Here’s one of the items that was stolen, and then returned, over the weekend. It’s a small medal, presented to my mother as a member of the UH Women’s Swimming Team in February 1933 after winning a major local competition. It was, if I’m not mistaken, the first time the university had fielded a swim team.
It’s small, and probably worth only pennies if melted down for its metal value. But it’s quite a treasure for me.
The 1933 Ka Palapala described the win commemorated by the medal (and unfortunately misspelled my mother’s name, an error repeated on the medal as well (it was Helen Yonge, not Helen Young). According to Ka Palapala:
In the A.A.U. Swimming Meet, held this year at the Punahou swimming tank, the women’s relay swimming team…won the 200 year relay Hawaiian Championship race. They received their letters in the sport for this win.
As usual, click on any photo to see a larger version.
And here’s a photo of the 1933 UH women’s swim team, again from the pages of Ka Palapala.
Left to Right in the photo: Beatrice Nicoll, Helen Yonge, Georgina Cooper, Libana Furtado, J. Bains-Jordan.
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OK, so where does this fall in the “what to do with old yearbooks” discussion?
I guess it falls in the “keep them forever” category.
Interesting to note what you did get back but I would like to know what you didn’t get back. One would assume that those would be items which the burglar could dispose of quickly. It would be instructive to know what kinds of items those are.
Anything with bits of gold. There were a dozen or so items in this category. However, we traced those items to a particular store that buys precious metal, and they were picked up by HPD as evidence.
Thank you for that information. I hope that HPD is targeting that store as one which is purchasing stolen property.
You’ve got your values right. Your late mom’s 1933 swim medal is a lot more valuable than any gold stuff
Very glad you got the medal back. Losing a piece of family history is worse than losing a TV or lawnmower …