one-third the size of the interior space to which it is attached.
The total cost was $26 million. Individual buildings are named the Mountain House, Forest House, and City House, and historic Wilcox Hall retains its traditional name. Board of Trustee member and former student Pierre Omidyar
donated $6 million to the project.
For two consecutive years (2008 and 2009) it was named the #1 U.S. high school athletics program by Sports Illustrated
. Athletic facilities include the heated Waterhouse Pool, and the Atherton 8-lane Mondo track surface. The school also has a fieldhouse for competitive athletics, a gymnasium for physical education and intramural sports, and a tennis center with 9 hard surface courts.
Students compete in 22 sports, including air riflery, baseball
, basketball
. bowling
, canoe paddling, cross country
, cheerleading
, football
, golf
, gymnastics
, judo
, kayaking
, riflery, sailing
, soccer, softball
, swimming
and diving
, tennis
, track and field
, volleyball
, water polo
, and wrestling
. Punahou has approximately 120 sports teams. The school is a member of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu
.
Punahou won 16 state championships in the 2007-2008 school year. The school awarded 82 Scholar Athlete Awards, and over 100 Senior Plaques to the Class of 2008. Punahou won 19 state championships in the 2008-2009 school year, a record number for the school.
of President Barack Obama
, an alumnus of the school ('79). The band performed in the 2007 New Year's Day Rose Parade
in Pasadena, California
.
The student yearbook, The Oahuan, has won awards from the American Scholastic Press Association.
Punahou requires all students (K - 12) to attend chapel once every 6-day cycle. The school year begins in late August and finishes in early June.
The 115801 Punahou
is an asteroid
named
in the school's honor.
('79) attended Punahou from 1971 to 1979.
Punahou has produced many leaders in the government of Hawaii. Sanford Dole (1864) was President of the brief Republic of Hawaii
, then Governor of Hawaii
. Walter Frear (1881) and Lawrence M. Judd
(1905) were also Governors.
The school has produced U.S. Senators from Illinois and Connecticut. Otis Pike ('39*), Congressman from New York, chaired the Pike Committee investigating Richard Nixon
. Charles Djou
('87) recently finished Neil Abercrombie
's term as Congressman from Hawaii, and at least three other graduates from Punahou have represented Hawaii in the U.S. House.
Former students who made history in civic leadership include the Educator of the Disenfranchised, an Unlikely Hero, and the Uncommon American (as described by their biographers): General Samuel C. Armstrong
(1859) led the rifle company that turned back Pickett's Charge
at the Battle of Gettysburg
, led U.S. Colored Troops, and founded Hampton University
to educate the freed slaves and Native Indians in the way that his father had educated the Hawaiians; Judge Elbert Tuttle
('14) led the federal court that desegregated the South, the "Fifth Circuit Four
"; and Secretary John W. Gardner
('29*) was Lyndon Johnson's architect of the Great Society
, creating welfare
and PBS
. Tuttle and Gardner were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
.
Sun Yat Sen, the Founding Father of the modern, post-imperial Republican China, attended Punahou when it was called Oahu College for a year of post-secondary school after graduating from Iolani School
.
('78) who played 15 years (team record) for the Dallas Cowboys
, winning three Super Bowl
s. Punahou football coach Kale Ane
('71) is son of 2xPro Bowl
er and 2xNFL champion team captain Charley Ane
('49), and nephew of Herman Clark
('48) and Jim Clark
('48); the four combined for a total of 260 NFL games over 20 seasons for the Packers, Chiefs, Lions, Redskins, and Bears. Pro Bowl
er and Super Bowl
er Mosi Tatupu
('74) redefined the importance of special teams. The school also claims a pitcher and a first baseman in major league baseball. 5-time tennis doubles winner Jim Osborne
graduated in 1965. LPGA winner Michelle Wie
graduated in 2007.
Punahou has a tradition of sending athletes to the Olympic Games
, with alumni contributing seven gold, seven silver, and three bronze medals, competing in many of the modern games ('20, '24, '28, '32, '52, '68, '72, '76, '84, '88, '92, '96, '00, '04, '08), and on every U.S. team since 1968 (Moscow '80 would have been the second of four Olympics for Henry Marsh ('72) if not for the U.S. boycott). Punahou alumni include 2008 Olympic Silver medalists Brandon Brooks (water polo)
('99) as goalkeeper for the U.S. Water Polo team, and Lindsey Berg
('98) as setter for the U.S. Volleyball team.
('78) wrote eight books on Asian cultures, Patrick Vinton Kirch
('68) wrote nine books on Polynesian cultures and Fred Hoxie ('65) wrote twenty books on Native American peoples. Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer, SJ ('70) was the president of Gonzaga University
, General George Forsythe ('66*) is the new president of Westminster College (Missouri), Marie Mookini ('74) has been admissions director for Stanford and its business school for over two decades, and William Richards Castle, Jr.
(1896) was a Harvard Overseer. Elizabeth Bennett Johns ('55) has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Mount Rex
is named for former student and atmospheric science pioneer Dan Rex ('33*).
The school has a connection to Mills College
through Punahou's former president, Cyrus Mills, who helped found the college with his wife, Punahou teacher Susan Tolman Mills
. Queenie B. Mills was a Kindergarten director who helped design the Head Start program.
('25*) has a Hollywood Walk of Fame
star after 52 years in films. Rod Lurie
('80) has directed and produced a dozen films (Straw Dogs
, The Contender) and two major TV series (Line of Fire, Commander in Chief
). Kevin McCollum
('80*) directs a Broadway production company that claims five Tony Award
s and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
, and Allan Burns
('53) was a 6-time Emmy Award
-winning writer and creator, known for such shows as The Munsters
, Get Smart
, Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ken Peterson ('26) animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
, One Hundred and One Dalmatians
, and Sleeping Beauty
. Buster Crabbe
('27), who had won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, portrayed Tarzan
, Flash Gordon
, and Buck Rogers
in film. John Kneubuhl
('38), a Samoan royal, was a writer on Wild, Wild, West, Star Trek
, Hawaii Five O, Gunsmoke
, Mannix
, and 40 other shows. Gerry Lopez
('66) is well known for surfing, but is also known as Subotai in Conan the Barbarian. Three danced for the early Martha Graham
. Leilani Jones
('75) won a Tony Award
on Broadway, and was on the original casts of Grind
and Little Shop of Horrors
. Amanda Schull
('96) had the lead role as an aspiring ballerina in Center Stage
. IMDB.com lists almost 50 credits for Carrie Ann Inaba
('86) (In Living Color
, Austin Powers in Goldmember
, Dancing with the Stars
), and almost 100 for Kelly Preston
('80) (Jerry Maguire
, For Love of the Game
, Only You
, Twins).
