Punahou School Campus
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Old School Hall, built in 1851
Coordinates:	21°18′10″N 157°49′50″W / 21.30278°N 157.83056°W / 21.30278; -157.83056Coordinates: 21°18′10″N 157°49′50″W / 21.30278°N 157.83056°W / 21.30278; -157.83056
Built:	1842
NRHP Reference#:	72000419[1]
Added to NRHP:	August 7, 1972

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^[2] students attending the school, in kindergarten through the twelfth grade, it is the largest independent school in the United States.^[3]

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 offers visual and performing arts programs. In 2006, Punahou School was ranked as the "greenest" school in America.^[4] The student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations. In 2008 and 2009, Punahou's sports program was ranked best in the country by Sports Illustrated.^[5]

History[link]

In 1795, the land known as Ka Punahou was taken in battle by King Kamehameha I. Along with Ka Punahou, he gave a total of 225 acres (0.91 km²) of land (from the slope of Round Top down to the current Central Union Church, which included a 77-acre (310,000 m²)-tract of Kewalo Basin) to chief Kameʻeiamoku as a reward for his loyalty. After Kameʻeiamoku died, the land was passed down to his son, Ulumāheihei Hoapili, who lived there for twenty more years. When Hoapili left to become the governor of Maui, he gave the land to his daughter, Kuini Liliha.^[6]

Ka Punahou was given by Oahu's Governor Boki and his wife, Liliha to Reverend Hiram Bingham, one of the first Christian missionaries in Hawaii.^[7] Powerful leader Queen Kaʻahumanu 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.^[7]

Daniel Dole (1808–1878) was its first principal.^[8] 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.^[1]

During World War II, much of the Punahou campus was commandeered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:^[9] Castle Hall (the girls' dormitory when Punahou had boarding students) 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.^[10][11]

In the 1970's, Punahou's upper field and gymnasium were used for the Superstars nationally televised athletic competitions.

Traditions[link]

Campus view in 1909

Many traditional events take place on campus. On the first Friday and Saturday of each February, the junior class hosts the Punahou Carnival,^[12] the proceeds of which benefit the Financial Aid program.^[13]

Holoku Pageant is an annual day of celebration of the Hawaiian culture and arts.^[14]

Sustainability Fair was begun in 2007 and includes on-campus information booths and conservation challenges, as well as off-campus coastline preservation.^[15][16]

For several decades, homecoming was highlighted by the students setting fire to a 20-foot letter-P at dusk on upper field. Seniors can look forward to their Variety Show, Prom at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Skip Day at the Kikila Estate and Pounders Beach, Baccalaureate ceremonies at Central Union Church, graduation with men in blue blazers and women in Hawaiian formal white dresses, a final cafeteria breakfast after graduation, and an unofficial sunrise gathering at Makapu'u Point.

The school hosts a Luau Weekend on campus and an Alumni Family day at the Bellows Air Force Station beach.

Throughout most of the school's history, elementary school children have been allowed to attend in bare feet. Aloha shirts were once restricted to Fridays, but dress codes were relaxed considerably during the late Seventies.

Location[link]

All schools in Honolulu (public or private) have an urban residential location.

Punahou shares the entrance to Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaii main campus and a few other schools such as Mid-Pacific Institute.

Punahou students are minutes away from the trail to Manoa Falls, the beaches at Ala Moana and Waikiki, downtown Honolulu, and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Situated in the foothills of the Koolau Mountains, Punahou shares Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaii main campus and a few other schools

The school's location provides many opportunities for off-campus learning: field trip destinations for middle school students have regularly included the Bishop Museum, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Waikiki Aquarium, Sea Life Park, USS Arizona Memorial, Valley of the Temples, Iolani Palace, Hawaii State Capitol, and the North Shore.

