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Punahou School

Punahou School (known as Oahu College until 1934) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through 12th grade.[2] Protestant missionaries established Punahou in 1841.[3]

Punahou School
The center of the seal depicts a hala tree rooted on a spring with kalo on either side. Two night-blooming cereus flowers, which border the campus, are found on the seal's outer ring.
Address
1601 Punahou Street

,
96822

United States
Information
TypePrivate, college-prep, day
Religious affiliation(s)Christian (Nondenominational)
Established1841; 182 years ago (1841)
PresidentMike Latham '86
Faculty300+
GradesK–12
GenderCoeducational
Number of students3,000+ (approx.)
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)Buff and Blue    
Athletics conferenceInterscholastic League of Honolulu (ILH)
Team name"Buffanblu"
colloquially "Puns" or "Buff 'n Blue"
RivalsKamehameha, Iolani
PublicationLiterary magazines:
Kakela (6-8)
Ka Wai Ola (9-12)
NewspaperKa Punahou
YearbookNa ʻOpio (K-8)
The Oahuan (9-12)
Websitepunahou.edu
Punahou School Campus
Old School Hall, built in 1851
Coordinates21°18′10″N 157°49′48″W / 21.30278°N 157.83000°W / 21.30278; -157.83000Coordinates: 21°18′10″N 157°49′48″W / 21.30278°N 157.83000°W / 21.30278; -157.83000
Built1842
NRHP reference No.72000419[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 7, 1972

In 2006, it was ranked the greenest school in America.[4][5] In 2017, Punahou's sports program was ranked second nationally in the MaxPreps Cup standings.[6]

Punahou's student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations.[7]

History

In 1795, King Kamehameha I took the land known as Ka Punahou in battle. Along with Ka Punahou, he gave a total of 225 acres (0.91 km2) of land (from the slope of Round Top to the current Central Union Church, which included a 77-acre (310,000 m2) tract of Kewalo Basin) to chief Kameʻeiamoku as a reward for his loyalty. After Kameʻeiamoku died, the land passed to his son, Ulumāheihei Hoapili, who lived there for 20 more years. When Hoapili left to become governor of Maui, he gave the land to his daughter, Kuini Liliha.[8]

Liliha and her husband, Oahu Governor Boki, gave Ka Punahou to Reverend Hiram Bingham, one of the first Protestant missionaries in Hawaii.[9] Queen Kaʻahumanu was a strong supporter of the mission and built a house for herself near Bingham. A portion of the stone wall she had built to protect the compound from roaming cattle has been preserved.

Punahou School was originally a school for the children of missionaries serving throughout the Pacific region. It was the first school west of the Rocky Mountains and east of Asia with classes in English only.[9] The first class was held on July 11, 1842, and had 15 students. Daniel Dole was Punahou's first principal.[10]

Punahou has educated members of the Hawaiian royal family, but is not to be confused with the Royal School. It was known as Oahu College from 1853 to 1934.

During World War II, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commandeered much of the Punahou campus.[11] Castle Hall (the girls' dormitory when Punahou had boarding students) was used as a command center, buildings were connected with tunnels, athletic fields were used as parking lots, and the library was cleared to become sleeping quarters and an officer's mess. The cereus hedge on the campus lava rock wall was topped with barbed wire. Punahou students volunteered in hospitals and raised enough in war bonds to purchase two bombers and a fighter (among other airplanes), which were named after alumni who had fallen in service.[12][13]

In the 1970s, Punahou's upper field and gymnasium were used for the Superstars nationally televised athletic competitions.

On August 7, 1972, the campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu.[1]

Traditions

 
Campus view in 1909

Many traditional events take place on campus. On the first Friday and Saturday of each February, the junior class hosts the Punahou Carnival.[14] Proceeds from the carnival contribute to the Financial Aid program. The event is an entertainment highlight each year in Honolulu.[15]

The Holoku Pageant is an annual celebration of the Hawaiian culture and arts. Students perform Hawaiian dances in traditional costumes, from the lovely hula to the intimidating ha'a.[16]

The annual Sustainability Fair began in 2007 and included on-campus conservation challenges and off-campus coastline preservation. On Rice Field, classes set up canopies to showcase sustainable undertakings and projects, often including local produce sales and informational handouts.[17][18]

To celebrate the school's homecoming, students, faculty, and teachers surround a 20-foot letter P, and ignite it at dusk. This event, the "Flaming P", is preceded by a spirit week, where students dress and parade creatively.

Seniors write and perform a Variety Show. This play involves most of the class, over 300 students. Seniors also have prom at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Skip Day at the Kikila Estate and Pounders Beach, and senior lunch. With each student attired in either a blue blazer or a formal white Hawaiian dress, senior year ends with baccalaureate ceremonies at Central Union Church, and commencement at Stan Sheriff Center[19] (since 2018).

Graduates who started Punahou in kindergarten are members of the Thirteen Plus Club.

In June, the school hosts an Alumni Luau on campus that the newly graduated class can enjoy with other alumni. The annual luau also functions as a major fundraising event for the school.[20]

Throughout most of the school's history, elementary schoolchildren have been allowed to attend in bare feet. Aloha shirts were once restricted to Fridays, but dress codes were relaxed considerably during the 1970s.

G-Term is an effort for students to explore extracurricular opportunities over the week after students return from winter break. Students can choose from on- and off-island classes.

Location

All schools in Honolulu (public and private) have an urban residential location. Nearby buildings include apartment buildings, private houses, a retirement home, a Catholic school (Maryknoll School), several small churches, and two hospitals.

Punahou shares the entrance to Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaii main campus and a few other schools such as Mid-Pacific Institute.

Punahou students are a few minutes away from the trail to Manoa Falls, the beaches at Ala Moana and Waikiki, downtown Honolulu, Lyon Arboretum, and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

 
Situated in the foothills of the Koolau Mountains, Punahou shares Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaii main campus and a few other schools

Punahou's location provides many opportunities for off-campus learning: field trip destinations for middle school students have included the Bishop Museum, Waikiki Aquarium, Waikiki Shell, Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial, Kawaiahaʻo Church, Sea Life Park, USS Arizona Memorial, Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, Fort Ruger at Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Zoo, Iolani Palace, Hawaii State Capitol, and the beaches on Oahu's North Shore. Clubs and classes often organize trips to neighboring islands, especially to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the Kohala Coast on the Big Island.

The school in recent years

Tuition was $26,000 for the 2019–20 school year,[21] not including student activity fees. Locals have long regarded Punahou as an expensive school, but its tuition is less than that of Harvard Westlake School or Sidwell Friends School, which charge over $35,000.[22][23]

Tuition does not cover the entire cost of educating a student, and the school's endowment makes up the difference.[24][25] Punahou reported its endowment at $239 million in 2014.[26] The land's raw value is considerable for a private school: land values in lower Manoa Valley routinely exceed $1 million per .3 acre,[27][better source needed] making Punahou's 76 acres worth as much as its endowment. Although these figures are high among mainland U.S. private schools, Honolulu's Iolani School has a comparable endowment (twice the endowment per pupil), and Kamehameha Schools has a $5 to $9 billion endowment (30 times the endowment per pupil) with a larger physical plant.[28] Maui has Seabury Hall, which has twice the endowment per pupil.[29]

In the class of 2015, three graduates went to Harvard, three to Princeton, and two to Yale, with 22 total at Ivy League schools. Seven attended Swarthmore, Wellesley, Amherst, Tufts, or Vassar. Four attended Stanford, two Berkeley, four MIT, 16 Boston University, and 12 New York University, with 23 total at UAA schools. Students in that class also chose TCU, UND, Vanderbilt, Villanova, RPI, RIT, Michigan, Northeastern, Boston College, Olin Engineering, Norwich Military College, NYU/Shanghai, Erasmus/Rotterdam, Yonsei/S. Korea, Waseda/Japan, and Edinburgh/UK. Six decided to train at a US military academy.[30] Schools throughout California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada are also popular among graduates, and many students choose to attend local schools like the University of Hawaii and Chaminade.

The class of 2012 had 30 of Hawaii's 70 National Merit Semifinalists.[31] The class of 2013 had 20 semifinalists, and five of the state's ten National Merit Scholars.[32][33]

Punahou's 33 Presidential Scholars were graduates of the classes of '64, '66, '70, '71, '75, '78 (two), '79, '82, '84 (two members), '85, '86 (two), '91, '92 (two), '93, '95, '96, '98, '01, '02, '04 (three), '05, '06, '08, '11, '16 (two), '17, and '21.[34][35]

In 2006, it was ranked the greenest school in America.[36][37] In 2017, Punahou's sports program was ranked second nationally in the MaxPreps Cup standings.[6]

Punahou's student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations.[7] The school is a founding member of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, and uses a competency-based learning framework in some courses.[38]

A recent study of the class of 1979[39] showed that 15 had a PhD, 22 had an MD, 39 had a JD, 18 had the MBA, 10 had the DDS, DMD, DVM, or ND (about one quarter of the class reaching terminal degrees). 4 were officers in the US armed services. 12 had degrees from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, 14 from Stanford, 17 from UC Berkeley, and 26 total from Ivy League schools.[40]

Facilities

 
Punahou School President's House on campus
 
Chapel courtyard and Round House

About 5,000 faculty, students, and staff work in 44 buildings on 76 acres.[41] The Robert Thurston Memorial Chapel on campus was building designed and built in 1966 by architect Vladimir Ossipoff and feature textile screens made by local artist Ruthadell Anderson.[42] The school is built over a natural spring, the Thurston Chapel wall meets at a pond formed by the spring and features a low hung stained glass.[42]

Case Middle School

 
One of nine new Case Middle School buildings on campus

Before plans were made for a new middle school complex, America Online founder and alumnus Steve Case ('76) donated $10 million.[43] This led to construction of a new middle school for grades six through eight, Case Middle School, named for Case's parents.[44] The project earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification[45][46] and a Project of the Year award in Hawaiian Electric Company's Energy Efficiency Awards.[47][48]

Sensors shut off air conditioners if windows are opened to let in the breeze; the buildings are designed to make full use of the tradewinds, with the help of the Venturi effect. There are also sensors in place that turn the lights on or off depending on whether motion is detected, and dim the lights on sunny days and brighten them on cloudy ones. Air conditioning is provided by three ice-making plants, one for each grade level's section. The units freeze and accumulate ice at night when electricity is cheaper, and allow the ice to melt during the day to cool the air.

