HALL OF NAMES

Draft of a Planned Site for Bio-Notes about Honorees for UHM Sites

Nancy Morris will prepare brief biographical records for each of the personalities honored on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The project will contribute to the UH Centennial Celebration, and provide guidance for visitors to the campus. This draft will be developed incrementally as material is prepared, but when it is completed, the Hamilton Library will publish it in a format comparable to that of its HALL OF FAME. Some of the data is borrowed from Victor Kobayashi's authoritative BUILDING A RAINBOW, published by Hui O Students, UHM, 1983 and Nancy has drawn on many other sources as well. An authoritative text will be published by the UH Library. The "Named Buildings" DRAFT is now in preparation by Martha Chantiny. Links will be added to Laura Ruby's Art Tour site; and the sites for campus buildings posted on the Walking Tour Guide. Personal memories, anecdotes and comments will be compiled in a WIKI-FESTSCHRIFT that is also being assembled.

The personalities to be celebrated include: Andrews, *Bachman, Bilger, Brandt, Burns, Castle, Cooke, *Crawford, *Dean, Dole, Edmundson, Ernst, Everly, Farrington, Gartley, George, *Gilmore, *Hamilton, Hemenway, Henke, Holmes, Jefferson, Johnson, *Keller, Kennedy, Klum, Krauss, Kuykendall, Lincoln, McCarthy, Miller, Moore, Murakami, Orvis, Pope, Porteus, Richardson, Sakamaki, Saunders, Sherman, Shidler , *Sinclair, Smith, *Snyder, Spalding, St.John, Stan Sheriff, Varney, Watanabe, Webster, Wist. The starred names are those of former UH Presidents -- a list of all of them is published in the catalog. Underlined names are hyperlinks to the bio-notes that follow -- names in black have yet to be added.

ARTHUR LYNN ANDREWS (1871-1945) for whom Andrews Outdoor Theatre is named was one of the early builders of the University of Hawai`i. He was born In McLean, New York and received a M.A. and his doctorate from Cornell University. He was one of an influential Cornell group of academics recruited for Hawai`i..When he arrived in the islands in 1910 as an English professor, classes were held in a remodeled residence in the backyard of a high school; the entire student enrollment was 17. When the college became a university, Andrews became dean of faculties and stayed in that position until his retirement in 1936.

Andrews was active in all aspects of university life. In 1913 he produced the University’s first play, The Revolving Wedge. He organized the first campus newspaper and the first annual, sang in the glee club, and played third base on the baseball team. He did not play football but is said to have introduced the famous Statue of Liberty feint play to island teams.

**Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)
**Honolulu Star Bulletin. May 17, 1945.

Bachman Hall, designed by architect Vladimir Ossipoff, was completed in 1949 and was originally called the "Administration Building". The building was named after him at the University's 50th anniversary celebration on Charter Day, March 25, 1957, only a few months after his death.

LEONORA NEUFFER BILGER (1893-1975), was a noted chemist and administrator at the University of Hawaii. Her peers especially recognize her contributions to the understanding of nitrogen compounds. Bilger Hall is named in honor of both Leonora and her husband Earl, also a UH chemistry professor. Leonora grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, & graduated with a B.A., a M.A. and in 1916, a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. She taught at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, and from 1918-1924 at the University of Cincinnati. There she established a reputation for her work in molecular structures and cancer chemotherapy. From 1924-1925 she was at Newnham College, Cambridge, England on a fellowship. During the courtship and early married years of Leonora and Earl, the couple alternated between the University of Cincinnati and the University of Hawaii before settling permanently in Hawaii, she as dean of women, he as chemistry professor. As dean of women, Leonora was known as “Ma” to several generations of UH coeds. She is remembered for her frequent lectures on lady-like proprieties.

She had a contentious relationship with UH president Crawford, and later, when she was removed as dean of women and returned to the chemistry department, played an active role in forcing the resignation of Crawford. This came about through the “special friendship” (in Crawford’s words) of Leonora and Board of Regents member Samuel N. Castle, who lived with the Bilger couple in a large Manoa home. Leonora was charged by Crawford as having passed along malicious information about Crawford to the Board. (When Castle died in 1959 he left an estate valued at 3.5 million dollars to Leonora.) She was chair of the chemistry department from 1943-1954, After that until her retirement in 1958 she was largely occupied in planning a new chemistry building, overseeing every detail, from the gas, water, and air systems to the adorning murals, depicting the Greek elements, fire, water, air, and earth as ancient Hawaiians would have interpreted them. After retirement she remained active in civic and academic affairs, speaking out often on her support for nuclear energy and opposition to the fluoridation of public water supplies. When Earl Bilger died in 1964, Leonora dedicated $25,000 in his memory to be used for the remodeling of a biochemical laboratory.

**Goodman, Madeleine J. in Notable Women of Hawaii, ed. by Barbara Bennett Peterson, (University of Hawaii Press, 1984) 33-37.

GLADYS KAMAKAKUOKALANI BRANDT (1906-2003) was also known as Gladys A. Brandt, 'Ainoa Brandt, or Auntie Gladys. She can be credited with a slate of accomplishments, including reviving Hawaiian traditions, the shake-up of the Kamehameha Schools trustee system and the creation of the University of Hawai'i's Hawaiian Studies Center. Gladys Kamakakuokalani attended Kamehameha School for Girls, transferring to and graduating from McKinley High School. She then studied at the University of Hawai'i, turning to a teaching career and a marriage with Isaac Brandt in 1927. By 1943, she became Hawai'i's first woman public school principal. She was the first woman to be named superintendent of schools, in 1962. She become the principal of the Kamehameha School for Girls, in 1963. Although the institute was created distinctly for Hawaiians, Gladys was its first Native Hawaiian principal. She was promoted to director of the high school division in 1969, serving until 1971.

In 1983 then-Gov. George Ariyoshi appointed her to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. She served six years on the board, including four years as chairperson. She also worked to found the UH Center for Hawaiian Studies. In March 2002, the center was rededicated in her Hawaiian name, Kamakakuokalani.

**Wikipedia "Gladys Kamakakuokalani Brandt"
** Thursday, January 16, 2003, Honolulu Star Bulletin"Famed and respected educator, civic leader and mainstay in the Hawaiian community dies" By Sally Apgar

JOHN ANTHONY BURNS (1909-1975) also known as John A. Burns of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Born in Fort Assinniboine, Hill County, Mont., March 30, 1909. Son of Harry J. Burns and Anne (Scally) Burns; married, June 8, 1931, to Beatrice Majors Van Vleet. Democrat. Police officer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1952, 1956; Hawaii Territory Democratic Party chair, 1952-56; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Hawaii Territory, 1957-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, 1960, 1964; Governor of Hawaii, 1962-74; defeated, 1959. Catholic. Member, Lions. Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, April 5, 1975. Interment at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.

**Copied from: Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress John A.Burns

John A. Burns is often called the "Father of the State of Hawai'i" having overseen its modern development and setting precedents honored today. John Anthony Burns (March 30, 1909–April 5, 1975) served as the second Governor of the state of Hawaii from 1962 to 1974. Born in Fort Assinniboine, Montana, Burns was a resident of Hawaii since 1913.