The school in recent years[link]

Tuition is $18,450 for the 2011-2012 school year,^[17] not including student activity 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.^[18][19] The Washington Post estimated Punahou's endowment to be $174M;^[20] Bizjournals and CBS News put it at $180M,^[21][22] and Business Week recently claimed it as high as $501M (possibly including non-liquid assets).^[23] 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).^[24] (Maui has Seabury Hall which has twice the endowment per pupil, but is a much smaller school).^[25]

Summer school academic classes, training in music and dance, and sports camps are offered at all grade levels (K-12). Courses include Recycling through Art ($500, grades 3-5), Chess Tactics ($250, grades 3-12), Language of Hawaii ($200, grades 7-8), Self-Defense ($175, grades 9-12), and JROTC Leadership Camp ($75, grades 9-12). With modest fees, Punahou's summer school is able to serve a broad population of island children.

In a recent study of the class of 1979, 8 had degrees from Harvard, 3 from Princeton, 13 from Stanford, 16 from UC Berkeley, and 23 from Ivy League schools. Degrees were also obtained from Tufts, Williams, Wesleyan, MIT, CalTech, Mount Holyoke, Rice, Harvey Mudd, Georgetown, and Northwestern. Three went to the Sorbonne, and others to elite art schools like Cranbrook, and music schools like the San Francisco Conservatory. Many athletes were recruited into elite athletic programs, especially at West Coast schools like USC, UCLA, and Stanford.^[26] Although none attended from the class of 1979, Punahou's graduating classes have a long history of sending students to Yale and West Point as well (see Punahou School alumni). Schools throughout California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada are also popular among graduates, and many students choose to attend local schools like the University of Hawaii and Chaminade.

The class of 2012 had 30 of the state's 70 National Merit Semifinalists.^[27]

Punahou's Presidential Scholars were graduates of the classes of '64, '66, '70, '71, '75, '78 (two members), '79, '82, '84 (two members), '85, '86, '91, '92 (two members), '93, '95, '96, '98, '01, '02, '04 (three members), '05, '06, '08, and '11.^[28][29]

Facilities[link]

Punahou School President's House on campus

The campus map currently lists:

for grades 9-12:

Alexander Hall,
Bingham Hall,
Cooke Hall,
Cooke Library,
Griffiths Hall,
Old School Hall, and
Pauahi Hall;

for grades 6-8:

Building 4,
Gates Learning Center,
Higgins Hall,
Kuaihelani Learning Center,
Leong Hall,
Miyawaki Family Hall,
Twigg-Smith Pavilion,
Weinberg Hall, and
Wodehouse Hall;

for grades K-5:

Castle Hall,
Ing Learning Center,
Omidyar K-1 Neighborhood,
Wilcox Hall, and
Winne Elementary Units;

for mixed use:

Band Building,
Bishop Hall,
Castle Art Center,
Dillingham Hall (theatre),
Dole Hall (cafeteria),
Flanders Dance Pavilion,
Forrest Hall,
Hemmeter Fieldhouse/Waterhouse Pool,
Luke Center for Public Service,
Mamiya Science Center,
Mau Band Building,
Montague Hall (music),
Thurston Memorial Chapel,
Thurston P.E. Center, and
Wo International Center;

and for administration:

Alumni House,
President's Home,
Maintenance/Operations,
Sullivan Administration Building, and
The Tank (donations).

With about 5000 faculty, students, and staff in 44 buildings on 76 acres,^[30] Punahou is a densely populated school.

Case Middle School[link]

One of nine new Case Middle School buildings on the campus

Before plans were made for a new middle school complex, America Online founder and alumnus Steve Case ('76) donated ten million dollars.^[31] This led to construction of a new middle school for grades six through eight.^[32] The Case Middle School was actually named in honor of the donor's parents.

The project earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification^[33][34] and a Project of the Year award in Hawaiian Electric Company's Energy Efficiency Awards.^[35][36]

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.

Case Middle School consists of nine buildings with a total cost of roughly $50 million USD, made possible solely through donations.^[34]

Omidyar K-1 Neighborhood[link]

In late 2010 a new five-building indoor/outdoor section of campus opened for Punahou's youngest students.^[37] 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 received a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.^[38]

Teachers are encouraged to personalize their classroom spaces,^[39] 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 ebay founder Pierre Omidyar ('84*) donated six million dollars to the project.

