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these dinners, the voices of a representative group of Punahou
people had been recorded and these records were played at each
of the mainland gatherings. These were messages from Judge
Frear for the Council of 100, Mr. Dillingham and Mr. Atherton for
the Trustees, Mr. Slade, Miss Winne, Miss Uecke, Miss Dodge,
and Mr. Schmutzler for the faculty. Mrs. James Mann, head of PTA,
and her son Cline, student-body president, spoke a few words.
A group from the glee club had recorded several school songs,
also. With these familiar voices, with movies of campus scenes
and with the miniature edition of Ka Punahou which guests found
at their places, there was a real up-welling of "Punahou Spirit."
"Boy, oh boy," write a recent graduate, "it was just like being
at home again."

Nine such parties could hardly be expected to go off without an
occasional hitch. The Portland dinner was interrupted by an
urgent call for Dr. Spangler, whose wife (Clara Raymond ex '17)
was in charge of the meeting. They both returned before it was
over with the news that they were transferring immediately to
Pearl Harbor, since the doctor was being called up as a reserve
officer. Thus it happened that the three Spangler daughters
followed their mother to Punahou. At New Haven the committee
had engaged the Graduates' Club for their gathering, only to find
after the guests assembled that women were barred from its
sacred portals. So all twenty-nine Punahou-ites marched across
the street to a hotel singing, "On, Oahu." It was no wonder that
the Yale yearbook devoted a page to Punahou's Centenary.

President Shephard's return was celebrated by a school holiday.
Chartered buses, gay with buff and blue streamers, roared through
the town to the dock, where Punahou songs quite drowned out the
bag. Back at school, the president's first pleasant duty was to
congratulate the students on the tremendous impetus they had
given the coming campaign by their own successful drive within
the school. The committee's efforts had been helped by the
general mounting interest created by the Centennial events al-
ready described and by the fact that it took place early, even
before the mainland dinners. Organization of the students and
detailed plans were all complete before the day set for the official
start. A great line drawing of Centennial Hall stood ready to be
inked in as gifts were announced. Every class aimed at complete
participation. In fact, the 8th grade, under Miki Bowers and Ben
Clarke, was so eager not only to reach 100% but to get there
first, that they visited the hospital to get one classmate's dona-
tion. Even such ardor, however, won them only 2nd place, since
the elementary classes completed their canvass almost instantly
-- on the opening day. On the 8th day of the drive it was possible
to announce that only nine pledge envelopes were outstanding and
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