Burns is often described as the father of the modern Democratic Party of Hawai'i. From 1948 he held various leadership positions in the territorial Democratic Party, culminating in being chair of the territorial party in 1952. He is credited with building a coalition with organized labor and Japanese-Americans to strengthen the Democratic Party.

In 1956 he was elected Delegate from Hawaii. As Delegate he played a key role in lobbying for Hawaii statehood, a goal that was achieved on March 12, 1959 when the statehood bill was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He sought to become the first Governor of the newly formed State of Hawaii, but lost the election to then-Territorial Governor William F. Quinn.

Three years later in 1962, Burns won the election to become Governor. He was re-elected in 1966 and 1970. He became ill in October 1973 and then-Lt. Gov. George R. Ariyoshi became Acting Governor.

The John A. Burns School of Medicine, an institution of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is named for him. In a controversial move in 1997, Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano, named the newly completed Interstate H-3 in Burns' honor.

**Information from Answers.com John A. Burns
**For his Biography, in print, see: Boylan, Dan, and T. Michael Holmes. John A. Burns: The Man and His Times. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
**A critical Star-bulletin review of this book also contains bio-data at: Lincoln

HENRY NORTHRUP CASTLE (1862-1895) In memory of her youngest son and his daughter, Mary Tenney Castle established the Henry and Dorothy Castle Memorial Fund in 1895. The memorial was initially a kindergarten located on King Street. After 1940, the memorial was a preschool teacher-training unit on the University of Hawai'i campus.

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** Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation -- History [contains many biographic details]

DAVID LIVINGSTON CRAWFORD (1889-1974), for whom Crawford Hall is named, was University president from 1927-1941. Born in 1889 in a Mormon colony in Sonora, Mexico, he was the son of Matthew A. Crawford and Harriet Sturges, a descendant of early American missionaries in the Pacific He attended Pomona College and Cornell University, graduating as an entomologist. Before coming to Hawaii in 1917, he managed a fruit company in Mexico and taught at Pomona College. He was an athletic coach at the University (then College), head of the entomology department, and head of the University Extension Service.

Among his accomplishments as University president was the development of the University summer school program which was to become one of the largest in the nation.

An activist in the Institute of Pacific Relations, Crawford was among those who believed ardently in internationalism as an avenue to world peace, and was on record as recommending on behalf of the Institute that the United States should grant Japan extensive concessions in order to prevent war. The Pearl Harbor attack intervened before the Institute forwarded its formal recommendation to Washington.

Crawford resigned shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack. He worked for the War Production Board in Puerto Rico and later with the United States Foreign Exchange Commission in Mexico. With his wife he was author of Missionary Adventures in the South Pacific, an account of the missionary experiences of his family descendants. From 1948-1954 he was president of Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He died in 1974.

** Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii (Mutual, 1984)
**Hooper, Paul F. “A Footnote on the Pacific War.” Hawaiian Journal of History 9 (1975) 121-127.
**Kobayashi, Victor N. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983)

**Grove, A. Day. History Makers of Hawaii (Mutual, 1984)
**Parascandola, John. “Chaulmoogra Oil and the Treatment of Leprosy.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, New Orleans, 2003.

SANFORD BALLARD DOLE (1844–1926) for whom Dole Street is named. was a Hawaiian statesman He was born in Honolulu, then an independent kingdom, of American missionary parents. After education in the United States he returned to Hawaii and became prominent in public life. A leader of the revolution that in 1887 secured a more democratic constitution, Dole became justice of the supreme court under the new government. He looked with disfavor upon the revolution of 1893 that overthrew Queen Liliuokalani, but once it was accomplished he was willing to accept the office of president under the provisional government. The application of the revolutionists for annexation to the United States was refused by President Cleveland, who, after sending James H. Blount to investigate, demanded the restoration of the queen. Dole’s reply, in which he defended the revolution and denied Cleveland’s right to interfere, was one of his ablest papers. A constitutional convention was then held (1894), and the republic of Hawaii was created. Dole was declared the first president. His administration, during which he made efforts to secure annexation, was successful in spite of attempts at a counterrevolution and difficulties with Japan concerning immigration. After the islands were annexed in 1898 during McKinley’s administration, Dole headed a commission to Congress to recommend legislation for Hawaii. The report included the draft of a bill which became the Organic Act of 1900. Dole was appointed first governor of the Territory of Hawaii in 1900. He resigned in 1903 to become U.S. district judge for Hawaii.

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2001-05 Columbia University Press.
See biography by E. M. Damon (1957).

CHARLES HOWARD EDMONDSON (1876-1970) came to Hawaii in 1920 and was a pioneer marine biologist in Hawaii with a special interest in invertebrates. With his colleague, Jens M. Ostergaard, he built an extensive collection of these animals. Edmondson was the author of over 70 papers on marine fauna, from corals to ship-worms. He was a director of the Cooke Marine Laboratory and an organizer of the first Pacific Science Congress, held in Honolulu in 1920.

Upon retirement from the University in 1942, he became a full-time curator of marine zoology for the Bishop Museum for 20 years. In 1956, he received the William F. Clapp Memorial Award for his contributions to marine zoology.

* Kobayashi, Victor N. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983)

EARLE ERNST (1911-1994). His novel FINDING MONJU, contains this account: "Earle Ernst was a lifelong enthusiast for all things Japanese. Stationed in that country from 1944 Dr Ernst was in charge of the censorship program of Japanese legitimate theatre during the American Occupation. He returned to the US in 1947 and has been widely credited with reviving Japanese theatre studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, in the jingoistic years immediately following WW2. His career at the University spanned 32 years and was marked by accomplishments such as the design of the Kennedy Theatre, with its full Kabuki stage - a rarity outside Japan. The author of the seminal work THE KABUKI THEATRE first published in 1956 and the editor of THREE JAPANESE PLAYS in 1959. FINDING MONJU is his only novel. Dr. Ernst was born in Mifflin, Pennsylvania. He died in Honolulu in 1994, aged 82."

**Submitted by his colleague, Terence Knapp

HUBERT V. EVERLY, after whom Everly Hall was recently named arrived in Hawai'i in 1933 at age 18 with the thought of becoming a park ranger, or maybe even a volcanologist. He becamethe first principal of the University High School, and in 1956 became Dean of the College of Education. During Everly's tenure, the name was changed from Teachers College to College of Education recognizing that it prepared school administrators, librarians and counselors. Frequently challenged by both political opponents and the College of Arts and Science faculty, Everly had little support from the University and often turned directly to friends in the legislature to secure funds and to have buildings erected.

Everly began, in cooperation with the DOE, the Beginning Teacher Development Program, which provided mentoring of all new teachers by those DOE teachers and College faculty who had been supervising interns. After a couple of years, a shortage of teachers forced the DOE to put its BTDP mentors into regular classrooms and the College pulled its supervisors back to the campus to meet increased enrollment. Everly reached mandatory retirement age in 1979.

