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pageant truly a community undertaking. Alexander Field was the
chosen site and much work went into stage and lighting effects.
The setting included and whole of Alexaner Field where
Hawaii's racial groups paraded in colorful costumes, where riding
parties galloped and where the sugar industry's tooting locomotive
charged down several yards of track. There was an immense
stationary platform surmounted by a revolving stage constructed
through the cooperation of Mr. E.E. Black. This made possible
the quick succession of the episodes with hardly an appreciable
interval. The cast of 1000 persons included a complete cross-
section of the Punahou community from Trustee F.C. Atherston,
enacting the part of President S.B. Dole, to the school girls in
the cereus dance or to the dignified Hawaiians who played the
leads in the earlier legendary scenes. Some Missions descendants
represented their own ancestors in the stories of the founding and
many of the old costumes seen as the Academy in April made a
second appearance on the stage.

Easrly scenes depicted the legends of the spring and the land
grants, the arrival of missionaries and of other immigrants. There
was an excellent protrayal of the mission meeting which discussed
the need for a school and there were pictures of old Punahou days,
-- but to most observers the high point was the dramatic moment
when Hawaii became a part of the United States. For this scene
the U. S. Army had provided powerful searchlights to play on the
flags as the emblem of old Hawaii was lowered and the Stars and
Stripes went up. There were also guns for the salute and com-
panies of marchind soldiers. It seemed to those who had witness-
ed the actual event in 1898 that the emotional quality had been
almost perfectly reroduced. Some eleven thousand spectators
saw the pageant and it has remained a landmark not only in
Punahou's celebration, but in Honolulu's dramaic history.

Wednesday was Punahou Day, a legal holiday by order of the
Legislature. The main Centennial exercises were held in mid-
morning under an awning on the lower campus. An academic pro-
cession like that on Sunday moved to its place from Montague
Hall. Speakers were President Hauck and Dr. Reinhardt. Centen-
nial medallions in gold were presented to Mrs. A. F. Griffiths,
whose husband had been Punahou's president for twenty years,
and to Miss Mary Winne, who was retiring after 43 years as
teacher and principal.

The trustees honored their guests at a luncheon at the
Pleasanton Hotel, old-timers played baseball in the afternoon,
and in the evening the second showing of the pageant completed
a full day.

Thursday and Friday were kept relatively free and alumni
could wander at will among the familiar scenes or snatch a needed

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