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The Collection on Lydia Kaonohiponiponiokalani Aholo

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The Reverend Abraham Kahikina Akaka was born on February 21, 1917, the fourth of seven children to Kahikina and Anuenue Akaka. As minister of Kawaiaha‘o Church from 1957-1984, he was a prominent community and spiritual leader. See his brief biography at http://akakafoundation.org.

The story of his ministry and foundation are at http://akakafoundation.org.

Kamehameha Schools, the alma mater of his five children, is the repository of his professional papers, objects and artifacts, slides, photographs and multimedia.

The following is a link to a title inventory of his sermons by date. Other guest speakers, events and programs may be included. Request full-text scans by contacting the archivists listed below.

Sermons from 1940-1997

The following is a link to a .pdf list of homes, buildings, facilities, businesses, and events which he blessed in the name of ka Makua, a me ke Keiki, a me ka Uhane Hemolele.

Summary blessings, dedication, groundbreaking 1956-1997

May you be blessed as you read about the work of this amazing man in the service of Iesu Kristo.

The Collection on Kumu Richard T. Berry, 1956-58

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The Collection of Charles Reed Bishop

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Hartwell Henry Kawahinehelelani Blake Photographs
‘O ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane
Class of 1936

The Cadet

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James Carroll
‘O ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane, Class of 1936
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Abstract: This is a small collection of ho’okupu and collected artifacts or objects.
Title: Community Education Division (CED) artifacts: finding aid
Size: 28 linear feet (13 items)
Date: 1996
Provenance: Fred Cachola, KSB 1953, Director, in a memorandum to Rowena Blaisdell, the following is stated:
The enclosed inventory represents special items acquired by our programs at various times during the development of our Community Education Programs. The special nature of this inventory warrants special treatment. The inventory includes basic information about our acquisition, descriptions, comments and recommendations for future dispositions. Polaroid photos are attached to each of the individual reporting forms for these unique items.
The inventory attached does not include Polaroid photos, but includes photocopies of some Polaroid photographs. Janet Zisk, the archivist first hired in 1992, received this collection. Her notes are written on the copy of the memorandum. Most artifacts were stored in the Archives. Pauahi’s bowl, though Janet thought it was of dubious origins, was heavily used in every one of Janet’s presentations as the only known item at Kamehameha Schools Archives belonging to Pauahi.
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.
Collection identifier: CED 2013
Historical Note
The Community Education Program was directed by Fred Cachola, KSB 1953. From the 1994-1995 Annual Report of The Kamehameha Schools, the following is written:
In 1962, the Trustees sought and received permission from the courts to offer educational programs to students not enrolled in the K-12 Kapālama campus program. That historical decision enabled KSBE to reach a broader spectrum of Hawaiians. It allowed for the development of programs and services from pre-natal to post-high counseling and scholarships and adult education. Thus was established the Extension Education Division which later split into the Early Education Division and the Community Education Division (DEC). Outreach services beginning the summer of 1963, when Kamehameha’s first summer program enrolled 388 students in seven schools serving Hawaiian Homestead communities throughout the State.

From those modest beginnings, Kamehameha’s “reach” grew remarkably, averaging over 25,000 beneficiaries for the past 10 years. During the past year, CED served 31,299 people. If we added this beneficiary group to those of the Early Education Division KSBE served in excess of 28,000 people during FY 1994-95. Reaching thousands of beneficiaries in addition to maintaining the second largest private school in the United States has been truly one of the most remarkable accomplishments of any private educational institution in the world. (p.3)

The Community Education Division was reorganized during the 1995-1996 school year and ceased to exist in its original form. It became the Enrichment Division and its organizational structure was simplified. (See the 1995-1996 Annual Report of The Kamehameha Schools.)

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Abstract: 30 boxes of manuscripts, documents and photographs
Creator: CEP Continuing Education Program and AEP Alternative Education Program
Title: The CEP /AEP Collection
Program dates: around 1979-1997 closed
Language of Materials: In English; in Hawaiian
Size: 30 linear feet

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance: The Continuing Education Program was a division of the Extension Education Program with various directors and heads.  When the program was closed in about 1997, administrators deposited their materials with The Archive at Kamehameha Schools Museum.
Processing: Materials from the 1997 deposit were stored in difficult to access spaces and were rehoused, sorted, organized, inventoried and described as pulled from storage in 2015. Candace W. Lee, Sharon Ahue Cole and the Community Service students from the Class of 2016 worked on these boxes from January to May 2015
Access: With permission of the archivist or director.
Citation: Kamehameha Schools
Copyright notice: Copyright for these materials resides with Kamehameha Schools. Users are responsible to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION from the 1979 Ka Na‘i Aupuni yearbook, page 48
The C.E.P. continuing education program is post-high school based and was offered through the extension education division. It provided educational services and opportunities which assisted adults in relating to themselves and a contemporary society. Classes were held on evenings and weekends and major curriculum areas of emphasis were basic skills and training, career development and Hawaiian studies. Preference was given to individuals of Hawaiian ancestry. Verlieann Malina-Wright was the Director and Sarah Nakoa was the Hawaiian language and culture specialist. The collection contains their professional materials as well as curriculum and lesson plans used in the program.