* History of the College by Robert E. Potter, Emeritus Professor of Education
* "Educational Namesakes: Two influential deans shaped teacher education in Hawai'i" by Janine Tully. Malamalama September, 2006 Vol. 31 No. 3

From Political Graveyard

Wallace Rider Farrington (May 3, 1871–October 6, 1933) was the sixth Territorial Governor of Hawai?i, serving from 1921 to 1929. Prior to his term, he was editor of the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspapers.

Farrington was born in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine on May 3, 1871. An avid traveler, he found himself in Honolulu, Hawai?i and was persuaded to stay to become the editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. He left the newspaper after three years of service to become the editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Interested in local politics, he was elected Mayor of Honolulu. In 1921, he was appointed by President of the United States Calvin Coolidge to become the Territorial Governor of Hawai?i. He served as a Republican through 1929 when he retired from public life. Suffering from heart disease, he died on October 6, 1933.

From Wikipedia

ALONZO GARTLEY (1869-1921), for whom Gartley Hall is named, was a Honolulu businessman and the chairman of the first board of regents of the University of Hawai`i. Gartley was a graduate of the US Naval Academy, and came to Hawai`i as a naval officer several times in the last decade of the nineteenth century. He settled permanently in Hawaii in 1900 and became manager of Hawaiian Electric Company. From 1910 until his death he was manager of his father-in-law’s company C. Brewer. His innovations in milling machinery for C. Brewer made him famous in cane sugar circles. He founded the Hawaiian Engineering Association and was its first president. Gartley was a man of many interests. He developed the Agnes Galt hibiscus, a widely grown hybrid in Southern California. He was an especially talented photographer and his views of Hawaiian landscapes, native Hawaiians, and panoramic scenes have become classic images of a bygone Hawai`i. Art historian Lew Andrews characterized his photographs as some of the most appealing and beautiful ever taken in Hawai`i. A number of Gartley’s photographs were used in tourist promotion campaigns to illustrate the scenic wonders of Hawai`i.

Andrews, Lew. “‘Fine Island Views’: the Photographs of Alonzo Gartley “ in History of Photography, v. 25, no. 3, Autumn 2001, p. 219-239.
Rosegg, Peter. Notes on Alonzo Gartley

George was active in the community at large. He wrote an occasional column for the Honolulu Advertiser called “Sagebrush Philosophy” and also contributed to the magazine Hawaii. He lived a bachelor’s life on his yacht and often wrote on the joys of island cruising. His colleague and friend Willard Wilson characterized him as “popular, brilliant, gregarious, and if the truth be known, slightly bibulous.”

**Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)
**Honolulu Advertiser, Sept. 25, Sept. 26, 1949.

JOHN WASHINGTON GILMORE (1872-1942), for whom the old and the new Gilmore halls were named, was the first president of the College of Hawaii, predecessor of the University of Hawai`i. Born in White County, Arkansas, Gilmore was the son of a farmer. He graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cornell University. He helped in 1898 to establish the first agricultural school in China. Gilmore taught at the Honolulu Normal School in 1900 and in 1901-1902 helped to establish the school system in the Philippines. He returned to the US to teach at Cornell and Pennsylvania before he was recruited for the Hawai`i college presidency. Gilmore was authorized to recruit his own faculty. The college was ridiculed during its first year of existence because the thirteen faculty members outnumbered students, three to one. Gilmore chose professors who shared his beliefs that land-grant institutions should serve the public and should democratize higher education.

Gilmore led the college during its fledgling years when the difficulties were many. Financial conditions of the college were dismal and many in the community doubted the worth of the new institution. Gilmore resigned in 1913. Thereafter he was a professor at the University of California and later at the University of Chili. In scientific circles he is recognized for his efforts to synthesize rubber.

**Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii. (Mutual, 1984)
**Kittelson, David. The History of the College of Hawaii. M.A. thesis, University of Hawaii, 1966.

THOMAS HALE HAMILTON (1914-1979), after whom the Hamilton Library was named in 1970, was the seventh president of the University of Hawaii from 1963-68. He was born in Marion, Indiana. He earned his bachelor’s degree from DePauw University and both his master’s and doctorate from the University of Chicago. He was a highly regarded UH administrator, popular with both faculty and “downtown” political leaders. As university president, Hamilton was a leader in the establishment of strong department chairs. He expanded the community college system, created new science programs, and initiated new graduate degrees. During his tenure university enrollment rose from around 9,500 to almost 30,000. Grant support during his era totaled 64 million annually. In 1967 a faculty hearing committee protested Hamilton’s support for a decision by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, W. Todd Furniss, to revoke a letter of intention to grant tenure to Oliver Lee, a radical assistant professor of Political Science. Hamilton resigned abruptly, saying: “It is time for someone to stand up for academic responsibility and I do so now” (Malamalama , p.96). The well-publicized incident created rifts between the University, the community, and the military presence in Hawai`i. After his resignation, Hamilton became president of Hawai`i Visitors Bureau from 1968-1971 and then served as special advisor to Kamahameha Schools/Bishop Estate.

**Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii (Mutual, 1984)
**Malamalama get data
**Kobayashi, Victor N. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983)

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SOME REFLECTIONS ON HAMILTON:

A. A. Smyser wrote in the Star-Bulletin, 22 July 1999: The alchemist for whom everything turned to gold -- until a bitter end -- was Thomas Hale Hamilton, 1963-68. His era coincided with the idealism of a new state, the egalitarian vision of a governor (Jack Burns) for greatness through education, the prosperity spurred by jet travel, and a Legislature willing to appropriate money to make UH tops. Hamilton attracted stars, won increased research grants, raised expectations. He charmed just about all the university's diverse constituencies with self-deprecating wit and perceptiveness.

Hamilton seemed to be one in a million. He quit in disappointment, however, at the end of 1968 because the faculty wouldn't fully back him in a Vietnam War-related controversy. It involved a newly tenured professor who made copies of a pamphlet telling troops to shoot their officers.

Robert Kamins, who worked for Hamilton, wrote: Tom Hamilton, the best UH president to date. 1. He was recruited by our regents from his position as president of the State University of New York, a multi-campus system. This experience prepared him for the creation of the community colleges within UH and their integration within a statewide UH system, which was fashioned on his watch with relative ease. 2. Malihini Hamilton thoughtfully selected local UH faculty members, notably Richard Takasaki, Kenneth Lau, and Richard Kosaki, to serve as principal staff members. They helped him to deal effectively with Governor Burns and his staff and with members of the legislature -- a relationship that successors to Hamilton did not achieve.

You may find interesting the role of faculty members in the selection of Hamilton. The Board of Regents, chaired by Herb Cornuelle, invited several professors to work with the regents' search committee. We met with that committee frequently, helping them to get information and appraisal of the candidates to supplement what they had been told by a "head-hunting" agency, by the candidates, and by their sponsors. Operating before the age of computers, we read the leading newspaper in a candidate's area (the New York Times, in the case of Hamilton), or any other written account of his performance in office. Sometimes we were able to get word on that performance from former colleagues still teaching at the university in question. The regents seemed to welcome such appraisal to help overcome an inherent weakness in a selection process dependent on what is said of a candidate by sources hopeful, for one reason or other, that he [she] will be selected: the head-hunters seeking to enhance their batting average, employers or colleagues of a candidate who would like to see him [her] replaced. In any case the faculty advisory group continued to meet with the regents' selection committee down to the wire, an evening meeting at the Pacific Club where they made their decision. The announcement of their choice was not anticipated for confidentiality had been respected.

