We were at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in time to watch the sunrise yesterday morning. And we were at home in Kaaawa in time to pour a glass of wine and watch the reflections of the sunset from over the mountains. That’s a pretty amazing day. So we’re catching up after being away [...]
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Interesting things keep turning up in my mother’s small stash of old papers inherited from Professor Carey D. Miller. This time is a short history of the beginnings of the home economics department of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of Hawaii, soon to become the College of Hawaii, and later the University of [...]
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What was it like to arrive in Hawaii for the first time in 1922 after several days on a Matson steamship from San Francisco? The question is answered in the latest treasure found among my mother’s stash of papers. It’s a small album in which the late UH Professor Carey D. Miller describes the first [...]
Tags: Ada B. Erwin·Carey D. Miller·Hallie Hyde·Hawaii 1922·Helen Yonge Lind·Home Economics·Matson Wilhelmina·Nutrition
When nutritionist Carey D. Miller was first invited to join the University of Hawaii faculty as an assistant professor, the invitation came via a Western Union Telegraph directly from UH President Arthur Dean. The telegram, sent on April 1, 1922, was short and direct. MRS CHENEY AND DR NORGAN SUGGEST YOU TO TAKE CHARGE DOMESTIC [...]
Tags: Arthur L. Dean·Carey D. Miller·Helen Yonge Lind·University of Hawaii
Those of you who don’t have Civil Beat on your regular daily reading list, you might want to check out my Hawaii Monitor column this week, “Frivolous Claim Over Sovereignty Snags Homeowner.” It’s an odd story of an unexpected and obviously bogus title claim hitting a homeowner in Kaaawa just when the sale of his [...]
We’re learning fast. We have started trying to go through the piles of papers and boxes and bags and what have you that my mother stashed away in what has become a small storage room off the garage of her 1942-era house in Kahala. The game plan to to create separate areas and then sort. [...]
We discovered more of my mother’s treasures yesterday. My sister, Bonnie, and I started digging into the piles of miscellaneous stuff that has been sitting for years in a small room off of the garage of my parents old house in Kahala. Everything covered with years of accumulated dirt the trade winds deliver so effectively [...]
Tags: Abby Marsh·Helen Yonge Lind·Heleualani Cathcart·Lani Yonge·St. Andrews Priory School
Lawrence Fuchs, author of Hawaii Pono, the classic social political history of modern Hawaii originally published in 1961, died earlier this month in Canton, Massachusetts, where he was the Meyer and Walter Jaffe Professor of American Civilization and Politics. See “Faculty, alumni remember Prof. Lawrence Fuchs: An American Studies pioneer, a giving mentor, a champion [...]
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