The Kingston Trio had two Punahou founders, Dave Guard
('52*) and Bob Shane
('52), producing ten top-40 hits and a #1 Grammy-winning single. Robin Luke
('59) was a Rockabilly Hall of Fame
act. Hawaiian slack-key guitar is well represented by the popular music of Henry Kapono Kaaihue ('67) of Cecilio & Kapono
. More recently, Melody Ishikawa
('00) had three top-ten albums in Japan, and Teri Ann Linn
's ('79) debut CD went gold on the European charts.
, Killed in Action
in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
.
The school can claim at least eleven Army Generals, three Rear Admirals, a Marine Major General, and six Air Force Generals. General Stanley Larsen ('33) was the first commander of the I Field Force, Vietnam
. Marine Major General Ross T. Dwyer
('37) was USMC Aide to the Secretary of the Navy.
Many of the students were children of high level commanders, e.g., a Marine Commandant Wallace M. Greene, Jr., stationed in the Pacific, and many had their family reassigned before graduation. This includes General Edward Timberlake ('14*), Colonel Red Reeder ('20*), General Donald Booth ('22*), and General Walter Johnson '(22*), all of whom graduated from West Point, and all of whom had important World War II
commands.
Colonel Farrant Turner ('13), Major Alex McKenzie ('29), and Major John Johnson ('31) commanded the Nisei
100th Infantry Battalion, the Purple Heart
Battalion, the latter being Killed in Action
at Cassino
. The destroyer USS Chung-Hoon
is named after Punahou football star, Admiral Gordon Chung-Hoon ('29*), who survived the attack on the USS Arizona
.
and Robert Alexander Anderson's ('12) story is told in The Dawn Patrol (both were downed pilots); another war pilot, Ted Withington ('40), had his letters published as Flight to Black Hammer. Charlie Wedemeyer
's ('65) story is told in the Emmy-award winning film Quiet Victory. John Kneubuhl
's story was a documentary film, and Blondell has a 2007 biography. Armstrong, Tuttle, Gardner, and Obama have also had formal biographers. Hiram Bingham III
's (1892) latest biography calls him A Real Life Indiana Jones. James Michener's Hawaii (novel)
and Hawaii (film)
portray the historical acts of Lorrin A. Thurston
(1875), Sanford Dole, Hiram Bingham I
, Henry Baldwin
(1891), and Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (1889) in the transition from monarchy to US territory. Their classmates, such as Alexander Cartwright III (1869), were early players of baseball, as initiated in the islands by Alexander Cartwright
, Jr., the official inventor of the game.
passed to two former Punahou students who are highly philanthropic like their mother Barbara Cox Anthony
, who twice married Punahou alumni; a former schoolteacher, Blair Kennedy ('68*), is now the wealthiest person in Australia; her brother, James C. Kennedy
('65*) was Atlanta's philanthropist of the year, 2007. Charles Gates, Jr.
('39) has donated $147M through his Gates Family Foundation. As mentioned above, the philanthropic founders of AOL
and ebay
were Punahou students.
Charles L. Veach
('62) was an astronaut on two shuttle missions.
Punahou students were crowned Miss Hawaii
or Miss Hawaii USA
in 1977, 1981, 1997, 1999, and 2004 (with two becoming Miss USA
and Miss Universe
, respectively: Judi Anderson
('76) and Brook Mahealani Lee ('89*)).
Punahou students appear across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan
's "favorite economist" Wendy Lee Gramm
('62); Ryan Henry ('68) and Robert Silberman ('75), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army, respectively, for George H. W. Bush
; to centrist Ray Schoenke
('59*), a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association
(an alternative to the National Rifle Association
); to Jerry Berman ('58), chief counsel of the ACLU.
Ellery Chun ('27) invented the Aloha Shirt
.
* indicates the class year of an attendee who did not graduate with the class.
Oahu'a
Oahu'a, Oahu'a
Punahou, our Punahou;
O Mau o' Mau, O mau o' mau,
Punahou, our Punahou.
Through all the years we've shown our light,
We glory in Oahu's might;
The Buff and Blue's a glorious sight,
Punahou, our Punahou.
The song is sung to the tune of Maryland, My Maryland
also known as "O Tannenbaum". The spelling is from the original words to "Oahu'a" written in 1902 by a student.
This cheer is typically shouted by the cheerleaders at Punahou, at events such as football games and other sports activities and gatherings.
, whose image is used in the school's seal.
Honolulu, Hawaii
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, City and County of Honolulu in the U.S. State
U.S. state
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of Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. With about 3,760 students attending the school, in kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
through the twelfth grade
Twelfth grade
Twelfth grade or Senior year, or Grade Twelve, are the North American names for the final year of secondary school. In most countries students then graduate at age 17 or 18. In some countries, there is a thirteenth grade, while other countries do not have a 12th grade/year at all...
, it is the largest independent school in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Originally founded in 1841, the school has a rich history, a wide variety of programs and many notable alumni.
Along with academics and athletics, Punahou also offers visual and performing arts programs. In 2006, Punahou School was ranked as the "greenest" school in America. The student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations. In 2008 and 2009, its sports program was ranked by Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
as the best in the country out of 38,000 high schools.
History and tradition
In 1795, the land known as Ka Punahou was taken in battle by King Kamehameha IKamehameha I
Kamehameha I , also known as Kamehameha the Great, conquered the Hawaiian Islands and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810. By developing alliances with the major Pacific colonial powers, Kamehameha preserved Hawaii's independence under his rule...