Bob Potter, contributed these reflections: He was the most able president the UH ever had and ushered in its biggest period of growth. He was very good at community relations and with the legislature and governor, but he lost contact with his faculty, and during the Oliver Lee situation, he mistook the faculty senate direction to follow the established procedure for denying tenure for a vote of no confidence in his administration. After his resignation, he held offices with the Visitors' Bureau and Kamehameha Schools. He was a chain smoker and heavy drinker, but I think the disappointment stemming from his resignation was the major contributor to his untimely death.

CHARLES REED HEMENWAY (1875-1947), for whom Hemenway Hall is named, was a successful Honolulu businessman and long-time member of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawai`i. Along with several other prominent people, Hemenway was appointed by Territorial Governor Carter to draft the Act of Establishment founding the College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, the first incarnation of the soon-to-be university.

Born in Manchester, Vermont, Hemenway graduated from Yale University and studied law in New York City. He came to Hawai`i to teach at Punahou School and to practice law. He was attorney general of the Territory from1907-1910. He then turned to business and had leading positions with Alexander & Baldwin and the Hawaiian Trust Company and was on the boards of a number of other institutions.

He is best known as a member of the UH Board of Regents from 1910-1940. He served as chair of the board for 20 of those years.

Tragedy befell Hemenway and his wife Jane when their only son “Charley” died as a teenager. After Charley’s death, Hemenway served as a surrogate father to countless needy high school and college students. His support came in the form of friendship and substantial financial support, invariably rendered quietly and modestly. As of 1990, some 5,000 students had benefitted from the Hemenway Scholarship Trust established after Hemenway’s death.

Hemenway was a leading figure in a decision that saved Hawaii’s Japanese-American citizens from the mass internment camps endured by West-coast Japanese-Americans. Testimony concerning Hemenway’s involvement in the decision came from Honolulu FBI director Robert L. Shivers who had been given sole authority for internments and releases. Shivers wrote that it was Hemenway who convinced him of the loyalty of the mass of Japanese-Americans in Hawai`i and in the end only a small percentage of that population was sent away.

**Tsukiyama, Ted T. Charles Reed Hemenway. (Office of the Vice President for University Affairs, 1990)

LOUIS ALBERT HENKE (1889-1985 ), for whom Henke Hall is named, was a UH professor of animal husbandry from 1916-1954 and the author of many bulletins and circulars in that field. Henke received a B.S. and a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin before his appointment to UH. His appointment signaled a new commitment on the part of the university (then college) to serious research in agriculture. He liked to recall the days when everything on campus east of Varney Circle used to be his experimental farm. His experiments with sugar cane and pineapple waste led the development of low cost feeds for island livestock, thus reducing the need for imported feeds (although in later years concerns for residual pesticides ended that program). He was assistant director and then director of the Experiment Station from 1937 until his retirement. Henke remained active on campus well into his nineties.

**Victor Kobayashi, Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)

WILFRED JAY HOLMES (1900-1986), for whom Holmes Hall is named, came to the University in 1936, after retiring from the Navy. In 1941, he returned to the Navy to serve as an intelligence office on Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s staff, where he later was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Returning to the engineering faculty in 1946, he served as Dean of Engineering, Dean of Administration, and as Vice President. He retired from the University in 1965. Homes wrote short stories and articles using the Name “Alec Hudson.” Using his own name, he also published Undersea Victory, a book on WWII submarine warfare, and Double-Edged Secrets based on his WWII naval intelligence work.

**Victor Kobayashi, Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.

Freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786.

Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793.

Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, began to form. Jefferson gradually assumed leadership of the Republicans, who sympathized with the revolutionary cause in France. Attacking Federalist policies, he opposed a strong centralized Government and championed the rights of states.

As a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, Jefferson came within three votes of election. Through a flaw in the Constitution, he became Vice President, although an opponent of President Adams. In 1800 the defect caused a more serious problem. Republican electors, attempting to name both a President and a Vice President from their own party, cast a tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives settled the tie. Hamilton, disliking both Jefferson and Burr, nevertheless urged Jefferson's election.

When Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean. Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803.

During Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen. Jefferson's attempted solution, an embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular.

Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe."

**For more see the WHITEHOUSE site for Thomas Jefferson
**See also WIKIPEDIA entry for Thomas Jefferson

JOHN ALEXANDER JOHNSON (1914-1944), for whom Johnson Hall is named, was an outstanding graduate of the University of Hawai`i and a WW II war hero. Johnson was born in Los Angeles but moved to Hawai`i and attended Punahou School. He was active in UH student affairs, was captain of the football team in his senior year, and a member of the swim and soccer teams. After graduating from UH in 1935 with a degree in business and economics, Johnson worked as a manager with McBryde Sugar until he was called to active duty with the National Guard in 1940. He was one of the few non-Nisei members of the famous 100th Battalion. Johnson was killed in action during the Battle of Cassino, a pivotal and costly series of battles waged by Allied forces with the goal of breaking through German lines and seizing Rome.

**Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)

ARTHUR RIPONT KELLER (1882-1961), for whom Keller Hall is named, was one of the early faculty members of the newly-inaugurated College of Hawaii. He had a law degree from the National University Law school and a M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He engaged fully in campus life, and even played on the College football team when the team fell short of players. Keller left the College to serve in World War I. When he returned, the College had become a University, and was organized in two divisions, a College of Applied Science and a College of Arts and Sciences. Keller served as first dean of the College of Applied Science. He maintained an active teaching role, carrying as many as ten courses during a school year. He was Acting University President from 1941-1942. He retired in 1947.

Keller was active in his profession as an civil engineer, both on campus and in the community. One of his early projects had to do with a drainage and flood control system for lower Manoa valley. After the disastrous campus flood of 2004, his portrait fell from the wall of Keller Hall where it had hung for 44 years, confirming the belief of some that Keller’s spirit haunts his namesake building.

**Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii. (Mutual, 1984)
**Kamins, Robert M. and Robert E. Potter. Malamalama: A History of the University of Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press, 1998)

Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.

Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.

In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.

His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.

Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.

He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained.

Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.

Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.

Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

**For more information about President Kennedy, visit The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
**See also Wikipedia John F. Kennedy.

