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rest after strenuous labor on the pageant, or they could work like
dogs in preparation for the final event of the week -- the great
luau scheduled for Saturday evening.

Chairman of the alumni reunion committee was Allan McGuire
('21), while the luau itself was managed by Mark Robinson ('03),
ably assisted by Tillie Brandt Hudges ('19). Kathleen McGuire
Perry (ex '21) and her sisters decorated the great tent and its
sixty-one long tables. Meanwhile, Mark Robinson's committee
had assembled 1300 lbs. of chicken, 1700 pounds each of pork and
beef, 2000 pounds of poi, to say nothing of all the fixin's required
for a luau, and when the shadows began to gather under the
monkey pods, alumni gathered too -- some 3000 of them. Holokus
and aloha shirts made it a color group and students were selling
leis at every entrance. Friends met and talked under the trees
while all the workers put the finishing touches on their preparations.
Then all filed into the giant tent to be astonished at the quick
service and the hot laulaus and roast pork. There was music, of
course, and there were hulas; there were speeches, serious and
not-so-serious; and there was more fun than anyone had had for
years.

The great birthday cake made its final appearance that after-
noon, with all of its hundred candles alight and Mr. Atherton re-
ported a total of $332,000 in pledges.

And so ended Punahou's Centennial. The building fund had
not reached the goal set for it, to be sure, but special gifts
brought the total well over the $300,000 originally sought, and the
Living Endowment was starting well. Financial results were not
the main ones, however. Punahou had once increased beyond
measure the interest of its alumn and other friends so that when
disaster struck, so soon, they stood by the school with unprece-
dented loyalty. "The fragance of aloha," indeed, "cannot be
blown away."