Athletics[link]

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.^[40]

Punahou football currently plays the second half its season at the Aloha Stadium (where the Pro Bowl and Aloha Bowl are played).^[41]

Athletic facilities include the heated Waterhouse Pool and the Atherton 8-lane Mondo track surface. The school also has a fieldhouse for competitive athletics, an open-air weightlifting facility, a gymnasium for physical education and intramural sports, and a tennis center with 9 hard surface courts.^[42] In past years, Rocky Hill had been used as a live firing range for JROTC and competitive target sports, but riflery has now been moved indoors.^[43]

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 teams earned sixteen 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. Nineteen state championships in the 2008-2009 school year was a record number for the school.^[44]

Other programs and honors[link]

Punahou requires all students (K - 12) to attend chapel once a week, where each homeroom is assigned its own seating and attendance is taken.

Elementary school students are taught Hawaiian History; middle school students are exposed to Oceanography; and Academy students have coursework in Asian History between their years of European History and US History. Many middle schoolers are still encouraged to study Latin.

Students have access to a jewelry studio, a pottery studio, glass-blowing facilities, technology departments, a new dance pavilion, and a dedicated music building. The campus has spaces for school-wide initiatives, e.g., for public service and international studies.

The high school yearbook, The Oahuan, has won awards from the American Scholastic Press Association.^[45] Na O Pio is the yearbook for K-8. Ka Wai Ola is the school's long-running student literary publication. Ka Punahou is a biweekly student newspaper, and Punahou Bulletin is the alumni magazine.

Punahou has a strong history of academic competition with its math team and debate team, and at times has had organizations for computing, chess, and gaming. Punahou's JROTC program has been known for its award-winning close order drill team with multi-person aerials using M1 Garand rifles.

Enrichment activities have included cultural clubs, dance and theater, funding and service committees, outdoor, environmental, and hiking clubs, pep clubs, and clubs based on sports such as martial arts and synchronized swimming. There are men's, women's and mixed choruses, a concert orchestra, and various band groups. Hui Le'a Nani (literally, "heavenly singers") is the name of the elite choral group.

The Punahou marching band travels periodically, most recently participating in the 2012 London New Year's Day Parade and the 2009 inauguration 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 115801 Punahou is an asteroid named in the school's honor.^[46]

Notable students and faculty[link]

Pauahi Hall, completed in 1896, designed by Charles William Dickey

In Public Leadership[link]

U.S. President Barack Obama ('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 ('88) recently finished Neil Abercrombie's term as Congressman from Hawaii. At least three other graduates from Punahou have represented Hawaii in the U.S. House.

Judge Elbert Tuttle (1914) led the federal court that desegregated the South, the "Fifth Circuit Four." HEW Secretary John W. Gardner ('29*) was Lyndon Johnson's architect of the Great Society, creating Common Cause and PBS. Tuttle and Gardner were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Sun Yat-Sen, the Founding Father of Republican China (esteemed by Taiwan as well as pre- and post-communist mainland China), attended Punahou for a year of study after graduating from Iolani School.

In Athletics[link]

Alexander Cartwright III (1869) and his classmates were some of the earliest players of baseball (it was initiated in the islands by Alexander Cartwright, Jr., the official inventor of the game).

2-time women's golf LPGA event winner Michelle Wie graduated in 2007 and PGA event winner Parker McLachlin graduated in 1997.

5-time tennis doubles ATP winner Jim Osborne graduated in 1965.

At least three alumni have been surfing world champions, including the 2011 women's world tour winner Carissa Moore ('10).

Punahou has produced seven NFL linemen and three running backs, including Mark Tuinei ('78) who played 195 games over 15 years (team record) for the Dallas Cowboys, winning three Super Bowls and playing in two Pro Bowls. Ray Schoenke ('59*) played 145 games for the Cowboys and Redskins over twelve years. Punahou football coach Kale Ane ('71) is son of Pro Bowler and twice-NFL champion team captain Charley Ane ('49). His uncles, Herman Clark ('48) and Jim Clark ('48), also played in the NFL. The four combined for a total of 260 NFL games over 20 seasons for the Packers, Chiefs, Lions, Redskins, and Bears. Pro Bowler and Super Bowler Mosi Tatupu ('74)^[47] played 199 games and redefined the importance of special teams.