. Along with Ka Punahou, he gave a total of 225 acre (0.9105435 km²) of land (from the slope of Round Top down to the current Central Union Church, which included a 77 acres (311,608.2 m²)-tract of Kewalo Basin
Kewalo Basin
Kewalo Basin is a commercial boat harbor that serves as home to some of Honolulu's commercial fishing fleet, and charter and excursion vessels that serve the Hawaii tourist market. Pre-European contact, the area was historically used for human sacrifice. On the ocean side of the harbor is a small...
) to chief Kameeiamoku as a reward for his loyalty. After Kameeiamoku died, the land was passed down to his son, Ulumāheihei Hoapili
Hoapili
Ulumāheihei Hoapili was a member of the nobility during the formation of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was a trusted military and political advisor to King Kamehameha I, known as "Kamehameha the Great"...
, who lived there for twenty more years. When Ulumāheihei left to become the governor of Maui, he gave the land to his daughter, Kuini Liliha
Kuini Liliha
Kuini Liliha was a High Chiefess in the ancient Hawaiian tradition and served the Kingdom of Hawaii as royal governor of Oahu island. She administered the island from 1829 to 1831 following the death of her first husband.-Early life:...
. Ka Punahou was given in 1829 by Oahu's Governor Boki and his wife, Liliha to Reverend Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham I
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I , was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands.-Life:...
, one of the first Christian missionaries in Hawaii.
Powerful leader Queen Kaahumanu was a strong supporter of the mission, and built a house for herself near the Binghams. A portion of the stone wall she had built to protect the compound from roaming cattle has been preserved. Founded in 1841, Punahou School was originally a school for the children of missionaries serving throughout the Pacific region
Pacific Ocean
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. The first class was held on July 11, 1842, and consisted of only fifteen students. It was the first school with classes only in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
west of the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...
.
Daniel Dole
Daniel Dole
Daniel Dole was a Protestant missionary educator from the United States to the Hawaiian Islands.-Life:Daniel Dole as born September 9, 1808 in Skowhegan, Maine...
(1808–1878) was its first principal. It was known as "Oahu College" from 1853 to 1934.
The campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu
National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu
This is a list of properties and districts on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Oahu is the only major island in Honolulu County. The location of the city of Honolulu, Oahu is the most populous island in the state. There are 149 properties and...
on August 7, 1972.
During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, much of the Punahou campus was commandeered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Castle Hall (the girls' dormitory) was used as a command center, buildings were connected with tunnels, athletic fields were used as parking lots, the library was cleared to become sleeping quarters and an officer's mess. The cereus
Cereus
Cereus is a genus of cactus. The term cereus is also used to describe cacti with very elongated bodies, including columnar growth cacti and epiphytic cacti...
hedge on the campus lava rock wall was topped with barbed wire. Punahou students volunteered in hospitals and raised enough in war bonds to purchase two bombers and a fighter (among other airplanes) which were named after alumni who had fallen in service.
Many traditional events take place on the campus. On the first Friday and Saturday of each February, the campus hosts the Punahou Carnival, the proceeds of which benefit the Financial Aid program. Holoku Pageant is an annual day of celebration of the Hawaiian culture and arts. The campus also hosts the Alumni Luau
Luau
A luau is a Hawaiian feast. It may feature food, such as poi, kalua pig, poke, lomi salmon, opihi, haupia, and beer; and entertainment, such as Hawaiian music and hula...
Weekend, where alumni come together and meet. The new graduates are invited as well.
The school today
Tuition is $18,450 for the 2011-2012 school year, not including optional and mandatory fees. Tuition charges do not cover the entire cost of the education of a student, and this "deficit" is met by the school's endowment. The Washington Post estimated Punahou's endowment to be $174M; Bizjournals and CBS NewsCBS News
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put it at $180M, and Business Week recently claimed it as high as $501M. Although this figure is high among U.S. private schools, Honolulu also has Iolani School
Iolani School
Iolani School, located at 563 Kamoku Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a private coeducational college preparatory school serving over 1,800 students. Founded in 1863 by Father William R. Scott, it was the principal school of the former Anglican Church of Hawaii. It was patronized by Kamehameha IV...
with a comparable endowment (twice the endowment per pupil), and Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools , formerly called Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate , is a private co-educational college-preparatory institution that specializes in Native Hawaiian language and cultural education. It is located in Hawaii and operates three campuses: Kapālama , Pukalani , and Keaau...
has a $5B to $9B endowment (30 times the endowment per pupil). (Maui
Maui
The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, bigger than Lānai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai. In 2010, Maui had a population of 144,444,...
has Seabury Hall
Seabury Hall
Seabury Hall is a private college-preparatory school in Makawao, and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1964 and serves middle and high school students. Seabury Hall has been designated as a Department of Education Blue Ribbon School. The Seabury mascot is the Spartan and...
which has twice the endowment per pupil, but is a much smaller school).
Case Middle School
Steve Case
Stephen McConnell "Steve" Case is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online . Since his retirement as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has gone on to build a variety of new businesses through his investment...
('76) donated ten million dollars.
This led to construction of a new middle school for grades six through eight. The Case Middle School was actually named in honor of the donor's parents.
Sometime into the project, the school learned about Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
. The school then hired a design consultant, John Hara ('57) for sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
and found out that they could earn the LEED Gold certification.
At the time, few projects anywhere had earned this rating.
The middle school also won the Energy Project of the Year award in the Seventh Energy Efficiency Awards, sponsored by Hawaiian Electric Company.
Sensors shut off air conditioners if windows are opened to let in the breeze; the buildings are designed to take full use of the tradewinds, with the help of the Venturi effect
Venturi effect
The Venturi effect is the reduction in fluid pressure that results when a fluid flows through a constricted section of pipe. The Venturi effect is named after Giovanni Battista Venturi , an Italian physicist.-Background:...
. There are also sensors in place that turn the lights on or off depending on whether motion is detected, and dim the lights on sunny days or brighten them on overcast or cloudy ones.
Air conditioning for the buildings is provided by three ice-making plants, one for each grade level's section. The units freeze and accumulate ice at night when electricity is cheaper, and allow the ice to melt during the day to cool the air.