OTTO KLUM (1875-1944), for whom Klum Gym is named, was a legendary UH football coach from 1921 until 1939. He was one of the most successful UH coaches in history with a career record of 84-51-7. He was the first Hawai`i coach to take his team to the mainland: they traveled by steamer, a voyage of five days (unfortunately the team lost to the Pomana Sagehens, 14-7 at Pasadena.) His 1925 Wonder Team had a season without loses. Klum's colorful personality and coaching style provided sportswriters with good copy. He was called the Manoa Fox and during the Klum era the UH football team became the Rainbows. This happened in the 1922-23 season when the UH team was locked in a scoreless tie. A rainbow appeared over the field, the UH team scored, and, thanks to the sports pages, the Rainbows were born. Many lamented the recent name change of the team to Warriors. Klum was fired by the Board of Regents in 1939. The firing was not because of a lack of ability. Instead, said the regents, UH needed a full time football coach. Klum had asked that he be in Hawai`i only during the four-month football season so that he could attend to his Oregon sheep ranch and a plant in California where he manufactured tackling dummies.

** Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983.
** Honolulu Advertiser/Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper morgue (microform file, UH)

Born in San Francisco, Krauss studied at Stanford, University of California, and the University of Berlin. He came to Hawaii in 1901 from Berkeley to serve as an instructor at Kamehameha Manual School. Joining the Hawaii Experiment Station in 1906, he served the College of Hawaii as Professor of Agriculture in 1911. Krauss contributed much in the areas of research and community service, including his work in forming the New Era Homestead Farm in Haiku, Maui, in 1913. He had the distinction of receiving the first honorary doctorate awarded by the University in 1923 in recognition for his work in improving agriculture in Hawaii.

* Kobayashi, Victor N. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983)

RALPH SIMPSON KUYKENDALL (1885-1963), for whom Kuykendall Hall is named, was the dean of Hawaiian historians. He was born in Linden, California, the son of Marilla Pierce and the Rev. John Wesley Kuykendall. He earned a B.A. from the College of the Pacific and a M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He enrolled as a doctoral student at Berkeley but did not complete this degree. Kuykendall had a fellowship from the Native Sons of the Golden West to do research in Spain on early Spanish voyages to the Pacific coast, but in 1922 he left this work to accept a commission from the Hawaii Territorial legislature to write a history of Hawaii for public schools, a history of Hawaii in World War I, and a history of the Hawaiian monarchy. He joined the faculty of the University of Hawaii in 1932. During his career there he published over 40 articles and 6 books. The publication of Kuykendall’s monumental, three-volume work, The Hawaiian Kingdom, set new standards for scholarly historiography in Hawaii. Since the publication of The Hawaiian Kingdom, ethnic historians and native Hawaiian scholars have added their own perspective to the writing of Hawaii’s history, but Kuykendall’s work remains a classic and is not likely to be supplanted.

**Kuykendall, R.S, and Charles H. Hunter. “The Publications of Ralph S. Kuykendall.”(Includes a biographical sketch) Hawaiian Journal of History 2 (1968): 136-141.

Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.

The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life: "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."

He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.

The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

**For more see the WHITEHOUSE site for Abraham Lincoln
**Also WIKIPEDIA Abraham Lincoln

CHARLES JAMES McCARTHY (1861-1929), for whom McCarthy Mall is named, was fifth governor of the Territory of Hawai`i. The mall is so named because it was built on the former McCarthy Road named for McCarthy. The mall was simply called The Mall beginning in 1962 but now the name has been officially restored to its full form.

McCarthy’s career spanned the monarchy and territorial years of Hawai`i. He was born in Boston. He came to Hawai`i in 1881 as a representative of a fruit wholesaler. He was a member of the Honolulu Rifles. Following the overthrow of the monarchy, he served as a territorial senator, as treasurer of the city, and later, as treasurer of the territory. Woodrow Wilson appointed McCarthy as governor in 1918 and he served in that capacity until1921.He was a champion for Hawaiian statehood. His later business interests included work with the Hawaiian Dredging Co. on the reclamation project to reclaim sections of Waikiki.

**Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii (Muual, 1984)

CAREY DUNLAP MILLER (1893-1985), for whom Miller Hall in named, was a UH food and nutrition professor and department chair from 1922-1958. She was educated at the University of California-Berkeley and Columbia University. She arrived in Honolulu with an entourage of 12 laboratory rats, to be used in the founding of a nutrition research program in Hawaii. Over the years, her collection of research rats flourished , becoming especially notorious when she named many of them for UH professors. Under her direction, the UH home economics department grew from one student majoring in the field to 190 student majors. She was active in research, and paid particular attention to improving local diets. She was a strong advocate for the nutritional benefits of locally-grown pineapples and guavas. Miller was the author of many scientific articles. Her best know book, Fruits of Hawaii, is still in print. It contains one of her most famous recipes, the Truman Coconut Cream Pie, named for a pie served to President Harry Truman when he visited Hawaii.

**Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983. Lind, HelenY. “Carey D. Miller.” Okika o Hawaii 15 (March 1986): 8-9.

CHARLES A. MOORE (1901-1967) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii from 1936-1966. He was chair of the University’s philosophy department and in fact its only member until after World War II. Moore came to the university after receiving his PhD from Yale in 1932. He devoted his life to furthering mutual understanding and appreciation between philosophers of the East and West. He founded and edited the journal Philosophy and West; the journal continues today. He organized and supervised four international East-West Philosophers’ Conferences, and traveled the world recruiting the best available minds for the conferences..

A former student John Koller left this vivid word-picture of an extraordinary teacher in action: To get an idea of what Charlie Moore was like in his seminar, picture a tall, thin man impeccably dressed in a blue suit and red bow tie, piercing blue eyes opened wide, shaking his mane of snow-white hair as he sits at his seminar table. Feel his restlessness as the objections pile up inside him while the graduate student reads blithely on. Unable to contain himself any longer, he bursts out, “That’s a hell of a thing to say!” And, in machine gun fashion, the objections pour out. By the time he has delivered himself of about half a dozen philosophical objections to the student’s claim, the sparkle has returned to his eyes as he waits for the student to accept his challenge and analyze the objections and defend his paper. The student has made his generalizations; now he must defend them with careful and detailed analysis.

**“Tributes to Charles A. Moore as Philosopher, Teacher, Colleague, Editor, and Conference Director.” Philosophy East and West, 17, no.1/4 (Jan.-Oct., 1967) 7-14.

**Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame

MAE ZENKE ORVIS ( -1996), for whom Orvis Auditorium is named, was an opera singer in her earlier life, and later, the wife of financier Arthur Emmerton Orvis. Mae and Arthur Orvis liked to reminisce that they had met at the Metropolitan Opera. They moved to Hawai`i in 1956 after Arthur Orvis retirement in 92 as a stockbroker. Their large Kahala home was named Orvista. Both were active in local civic affairs and generous philanthropists.

UH professor Willard Wilson recalled the circumstances of the gift that led to the construction of Orvis Auditorium. While attending a party in Waikiki, Wilson had UH problems on his mind. He thought of the new music complex under construction. An auditorium had been planned but money had run out. Wilson spotted Arthur Orvis across the room and an idea came to him. Wilson approached Orvis and asked if he would consider a donation for the auditorium which would then be named in honor of Mae Orvis. Orvis harrumphed and changed the subject, but the next morning Orvis, checkbook in hand, appeared at Wilson office. The $180,000 gift was only one of a number of substantial donations to the university. After the death of her husband in 1965, Mae Orvis maintained homes in both Hawai`i and Reno. She supported the University of Nevada Nursing School and that school is named for her. Mae Orvis died in Reno in 1961. She was 91.