The school also claims a former pitcher and former first baseman in major league baseball.

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). US Water Polo has had a Punahou alum on every team since 1992. Punahou alumni include 2008 Olympic Silver medalists Brandon Brooks ('99) as goalkeeper for the U.S. Water Polo team, and Lindsey Berg ('98) as setter for the U.S. Volleyball team.^[48]

In Academia[link]

John W. Gardner taught at Stanford, Barack Obama at U Chicago, and Hiram Bingham III (1892) at Princeton and Yale.

Punahou can currently point to endowed professors at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Illinois, Notre Dame, and Boston University. There are research professors of medicine currently at UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Indiana, Texas, Maryland, Pitt, Walter Reed, and Baylor. John Lie ('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*), formerly the Academic Dean at West Point, 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. 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*).

William Ouchi ('61) wrote a book on Japanese business that is one of the top-100 most widely held books in U.S. libraries.^[49] Other prominent main works by alumni (currently 1000+ citations for a single work, at scholar.google.com) are on the topics of plasma deformation (Killeen, '42*), stability of silicates (Holdaway '54*), communicative acts (Harnish '59*), markets and bureaucracies (Ouchi '61), organizational control (Ouchi '61), heart physiology (Lederer '65), gender equality (Roos, '68), cancer surgery (Wong '71), equal employment law (Krieger, '72), virus expression (R. Chung, '78), tumor pathogenesis (D. Chung, '80), and the law of race (Haney-Lopez '82).

Samuel C. Armstrong (1859) and Elbert Tuttle were awarded Honorary Degrees from Harvard. Armstrong founded Hampton University to educate the freed slaves and Native Indians in the way that his father had educated the Hawaiians.

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.

In the Arts[link]

Kaui Hart Hemmings ('94) was author of The Descendants.

IMDB.com lists 75 credits for Carrie Ann Inaba ('86) (In Living Color, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Dancing with the Stars) and 120 for Kelly Preston ('80) (Jerry Maguire, For Love of the Game, Only You, Twins). Sarah Wayne Callies ('95), has starred in Prison Break and The Walking Dead.

Joan Blondell ('25*) has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star after 52 years in films. Buster Crabbe ('27), who had won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, portrayed Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers in film. Gerry Lopez ('66) is well known for surfing, but is also known as Subotai in Conan the Barbarian. Teri Ann Linn ('79) appeared in The Bold and The Beautiful for over eight years. Amanda Schull ('96) had the lead role as an aspiring ballerina in Center Stage. Three alumni 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.

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 eleven Tony Awards (plus five awarded personally) and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 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. John Kneubuhl ('38), a Samoan royal, was a writer on Wild, Wild, West, Star Trek, Hawaii Five O, Gunsmoke, Mannix, and 40 other shows. Bruce Broughton ('62) is a film composer (Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under) and a 10-time Emmy-winner for TV themes (JAG, Tiny Toon Adventures).

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. Melody Ishikawa ('00) had three top-ten albums in Japan, and Teri Ann Linn's ('79) debut CD went gold on the European charts.

In the Military[link]

Punahou has a striking list of military alumni.

General Samuel C. Armstrong led the rifle company that turned back Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, and led U.S. Colored Troops.

Francis Wai ('35) was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, Killed in Action in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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.

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.

The school can claim at least eleven Army Generals, three Rear Admirals, a Marine Major General, and six Air Force Generals.^[50] Four-Star General Stanley Larsen ('33) was the first commander of the Field Force, Vietnam and commander of the Sixth United States Army.^[51] Marine Major General Ross T. Dwyer ('37) was commander of the 1st Marine Division and Army Four-Star General George Cantlay ('38) was commander of the 2nd Armored Divison. Brigadier General C. B. Stewart ('30) was a Ph.D. in nuclear physics.^[52]

In Biographies[link]

Hiram Bingham III's latest biography calls him A Real Life Indiana Jones.^[53] Some of his other biographies appeared in 1968, 1984, 1989, and 2000.