The whole school cost more than $50 million USD and was made possible solely through donations. The new middle school opened on January 4, 2005, although the eighth graders had been using their buildings since the beginning of the 2004–2005 school year.
Case Middle School consists of nine color-coded buildings—green for sixth grade, blue for seventh, and red for eighth—on the lower east side of Punahou campus.
Omidyar K-1 Neighborhood
In late 2010 a new five-building indoor/outdoor section of campus opened for Punahou's youngest students. It was constructed and operated with sustainable living as a principal goal, and the curriculum has a focus on sustainability. With solar energy, efficient landscaping, rain catchment and eco-friendly materials, the complex is expected to receive a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.Teachers are encouraged to personalize their classroom spaces, and each of the 12 rooms has its own outdoor area that is one-third the size of the interior space to which it is attached.
The total cost was $26 million. Individual buildings are named the Mountain House, Forest House, and City House, and historic Wilcox Hall retains its traditional name. Board of Trustee member and former student Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-Iranian American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site...
donated $6 million to the project.
Athletics
The Punahou athletics program is the most successful in the state and one of the most successful in the nation, having won more state championships (322) than any other high school in the nation.For two consecutive years (2008 and 2009) it was named the #1 U.S. high school athletics program by Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
. Athletic facilities include the heated Waterhouse Pool, and the Atherton 8-lane Mondo track surface. The school also has a fieldhouse for competitive athletics, a gymnasium for physical education and intramural sports, and a tennis center with 9 hard surface courts.
Students compete in 22 sports, including air riflery, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
. bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
, canoe paddling, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, judo
Judo
is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
, kayaking
Kayaking
Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking and canoeing are also known as paddling. Kayaking is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle...
, riflery, sailing
Sailing
Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
, soccer, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
and diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
, and wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
. Punahou has approximately 120 sports teams. The school is a member of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu
Interscholastic League of Honolulu
The Interscholastic League of Honolulu or ILH is an athletic conference composed of private secondary schools in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The ILH comprises 26 private schools with over 7500 students participating in 22 different sports including cross country, track and field, swimming and diving,...
.
Punahou won 16 state championships in the 2007-2008 school year. The school awarded 82 Scholar Athlete Awards, and over 100 Senior Plaques to the Class of 2008. Punahou won 19 state championships in the 2008-2009 school year, a record number for the school.
Other programs and honors
Students have access to a jewelry studio, a pottery studio, glass-blowing facilities, technological departments, a new dance pavilion, and a dedicated music building. The campus has space dedicated to school-wide initiatives, such as the Luke Center for Public Service and the Wo International Center. The Punahou marching band travels periodically, most recently participating in the 2009 inaugurationInauguration of Barack Obama
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe...
of President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
, an alumnus of the school ('79). The band performed in the 2007 New Year's Day Rose Parade
Tournament of Roses Parade
The Tournament of Roses Parade, better known as the Rose Parade, is "America's New Year Celebration", a festival of flower-covered floats, marching bands, equestrians and a college football game on New Year's Day , produced by the non-profit Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.The annual...
in Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...
.
The student yearbook, The Oahuan, has won awards from the American Scholastic Press Association.
Punahou requires all students (K - 12) to attend chapel once every 6-day cycle. The school year begins in late August and finishes in early June.
The 115801 Punahou
115801 Punahou
Asteroid 115801 Punahou was discovered by the Junk Bond Observatory on October 23, 2003. Its provisional name was '. It was named after Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. It has an absolute magnitude of 17.4 and an orbital period of 1356.57 days....
is an asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
named
Meanings of asteroid names
This is a list of named minor planets , with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named for.-See also:*List of minor planets*List of minor planets named after people...
in the school's honor.
Notable students and faculty
In Public Leadership
U.S. President Barack ObamaBarack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
('79) attended Punahou from 1971 to 1979.
Punahou has produced many leaders in the government of Hawaii. Sanford Dole (1864) was President of the brief Republic of Hawaii
Republic of Hawaii
The Republic of Hawaii was the formal name of the government that controlled Hawaii from 1894 to 1898 when it was run as a republic. The republic period occurred between the administration of the Provisional Government of Hawaii which ended on July 4, 1894 and the adoption of the Newlands...
, then Governor of Hawaii
Governor of Hawaii
The Governor of Hawaii is the chief executive of the state of Hawaii and its various agencies and departments, as provided in the Hawaii State Constitution Article V, Sections 1 through 6. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state...
. Walter Frear (1881) and Lawrence M. Judd
Lawrence M. Judd
Lawrence McCully Judd was a politician of the Territory of Hawaii, serving as the seventh Territorial Governor. He was devoted to the Hansen's Disease-afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai.-Life:...
(1905) were also Governors.
The school has produced U.S. Senators from Illinois and Connecticut. Otis Pike ('39*), Congressman from New York, chaired the Pike Committee investigating Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
. Charles Djou
Charles Djou
Charles Kong Djou is the former U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district...
('87) recently finished Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie is the 7th and current Governor of Hawaii. He was the Democratic U.S. Representative of the First Congressional District of Hawaii which comprises urban Honolulu. He served in Congress from 1986 to 1987 and from 1991 to 2010 when he resigned to successfully run for governor...
's term as Congressman from Hawaii, and at least three other graduates from Punahou have represented Hawaii in the U.S. House.
Former students who made history in civic leadership include the Educator of the Disenfranchised, an Unlikely Hero, and the Uncommon American (as described by their biographers): General Samuel C. Armstrong
Samuel C. Armstrong
Samuel Chapman Armstrong was an American educator and a commissioned officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
(1859) led the rifle company that turned back Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Its futility was predicted by the charge's commander,...
at the Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg , was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac...
, led U.S. Colored Troops, and founded Hampton University
Hampton University
Hampton University is a historically black university located in Hampton, Virginia, United States. It was founded by black and white leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen.-History:...
to educate the freed slaves and Native Indians in the way that his father had educated the Hawaiians; Judge Elbert Tuttle
Elbert Tuttle
Elbert Parr Tuttle , one of the "Fifth Circuit Four", and a liberal Republican from Georgia, was chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1960 to 1967, when that court became known for a series of decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African-Americans...