Case Middle School consists of nine buildings with a total cost of roughly $50 million, made possible solely through donations.[46]

Omidyar K-1 Neighborhood

In late 2010 a new five-building indoor/outdoor section of campus opened for Punahou's youngest students.[49] It was constructed and operated with sustainable living as a principal goal, and the curriculum has a focus on sustainability. With solar energy, efficient landscaping, rain catchment and ecofriendly materials, the complex received a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.[50]

Teachers are encouraged to personalize their classroom spaces,[51] and each of the 12 rooms has its own outdoor area that is one-third the size of the interior space to which it is attached.

The total cost was $26 million. Individual buildings are named the Mountain House, Forest House, and City House, and historic Wilcox Hall retains its traditional name. Board of Trustees member and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar ('84) donated $6 million to the project.

 
Punahou's urban location places its students minutes away from Waikiki and downtown Honolulu.

Athletics

Punahou's athletics program is the most successful in Hawaii. It has won more state championships than any other high school in the nation.[52] In 2008 and in 2009, Sports Illustrated ranked Punahou's sports program the best in the country.

Punahou football plays the second half of its season at the Aloha Stadium (where the Pro Bowl and Aloha Bowl were played).[53] In fall 2014, the varsity football team ranked as high as 15th in the nation.[54]

Athletic facilities include the Olympic-size Waterhouse Pool, a football field, a baseball diamond, two softball diamonds, and an eight-lane track. The school also has a fieldhouse for competitive athletics, an open-air weightlifting facility, a gymnasium for physical education and intramural sports, and a tennis center with eight hard surface courts.[55] Rocky Hill has been used as a live firing range for JROTC and competitive target sports. Air riflery uses an indoor firing range.[56]

Students need two athletic credits to graduate, which is a total of four semesters. They can earn these credits through P.E. and ILH sports.[57]

Students compete in 22 sports, including air riflery, baseball, basketball, bowling, canoe paddling, cross country, cheerleading, football, golf, gymnastics, judo, kayaking, riflery, sailing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. Punahou has approximately 120 sports teams. The school is a member of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu.

Punahou teams earned 20 championships in 2009–10, out of about 30 varsity I teams fielded.

State championships

State championships[58][59][60]
Sea­son Sport Number of champ­ionships Year
Fall
Football 2 + 12 2008, 2013 *State championship bowl instituted in 1973. Prior to 1973, Punahou had 19 ILH championships. As the OIA was founded in 1940, the ILH championships of 1909–1917, 1919–1920, and 1924 can be considered "state" or "island" championships. Punahou is 2–3 in the state bowl against OIA opponents.
Volleyball, Girls 9 1973, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2014
Cross Country, Boys 13 1965, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2019, 2021
Cross Country, Girls 33 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Air Riflery, Boys 7 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014
Air Riflery, Girls 6 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2016
Winter
Wrestling, Boys 8 1967, 1968, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Wrestling, Girls 3 2009, 2010, 2011
Basketball, Boys 11 1970, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1999, 2008, 2012, 2018
Basketball, Girls 11 1979, 1980, 1981, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013
Soccer, Boys 22 1976, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
Soccer, Girls 11 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011
Swimming, Boys 49 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Swimming, Girls 54 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
Canoe Paddling, Boys 8 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022
Canoe Paddling, Girls 7 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022
Canoe Paddling, Mixed 5 2009, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2022
Spring
Golf, Boys 10 1970, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
Golf, Girls 12 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
Volleyball, Boys 38 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
Water Polo, Girls 15 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
Tennis, Boys 49 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022
Tennis, Girls 45 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
Judo, Boys 3 2006, 2008, 2009
Judo, Girls 3 2009, 2010, 2011
Track and Field, Boys 36 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
Track and Field, Girls 38 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2022
Softball 1 2013
Baseball 14 1961, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1989, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2019
Total 523’’’
 
Ka Punahou and Castle Hall

Other programs and honors

Punahou requires all students (K-12) to attend chapel once a week, where each homeroom is assigned its own seating and attendance is taken. In addition, students attend a mandatory weekly assembly to listen to announcements or watch student performances.

Academy students have required coursework in Asian History, followed by US History and European History. Punahou also offers French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and Hawaiian as languages starting in middle school.

Students have access to a jewelry studio, a pottery studio, glass-blowing facilities, technology departments, a dance pavilion, and a dedicated music building. The campus has spaces for school-wide initiatives, e.g., for public service and international studies.

The high school yearbook, The Oahuan, has won awards from the American Scholastic Press Association.[61] Na Opio is the yearbook for K-8. Ka Wai Ola is the school's long-running student literary publication. Ka Punahou is the student newspaper, and Punahou Bulletin is the alumni magazine.

Punahou has a strong history of academic competition with its math, debate, and academic bowl teams, and at times has had organizations for computing, chess, and gaming. Punahou's JROTC program was once known for its award-winning close order drill team with multi-person aerials using M1 Garand rifles.

Enrichment activities have included cultural clubs, dance and theater, funding and service committees, outdoor, environmental, and hiking clubs, pep clubs, and clubs based on sports such as martial arts and synchronized swimming. There are men's, women's and mixed choruses, a concert orchestra, and various band groups. Hui Le'a Nani ("heavenly singers") is the elite choral group.

Academy Clubs include (*=probationary): Academic Team,* Anime & Manga, Asante Ambassadors,* Astronomy Club, Book Club, Chess Club, Chinese Club, Civil Engineering Club,* Club Hospital Helpers,* Cycling Club, Design Thinking,* Easter Seals Club, Environmental Surf Club, European Culture Club,* Fellowship for Christian Athletes, Filipino Club, Film Club, Film Makers Club,* Free Movement Club,* Friends Granting Wishes,* Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Glass Club, Global Grindz Club,* Go Club, Hale Hawaii, Happy Club,* Hawaii Humane Society Club,* Hinano Hiking Club, Historical Film Club,* Hui O Aloha, IMAGEnation,* Impact and Inspire Club,* INK, Japanese Okinawan Club, Key Club, Korean Club, Lacrosse Club, Lemon Club,* Let's Do Stuff While Making Friends and Getting Exercise (LDSWMFGE), Math Team, Medical Science Club, Military History Club, Mock Trial, Mud Club, Music Club, Nature Nuts,* Neuro Club,* Nihonjin Club, Operation Smile,* Pa'i'ai Club, Pilates,* Polynesian Club, Punahou App Development Club,* Punahou Bible Study, Punahou Interact Club, Punahou Young Life Club, Punavision, Ranger Club, Robotics, Russian Club, Screen Printing Club,* Service-Learning Club, Social E,* Speech & Debate Team, Spoken Word and Poetry Club, Tea Society, TEDx, and Ultimate Frisbee Club.

The Punahou marching band travels periodically, and participated in the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, the 2012 London New Year's Day Parade, the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, the 2007 New Year's Day Rose Parade, and the 2015 Rose Parade. In 2013, 54 members of the school symphony played four concerts in China.

115801 Punahou is a minor planet named in the school's honor.[62]

Sexual assault allegations and litigation

In April 2020, several former Punahou girls' basketball players filed a lawsuit over alleged abuse committed by their former coach Dwayne Yuen.[63][64] Days later, the school disclosed additional sexual assault allegations dating back to the 1970s involving a former faculty member and baseball coach.[65]

In January 2021, the school terminated the employment of a high school teacher based on allegations of sexual misconduct involving a former student.[66][67] The teacher had been suspended from teaching and banned from campus since late November 2020 pending an internal investigation, which he did not cooperate with. The investigation found that the allegations were credible.[67][68]

Notable students and faculty

(Numerical claims are substantiated in the main article on alumni. * indicates the class year of an attendee who did not graduate with the class.)