Samuel Armstrong has been called The Educator of the Disenfranchised.^[54] Elbert Tuttle was an Unlikely Hero to his biographer.^[55] PBS's Uncommon American^[56] was John Gardner. Armstrong was included in a 1927 collection called Reminiscences of Present-Day Saints.^[57] Booker T. Washington's autobiography asserts that Armstrong was "Christ-like" and "a perfect specimen of man, physically, intellectually, and morally."^[58]

Robert Alexander Anderson's ('12) story is told in The Dawn Patrol. 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. Pierre Omidyar had biographies in 2006 and 2007. Joan Blondell has a 2007 biography. Buster Crabbe has a 2008 biography. 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 Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (1889) in the transition from monarchy to US territory.

Others[link]

In 2007, Cox Enterprises 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 second wealthiest woman in Australia; her brother, James C. Kennedy ('65*) was Atlanta's philanthropist of the year, 2007 and 53rd on the Forbes 400 list, 2011. 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. The USA Today recently reported that Pierre Omidyar's ('84*) total charitable contributions have topped one billion US dollars.^[59]

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.

Alma mater[link]

School carnival in 2007

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.^{[citation needed]}

School Shout[link]

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[link]

Punahou doesn't have a mascot. The symbol that perhaps most closely qualifies as a school mascot is the hala tree, whose image is used in the school's seal.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• "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 1-888160-02-0
• 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 0-9741067-1-2

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Punahou School

• Punahou School
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• The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands at Project Gutenberg (Transcription of 1857 text about early history of the school)

Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are British comedy performers known together as Adam and Joe. They are best known for presenting Adam and Joe on BBC 6 Music, and The Adam and Joe Show on Channel 4 from 1996 to 2001.

History[link]

Adam and Joe began working on comedy material during their time at Westminster School together, where they created numerous amateur films along with their friend Louis Theroux. Some of these films were submitted to Channel 4's home video showcase Takeover TV in 1994 and led to Adam hosting that show in 1995.^[1]

Together they hosted The Adam and Joe Show on Channel 4 from 1996 - 2001. They won the Royal Television Society Best Newcomers Award in 1998, published The Adam and Joe Book in 1999, and presented BBC Three's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in 2000 and 2002. Other spin-off projects included Adam & Joe's Fourmative Years in 1998 and Adam and Joe's American Animation Adventure in 2001.^[2]

They directed pop promos for Frank Black and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, as well as appearing in two Surf washing powder commercials, in which they comically set upon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Keith Harris and Orville.^[3]

In 2003, Buxton and Cornish presented Adam and Joe Go Tokyo, a Tokyo-based magazine show covering Japanese pop culture for BBC Three and BBC One.^[4] The same year they began hosting a show on UK radio station Xfm, filling in for Ricky Gervais on Saturday afternoons. When Gervais left the station they took over permanently, and continued to present the Saturday morning show, until Summer 2006. The best parts of these shows were condensed into a series of twenty podcasts.

Bizarrely, their most-repeated^{[citation needed]} is their 2001 E4 series Shock Video, in which the duo provide an often totally irrelevant comic commentary on soft-core porn clips from around the world.

From August 2006 until October 2007, they hosted the monthly "Coca-Cola New Music Podcast", which showcased unsigned bands from around Europe, presented in a similar style to their Xfm shows.

They sometimes write a column for The Idler, a yearly literary magazine.^[5]

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Adam and Joe began presenting the BBC 6 Music Saturday morning show in October 2007.

Features on the show include 'Song Wars', where they both compose original compositions based on a common theme. Listeners then vote for which song they think is the best.

'Text the Nation' is another regular feature where listeners provide anecdotes based on a theme or question set by Adam and Joe. Themes have included 'Childhood Misconceptions' and 'Horror Film Ideas'. The 'Text the Nation' feature was also instrumental in the uncovering and subsequent popularisation of the Stephen! call and response.

Their show won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award in 2008 for best radio programme of the year.^[6]

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External links[link]

• Adam and Joe fansite
• Adam and Joe Blog
• Adam and Joe on BBC 6 Music
• Adam and Joe BBC 6 Music on Facebook
• Rubapedia: online encyclopedia of Adam and Joe
• The Adam and Joe appreciation society on Facebook
• Guardian Online live chat transcript
• Independent Interview