('14) led the federal court that desegregated the South, the "Fifth Circuit Four
Fifth Circuit Four
The "Fifth Circuit Four" were four judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit who, during the late 1950s, became known for a series of decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African Americans; in this they were opposed by fellow fifth-circuit judge Ben Cameron,...
"; and Secretary John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
John William Gardner, was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson. During World War II he served in the United States Marine Corps as a captain. In 1955 he became president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and, concurrently, the Carnegie Foundation for...
('29*) was Lyndon Johnson's architect of the Great Society
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice...
, creating welfare
Welfare
Welfare refers to a broad discourse which may hold certain implications regarding the provision of a minimal level of wellbeing and social support for all citizens without the stigma of charity. This is termed "social solidarity"...
and PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
. Tuttle and Gardner were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...
.
Sun Yat Sen, the Founding Father of the modern, post-imperial Republican China, attended Punahou when it was called Oahu College for a year of post-secondary school after graduating from Iolani School
Iolani School
Iolani School, located at 563 Kamoku Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a private coeducational college preparatory school serving over 1,800 students. Founded in 1863 by Father William R. Scott, it was the principal school of the former Anglican Church of Hawaii. It was patronized by Kamehameha IV...
.
In Athletics
Punahou has produced seven NFL linemen and three running backs, including Mark TuineiMark Tuinei
Mark Pulemau Tuinei was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys...
('78) who played 15 years (team record) for the Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
, winning three Super Bowl
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...
s. Punahou football coach Kale Ane
Charlie Ane
Charles "Kale" Teetai Ane III is a former professional American football player who played Center for seven seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Green Bay Packers in the NFL, and three seasons at Michigan State University.-Life:He is the son of former NFL player Charley Ane...
('71) is son of 2xPro Bowl
Pro Bowl
In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...
er and 2xNFL champion team captain Charley Ane
Charley Ane
Charles "Charley" Teetai Ane, Jr. was an American football offensive lineman.-High school:Ane excelled in baseball, basketball and track as well as football at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii...
('49), and nephew of Herman Clark
Herman Clark
Herman Piikea Clark is a former American football guard who played for the Chicago Bears in 1952 and from 1954–1957. He played college football at Oregon State University, and played in 52 games over five seasons for the Bears.-External links:*...
('48) and Jim Clark
Jim Clark
James "Jim" Clark, Jr OBE was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965....
('48); the four combined for a total of 260 NFL games over 20 seasons for the Packers, Chiefs, Lions, Redskins, and Bears. Pro Bowl
Pro Bowl
In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...
er and Super Bowl
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...
er Mosi Tatupu
Mosi Tatupu
Mosiula Faasuka Tatupu was a National Football League special teamer and running back who during a fifteen year professional career played for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. His tenure with the Patriots lasted from 1978 to 1990...
('74) redefined the importance of special teams. The school also claims a pitcher and a first baseman in major league baseball. 5-time tennis doubles winner Jim Osborne
Jim Osborne (tennis)
Jim Osborne , is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 5 Open Era doubles titles.-Doubles titles :...
graduated in 1965. LPGA winner Michelle Wie
Michelle Wie
Michelle Sung Wie is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie would also become the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for a LPGA Tour event...
graduated in 2007.
Punahou has a tradition of sending athletes to the Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
, with alumni contributing seven gold, seven silver, and three bronze medals, competing in many of the modern games ('20, '24, '28, '32, '52, '68, '72, '76, '84, '88, '92, '96, '00, '04, '08), and on every U.S. team since 1968 (Moscow '80 would have been the second of four Olympics for Henry Marsh ('72) if not for the U.S. boycott). Punahou alumni include 2008 Olympic Silver medalists Brandon Brooks (water polo)
Brandon Brooks (water polo)
Brandon Brooks , who played water polo as a goalie for UCLA and the 2004 and 2008 United States National teams, is now the head coach of the women's water polo team at UCLA. The women's team won the 2008 and 2009 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship, and one of his players, Courtney Mathewson,...
('99) as goalkeeper for the U.S. Water Polo team, and Lindsey Berg
Lindsey Berg
Lindsey Napela Berg is a volleyball player from the United States.Berg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was three-time All-Big Ten selection at the University of Minnesota, where she graduated in December 2001....
('98) as setter for the U.S. Volleyball team.
In Academia
In academia, Punahou can point to endowed professors at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Illinois, Notre Dame, and Boston U. There are research professors of medicine at UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Indiana, Maryland, Pitt, Walter Reed, Texas, and Baylor. John LieJohn Lie
John Lie is Class of 1959 Professor of sociology and Dean of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His principal academic interests are social theory, political economy, social identity, and East Asia....
('78) wrote eight books on Asian cultures, Patrick Vinton Kirch
Patrick Vinton Kirch
Patrick Vinton Kirch is an archaeologist who studies Oceanic and Polynesia prehistory. He is the Class of 1954 Professor Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as Curator of Oceanic Archaeology in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and was director of...
('68) wrote nine books on Polynesian cultures and Fred Hoxie ('65) wrote twenty books on Native American peoples. Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer, SJ ('70) was the president of Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...
, General George Forsythe ('66*) is the new president of Westminster College (Missouri), Marie Mookini ('74) has been admissions director for Stanford and its business school for over two decades, and William Richards Castle, Jr.
William Richards Castle, Jr.
William Richards Castle, Jr. was an educator and diplomat. With great wealth from his family's Hawaiian holdings, he rose rapidly to the highest levels of the United States Department of State. He took a strong interest in Pacific issues, in part because of his background in Hawaii.-Life:William...
(1896) was a Harvard Overseer. Elizabeth Bennett Johns ('55) has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Mount Rex
Mount Rex
Mount Rex is an isolated mountain which rises above the interior ice surface of Palmer Land about 55 miles south-southeast of FitzGerald Bluffs. It was discovered and photographed from the air on 23 November 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth...
is named for former student and atmospheric science pioneer Dan Rex ('33*).