Some Punahou Alumni
 
Barack Obama ('79), Harvard Law Review editor, U Chicago lecturer on Constitutional Law, Nobel, Grammy and Emmy winner, author, state basketball champion, US Senator, 44th US President
 
Teri Ann Linn ('79), Bold and Beautiful star, Disney & pop gold recording artist, actress, model, and TV show host, state & national tennis champion, Miss USA finalist, one of five alums named Miss Hawaii
 
Lindsey Berg ('98), two-time volleyball Silver Medalist, one of 22 Punahou Olympians earning a total of thirteen medals, including four gold, with alumni on every US team since 1968
 
Ross T. Dwyer ('37), USMC Maj. Gen., Aide to the Secretary of the Navy, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam War veteran, one of at least 32 US Army, USAF, or USMC Generals from Punahou
 
Samuel Chapman Armstrong (1859), Hampton University founder, Union Army hero at Gettysburg, Brev. Brig. Gen., subject of biographies spanning 100 years
 
Hiram Bingham III (1892), US Senator, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Professor, USAAF Lt. Col., explorer of Machu Picchu, grandson of Punahou's founder, model for Indiana Jones
 
Steve Case ('76), AOL founder and Time Warner chairman, philanthropist, Presidential appointee for jobs, startups, and business development, best-selling author on entrepreneurship
 
Pierre Omidyar ('84*), eBay founder, Punahou trustee, philanthropist, with donations exceeding one billion dollars
 
Carrie Ann Inaba ('86), Dancing with The Stars judge, one of People magazine's most beautiful
 
Elbert Tuttle (1914), Leader of the Federal Court that desegregated the South, US Army Brig. Gen., WWI and WWII veteran, Atlanta Civil Rights Walk of Fame star, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
 
Joan Blondell ('25*), Miss America finalist, Oscar nominee with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, in films for 52 years, one of five leading movie stars from Punahou
 
Michelle Wie ('07), teen golf phenom with seven biographies before the age of 20, youngest LPGA qualifier, four-time LPGA winner and Solheim Cup champion
 
Manti Te'o ('09), Heisman finalist, one of 26 Punahou alumni signed to play in the NFL or MLB, five times on championship teams
 
William Richards Castle, Jr. (1896), Harvard Dean and Overseer, Asst. Secretary of State, one of at least seventeen Presidential appointees from Punahou
 
Charles L. Veach ('62), Astronaut on two NASA shuttle missions, USAF Col., with 275 combat flight missions and Distinguished Flying Cross during the Vietnam War[69]
 
Brian Schatz ('90), US Senator at age 40, one of three US Senators and five US Congressmen from Punahou, and one of five Lt. Governors or Governors from Punahou
 
Norm Chow ('64), NFL offensive coordinator, developer of eight of the top fourteen passers in NCAA history
 
melody. ('00), three-time top-ten recording artist and TV show host in Japan
 
Sun Yat Sen (1883*), First of nine Presidents of China before Mao's Revolution, Founder of Modern China in 1912 after the last Emperor, Pu Yi[70]
 
Kelly Preston ('80), Hollywood leading actress in For Love of the Game, Jerry Maguire, supporting Twins, Only You, Waiting to Exhale
 
Carissa Moore ('10), teen surfing phenom, Olympic gold medalist, 5x world tour champion, one of three world surfing champions since 1968
 
Francis Wai ('35), Medal of Honor recipient, US Army Capt. Killed in Action at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, lettered in three sports at Punahou
 
John W. Gardner ('29*), architect of Medicare, USMC Capt., Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Stanford professor and trustee,[71] one of dozens of alums with an academic work cited 1000x
 
Buster Crabbe ('27), bronze and gold medalist in swimming, Hollywood leading man for two decades as Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers, TV show host
 
Hawaiian Prince Kuhio (1889), Delegate to the US Congress, heir to the Hawaiian throne, counter-revolutionary, honored with statue at Kuhio Beach Park in Waikiki and Prince Kuhio Day each year
 
Alma M. Grocki ('77), one of the first women admitted to Annapolis, one of at least sixteen Punahou USN Admirals
 
Bob Shane ('52), co-founder of the Kingston Trio, with five #1 albums, ten top-40 hits, a #1 Grammy-winning single, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

In public leadership

Punahou has produced many leaders in the government of Hawaii. Barack Obama ('79) was the 44th President of the United States. He attended Punahou from 5th grade until graduation.[72]

Sanford Dole (1864) was President of the brief Republic of Hawaii, then Governor of Hawaii. Walter Frear (1881) and Lawrence M. Judd (1905) were also Governors.

Democratic Lt. Governor Brian Schatz ('90) was appointed U.S. Senator to complete Daniel Inouye's final term. Republican U.S. Senator Connecticut Hiram Bingham III (1892) was also elected governor of Connecticut. Otis Pike ('39*), Democratic Congressman from New York, chaired the Pike Committee investigating Richard Nixon. Republican Charles Djou ('88) recently finished Neil Abercrombie's term as Congressman from Hawaii. At least three other Punahou graduates have represented Hawaii in the U.S. House.

President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Judge Elbert Tuttle (1914) to lead the federal court that desegregated the South (the Fifth Circuit Four). HEW Secretary John W. Gardner ('29*) was President Lyndon Johnson's architect of the Great Society. Tuttle and Gardner were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Sun Yat-Sen, the Founding Father of the Republic of China (esteemed by Taiwan as well as pre- and post-communist mainland China), attended Punahou (Oahu College) for a semester of study after graduating from Iolani School.

Pierre Omidyar, billionaire founder of ebay, and of The Intercept and other public-affaires sites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar Omidyar attended Punahou School in Honolulu for a couple of years. (He now serves on its Board of Trustees).[11] H

 
The Makai Gate at the intersection of Punahou Street and Wilder Street

In athletics

Alexander Cartwright III (1869) and his classmates were some of the earliest players of baseball (Alexander Cartwright, Jr., the official inventor of the game, spent the end of his life in Honolulu).[73] The school claims at least one former pitcher and a former first baseman in major league baseball, and nine minor-leaguers. All-American Glenn Goya ('73) was an NCAA batting title winner.[74] Justin Wayne played Major League Baseball.

Five-time women's golf LPGA event winner Michelle Wie graduated in 2007. Professional Golfers Association event winner Parker McLachlin graduated in 1997. Five-time Association of Tennis Professionals doubles winner Jim Osborne graduated in 1965. At least three alumni have been surfing world champions, including the five-time women's world tour winner Carissa Moore ('10).[citation needed]

DeForest Buckner ('12) was a 2016 first-round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers and Pro-Bowl selection; his classmate Ka'imi Fairbairn ('12) is the Houston Texans' placekicker. Linebacker Manti Te'o ('09) was a 2012 Heisman Trophy finalist.

Punahou has also produced seven NFL linemen and four running backs, including Mark Tuinei ('78), who played 195 games over 15 years (team record) for the Dallas Cowboys, winning three Super Bowls and playing in two Pro Bowls. Ray Schoenke ('59*) played 145 games for the Cowboys and Redskins over twelve years. Charley Ane ('49) was a Pro Bowler and twice-NFL champion team captain, whose son, Kale Ane ('71), is the current Punahou football coach, after a career in the NFL. The elder Ane's brothers, Herman Clark ('48) and Jim Clark ('48), also played professionally. The four combined for a total of 260 NFL games over 20 seasons for the Packers, Chiefs, Lions, Redskins, and Bears. Pro Bowler and Super Bowler Mosi Tatupu ('74)[75] played 199 games and redefined the importance of special teams.

Punahou's high school All-Americans have played football for Stanford, Michigan State (twice), Santa Clara, and Notre Dame (twice); All-American college football players have played at Harvard (twice), Navy, Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, and Oregon.[76]

Punahou has a tradition of sending athletes to the Olympic Games, with alumni contributing five gold, seven silver, and two bronze medals, competing in many of the modern games ('20, '24, '28, '32, '52, '68, '72, '76, '84, '88, '92, '96, '00, '04, '08, '12, '16, '21), and on every U.S. team since 1968 (Moscow '80 would have been the second of four Olympics for Henry Marsh ('72) if not for the U.S. boycott). Warren Kealoha ('25*) was the youngest gold medalist in swimming when he won the first of two gold medals. Taylor Crabb and Carissa Moore competed in 2021, with Moore winning gold in the first Olympic surfing competition.

Punahou teachers and trustees have also won medals at the Olympic Games (see Punahou School alumni).

 
Pauahi Hall, completed in 1896, designed by Charles William Dickey

In academia

 
Historic Dillingham Hall, used for student performances

John W. Gardner taught at Stanford and Hiram Bingham III at Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Barack Obama lectured on Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago.

Punahou alumni include endowed professors at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Illinois, Notre Dame, Purdue, and Boston University, and research professors of medicine at UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Indiana, Texas, Maryland, Pitt, Walter Reed, and Baylor. John Lie ('78) wrote six books on Asian cultures, Patrick Vinton Kirch ('68) wrote nine books on Polynesian cultures, and Fred Hoxie ('65) wrote 20 books on Native American peoples. Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer, SJ ('70) was the president of Gonzaga University. General George Forsythe ('66*), formerly the academic vice dean at West Point, is the president of Westminster College (Missouri). Marie Mookini ('74) was an admissions officer for Stanford University and then for programs at Stanford's Graduate School of Business for over two decades in total.[77] William Richards Castle, Jr. (1896) was a Harvard Overseer. ('55) has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Mount Rex is named for atmospheric science pioneer Lt. Cdr. Dan Rex ('33*).

William Ouchi ('61) wrote a book on Japanese business that is one of the top-100 most widely held books in U.S. libraries.[78] Other prominent works by alumni (over 1000 citations for a single work, at scholar.google.com) are on leadership (Gardner '29*), plasma deformation (Killeen '42*), stability of silicates (Holdaway '54*), bird evolution (Steadman, '54), neuralgia vaccine (Gershon '56), coronary disease (3x, Labarthe '57), communicative acts (2x, Harnish '59*), dynamic choice (3x, Porteus '60), markets and bureaucracies (5x, Ouchi '61), floating point computation (Walther, '62), heart physiology (3x, Lederer '65), assay methods (Bennett, '66), marital conflict (4x, Cummings '68), gender equality (Roos '68), immunology (Umetsu '69), intraoperative melanoma (Wong '71), equal employment law (Krieger '72), bacteria viability (Oliver, '73), AIDS vaccination (2x, Michael '75), autophagy assays (Terada '75), virus expression (3x, R. Chung '78), stem cells (2x, Mankani '79), immunotherapy (Yuen '79), tumor pathogenesis (2x, D. Chung '80), legal construction of race (Haney-Lopez '82), nation building (Latham '86), and criminal records (Pager '89).

Samuel C. Armstrong (1859) and Elbert Tuttle were awarded Honorary Degrees from Harvard. Armstrong founded a normal school (which later became Hampton University) to educate African-Americans and later Native Americans. He was also the founder of the Hampton University Museum, the country's oldest African-American museum and Virginia's oldest museum.