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Abstract: A collection of lei hulu, papale hulu, Ni’ihau shell lei, assorted seed jewelry, and assorted papale.
Title: A Catalog of the Johanna Drew Cluney Collection: Handicrafts in feathers, shells, seeds and lauhala and a collection of manufactured hats.
Size: 60 cu ft
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, the author ofThe Art of Featherwork in Old Hawaii (1985), recognized the genius of Auntie Johanna’s featherwork creations. He called her the great featherworker of his time. When she died in 1978, he purchased her collection and donated it to Kamehameha Schools. It is now an important collection in the Kamehameha Schools Archives.
Bulk dates: 1930-1978.
Language: In English; in Hawaiian
Access: With permission of the archivist or director
Collection number: Cluney 2004-11
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current copyright laws
Bibliographic record: A Catalog of the Johanna Drew Cluney Collection by Candace W. Lee, Assistant Archivist. Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.

Contents: 6 folders of handwritten letters in 184 digital files from the Connecticut Historical Society became 547 transcribed pages in a collaborative project with Kamehameha Schools Museum Archive.
Title: The Cooke Letters, Amos Starr and Juliette Montague
Size: 129.1 MB in 547 pages .pdf
Provenance: Amos Starr Cooke and his wife, Juliette Montague Cooke, were the primary teachers of the Hawaiian royal children in Honolulu at the Chiefs’ Children’s School in Honolulu from about 1839–1848. Their letters to family and friends in their Connecticut hometowns were deposited at The Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford where some of them were scanned for a project with The Kamehameha Schools Museum Archive providing transcriptions. Biographer Sandra Bonura, Ph.D. initiated a collaborative project between Barbara Austin, Archivist of the Connecticut Historical Society and Candace W. Lee, Kamehameha Schools Assistant Archivist to transcribe and make more Cooke letters available to the public. The bulk of Amos Starr And Juliette Montague Cooke’s letters are available online by the Mission Houses Museum Library at http://www.missionhouses.org/library/digital-collection
Bulk dates: 1839-1848
Access: Access by permission of archivist or director. Two volume printed letters may be viewed.
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsiblity to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

Bernard Nahonoopiilani Farden 1903 – 1995
‘O ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane, Class of 1921
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Abstract: This collection includes a typewritten memoir, handwritten notes, reference to the 1922 Half Mile Relay team trophy he helped win, a photocopy of the 1922 championship Track and Field team photograph, a photograph of his flag quilt used on his KSB bed, reference books, newspaper notices about his funeral, and funeral programs.

Title: Collection on Bernard Nahonopiilani Farden, 1903-1995.

Size: 6 cubic feet

Provenance: Hailama Farden, an alumnus of the Class of 1989 and Kamehameha Schools Hawaiian language and studies teacher, gave some of his granduncle’s posessions to the Schools over a period of time. The flag quilt and biography were received in 2004.

Bulk dates: 1903 – 1995.

Access: With the permission of the archivist or director.

Collection number: BFarden 2004-7

Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

Bibliographic Record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.

Mary Farris, sewing teacher from 1966-1992

Abstract: 72 1/4-size dresses and two dress forms, binders of teacher’s ideas, Kamehameha School for Girls library books, and posters.
Title: Mary Farris Home Economics Collection
Size: 11 linear feet (6 brown boxes, two 18″ tall dress forms, and assorted items.)
Provenance: Kamehameha School for Girls domestic science courses were offered from 1894-1966. Co-ed Home Economics courses were offered from 1966-1981. A brief history of the programs until 1981 are included in the Finding Aid. After 1981, various courses and faculty continued under other departments. When sewing teacher, Mrs. Mary Farris, retired in 1984, she gave her teaching materials to the Kamehameha Schools Archives.
Inclusive dates: 1894-1992
Bulk dates: 1966-1984
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Collection number: Farris 2006-1
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.
Bibliographic record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog

Mary Jo Freshley Photographs

Abstract: Photographs in this collection were taken by Mary Jo Freshley during her career as a physical education teacher at Kamehameha Preparatory, now Elementary School at the Kapalama campus in Honolulu.
Title: Mary Jo Freshley Photographs, 1961-1994
Size: .5 linear feet
Provenance: Mary Jo Freshley donated the photographs to Kamehameha Schools when she retired in 1994
Access: with permission of the archivist or director
Collection number: Freshley 2004-8
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws
Bibliographic record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog

HAHA‘IONE FARM SCHOOL
1925-1934 (separate unit in 1931)

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Abstract: This collection is scattered among the Early Schools photo albums, Schools yearbooks and newspapers. Photocopies have been gathered in a vertical file folder titled, Hahaione Farm School. The mo’olelo of the Egg Trophy is included.

Title: The Collection on the Haha‘ione Farm School 1925-1934 (separate unit in 1931)
Size: 1 linear feet
Dates: 1925-31, 1931-34
Provenance: The archivist and assistant archivist collected information from various Museum Archive primary and secondary sources.
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Language: In English
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.
Historical Note
From the 1931 Ka Buke O Kamehameha yearbook:
A limited number of boys make their home right on the farm and actually operate the Farm more or less on the apprentice plan. In other words, these boys are learning the business of farming by farming. There is no method of learning like learning trough actually doing a thin and that is the opportunity provided these boys. The Farm is very well equipped to furnish experience in general agriculture and animal husbandry. The four main enterprises of the farm through which the boys rotate are the dairy, the piggery, the poultry department and the fields and paddocks.
Resources:
1931 Ka Buke O Kamehameha pages 32, 33, 34
Early Schools Photograph Albums, 13 and 14
Various Ka Mo‘i newspaper articles
The Egg Trophy

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Abstract: This collection includes approximately 66 glazed ceramic figures and objects, 4 Hawaiian stuffed felt dolls, 1 hale, 1 Japanese music box, 54 assorted miniature international dolls dressed in folk costumes, 1 miniature Korean street tableau.
Title: The Carinthia K. Pua’a Harbottle Collection
Size: 8 linear feet in 14 boxes
Provenance: In 2013, a close family friend, who was assisting with clearing the Harbottle home for rent or sale, thought to bring the items to Kamehameha Schools Museum Archive where Archivist Stacy Naipo received them. It is assumed these items were used as classroom teaching tools and reflect Ms. Harbottle’s international travel destinations.
Bulk dates: 1963-1986
Language of materials: In English
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Collection number: CH 2013-2
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright: Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws. © Kamehameha Schools. Statements of copyright, privacy and disclaimer.

Arthur Harris January 10, 1916 – May 15, 2007
‘O ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane Class of 1937

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Contents: The 2002 collection contains 6 porcelain plates on extended permanent loan from Hale Pelikekina, Kamehameha Schools. The 2006 collection contains 2 framed porcelain tiles, 1 wool rug and 5 porcelain plates.
Collection Title: The Arthur Harris Collection
Provenance: 5 porcelains plates and 2 framed porcelain tiles were given to the Kamehameha Schools Archives in November 2002 by Arthur Harris. The wool rug in Midkiff Learning Center came from the Princess Pauahi Coffee Shop Restaurant that opened in 1979 in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. When one of the Kamehameha Schools / Bishop Estate Trustees, “Papa” Lyman, objected to walking on a rug with Princess Pauahi’s initials (PP), it was taken to Midkiff Learning Center, Kapalama and is now displayed in a place of high honor.
Bulk dates: 1937- 2002, 2006
Location: The Kamehameha Schools Museum Archive
Box Title: Kamehameha Schools, Arthur Harris Collection. KSB 1937. Porcelain Tiles and plates stamped “Fine Porcelains Made in Hawaii by Harris” Box 1 and 2
Size: 2 linear feet
Language: English and some Hawaiian
Collection identifier: 2006-7
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.
Bibliographic record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.

IRETTA HIGHT RETAN COLLECTION

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Abstract: The Iretta Hight Retan Collection contains her handwritten journal from her teaching years at Kamehameha Preparatory Department from 1888-1889 and at Kamehameha School for Boys from 1890-1892. Photographs of her travels around the islands are also included
Title: The Iretta Hight Retan Collection
Size: .5 linear feet (1 legal size gray box)
Provenance: The Iretta Hight Retan Collection was deposited by her daughters, E. Elizabeth Retan and Lucile Goodwin in 1988. Iretta Hight was one of the first teachers at the Preparatory Department.
Access: Access is by permission of the archivist or director.
Collection number: Hight 2014-2
Language: In English
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright laws.
Bibliographic Record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.

Hui Panalā‘au
‘O Ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane

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