** Wilson, Willard. Professor's Briefcase: The Wit and Wisdom of Willard Wilson.(University of Hawaii, Office of University Relations and Development, 1975)
**[Obituary] Honolulu Star Bulletin, Feb. 14, 1996.

WILLIS THOMAS POPE (1873-1961), for whom the environmental laboratory in the Plant Science Complex is named, was an educator in the Hawai`i public school system, and a UH professor of botany and agriculture. Pope was educated at Kansas State College, at the University of California, and at the University of Hawai`i where he received one of the first doctorates of science in 1926. Pope met his wife, Della Blanche Romick when both were with the Hawai`i public school system. They traveled to her home in Kansas for their wedding, and returned to Hawai`i on the ship Manchuria. The Manchuria struck the reef near Waimanalo and the passengers were taken ashore on lifeboats. Grateful for their rescue and the hospitality of the people of Waimanalo, they established their long-time home on Laumilo Street in Waimanalo. (The wreck of the Manchuria along with other shipwrecks off Waimanalo led to the building of the Makapu`u Lighthouse.) Pope served as acting dean of the College of Hawai`i in 1907 and 1908. He was Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Territory of Hawai`i from 1910 until 1913 and later a UH professor. The road on campus between the marine science building and Holmes Hall is also named after Pope. Blanche Pope Elementary School is named in honor of Pope’s wife, a pioneer in building the public school system in Hawai`i.

Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)
Hawaii Department of Education Webpage

** "Rename Porteus Hall"Star Bulletin.Nov. 25, 1997
** American Renaissance March 1998
** "UHM's Porteus Hall renamed last year" Star-Bulletin, Jan. 20, 1999

WILLIAM SHAW RICHARDSON (1919- ), for whom the William S. Richardson School of Law is named, was chairman of the Hawai`i Democratic Party from 1956-1962, lieutenant governor of the state of Hawai`i under John A. Burns, and Chief Justice of the Hawai`i State Supreme Court from 1966-1882. Naming the law school in his honor is a recognition of decades of hard work on the part of Richardson in getting the school started.

Richardson grew up in Kaimuki. He graduated from Roosevelt High School, the University of Hawai`i, and the University of Cincinnati law school. During World War II he served with the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment. He is of Hawaiian, Chinese, and Caucasian ancestry and many of his key rulings reflect his identification with the cultural ways of his ancestors. As he put it, “The Western concept of exclusivity is not universally applicable in Hawai`i.” His court declared that surface waters belong to the public, expanded the public’s access to beaches and recognized that new land created by lava flows belong to the state and not the nearest property owner.

The law school he helped bring into existence incorporates many of Richardson’s values. It has provided Native Hawaiian and other under-represented groups a means to work within the legal system to bring about positive change. Fifteen per cent of the law school students are Native Hawaiians and Pacific-Asian Islanders and it is the only law school in the country to offer a course on Native Hawaiian Law.

**MacKenzie, Melody Kapilialoha. “Honoring Chief Justice William S. Richardson.” Ka He`e. 1907.

SHUNZO SAKAMAKI (1906-1973), for whom Sakamaki Hall in named, was a prominent administrator and Asian history professor at the University of Hawaii, from 1936 until his retirement in 1970. He was born at Olaa, Island of Hawaii, the son of Juzaburo and Haru Sakamaki. The elder Sakamaki was an interpreter for plantation managers, and sided with management during the labor disputes of 1920. Juzaburo Sakamaki instilled in his children the importance of being loyal American citizens and this philosophy was to be a critical tenet throughout Shunzo Sakamaki’s career. Shunzo Sakamaki received an undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii. At the University he made his mark as debater (in 1927 his team defeated Oxford University), as an actor (he was cast in the first English-language Kabuki production in Hawaii), and he was active on the student council and the student newspaper. From 1928-30 he taught English at Doshisha University in Kyoto and in 1931 taught at Mid Pacific Institute. He traveled to Columbia University for a doctorate in history received in 1939.

The most controversial aspect of Sakamaki’s career concerns his work with the FBI beginning in 1940 aimed at identifying Japanese Americans in Hawaii who should be considered dangerous in the event of war with Japan. He was on record as believing that Shinto priests in Hawaii should be interned. Although he believed that the vast majority of Japanese Americans in Hawaii were loyal to the United States, these early activities were to haunt him throughout his life. In addition to his career as an historian, he was a man of many interests. He loved sports and assisted many an academically-challenged student athlete. He engaged in a number of retail businesses in Honolulu . He was a capable administrator and served as dean of the University’s summer sessions. A lasting gift to the University was his acquisition of the Hawley Collection, a rare and extensive collection of Okinawan materials. This he purchased on behalf of the University from the widow of Frank Hawley, a British researcher.

**Gusukuma, Chance. “Nisei Daimyo: The Life of Shunzo Sakamaki.” (M.A. thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1998)

ALLAN SAUNDERS (1897-2001), University of Hawai'i political science professor, was a dedicated advocate for civil liberties, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that his legacy includes the time he championed the aloha shirt.

Saunders was born in Cransford, N.J., in 1897. He never finished high school, choosing instead during his junior year to go to Amherst College, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After several Mainland teaching jobs, Saunders arrived in Hawai'i in 1945, just after World War II. He had a one-year contract at UH but remained for 21 years, serving as a professor, a leader in the faculty Senate and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Saunders arrived on the cusp of Hawai'i's social revolution and drive for statehood, and his impact was felt throughout the community. On one occasion, while watching Democratic Party officials struggling at their convention at McKinley High School in 1946, Saunders stepped in and helped write three planks on the party platform.

He is credited with starting the Hawai'i chapters of the League of Women Voters, in 1948, and the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1965. He helped establish the state Constitution and the State Ethics Commission, and was involved in the reform of Hawai'i's penal code in 1966.

But every UH faculty member wearing an aloha shirt today owes Saunders a small debt as well. In 1953, when the governor banned the wearing of aloha shirts by territorial employees, Saunders formed "Faculty Wearers of Aloha Shirts, Tails Out." Their rejection of neckties carried the day.

Saunders died at home in 1989. He was 91. In October 2001, the Social Sciences Building (formerly Porteus Hall) was renamed Saunders Hall in honor of Allan and his wife, educator Marion Saunders.

**Honolulu Advertiser , 2006, July 2.

BRUCE STANLEY SHERIFF (1933-1993), best known as Stan Sheriff, was UH Athletic Director from 1983 until his death. The UH Athletic Center is named in his honor. Sheriff was born in Hawaii, but moved with his family to the mainland when he was 10. After attending Northern Iowa University and California Poly-San Luis Obispo, he played professional football with the San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Los Angeles Rams. He then went into coaching and was a successful coach and then athletic director of Northern Iowa University from 1958-1982. As he did later in Hawaii, Sheriff sold the concept of an innovative domed stadium to Iowa officials. As Athletic Director at UH, Sheriff secured television and radio deals for UH worth millions of dollars, operated the athletic program in the black, and upgraded all UH athletic programs despite the expense of flying all teams, even those in minor sports, at least 2500 miles to play Division I opponents. Despite opponents who argued against the expense, Sheriff lobbied successfully for a new athletic complex to replace the aging Klum Gymnasium. Many thought a 4,500-seat structure would do, but Sheriff held the line and insisted on at least a 10,000-seat capacity for the new domed center, similar in construction to the Northern Iowa complex. Sheriff did not live to see the completion of the new athletic center. In January of 1993 Sheriff attended a NCAA convention in Dallas. Shortly after his return to Hawaii, he collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack at the Honolulu airport.

**Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 17-18, 1993.
**Des Moines Register, Jan. 18, 1993.
**Hawaii Athletics.Com , May 28, 2007

DONALD GEORGE SHERMAN (1904-1973) Dr. Sherman was born on a farm in Ulen, Minnesota in 1904. He entered a B.S. degree program at the University of Minnesota at the age of 27 and completed B.S. and M.S. degree programs at that institution. He completed his Ph.D. in Soil Science at Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science in 1940 and worked at the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station from 1942-44.

Dr. Sherman arrived in Hawaii in 1944 and served as chairman of the Department of Agriculture Chemistry and Soils, University of Hawaii from 1944 to 1956 and chaired the newly formed Department of Agronomy and Soil Science from 1955-62. He was chairman of the Food Processing Laboratory and the Industrial Research Advisory Council from 1950-59. During his 30 years at the University of Hawaii, Dr. Sherman published 111 articles on various aspects of soil science. His publications on the food value and preparation of tropical fruits formed the basis of Hawaii's modern guava and passion fruit industries. In 1956, the University of Hawaii awarded Dr. Sherman the title "Senior Professor of Soil Science" for his outstanding research, teaching and service.

Dr. Sherman was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Agronomy in recognition of his outstanding research on chemical weathering of tropical soils. Dr. Sherman was Associate Director of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station from 1952(??)-1967(??) and he played a key role in the establishment of experiment stations at Hamakua, Kula, Mealani and Volcano. His international assignments included stays in Egypt, Libya, the Sudan, Tunisia and Australia, the latter funded by a Fullbright Fellowship. The president of the University of Minnesota personally visited Dr. Sherman during a two-year stay at the University of Beirut and awarded him with a solid gold "Alumni of the Year" medal.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to agriculture in Hawaii, the Agricultural Sciences Building completed in 1984 was unanimously named by the UH Board of Regents as the G. Donald Sherman Laboratory.

** The above is paraphrased from a plaque in the foyer of G. Donald Sherman Laboratory.
** See also: "A Short History of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, 1901-1982" By Beatrice H. Krauss.

JAY H. SHIDLER, for whom the Shidler College of Business is named, was born in Pasadena, California. The son of an army officer, he traveled widely with his family before moving to Hawaii in 1964. He graduated from the University’s School of Business Administration in 1968. While still a senior in the business school, he was a member of a partnership that developed the 1111 Wilder Avenue condominium. He served as an officer in the U.S. Corps of Engineers from 1969-1971, leaving military service to form the Shidler Group based in Hawaii. Today the Shidler Group owns over 2,000 properties with significant holdings in Honolulu, New York, Southern California, and Arizona. In 2006 Shidler donated 25 million dollars to the University of Hawaii College of Business, the largest gift ever given to the University Foundation. The gift is intended to transform the school “into the top rank of public business schools in the country.”

**[Press release] Shidler College of Business, 2006.

GREGG MANNERS SINCLAIR (1890-1976), for whom Sinclair Library is named, served as fourth president of the University from 1942-1956. Born in St. Mary’s, Ontario, Canada, Sinclair earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 1912 and a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1919, but did not obtain a doctorate. He taught English in Japan before coming to the University of Hawaii’s English department in 1928. In modern parlance, Sinclair would be termed a “celebrity hound,” but he turned this interest to the University’s advantage and as a faculty member recruited many eminent people as guest lecturers to the University. Among these were Hamlin Garland, Christopher Morley, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, and Carl Van Doren. His interest in Japan led to the founding of the University’s Oriental Institute and he served as the first president of that institution. The Oriental Institute established the University’s role in international relations, and would later lead to the establishment of the federally funded East West Center in Hawaii. He was successful in bringing some of the world’s best minds to Hawaii for two East-West Philosophers’ Conferences, supported by a series of notables ranging from maharajas to America’s most wealthy. During Hawaii’s war years, Sinclair as University president succeeded in maintaining and developing university programs under exceedingly difficult conditions.

At his side when he was on the English faculty and later University president was the remarkable Marjorie Putnam Sinclair whom he married in 1938. She was twenty-five years his junior. Their natures complemented one another in that, while Sinclair was attracted to eminent people, Marjorie’s interest was in the textures of ancient societies. She was to become a prominent novelist of Hawaii, while ably managing to serve as the University’s first lady and as hostess for Sinclair’s frequent and famous guests.

After his 1956 retirement, Sinclair was Chairman of the Citizen’s Advisory Commission on Statehood for Hawaii and an influential member of the Democratic Party. Honors continued to come, among them the “Order of the Sacred Treasure, Second Class” awarded by the Emperor of Japan. He also tried, none too successfully, novel writing. Sinclair died in 1967. In 1980 Marjorie Sinclair married the literary giant Leon Edel, a long-time friend of the Sinclairs.

**Building a Rainbow ed.by Victor N. Kobayashi. (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1963)
**Day, A Grove, History Makers of Hawaii (Mutual, 1984)
**Nickerson, Thomas. “A University Comes of Age; the Administration of Gregg M. Sinclair.” Alumni News, July 1955: 3-23.

BARBARA B. SMITH ( - )after whom the Barbara Smith Amphitheater located behind Orvis Auditorium in the Music Department complex was named in honor of Emeritus Professor Barbara B. Smith. Smith's tenure as a faculty member and researcher has spanned virtually the entire life of the department - from her arrival in Hawai'i in 1949, through her official "retirement" in 1982, and to 2006 in which she remains an active contributor to the university and department as a mentor and through field work and advocacy research.

In her first years here, Smith taught piano performance and music theory. Among her early students were Herbert Ohta (Ohta-san) and Eddie Kamae, both recognized artists in Hawaiian music today. She was an active piano recitalist and often performed in the community, and was featured as a concerto soloist with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. She assisted in the organization of the University Micronesian Club and helped them produce a recording of their music. She organized a number of leadership seminars for artists and arts administrators at the East-West Center, participants of which are now in national arts positions in their own countries. Most recently she undertook the final editing of the Queen Lili'uokalani Song Book after the death of previous editor Dorothy K. Gillet, a colleague and close friend. In 1969, she received the State of Hawai'i Governor's Award for the preservation of Hawaiian Language, Art and Culture and in 1983 she was publicly recognized as a "pioneer" by a resolution of the City Council of Honolulu.