Punahou has a connection to Mills College through Punahou's former president, Cyrus Mills, who helped found Mills with his wife, Punahou teacher Susan Tolman Mills. Queenie B. Mills was a Kindergarten director who helped design the Head Start program.

In the arts

IMDb.com lists over 100 credits for Carrie Ann Inaba ('86) (In Living Color, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Dancing with the Stars) and 150 for Kelly Preston ('80) (Jerry Maguire, For Love of the Game, Only You, Twins). Sarah Wayne Callies ('95), has starred in Prison Break, Colony, and The Walking Dead.

Al Harrington ('54) starred in the original Hawaii Five-O and plays a recurring character in the revived series.

Joan Blondell ('25*) has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star after 52 years in films and was a nominee for best supporting actress in 1951. Buster Crabbe ('27), who had won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, portrayed Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers in film. Gerry Lopez ('66) is well known for surfing, but is also known as Subotai in Conan the Barbarian. Teri Ann Linn ('79) provided the beauty in The Bold and the Beautiful for over eight years. Scott Coffey ('81) appeared in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and was in two films with Naomi Watts (Tank Girl, Mulholland Drive) before writing and directing her indie bio pic, Ellie Parker. Amanda Schull ('96) had the lead role as an aspiring ballerina in Center Stage and featured in Suits. Three alumni danced for the early Martha Graham. Leilani Jones ('75) won a Tony Award on Broadway and was on the original casts of Grind and Little Shop of Horrors. Ann Harada ('81) starred on Broadway in Avenue Q and Cinderella, and on TV in Smash.[79]

Drew Matich '(82) has produced TV shows such as Fairly Legal, In Plain Sight, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Beautiful People, Joan of Arcadia, and Dawson's Creek. Rod Lurie ('80) has directed and produced a dozen films (Straw Dogs, The Contender) and two major TV series (Line of Fire, Commander in Chief). Kevin McCollum ('80*) directs a Broadway production company that claims 18 Tony Award-winning plays, and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, three awarded personally (In the Heights, Avenue Q, Rent). Allan Burns ('53) was a 6-time Emmy Award-winning writer and creator, known for such shows as The Munsters, Get Smart, Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ken Peterson ('26) animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Sleeping Beauty. John Kneubuhl ('38), a Samoan royal, was a writer on Wild, Wild, West, Star Trek, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, Mannix, and 40 other shows. Bruce Broughton ('62) is a film composer (Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under) and a 10-time Emmy-winner for TV themes (JAG, Tiny Toon Adventures). Iris Yamashita ('83*) was nominated for best original screenplay with Letters from Iwo Jima. Scott Moore ('85) co-wrote The Hangover, for which he received a BAFTA Best Original Screenplay nomination, and Bad Moms, which he also co-directed.

Kaui Hart Hemmings ('94) was author of The Descendants.

The Kingston Trio had two Punahou alumni as founders, Dave Guard ('52*) and Bob Shane ('52), producing five #1 albums on Billboard's charts, ten top-40 hits, and a #1 Grammy-winning single. The group won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Robin Luke ('59) was a Rockabilly Hall of Fame act. Hawaiian slack-key guitar is represented by the popular music of Henry Kapono Kaaihue ('67) of Cecilio & Kapono. Melody Ishikawa ('00) had three top-ten albums in Japan, Tané McClure ('77*) did much of the Terminator soundtrack, and Teri Ann Linn's ('79) debut CD went gold on the European charts.

In the military

General Samuel C. Armstrong led a rifle company that repelled parts of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, and led U.S. Colored Troops.

Captain Francis Wai ('35) was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, Killed in Action in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Admiral Thomas G. W. Settle ('14*) received the Navy Cross in World War II. General Donald Prentice Booth ('22*) received the Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army) in World War II and the Cold War. General Ned Moore ('24) received the Distinguished Service Cross (United States) in the Korean War. General Sidney Wooten ('24*) received the DSC in World War II and, with classmates Ned Moore and General Walter K. Wilson, Jr. ('24), the DSM during the Cold War. General Philip Lindeman ('26) received the DSC in World War II and DSM in the Vietnam War. General Tom Stayton ('26) received the DSM posthumously in Vietnam. General Walter Jensen ('27) earned the DSM during the Vietnam War. Admiral Gordon Chung-Hoon ('29*) received the Navy Cross in World War II. General Kelley Lemmon Jr. ('31*) and General Stanley Larsen ('33) received the DSC in World War II and DSM in Vietnam. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Jr. ('32*) received the Navy Cross in World War II. William Robertson Desobry ('36) received the DSM in Vietnam, and General Ross T. Dwyer ('37) received the DSM (Navy) in Peacetime. General George Cantlay ('38) received the DSM in Vietnam and a Peacetime DSM (Defense). General George Patton IV ('42*) received the DSC in the Vietnam War and a Peacetime DSM. Admiral Kleber Masterson, Jr. ('50*) received a DSM (Navy) in Vietnam.

Many of the students were children of high level commanders stationed in the Pacific, such as Chester Nimitz, Jr. and George Patton IV. Admiral Grant Sharp '(56) and Admiral Stephen Clarey ('58) had fathers who would become Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet. General Stephen Fuqua, Jr.'s ('28*) father was Chief of Infantry and Colonel Wallace Greene III's ('50) father was Commandant of the Marine Corps.

The school can claim at least fifteen Brigadier Generals, eleven Major Generals, six Lieutenant Generals, thirteen Rear Admirals, and three Vice Admirals.[80] Stanley Larsen was the first commander of the Field Force, Vietnam and commander of the Sixth United States Army.[81] Ross Dwyer was commander of the 1st Marine Division and George Cantlay was commander of the 2nd Armored Division. Donald Booth was commander of the Fourth United States Army. Kleber Masterson, Jr. commanded the United States Second Fleet. Admiral Thomas H. Copeman III ('77) was Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific and Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic.

Colonel Farrant Turner ('13), Major Alex McKenzie ('29), and Major John Johnson ('31) commanded the Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion, a.k.a. the "Purple Heart Battalion." Johnson was Killed in Action at the Battle of Monte Cassino. The destroyer USS Chung-Hoon is named after Punahou football star, Gordon Chung-Hoon, who was assigned to the Arizona (BB-39).

Lt. Michael T. McCormick (1964) was shot down in Vietnam War in 1973, recovered in 2002, and now rests in Arlington National Cemetery.[82][83]

West Point graduates Generals Albert Lyman (1906*) and Charles Lyman (1908) were the first ethnic Hawaiians to attain that rank.[84] General C. B. Stewart ('30) was a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and General Frances Mossman ('50) has her J.D.[85] Admiral Alma Lau (Grocki) ('77) was a member of the 2nd Naval Academy class to admit women.

Many Punahou teachers in its history have been military reservists or ex-military. Former computer and math teacher Henry Wells Lawrence was one of the first pilots to respond to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Others

 
One of the many large, old monkey pod trees on campus

Agnes Baldwin Alexander (1895) was an author and Hand of the Cause in the Baháʼí Faith.

In 2007, Cox Enterprises passed to two former Punahou students who are highly philanthropic like their mother Barbara Cox Anthony, who twice married Punahou alumni; daughter, Blair Kennedy ('68*), a former schoolteacher, is now the second wealthiest woman in Australia; son James C. Kennedy ('65*) was Atlanta's philanthropist of the year 2007, and 61st on the Forbes 400 list 2012. Charles Gates, Jr. ('39) has donated $147 million through his Gates Family Foundation (Gates last appeared on the Forbes 400 list in 2006). As mentioned above, the philanthropic founders of AOL and eBay were Punahou students, with both still listed on the 2012 Forbes 400. USA Today reported that Pierre Omidyar's ('84*) total charitable contributions exceeded $1 billion.[86]

Charles L. Veach ('62) was an astronaut on two shuttle missions.

Nancy Cordes ('91) is a senior CBS News White House correspondent and anchor. Emily Chang ('98) is the anchor and executive producer of Bloomberg news shows.

Punahou students were crowned Miss Hawaii or Miss Hawaii USA in 1977, 1981, 1997, 1999, and 2004 (with Judi Anderson ('76) becoming Miss USA and Brook Mahealani Lee ('89*) becoming Miss Universe).

Punahou students appear across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan's "favorite economist" and former Enron board member Wendy Lee Gramm ('62); Ryan Henry ('68) and Robert Silberman ('75), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army, respectively, for George H. W. Bush; to centrist Ray Schoenke ('59*), a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association (an alternative to the National Rifle Association); to Jerry Berman ('58), chief counsel of the ACLU.

Ellery Chun ('27) invented the Aloha Shirt.

Punahou in fiction and literature

  • "He started his scholarly investigation while still at Punahou, although he later took his B.A. at Yale, his M.A. at Harvard, his Ph.D. from Oxford and his D.Litt. from the Sorbonne. He received honorary degrees from eleven major universities, but when he died in 1914 the Honolulu Mail announced simply: 'The great scholar was educated at Punahou.' None of the rest really mattered." (James Michener, Hawaii)
  • "Gramps grabbed me by the arm. 'Hell, Bar,' he whispered, 'this isn't a school. This is heaven.'" (Obama, Dreams from My Father)
  • "I wanted a station wagon like the family in The Brady Bunch. I wanted to go steady with someone like Marcia or Jan, girls who dressed mod and spoke cool. My new school was full of girls like Marcia and Jan. I'd just started seventh grade at Punahou" (Wright, Punahou Blues)
  • In the Descendants, Matt (George Clooney's character) accuses Sid of being "a hundred miles away from Smartville." Sid responds that he is "Vice President of the Punahou chess club".
  • In Hawaii Five O, Charlie Fong, the "extremely capable lab technician", is a Punahou graduate.
  • "As part of chapel every year, the school held a special memorial day ceremony. ... The JROTC cadets dressed in full gear and stood at attention the whole time. Arm in arm, a boy and girl from each grade level ... walked slowly down the aisle with a wreath of flowers ... while the names of all of those in the Punahou family, former students of the school who had been killed in war, were read off. ... By the end, the entire floor at the front of the chapel was filled with flowers." (Lum, Letting Go)
  • "We had attended high school together at Punahou, the most exclusive private school in Hawaii." (Charley Memminger, Aloha, Lady Blue)
  • "'What do people do here in the evening? The movies?' 'Just at present,' the girl told him, 'everybody visits Punahou ... to see the night-blooming cereus. It's the season now, you know.'" (Biggers, House Without a Key)

Alma Mater

 
School carnival in 2007

Oʻahu A

Oʻahu a, Oʻahu a
Punahou, our Punahou;
Mau a Mau, oh mau a mau,
Punahou, our Punahou.

