It was in a box of papers uncovered yesterday afternoon as I slogged through another section of a small storeroom at my parents’ home in Kahala. The papers are dirty, faded, and covered with a fine layer of dust and rather old looking termite droppings and other bits of unknown origin. The papers included bits [...]
Tags: Helen Yonge Lind
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
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
After getting married just before the end of 1939, my parents rented a house on Kealaolu Avenue in Kahala, just above Farmers Road. They moved down the street in 1942 when they bought a house a block or so away for $5,700. At the time of her death in January 2013, my mother, Helen Lind, [...]
I recently found a small scrapbook tucked safely away in a cabinet in my mother’s bedroom. It contains a number of photographs, most without labels, and most from her high school years. It ends in 1931, the year she graduated from the Kamehameha School for Girls and then entered the University of Hawaii. This particular [...]
Tags: Helen Yonge Lind
Just when I think that we’ve located all the old photos in my parents’ home, along come some more. Yesterday my sister handed me an old shoe box with a jumble of things inside. Lens caps to long lost cameras. Empty Kodak 35mm film cans. Empty slide boxes. Then some gems. A few stacks of [...]