Through her involvement with the community and her students, she became aware of the rich heritage of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific musics and set about to understand them. She learned Iwakuni-style Bon Dance drumming, Japanese koto, Gagaku, and Hawaiian chant, attracting attention as the first female and first Caucasian performer. Beginning with Hawaiian chant and koto, she introduced ethnic music performance classes into the Music Department curriculum. Recognizing the value and potential of ethnomusicology at the University of Hawai'i, she also designed lecture courses and education workshops. She established the master's degree program in ethnomusicology in 1960. UH recognized her as a "living treasure" of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences in 2000.

* News@UH, April 27, 2006 Barbara Smith

LAURENCE HASBROUCK SNYDER (1901-1986) was president of the University of Hawai`i from 1958-1963. Snyder was an internationally recognized geneticist. Over the years he published three books, over 150 articles, and delivered over 1,000 lectures at home and abroad. His pioneering work spans the development of medical genetic science from its infancy to present-day DNA technology, and he has been called the “father of human genetics.”

The son of medical missionaries to Africa, Snyder was born in Kingston, New York. After graduation from Rutgers University, he earned a doctorate in science at Harvard. Before coming to Hawai`i, Snyder held positions in three institutions: Professor of biology at North Carolina State College, professor of genetics and professor of medicine at Ohio State University, chair of the Department of Zoology and Entomology, and then graduate dean and professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma.

Snyder’s tenure as UH president coincided with an economic building boom. A Democratic state legislature gave priority to educational opportunity and passed the tax increases to pay for them. UH student enrollment doubled. Thirty-seven new buildings went up on campus (including the building named for Snyder), and many new academic programs were instituted. Snyder singled out as one of his proudest accomplishment the beautiful, monkeypod-shaded mall stretching from Varney Circle to East West Center Road.

Believing that the emphasis on intercollegiate football was at odds with the academic mission of the university, Snyder made the controversial decision to ban football, and in 1961 there was no season. An influential alumni group rose up in protest and the program was resumed.

After retirement, he returned to teaching. He updated his body of knowledge so as to encompass new developments in DNA chemistry, protein chemistry, and metabolic pathways and thereafter taught well-attended classes for medical students and local physicians.

This multi-dimensional man was a boogie-woogie piano virtuoso. a birder, and a jewelry hobbyist. In a Bio-Science article (July 1977) he shared with a mainland scientific community his enthusiasm for jewelry made from the rich Hawaiian stores of ornamental palms, legumes, spurge, and blue marble seeds. He loved Hawai`i and made his home in the islands until his death in 1986.

** Green, Earl L. “Laurence Hasbrouck Snyder: pioneer in human genetics.” American Journal of Human Genetics (August 1987): 276-285.

**Kamins, Robert M.. and Robert E. Potter. Malamalama; A History of the University of Hawai`i. (University of Hawai`i Press, 1998).

**Opitz, John M. “Biographical note - Laurence H. Snyder. American Journal of Medical Genetics (1981): 447-448. (Accompanied by “On the role of Laurence H. Snyder in the development of human and medical genetics in the United States: an oral history tape interview”), p. 449-468 of the same journal.

“In Memoriam; Philip Edmunds Spalding, 1889-1968.” (Honolulu, 1968). A copy of this document is held by the Hawaiian Collection, University of Hawaii Libraries.

HAROLD ST. JOHN (1892-1991), for whom the St. John Plant Laboratory is named, was an eminent botanist and UH professor. The son of a Unitarian minister, he was born in Pittsburgh. Graduate education, work with a Canadian botanical survey, and combat service in France during WWI occupied him until 1920, when he receive a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard. He taught at the State College of Washington (now Washington State University) before accepting an invitation to come to UH where he taught from 1929-1958, often serving as department chair.

Although he continued to teach at UH during most of the WWII years, he was granted a leave of absence for work with the Foreign Economic Administration. He led a scientific team to the jungles of Colombia in search of Cinchona trees. The war had disrupted ordinary supply lines for the malaria drug quinine, and the Colombia trees were seen as an alternate source of the bark from which quinine is made. St. John reported that his team harvested 60,000 tons of bark. After the war, under the auspices of the US Atomic Energy Commission, St. John investigated the effects of radiation on vegetation.

St. John’s speciality was systematic botany, the classification of higher plants. He is especially known for his work for discovering some 500 new species of pandanus. He was a prolific writer, and published over 400 articles in addition to several books. His best known book, one considered a classic, is List and Summary of the Flowering Plants of the Hawaiian Islands. During the course of his adventurous life, he traveled extensively on botanical expeditions throughout the Pacific islands, and was one of several UH scientists who, following WWII, opened the Pacific islands to modern scientific discoveries. After retiring from UH, St. John continued his botanical work at the Bishop Museum.

**Dr. Harold St. John [interview transcripts] Watamull Foundation Oral History Project, 1987.

ADA SUSAN VARNEY ( -1930), for whom Varney Circle is named, was a popular teacher in the Territorial Normal and Training School, which merged with the Teachers College of the University of Hawai`i in 1931. Varney was a graduate of the Teachers College at Columbia University. She began her teaching career in 1911 as a supervisor in the training school and later as a history teacher in the Normal School. She was chair of the school's publication Cadet.

Cadet, Territorial Normal and Training School, 1931. Part 3

He returned to UH and taught there from 1954-1969. His field of expertise was the study of ozone concentration in the upper atmosphere and he is considered a pioneer in that area. At UH he established a vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy laboratory and together with colleagues obtained the ionization potentials and absorption cross sections of hundreds of molecules and atoms. A heart attack led to his untimely death.

**Kobayashi, Victor N. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)
**Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii (Mutual, 1984)

ERNEST CHARLES WEBSTER (1883-1956), a 1904 Yale graduate, originally came to Hawaii to become president of the Kamehameha Schools. He later joined the University and was professor of mathematics and engineering from 1925 to 1928, and served also as Dean of Men and Dean of Student Personnel.

* Kobayashi, Victor N. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983)

BENJAMIN OTHELLO WIST (1889-1951) was an influential University of Hawai`i educator. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Wist graduated with a doctorate from Yale University. He came to Hawai`i in 1911 and taught for ten years in the public schools on the island of Hawai`i and on Maui. He served as president of the Territorial Normal and Training School from 1921 until1930, and when the Normal School was merged with the Teachers College of the University of Hawai`i in 1931, Wist was named dean of the Teachers College.

Wist’s educational mission was improvement of the quality of Hawai`i’s public school teachers. Rigid admission requirements, keyed to teacher quota figures established by the Territorial Department of Education, allowed Wist to maintain high standards for the Teachers College. He fought, against bureaucratic opposition, for a five-year program in the Teachers College, a standard now widely accepted. He established the Teachers College laboratory school and did the early planning for the University High School. His book, A Century of Public Education in Hawaii 1840-1940 published by the Hawaii Educational Review in 1940, remains a classic source on this topic.

After his retirement, Wist continued to serve the University as a regent. He was a member of the Hawai`i Statehood Commission and was on commission business in Washington, D.C. when he died on the mainland of a heart attack.

**Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii (Mutual Publishing. 1984)
**Victor Kobayashi. Building a Rainbow (Hui o Students, 1983)