Throughout the years we've shown our light,
We glory in Oʻahu's might;
The Buff and Blue's a glorious sight,
Punahou, our Punahou.

The song is sung to the tune of Maryland, My Maryland, also known as "O Tannenbaum". The lyrics are taken from a poem, "Oahu Wa," by then student Wilhelm Albert Gartner (1902).[87]

School shout

Ready? Hit it!
Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y
Are We In It? Well I Guess!
Punahou, Punahou, Yes, Yes, Yes!

This cheer is typically shouted by the marching band and cheerleaders at Punahou, at events such as football games and other sports activities and gatherings following the alma mater.

School mascot

Punahou does not have an official mascot. The closest thing is the hala tree, whose image is used in the school's seal. Fans often refer to athletic teams as the "Sons of Oahu", or "Buff & Blue". In 1890 the colors buff and blue officially became Punahou's school colors, representing sand and the sea. In 1890, long before the development of high-rises and hotels in Waikiki, all that was visible in the distance from the top of Punahou's campus was the buff-colored sand and blue-colored sea of Waikiki Beach.

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Further reading

  • A. Alexander, "Baseball at Punahou Thirty-Seven Years Ago", Oahuan, June 1906.
  • Mary C. Alexander, C. P. Dodge, William R. Castle, Punahou, 1841–1941, U. California Press, 1941.
  • John B. Bowles, Day Our World Changed: December 7, 1941; Punahou '52 Remembers Pearl Harbor, Ice Cube Press, 2004. ISBN 1-888160-02-0
  • "Punahou School: a private school with a public purpose", Hawaii Business, September 1, 2003. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2021/is_200309/ai_n9142055
  • T. K. Chow-Hoy, "An inquiry into school context and the teaching of the virtues", Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2001.
  • D. Cisco, Hawaii Sports: History, Facts, and Statistics, University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Ethel Mosely Damon, The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Pageant Punahou, published by the author, 1916.
  • Charlotte P. Dodge, Punahou, The War Years, 1941–1945, 1984.
  • Nelson Foster, ed., Punahou: The History and Promise of a School of the Islands, published by Punahou School, 1992.
  • James A. Michener, Hawaii, New York, Random House, 1939. OCLC 706668842.
  • Norris W. Potter, The Punahou Story, Pacific Books, 1969.
  • Punahou Class of 1957, Na Halia Aloha o Punahou Class of 1957, June 2007 includes many historical photos and legend of founding.
  • M. Tate, "The Sandwich Island Missionaries Lay The Foundation for a System of Public Instruction in Hawaii", The Journal of Negro Education, 1961.
  • Kirby Wright, Punahou Blues, Lemon Shark Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9741067-1-2.

