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old church. In the afternoon a concert at Montague Hall dedicated
the new organ recently given by the Atherton family.

On Monday, registration of visitors began in Old School Hall
under the direction of Mrs. Aileen Forrest, alumni secretary. She
distributed badges and ribbons to each person, and directed them
into the adjacent rooms where the "relics" were now on display.
Two series of daily concerts were inaugurated in Montague Hall
and the trustees' reception for Centennial guests was held on the
lawn behind Old School Hall.

Tuesday was a day of special interest. In the afternoon one of
the most delightful events of the week was the Birthday Party of
the Old Tamarind Tree at the corner of Bingham. Mrs.
Halford's committee had arranged, a year in advance, for the
planting of seeds from the old tree. Now the potted seedlings
were brought in by a hundred of the elementary school children
who placed them around the parent tree. The seedlings were to be
sold to alumni, and prizes were offered for the most successful
rearing of the young trees, whose growth was to be watched during
the next ten years. The war interrupted the inspections and this
part of the plan may have died along with many of the young
tamarinds. Thirty-four children, of proper ages to represent the
original Punahou group, brought in a giant lei of their own making
and draped it about the base of the tree while the chorus sang
several songs and Rosemarie Price (Mrs. R. C. Maze) read Mrs.
Frear's Ode to the Tamarind. The Reverend Frederic Withington
told the story of its planting by the boys of a hundred years ago.
Finally Jerome Peacock presented 1941's class gift. It was a
beautiful bench to be placed in the shade of the old tree. After
the program, tamarind punch was served and the sale of seedlings
began. One of these was planted later on the lower campus by
the graduating class.

Tuesday evening had been eagerly awaited by the whole com-
munity, as the time for the first showing of Helen Hitchock
Maxon's pageant, 100 Years - the Story of an Era. An intermittent
drizzle did not dampen the enthusiasm of the spectators that first
night, though the second-night audience was more comfortable.

The Centennial planners had, at first, decided against a
pageant, lest it seem only a warmed-over repetition of Ethel
Damon's 75th anniversary production, but the nearer the Centen-
nial period came, the more essential it seemed to have some
dramatic presentation of the theme. Helen Hitchcock Maxon ('24)
did a masterly piece of work in the writing of the script, and the
production by Elroy Fulmer and Norman Grant was so modern and
so different from anything that the community had seen that it
left spectators breathless. Louis Erdman Henderson ('24) headed
the committee which, as in the earlier presentation, made the

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