The school has a connection to Mills College
Mills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
through Punahou's former president, Cyrus Mills, who helped found the college with his wife, Punahou teacher Susan Tolman Mills
Susan Tolman Mills
Susan Tolman Mills was the co-founder of Mills College .-Background:...
. Queenie B. Mills was a Kindergarten director who helped design the Head Start program.
In the Arts
In the arts, Joan BlondellJoan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell.After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career...
('25*) has a Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
star after 52 years in films. Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic.-Early life and career:The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Honolulu,...
('80) has directed and produced a dozen films (Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs (2011 film)
Straw Dogs is a 2011 American thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film of the same name, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm.-Plot:...
, The Contender) and two major TV series (Line of Fire, Commander in Chief
Commander in Chief (TV series)
Commander in Chief is an American drama television series that focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen , the first female President of the United States, who ascends to the role from the Vice Presidency after the death of the sitting President from a sudden cerebral...
). Kevin McCollum
Kevin McCollum
Kevin McCollum is one of the leading producers on Broadway. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1984....
('80*) directs a Broadway production company that claims five Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
s and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than the calendar year...
, and Allan Burns
Allan Burns
Allan Burns is an American screenwriter and television producer. Burns is best known for, alongside James L. Brooks, creating and writing for the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda.-Early life:...
('53) was a 6-time Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
-winning writer and creator, known for such shows as The Munsters
The Munsters
The Munsters is a 1960s American family television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of monsters. It starred Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and popular family entertainment of the era,...
, Get Smart
Get Smart
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams , Barbara Feldon , and Edward Platt...
, Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ken Peterson ('26) animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...
, One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith...
, and Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "La Belle au bois dormant" by Charles Perrault...
. Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe
Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s.-Birth:...
('27), who had won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, portrayed Tarzan
Tarzan
Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
, Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...
, and Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers
Anthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue....
in film. John Kneubuhl
John Kneubuhl
John Kneubuhl was an American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and Polynesian historian. He wrote for American television series such as The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, Star Trek, The Invaders and Hawaii Five-O...
('38), a Samoan royal, was a writer on Wild, Wild, West, Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
, Hawaii Five O, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, Mannix
Mannix
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...
, and 40 other shows. Gerry Lopez
Gerry Lopez
Gerry Lopez , aka Mr. Pipeline, is an American surfer, shaper, journalist, and film actor.-Early life:Lopez was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up in East Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii and attended Punahou School. He frequented the semi secret reefs in and around Aina Haina as well as better known surf...
('66) is well known for surfing, but is also known as Subotai in Conan the Barbarian. Three danced for the early Martha Graham
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
. Leilani Jones
LeiLani Jones
LeiLani R. Jones is a pageant titleholder from Tacoma, Washington who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007....
('75) won a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
on Broadway, and was on the original casts of Grind
Grind (musical)
Grind is a musical with a book by Fay Kanin, music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh. Grind is a portrait of a largely African-American burlesque house in Chicago in the Thirties.The reviews were mixed at best...
and Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...
. Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull is an American professional ballet dancer and actress.-Life and career:Schull was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She attended Punahou School and trained at Hawaii State Ballet under the instruction of John Landovsky. As shown in her biographies, she attributes her training to Ballet...
('96) had the lead role as an aspiring ballerina in Center Stage
Center Stage
Center Stage is a 2000 American drama film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, about a group of young dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the fictitious American Ballet Academy in New York City...
. IMDB.com lists almost 50 credits for Carrie Ann Inaba
Carrie Ann Inaba
Carrie Ann Inaba is an American dancer, choreographer, actress, game show host, and singer.She started her career as a singer in Japan, but became best known for her dancing, first introducing herself to American audiences as one of the original Fly Girls on the sketch comedy series In Living Color...
('86) (In Living Color
In Living Color
In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series, which originally ran on the Fox Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. Brothers Keenen and Damon Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory Way Productions in association with 20th Century...
, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 American spy comedy film and the third installment of the Austin Powers series starring Mike Myers in the title role. The movie was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. Myers also plays the roles of Dr. Evil, Goldmember,...
, Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...
), and almost 100 for Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston is an American actress and former model.- Early years :Preston was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old...
('80) (Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding, Jr. It was written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe...
, For Love of the Game
For Love of the Game (film)
For Love of the Game is a 1999 American drama sports film based on the novel of the same title by Michael Shaara...
, Only You
Only You (1992 film)
Only You is a 1992 film starring Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston, and Helen Hunt.- Plot :Clifford Godfrey is a doll house designer who is dumped by his fiance a few hours before they are to depart for a vacation in Mexico. Clare Enfield, a travel agent, informs Godfrey that his tickets are...
, Twins).
The Kingston Trio had two Punahou founders, Dave Guard
Dave Guard
Donald David "Dave" Guard was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio.Guard was educated in Honolulu, Hawaii, at Punahou School in what was then the pre-statehood U.S....
('52*) and Bob Shane
Bob Shane
Bob Shane is an American singer and guitarist and, with Nick Reynolds' passing in October 2008, the only surviving founding member of The Kingston Trio. In that capacity, Shane became a seminal figure in the revival of folk and other acoustic music as a popular art form in the U.S...
('52), producing ten top-40 hits and a #1 Grammy-winning single. Robin Luke
Robin Luke
Robin Luke is an American rockabilly singer who is best known for his 1958 song, "Susie Darlin". He has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
('59) was a Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Rockabilly Hall of Fame
The Rockabilly Hall of Fame was established on the internet on March 21, 1997, to present early rock and roll history and information relative to the artists and personalities involved in this pioneering American music genre....
act. Hawaiian slack-key guitar is well represented by the popular music of Henry Kapono Kaaihue ('67) of Cecilio & Kapono
Cecilio & Kapono
Cecilio & Kapono are a Hawaiian music duo formed in 1973, comprising Henry Kapono Ka’aihue and Cecilio David Rodriguez, who have released 14 albums to date...
. More recently, Melody Ishikawa
Melody.
, better known by her stage name melody. is a Japanese-American pop singer and TV host. She debuted on February 19, 2003 with the song "Dreamin' Away", under Toy's Factory. In October 2008, melody. announced on her blog that she will end her career as a music artist and instead focus on pursuing...