External links

  • Official website  
  • The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands at Project Gutenberg (transcription of 1857 text about early history of the school)
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. HI-22, "Punahou School, School Hall, 1601 Punahou Street, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI", 3 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page
  • Works by Punahou School at Project Gutenberg
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information October 2020 This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view November 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Punahou School news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Punahou School known as Oahu College until 1934 is a private co educational college preparatory school in Honolulu Hawaii More than 3 700 students attend the school from kindergarten through 12th grade 2 Protestant missionaries established Punahou in 1841 3 Punahou SchoolThe center of the seal depicts a hala tree rooted on a spring with kalo on either side Two night blooming cereus flowers which border the campus are found on the seal s outer ring Address1601 Punahou StreetHonolulu Hawaiʻi 96822United StatesInformationTypePrivate college prep dayReligious affiliation s Christian Nondenominational Established1841 182 years ago 1841 PresidentMike Latham 86Faculty300 GradesK 12GenderCoeducationalNumber of students3 000 approx Campus typeUrbanColor s Buff and Blue Athletics conferenceInterscholastic League of Honolulu ILH Team name Buffanblu colloquially Puns or Buff n Blue RivalsKamehameha IolaniPublicationLiterary magazines Kakela 6 8 Ka Wai Ola 9 12 NewspaperKa PunahouYearbookNa ʻOpio K 8 The Oahuan 9 12 Websitepunahou wbr eduPunahou School CampusU S National Register of Historic PlacesU S Historic districtOld School Hall built in 1851Coordinates21 18 10 N 157 49 48 W 21 30278 N 157 83000 W 21 30278 157 83000 Coordinates 21 18 10 N 157 49 48 W 21 30278 N 157 83000 W 21 30278 157 83000Built1842NRHP reference No 72000419 1 Added to NRHPAugust 7 1972In 2006 it was ranked the greenest school in America 4 5 In 2017 Punahou s sports program was ranked second nationally in the MaxPreps Cup standings 6 Punahou s student body is diverse with student selection based on both academic and non academic considerations 7 Contents 1 History 2 Traditions 3 Location 4 The school in recent years 4 1 Facilities 4 1 1 Case Middle School 4 1 2 Omidyar K 1 Neighborhood 4 2 Athletics 4 2 1 State championships 4 3 Other programs and honors 4 4 Sexual assault allegations and litigation 5 Notable students and faculty 5 1 In public leadership 5 2 In athletics 5 3 In academia 5 4 In the arts 5 5 In the military 5 6 Others 6 Punahou in fiction and literature 7 Alma Mater 7 1 School shout 7 2 School mascot 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksHistory EditIn 1795 King Kamehameha I took the land known as Ka Punahou in battle Along with Ka Punahou he gave a total of 225 acres 0 91 km2 of land from the slope of Round Top to the current Central Union Church which included a 77 acre 310 000 m2 tract of Kewalo Basin to chief Kameʻeiamoku as a reward for his loyalty After Kameʻeiamoku died the land passed to his son Ulumaheihei Hoapili who lived there for 20 more years When Hoapili left to become governor of Maui he gave the land to his daughter Kuini Liliha 8 Liliha and her husband Oahu Governor Boki gave Ka Punahou to Reverend Hiram Bingham one of the first Protestant missionaries in Hawaii 9 Queen Kaʻahumanu was a strong supporter of the mission and built a house for herself near Bingham A portion of the stone wall she had built to protect the compound from roaming cattle has been preserved Punahou School was originally a school for the children of missionaries serving throughout the Pacific region It was the first school west of the Rocky Mountains and east of Asia with classes in English only 9 The first class was held on July 11 1842 and had 15 students Daniel Dole was Punahou s first principal 10 Punahou has educated members of the Hawaiian royal family but is not to be confused with the Royal School It was known as Oahu College from 1853 to 1934 During World War II the U S Army Corps of Engineers commandeered much of the Punahou campus 11 Castle Hall the girls dormitory when Punahou had boarding students was used as a command center buildings were connected with tunnels athletic fields were used as parking lots and the library was cleared to become sleeping quarters and an officer s mess The cereus hedge on the campus lava rock wall was topped with barbed wire Punahou students volunteered in hospitals and raised enough in war bonds to purchase two bombers and a fighter among other airplanes which were named after alumni who had fallen in service 12 13 In the 1970s Punahou s upper field and gymnasium were used for the Superstars nationally televised athletic competitions On August 7 1972 the campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu 1 Traditions Edit Campus view in 1909 Many traditional events take place on campus On the first Friday and Saturday of each February the junior class hosts the Punahou Carnival 14 Proceeds from the carnival contribute to the Financial Aid program The event is an entertainment highlight each year in Honolulu 15 The Holoku Pageant is an annual celebration of the Hawaiian culture and arts Students perform Hawaiian dances in traditional costumes from the lovely hula to the intimidating ha a 16 The annual Sustainability Fair began in 2007 and included on campus conservation challenges and off campus coastline preservation On Rice Field classes set up canopies to showcase sustainable undertakings and projects often including local produce sales and informational handouts 17 18 To celebrate the school s homecoming students faculty and teachers surround a 20 foot letter P and ignite it at dusk This event the Flaming P is preceded by a spirit week where students dress and parade creatively Seniors write and perform a Variety Show This play involves most of the class over 300 students Seniors also have prom at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Skip Day at the Kikila Estate and Pounders Beach and senior lunch With each student attired in either a blue blazer or a formal white Hawaiian dress senior year ends with baccalaureate ceremonies at Central Union Church and commencement at Stan Sheriff Center 19 since 2018 Graduates who started Punahou in kindergarten are members of the Thirteen Plus Club In June the school hosts an Alumni Luau on campus that the newly graduated class can enjoy with other alumni The annual luau also functions as a major fundraising event for the school 20 Throughout most of the school s history elementary schoolchildren have been allowed to attend in bare feet Aloha shirts were once restricted to Fridays but dress codes were relaxed considerably during the 1970s G Term is an effort for students to explore extracurricular opportunities over the week after students return from winter break Students can choose from on and off island classes Location EditAll schools in Honolulu public and private have an urban residential location Nearby buildings include apartment buildings private houses a retirement home a Catholic school Maryknoll School several small churches and two hospitals Punahou shares the entrance to Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaii main campus and a few other schools such as Mid Pacific Institute Punahou students are a few minutes away from the trail to Manoa Falls the beaches at Ala Moana and Waikiki downtown Honolulu Lyon Arboretum and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Situated in the foothills of the Koolau Mountains Punahou shares Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaii main campus and a few other schools Punahou s location provides many opportunities for off campus learning field trip destinations for middle school students have included the Bishop Museum Waikiki Aquarium Waikiki Shell Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial Kawaiahaʻo Church Sea Life Park USS Arizona Memorial Valley of the Temples Memorial Park Fort Ruger at Diamond Head Hanauma Bay Honolulu Museum of Art Honolulu Zoo Iolani Palace Hawaii State Capitol and the beaches on Oahu s North Shore Clubs and classes often organize trips to neighboring islands especially to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the Kohala Coast on the Big Island The school in recent years EditTuition was 26 000 for the 2019 20 school year 21 not including student activity fees Locals have long regarded Punahou as an expensive school but its tuition is less than that of Harvard Westlake School or Sidwell Friends School which charge over 35 000 22 23 Tuition does not cover the entire cost of educating a student and the school s endowment makes up the difference 24 25 Punahou reported its endowment at 239 million in 2014 26 The land s raw value is considerable for a private school land values in lower Manoa Valley routinely exceed 1 million per 3 acre 27 better source needed making Punahou s 76 acres worth as much as its endowment Although these figures are high among mainland U S private schools Honolulu s Iolani School has a comparable endowment twice the endowment per pupil and Kamehameha Schools has a 5 to 9 billion endowment 30 times the endowment per pupil with a larger physical plant 28 Maui has Seabury Hall which has twice the endowment per pupil 29 In the class of 2015 three graduates went to Harvard three to Princeton and two to Yale with 22 total at Ivy League schools Seven attended Swarthmore Wellesley Amherst Tufts or Vassar Four attended Stanford two Berkeley four MIT 16 Boston University and 12 New York University with 23 total at UAA schools Students in that class also chose TCU UND Vanderbilt Villanova RPI RIT Michigan Northeastern Boston College Olin Engineering Norwich Military College NYU Shanghai Erasmus Rotterdam Yonsei S Korea Waseda Japan and Edinburgh UK Six decided to train at a US military academy 30 Schools throughout California Washington Oregon Colorado Utah Arizona and Nevada are also popular among graduates and many students choose to attend local schools like the University of Hawaii and Chaminade The class of 2012 had 30 of Hawaii s 70 National Merit Semifinalists 31 The class of 2013 had 20 semifinalists and five of the state s ten National Merit Scholars 32 33 Punahou s 33 Presidential Scholars were graduates of the classes of 64 66 70 71 75 78 two 79 82 84 two members 85 86 two 91 92 two 93 95 96 98 01 02 04 three 05 06 08 11 16 two 17 and 21 34 35 In 2006 it was ranked the greenest school in America 36 37 In 2017 Punahou s sports program was ranked second nationally in the MaxPreps Cup standings 6 Punahou s student body is diverse with student selection based on both academic and non academic considerations 7 The school is a founding member of the Mastery Transcript Consortium and uses a competency based learning framework in some courses 38 A recent study of the class of 1979 39 showed that 15 had a PhD 22 had an MD 39 had a JD 18 had the MBA 10 had the DDS DMD DVM or ND about one quarter of the class reaching terminal degrees 4 were officers in the US armed services 12 had degrees from Harvard Yale or Princeton 14 from Stanford 17 from UC Berkeley and 26 total from Ivy League schools 40 Facilities Edit Punahou School President s House on campus Chapel courtyard and Round House About 5 000 faculty students and staff work in 44 buildings on 76 acres 41 The Robert Thurston Memorial Chapel on campus was building designed and built in 1966 by architect Vladimir Ossipoff and feature textile screens made by local artist Ruthadell Anderson 42 The school is built over a natural spring the Thurston Chapel wall meets at a pond formed by the spring and features a low hung stained glass 42 Case Middle School Edit One of nine new Case Middle School buildings on campus Before plans were made for a new middle school complex America Online founder and alumnus Steve Case 76 donated 10 million 43 This led to construction of a new middle school for grades six through eight Case Middle School named for Case s parents 44 The project earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification 45 46 and a Project of the Year award in Hawaiian Electric Company s Energy Efficiency Awards 47 48 Sensors shut off air conditioners if windows are opened to let in the breeze the buildings are designed to make full use of the tradewinds with the help of the Venturi effect There are also sensors in place that turn the lights on or off depending on whether motion is detected and dim the lights on sunny days and brighten them on cloudy ones Air conditioning is provided by three ice making plants one for each grade level s section The units freeze and accumulate ice at night when electricity is cheaper and allow the ice to melt during the day to cool the air Case Middle School consists of nine buildings with a total cost of roughly 50 million made possible solely through donations 46 Omidyar K 1 Neighborhood Edit In late 2010 a new five building indoor outdoor section of campus opened for Punahou s youngest students 49 It was constructed and operated with sustainable living as a principal goal and the curriculum has a focus on sustainability With solar energy efficient landscaping rain catchment and ecofriendly materials the complex received a platinum rating from the U S Green Building Council 50 Teachers are encouraged to personalize their classroom spaces 51 and each of the 12 rooms has its own outdoor area that is one third the size of the interior space to which it is attached The total cost was 26 million Individual buildings are named the Mountain House Forest House and City House and historic Wilcox Hall retains its traditional name Board of Trustees member and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar 84 donated 6 million to the project Punahou s urban location places its students minutes away from Waikiki and downtown Honolulu Athletics Edit Punahou s athletics program is the most successful in Hawaii It has won more state championships than any other high school in the nation 52 In 2008 and in 2009 Sports Illustrated ranked Punahou s sports program the best in the country Punahou football plays the second half of its season at the Aloha Stadium where the Pro Bowl and Aloha Bowl were played 53 In fall 2014 the varsity football team ranked as high as 15th in the nation 54 Athletic facilities include the Olympic size Waterhouse Pool a football field a baseball diamond two softball diamonds and an eight lane track The school also has a fieldhouse for competitive athletics an open air weightlifting facility a gymnasium for physical education and intramural sports and a tennis center with eight hard surface courts 55 Rocky Hill has been used as a live firing range for JROTC and competitive target sports Air riflery uses an indoor firing range 56 Students need two athletic credits to graduate which is a total of four semesters They can earn these credits through P E and ILH sports 57 Students compete in 22 sports including air riflery baseball basketball bowling canoe paddling cross country cheerleading football golf gymnastics judo kayaking riflery sailing soccer softball swimming and diving tennis track and field volleyball water polo and wrestling Punahou has approximately 120 sports teams The school is a member of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu Punahou teams earned 20 championships in 2009 10 out of about 30 varsity I teams fielded State championships Edit State championships 58 59 60 Sea son Sport Number of champ ionships YearFall Football 2 12 2008 2013 State championship bowl instituted in 1973 Prior to 1973 Punahou had 19 ILH championships As the OIA was founded in 1940 the ILH championships of 1909 1917 1919 1920 and 1924 can be considered state or island championships Punahou is 2 3 in the state bowl against OIA opponents Volleyball Girls 9 1973 1993 1996 2000 2003 2004 2011 2012 2014Cross Country Boys 13 1965 1978 1981 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1996 2019 2021Cross Country Girls 33 1973 1974 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1991 1992 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021Air Riflery Boys 7 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2014Air Riflery Girls 6 2001 2002 2005 2008 2011 2016Winter Wrestling Boys 8 1967 1968 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Wrestling Girls 3 2009 2010 2011Basketball Boys 11 1970 1974 1975 1979 1980 1981 1990 1999 2008 2012 2018Basketball Girls 11 1979 1980 1981 1994 1997 1998 2003 2005 2006 2008 2013Soccer Boys 22 1976 1977 1982 1983 1985 1986 1989 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 2006 2007 2010 2011 2015 2016 2017 2019 2020Soccer Girls 11 1983 1984 1985 1986 1998 2003 2004 2005 2009 2010 2011Swimming Boys 49 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1997 1999 2001 2007 2008 2010 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020Swimming Girls 54 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1997 1999 2000 2001 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022Canoe Paddling Boys 8 2002 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017 2020 2022Canoe Paddling Girls 7 2006 2008 2009 2014 2015 2018 2019 2022Canoe Paddling Mixed 5 2009 2014 2015 2019 2022Spring Golf Boys 10 1970 1995 1996 1997 2008 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015Golf Girls 12 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2022Volleyball Boys 38 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2004 2005 2007 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2022Water Polo Girls 15 2004 2005 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2022Tennis Boys 49 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1969 1970 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1979 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2022Tennis Girls 45 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1989 1990 1991 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2022Judo Boys 3 2006 2008 2009Judo Girls 3 2009 2010 2011Track and Field Boys 36 1959 1960 1961 1962 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1980 1984 1988 1989 1990 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2007 2008 2010 2011 2017 2018 2019 2022Track and Field Girls 38 1967 1968 1969 1970 1972 1977 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2018 2019 2022Softball 1 2013Baseball 14 1961 1964 1966 1968 1972 1989 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2019Total 523 Ka Punahou and Castle Hall Other programs and honors Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information January 2021 This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed January 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Punahou requires all students K 12 to attend chapel once a week where each homeroom is assigned its own seating and attendance is taken In addition students attend a mandatory weekly assembly to listen to announcements or watch student performances Academy students have required coursework in Asian History followed by US History and European History Punahou also offers French Spanish Chinese Japanese Latin and Hawaiian as languages starting in middle school Students have access to a jewelry studio a pottery studio glass blowing facilities technology departments a dance pavilion and a dedicated music building The campus has spaces for school wide initiatives e g for public service and international studies The high school yearbook The Oahuan has won awards from the American Scholastic Press Association 61 Na Opio is the yearbook for K 8 Ka Wai Ola is the school s long running student literary publication Ka Punahou is the student newspaper and Punahou Bulletin is the alumni magazine Punahou has a strong history of academic competition with its math debate and academic bowl teams and at times has had organizations for computing chess and gaming Punahou s JROTC program was once known for its award winning close order drill team with multi person aerials using M1 Garand rifles Enrichment activities have included cultural clubs dance and theater funding and service committees outdoor environmental and hiking clubs pep clubs and clubs based on sports such as martial arts and synchronized swimming There are men s women s and mixed choruses a concert orchestra and various band groups Hui Le a Nani heavenly singers is the elite choral group Academy Clubs include probationary Academic Team Anime amp Manga Asante Ambassadors Astronomy Club Book Club Chess Club Chinese Club Civil Engineering Club Club Hospital Helpers Cycling Club Design Thinking Easter Seals Club Environmental Surf Club European Culture Club Fellowship for Christian Athletes Filipino Club Film Club Film Makers Club Free Movement Club Friends Granting Wishes Gay Straight Alliance GSA Glass Club Global Grindz Club Go Club Hale Hawaii Happy Club Hawaii Humane Society Club Hinano Hiking Club Historical Film Club Hui O Aloha IMAGEnation Impact and Inspire Club INK Japanese Okinawan Club Key Club Korean Club Lacrosse Club Lemon Club Let s Do Stuff While Making Friends and Getting Exercise LDSWMFGE Math Team Medical Science Club Military History Club Mock Trial Mud Club Music Club Nature Nuts Neuro Club Nihonjin Club Operation Smile Pa i ai Club Pilates Polynesian Club Punahou App Development Club Punahou Bible Study Punahou Interact Club Punahou Young Life Club Punavision Ranger Club Robotics Russian Club Screen Printing Club Service Learning Club Social E Speech amp Debate Team Spoken Word and Poetry Club Tea Society TEDx and Ultimate Frisbee Club The Punahou marching band travels periodically and participated in the 2013 Presidential Inauguration the 2012 London New Year s Day Parade the 2009 Presidential Inauguration the 2007 New Year s Day Rose Parade and the 2015 Rose Parade In 2013 54 members of the school symphony played four concerts in China 115801 Punahou is a minor planet named in the school s honor 62 Sexual assault allegations and litigation Edit In April 2020 several former Punahou girls basketball players filed a lawsuit over alleged abuse committed by their former coach Dwayne Yuen 63 64 Days later the school disclosed additional sexual assault allegations dating back to the 1970s involving a former faculty member and baseball coach 65 In January 2021 the school terminated the employment of a high school teacher based on allegations of sexual misconduct involving a former student 66 67 The teacher had been suspended from teaching and banned from campus since late November 2020 pending an internal investigation which he did not cooperate with The investigation found that the allegations were credible 67 68 Notable students and faculty EditMain article Punahou School alumni Numerical claims are substantiated in the main article on alumni indicates the class year of an attendee who did not graduate with the class Some Punahou Alumni Barack Obama 79 Harvard Law Review editor U Chicago lecturer on Constitutional Law Nobel Grammy and Emmy winner author state basketball champion US Senator 44th US President Teri Ann Linn 79 Bold and Beautiful star Disney amp pop gold recording artist actress model and TV show host state amp national tennis champion Miss USA finalist one of five alums named Miss Hawaii Lindsey Berg 98 two time volleyball Silver Medalist one of 22 Punahou Olympians earning a total of thirteen medals including four gold with alumni on every US team since 1968 Ross T Dwyer 37 USMC Maj Gen Aide to the Secretary of the Navy WWII Korean and Vietnam War veteran one of at least 32 US Army USAF or USMC Generals from Punahou Samuel Chapman Armstrong 1859 Hampton University founder Union Army hero at Gettysburg Brev Brig Gen subject of biographies spanning 100 years Hiram Bingham III 1892 US Senator Harvard Yale and Princeton Professor USAAF Lt Col explorer of Machu Picchu grandson of Punahou s founder model for Indiana Jones Steve Case 76 AOL founder and Time Warner chairman philanthropist Presidential appointee for jobs startups and business development best selling author on entrepreneurship Pierre Omidyar 84 eBay founder Punahou trustee philanthropist with donations exceeding one billion dollars Carrie Ann Inaba 86 Dancing with The Stars judge one of People magazine s most beautiful Elbert Tuttle 1914 Leader of the Federal Court that desegregated the South US Army Brig Gen WWI and WWII veteran Atlanta Civil Rights Walk of Fame star Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Joan Blondell 25 Miss America finalist Oscar nominee with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in films for 52 years one of five leading movie stars from Punahou Michelle Wie 07 teen golf phenom with seven biographies before the age of 20 youngest LPGA qualifier four time LPGA winner and Solheim Cup champion Manti Te o 09 Heisman finalist one of 26 Punahou alumni signed to play in the NFL or MLB five times on championship teams William Richards Castle Jr 1896 Harvard Dean and Overseer Asst Secretary of State one of at least seventeen Presidential appointees from Punahou Charles L Veach 62 Astronaut on two NASA shuttle missions USAF Col with 275 combat flight missions and Distinguished Flying Cross during the Vietnam War 69 Brian Schatz 90 US Senator at age 40 one of three US Senators and five US Congressmen from Punahou and one of five Lt Governors or Governors from Punahou Norm Chow 64 NFL offensive coordinator developer of eight of the top fourteen passers in NCAA history melody 00 three time top ten recording artist and TV show host in Japan Sun Yat Sen 1883 First of nine Presidents of China before Mao s Revolution Founder of Modern China in 1912 after the last Emperor Pu Yi 70 Kelly Preston 80 Hollywood leading actress in For Love of the Game Jerry Maguire supporting Twins Only You Waiting to Exhale Carissa Moore 10 teen surfing phenom Olympic gold medalist 5x world tour champion one of three world surfing champions since 1968 Francis Wai 35 Medal of Honor recipient US Army Capt Killed in Action at the Battle of Leyte Gulf lettered in three sports at Punahou John W Gardner 29 architect of Medicare USMC Capt Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Stanford professor and trustee 71 one of dozens of alums with an academic work cited 1000x Buster Crabbe 27 bronze and gold medalist in swimming Hollywood leading man for two decades as Tarzan Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers TV show host Hawaiian Prince Kuhio 1889 Delegate to the US Congress heir to the Hawaiian throne counter revolutionary honored with statue at Kuhio Beach Park in Waikiki and Prince Kuhio Day each year Alma M Grocki 77 one of the first women admitted to Annapolis one of at least sixteen Punahou USN Admirals Bob Shane 52 co founder of the Kingston Trio with five 1 albums ten top 40 hits a 1 Grammy winning single and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award In public leadership Edit Punahou has produced many leaders in the government