('00) had three top-ten albums in Japan, and Teri Ann Linn
Teri Ann Linn
Teri Ann Linn is an American actress and singer who was also popular in Finland and Italy. She pioneered the role of Kristen Forrester Dominguez on The Bold and the Beautiful, a role she played from 1987-1994. She returned for a guest appearance from April to September 1997...
's ('79) debut CD went gold on the European charts.
In the Military
Punahou has a striking list of military alumni. Francis Wai ('35) was awarded a posthumous Medal of HonorMedal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
, Killed in Action
Killed in action
Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.It was fought in waters...
.
The school can claim at least eleven Army Generals, three Rear Admirals, a Marine Major General, and six Air Force Generals. General Stanley Larsen ('33) was the first commander of the I Field Force, Vietnam
I Field Force, Vietnam
I Field Force, Vietnam was a Corps-level command of the United States Army during the Vietnam War.Activated on 15 March 1966, it was the successor to Field Force Vietnam, a provisional corps command created 15 November 1965 for temporary control of activities of U.S. Army ground combat units...
. Marine Major General Ross T. Dwyer
Ross T. Dwyer
Ross T. Dwyer is a United States Marine Corps major general who retired in 1974 after over 32 years of service. MajGen Dwyer served in combat in World War II, the Korean War, and in the Vietnam War. His commands included the 5th Marine Division and the 1st Marine Division.-Biography:Ross T. Dwyer...
('37) was USMC Aide to the Secretary of the Navy.
Many of the students were children of high level commanders, e.g., a Marine Commandant Wallace M. Greene, Jr., stationed in the Pacific, and many had their family reassigned before graduation. This includes General Edward Timberlake ('14*), Colonel Red Reeder ('20*), General Donald Booth ('22*), and General Walter Johnson '(22*), all of whom graduated from West Point, and all of whom had important World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
commands.
Colonel Farrant Turner ('13), Major Alex McKenzie ('29), and Major John Johnson ('31) commanded the Nisei
Nisei
During the early years of World War II, Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes in the Pacific coast states because military leaders and public opinion combined to fan unproven fears of sabotage...
100th Infantry Battalion, the Purple Heart
Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U.S. military. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located in New Windsor, New York...
Battalion, the latter being Killed in Action
Killed in action
Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
at Cassino
Cassino
Cassino is a comune in the province of Frosinone, Italy, at the southern end of the region of Lazio.Cassino is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Rapido and Liri rivers...
. The destroyer USS Chung-Hoon
USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93)
USS Chung-Hoon is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer serving in the United States Navy. Chung-Hoon was named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon , recipient of the Navy Cross and the Silver Star....
is named after Punahou football star, Admiral Gordon Chung-Hoon ('29*), who survived the attack on the USS Arizona
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona, a , was built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside...
.
In Biographies
Brewster Morgan's ('35*) story is told in The Great EscapeThe Great Escape (film)
The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough...
and Robert Alexander Anderson's ('12) story is told in The Dawn Patrol (both were downed pilots); another war pilot, Ted Withington ('40), had his letters published as Flight to Black Hammer. Charlie Wedemeyer
Charlie Wedemeyer
Charlie Wedemeyer was a high school teacher and football coach, famous for continuing to teach and coach after contracting Lou Gehrig’s disease. He died on June 3, 2010, from pneumonia, a complication caused by a recent surgery. He was 64 years old.Charlie was the last of nine children born to...
's ('65) story is told in the Emmy-award winning film Quiet Victory. John Kneubuhl
John Kneubuhl
John Kneubuhl was an American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and Polynesian historian. He wrote for American television series such as The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, Star Trek, The Invaders and Hawaii Five-O...
's story was a documentary film, and Blondell has a 2007 biography. Armstrong, Tuttle, Gardner, and Obama have also had formal biographers. Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...
's (1892) latest biography calls him A Real Life Indiana Jones. James Michener's Hawaii (novel)
Hawaii (novel)
Hawaii is a novel by James Michener published in 1959. Written in episodic format like many of Michener's works, the book narrates the story of the original Hawaiians who sailed to the islands from Bora Bora, the early American missionaries and merchants, and the Chinese and Japanese immigrants who...
and Hawaii (film)
Hawaii (film)
Hawaii is a 1966 American film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands...
portray the historical acts of Lorrin A. Thurston
Lorrin A. Thurston
Lorrin Andrews Thurston was a lawyer, politician, and businessman born and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii. The grandson of two of the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii, Thurston played a prominent role in the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom that replaced Queen Liliuokalani with the...
(1875), Sanford Dole, Hiram Bingham I
Hiram Bingham I
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I , was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands.-Life:...
, Henry Baldwin
Henry Alexander Baldwin
Henry Alexander Baldwin or Harry Alexander Baldwin was a sugarcane plantation manager, and politician who served as Congressional Delegate to the United States House of Representatives representing the Territory of Hawaii...
(1891), and Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (1889) in the transition from monarchy to US territory. Their classmates, such as Alexander Cartwright III (1869), were early players of baseball, as initiated in the islands by Alexander Cartwright
Alexander Cartwright
Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. is one of several people sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball". Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright...
, Jr., the official inventor of the game.
Others
In 2007, Cox EnterprisesCox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, United States, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. He was the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States in the election of 1920...
passed to two former Punahou students who are highly philanthropic like their mother Barbara Cox Anthony
Barbara Cox Anthony
Barbara Blair Cox Anthony was the youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster. With her sister Anne Cox Chambers and brother James M. Cox, Jr., she inherited, via a trust, ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox...
, who twice married Punahou alumni; a former schoolteacher, Blair Kennedy ('68*), is now the wealthiest person in Australia; her brother, James C. Kennedy
James C. Kennedy
James Cox Kennedy is the chairman of Cox Enterprises, the media conglomerate founded by his grandfather, James M. Cox. According to the Forbes 400 list in 2008, he is the 49th richest person in the United States, through his $6.5 billion stake in the company....
('65*) was Atlanta's philanthropist of the year, 2007. Charles Gates, Jr.
Charles Gates, Jr.
Charles Cassius Gates, Jr. was a businessman and philanthropist. His father, Charles Gates Sr., bought Colorado Tire & Leather for $3,500 in 1911. The company was renamed The Gates Rubber Company in 1919. It became world's largest non-tire rubber manufacturer. Charles Gates Jr. took over in 1961,...
('39) has donated $147M through his Gates Family Foundation. As mentioned above, the philanthropic founders of AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
and ebay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
were Punahou students.
Charles L. Veach
Charles L. Veach
Charles Lacy Veach was a NASA astronaut.-Personal data:Veach was born in Chicago, Illinois, but considered Honolulu, Hawaii, to be his hometown. Married to Alice Meigs Scott of Waycross, Georgia, he had two children. He enjoyed surfing, bicycling, reading and activities with his family. His...
('62) was an astronaut on two shuttle missions.
Punahou students were crowned Miss Hawaii
Miss Hawaii
The Miss Hawaii competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Hawaii in the Miss America pageant. Hawaii has twice won the Miss America title.- Winners :- External links :*...
or Miss Hawaii USA
Miss Hawaii USA
The Miss Hawaii USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Hawaii in the Miss USA pageant.Hawaii is the most recent state to start competing at Miss USA, as it first competed in 1962. Prior to this delegates were sent to Miss Universe...
in 1977, 1981, 1997, 1999, and 2004 (with two becoming Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...
and Miss Universe
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
, respectively: Judi Anderson
Judi Anderson
Judi Andersen is a beauty pageant titleholder from Hawaii who won Miss USA 1978.Andersen first won the Miss Hawaii USA title in 1977, then represented her state at the Miss USA pageant televised live from Charleston, South Carolina in May 1978...
('76) and Brook Mahealani Lee ('89*)).
Punahou students appear across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
's "favorite economist" Wendy Lee Gramm
Wendy Lee Gramm
Wendy Lee Gramm is an American economist and a distinguished senior scholar at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, a free-market think tank based in Washington D.C. She is also the wife of former United States Senator Phil Gramm...
('62); Ryan Henry ('68) and Robert Silberman ('75), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army, respectively, for George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
; to centrist Ray Schoenke
Ray Schoenke
Raymond Frederick Schoenke is a gun owner, hunter, conservationist, and former American football player in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins...
('59*), a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association
American Hunters and Shooters Association
The American Hunters and Shooters Association , founded in 2005, was a small United States-based group, which has set itself apart from the much larger gun owner organization, the National Rifle Association, founded in 1871, by advocating further restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights...
(an alternative to the National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association of America is an American non-profit 501 civil rights organization which advocates for the protection of the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights and the promotion of firearm ownership rights as well as marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection...
); to Jerry Berman ('58), chief counsel of the ACLU.
Ellery Chun ('27) invented the Aloha Shirt
Aloha shirt
The Aloha shirt commonly referred to as a Hawaiian shirt is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawaii. It is currently the premier textile export of the Hawaii manufacturing industry. The shirts are printed, mostly short-sleeved, and collared. They usually have buttons, sometimes as a complete...
.
Alma mater
Oahu'a, Oahu'a
Punahou, our Punahou;
O Mau o' Mau, O mau o' mau,
Punahou, our Punahou.
Through all the years we've shown our light,
We glory in Oahu's might;
The Buff and Blue's a glorious sight,
Punahou, our Punahou.
The song is sung to the tune of Maryland, My Maryland
Maryland, My Maryland
"Maryland, My Maryland" is the official state song of the U.S. state of Maryland. The song is set to the tune of "Lauriger Horatius" and the lyrics are from a nine-stanza poem written by James Ryder Randall...
also known as "O Tannenbaum". The spelling is from the original words to "Oahu'a" written in 1902 by a student.
School Shout
Ready? Hit it!
Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie
V - I - C - T - O - R - Y
Are We In It? Well I Guess!
Punahou, Punahou, Yes, Yes, Yes!
This cheer is typically shouted by the cheerleaders at Punahou, at events such as football games and other sports activities and gatherings.
School Mascot
Punahou doesn't have a mascot per se. The symbol that perhaps most closely qualifies as a school mascot is the hala treePandanus tectorius
Pandanus tectorius is a species of Pandanus that is native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include Thatch Screwpine, Hala , Bacua , and Vacquois ....
, whose image is used in the school's seal.
Further reading
- "Punahou School: a private school with a public purpose," Hawaii Business, September 1, 2003. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2021/is_200309/ai_n9142055
- A. Alexander, "Baseball at Punahou Thirty-Seven Years Ago," Oahuan, June 1906.
- Mary C. Alexander, C.P. Dodge, William R. Castle, Punahou, 1841–1941, U. California Press, 1941.
- John B. Bowles, Day Our World Changed: December 7, 1941; Punahou '52 Remembers Pearl Harbor, Ice Cube Press, 2004. ISBN 1888160020
- T. K. Chow-Hoy, "An inquiry into school context and the teaching of the virtues," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2001.
- D. Cisco, Hawaii Sports: History, Facts, and Statistics, University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
- Ethel Mosely Damon, The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Pageant Punahou, published by the author, 1916.
- Charlotte P. Dodge, Punahou, The War Years, 1941–1945, 1984.
- Nelson Foster, ed., Punahou: The History and Promise of a School of the Islands, published by Punahou School, 1992.
- James A. Michener, Hawaii, Bantam Books, 1960. ISBN: B0000CKM6G
- Norris W. Potter, The Punahou Story, Pacific Books, 1969.
- Punahou Class of 1957, Na Halia Aloha o Punahou Class of 1957, June 2007 http://www2.punahou.edu/pdf/Bulletin/Classof57BookWeb.pdf includes many historical photos and legend of founding.
- M. Tate, "The Sandwich Island Missionaries Lay The Foundation for a System of Public Instruction in Hawaii," The Journal of Negro Education, 1961.
- Kirby Wright, Punahou Blues, Lemon Shark Press, 2005. ISBN 0974106712
External links
- Punahou School
- Campus Map (Transcription of 1857 text about early history of the school)