of Hawaii Barack Obama 79 was the 44th President of the United States He attended Punahou from 5th grade until graduation 72 Sanford Dole 1864 was President of the brief Republic of Hawaii then Governor of Hawaii Walter Frear 1881 and Lawrence M Judd 1905 were also Governors Democratic Lt Governor Brian Schatz 90 was appointed U S Senator to complete Daniel Inouye s final term Republican U S Senator Connecticut Hiram Bingham III 1892 was also elected governor of Connecticut Otis Pike 39 Democratic Congressman from New York chaired the Pike Committee investigating Richard Nixon Republican Charles Djou 88 recently finished Neil Abercrombie s term as Congressman from Hawaii At least three other Punahou graduates have represented Hawaii in the U S House President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Judge Elbert Tuttle 1914 to lead the federal court that desegregated the South the Fifth Circuit Four HEW Secretary John W Gardner 29 was President Lyndon Johnson s architect of the Great Society Tuttle and Gardner were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Sun Yat Sen the Founding Father of the Republic of China esteemed by Taiwan as well as pre and post communist mainland China attended Punahou Oahu College for a semester of study after graduating from Iolani School Pierre Omidyar billionaire founder of ebay and of The Intercept and other public affaires sites https en wikipedia org wiki Pierre Omidyar Omidyar attended Punahou School in Honolulu for a couple of years He now serves on its Board of Trustees 11 H The Makai Gate at the intersection of Punahou Street and Wilder Street In athletics Edit Alexander Cartwright III 1869 and his classmates were some of the earliest players of baseball Alexander Cartwright Jr the official inventor of the game spent the end of his life in Honolulu 73 The school claims at least one former pitcher and a former first baseman in major league baseball and nine minor leaguers All American Glenn Goya 73 was an NCAA batting title winner 74 Justin Wayne played Major League Baseball Five time women s golf LPGA event winner Michelle Wie graduated in 2007 Professional Golfers Association event winner Parker McLachlin graduated in 1997 Five time Association of Tennis Professionals doubles winner Jim Osborne graduated in 1965 At least three alumni have been surfing world champions including the five time women s world tour winner Carissa Moore 10 citation needed DeForest Buckner 12 was a 2016 first round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers and Pro Bowl selection his classmate Ka imi Fairbairn 12 is the Houston Texans placekicker Linebacker Manti Te o 09 was a 2012 Heisman Trophy finalist Punahou has also produced seven NFL linemen and four running backs including Mark Tuinei 78 who played 195 games over 15 years team record for the Dallas Cowboys winning three Super Bowls and playing in two Pro Bowls Ray Schoenke 59 played 145 games for the Cowboys and Redskins over twelve years Charley Ane 49 was a Pro Bowler and twice NFL champion team captain whose son Kale Ane 71 is the current Punahou football coach after a career in the NFL The elder Ane s brothers Herman Clark 48 and Jim Clark 48 also played professionally The four combined for a total of 260 NFL games over 20 seasons for the Packers Chiefs Lions Redskins and Bears Pro Bowler and Super Bowler Mosi Tatupu 74 75 played 199 games and redefined the importance of special teams Punahou s high school All Americans have played football for Stanford Michigan State twice Santa Clara and Notre Dame twice All American college football players have played at Harvard twice Navy Stanford Northwestern Notre Dame and Oregon 76 Punahou has a tradition of sending athletes to the Olympic Games with alumni contributing five gold seven silver and two bronze medals competing in many of the modern games 20 24 28 32 52 68 72 76 84 88 92 96 00 04 08 12 16 21 and on every U S team since 1968 Moscow 80 would have been the second of four Olympics for Henry Marsh 72 if not for the U S boycott Warren Kealoha 25 was the youngest gold medalist in swimming when he won the first of two gold medals Taylor Crabb and Carissa Moore competed in 2021 with Moore winning gold in the first Olympic surfing competition Punahou teachers and trustees have also won medals at the Olympic Games see Punahou School alumni Pauahi Hall completed in 1896 designed by Charles William Dickey In academia Edit Historic Dillingham Hall used for student performances John W Gardner taught at Stanford and Hiram Bingham III at Harvard Princeton and Yale Barack Obama lectured on Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Punahou alumni include endowed professors at Berkeley Stanford UCLA Duke Illinois Notre Dame Purdue and Boston University and research professors of medicine at UCSF UCLA UCSD USC Stanford Harvard Columbia Duke Indiana Texas Maryland Pitt Walter Reed and Baylor John Lie 78 wrote six books on Asian cultures Patrick Vinton Kirch 68 wrote nine books on Polynesian cultures and Fred Hoxie 65 wrote 20 books on Native American peoples Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer SJ 70 was the president of Gonzaga University General George Forsythe 66 formerly the academic vice dean at West Point is the president of Westminster College Missouri Marie Mookini 74 was an admissions officer for Stanford University and then for programs at Stanford s Graduate School of Business for over two decades in total 77 William Richards Castle Jr 1896 was a Harvard Overseer Elizabeth Bennett Johns 55 has been a Guggenheim Fellow Mount Rex is named for atmospheric science pioneer Lt Cdr Dan Rex 33 William Ouchi 61 wrote a book on Japanese business that is one of the top 100 most widely held books in U S libraries 78 Other prominent works by alumni over 1000 citations for a single work at scholar google com are on leadership Gardner 29 plasma deformation Killeen 42 stability of silicates Holdaway 54 bird evolution Steadman 54 neuralgia vaccine Gershon 56 coronary disease 3x Labarthe 57 communicative acts 2x Harnish 59 dynamic choice 3x Porteus 60 markets and bureaucracies 5x Ouchi 61 floating point computation Walther 62 heart physiology 3x Lederer 65 assay methods Bennett 66 marital conflict 4x Cummings 68 gender equality Roos 68 immunology Umetsu 69 intraoperative melanoma Wong 71 equal employment law Krieger 72 bacteria viability Oliver 73 AIDS vaccination 2x Michael 75 autophagy assays Terada 75 virus expression 3x R Chung 78 stem cells 2x Mankani 79 immunotherapy Yuen 79 tumor pathogenesis 2x D Chung 80 legal construction of race Haney Lopez 82 nation building Latham 86 and criminal records Pager 89 Samuel C Armstrong 1859 and Elbert Tuttle were awarded Honorary Degrees from Harvard Armstrong founded a normal school which later became Hampton University to educate African Americans and later Native Americans He was also the founder of the Hampton University Museum the country s oldest African American museum and Virginia s oldest museum Punahou has a connection to Mills College through Punahou s former president Cyrus Mills who helped found Mills with his wife Punahou teacher Susan Tolman Mills Queenie B Mills was a Kindergarten director who helped design the Head Start program In the arts Edit IMDb com lists over 100 credits for Carrie Ann Inaba 86 In Living Color Austin Powers in Goldmember Dancing with the Stars and 150 for Kelly Preston 80 Jerry Maguire For Love of the Game Only You Twins Sarah Wayne Callies 95 has starred in Prison Break Colony and The Walking Dead Al Harrington 54 starred in the original Hawaii Five O and plays a recurring character in the revived series Joan Blondell 25 has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star after 52 years in films and was a nominee for best supporting actress in 1951 Buster Crabbe 27 who had won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics portrayed Tarzan Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in film Gerry Lopez 66 is well known for surfing but is also known as Subotai in Conan the Barbarian Teri Ann Linn 79 provided the beauty in The Bold and the Beautiful for over eight years Scott Coffey 81 appeared in Ferris Bueller s Day Off and was in two films with Naomi Watts Tank Girl Mulholland Drive before writing and directing her indie bio pic Ellie Parker Amanda Schull 96 had the lead role as an aspiring ballerina in Center Stage and featured in Suits Three alumni danced for the early Martha Graham Leilani Jones 75 won a Tony Award on Broadway and was on the original casts ofGrindandLittle Shop of Horrors Ann Harada 81 starred on Broadway inAvenue QandCinderella and on TV inSmash 79 Drew Matich 82 has produced TV shows such as Fairly Legal In Plain Sight Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Beautiful People Joan of Arcadia and Dawson s Creek Rod Lurie 80 has directed and produced a dozen films Straw Dogs The Contender and two major TV series Line of Fire Commander in Chief Kevin McCollum 80 directs a Broadway production company that claims 18 Tony Award winning plays and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama three awarded personally In the Heights Avenue Q Rent Allan Burns 53 was a 6 time Emmy Award winning writer and creator known for such shows as The Munsters Get Smart Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rocky and Bullwinkle Ken Peterson 26 animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Sleeping Beauty John Kneubuhl 38 a Samoan royal was a writer on Wild Wild West Star Trek Hawaii Five O Gunsmoke Mannix and 40 other shows Bruce Broughton 62 is a film composer Silverado Tombstone The Rescuers Down Under and a 10 time Emmy winner for TV themes JAG Tiny Toon Adventures Iris Yamashita 83 was nominated for best original screenplay with Letters from Iwo Jima Scott Moore 85 co wrote The Hangover for which he received a BAFTA Best Original Screenplay nomination and Bad Moms which he also co directed Kaui Hart Hemmings 94 was author of The Descendants The Kingston Trio had two Punahou alumni as founders Dave Guard 52 and Bob Shane 52 producing five 1 albums on Billboard s charts ten top 40 hits and a 1 Grammy winning single The group won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Robin Luke 59 was a Rockabilly Hall of Fame act Hawaiian slack key guitar is represented by the popular music of Henry Kapono Kaaihue 67 of Cecilio amp Kapono Melody Ishikawa 00 had three top ten albums in Japan Tane McClure 77 did much of the Terminator soundtrack and Teri Ann Linn s 79 debut CD went gold on the European charts In the military Edit General Samuel C Armstrong led a rifle company that repelled parts of Pickett s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg and led U S Colored Troops Captain Francis Wai 35 was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor Killed in Action in the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Thomas G W Settle 14 received the Navy Cross in World War II General Donald Prentice Booth 22 received the Distinguished Service Medal U S Army in World War II and the Cold War General Ned Moore 24 received the Distinguished Service Cross United States in the Korean War General Sidney Wooten 24 received the DSC in World War II and with classmates Ned Moore and General Walter K Wilson Jr 24 the DSM during the Cold War General Philip Lindeman 26 received the DSC in World War II and DSM in the Vietnam War General Tom Stayton 26 received the DSM posthumously in Vietnam General Walter Jensen 27 earned the DSM during the Vietnam War Admiral Gordon Chung Hoon 29 received the Navy Cross in World War II General Kelley Lemmon Jr 31 and General Stanley Larsen 33 received the DSC in World War II and DSM in Vietnam Admiral Chester Nimitz Jr 32 received the Navy Cross in World War II William Robertson Desobry 36 received the DSM in Vietnam and General Ross T Dwyer 37 received the DSM Navy in Peacetime General George Cantlay 38 received the DSM in Vietnam and a Peacetime DSM Defense General George Patton IV 42 received the DSC in the Vietnam War and a Peacetime DSM Admiral Kleber Masterson Jr 50 received a DSM Navy in Vietnam Many of the students were children of high level commanders stationed in the Pacific such as Chester Nimitz Jr and George Patton IV Admiral Grant Sharp 56 and Admiral Stephen Clarey 58 had fathers who would become Commander U S Pacific Fleet General Stephen Fuqua Jr s 28 father was Chief of Infantry and Colonel Wallace Greene III s 50 father was Commandant of the Marine Corps The school can claim at least fifteen Brigadier Generals eleven Major Generals six Lieutenant Generals thirteen Rear Admirals and three Vice Admirals 80 Stanley Larsen was the first commander of the Field Force Vietnam and commander of the Sixth United States Army 81 Ross Dwyer was commander of the 1st Marine Division and George Cantlay was commander of the 2nd Armored Division Donald Booth was commander of the Fourth United States Army Kleber Masterson Jr commanded the United States Second Fleet Admiral Thomas H Copeman III 77 was Commander Naval Surface Forces Pacific and Commander Naval Surface Forces Atlantic Colonel Farrant Turner 13 Major Alex McKenzie 29 and Major John Johnson 31 commanded the Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion a k a the Purple Heart Battalion Johnson was Killed in Action at the Battle of Monte Cassino The destroyer USS Chung Hoon is named after Punahou football star Gordon Chung Hoon who was assigned to the Arizona BB 39 Lt Michael T McCormick 1964 was shot down in Vietnam War in 1973 recovered in 2002 and now rests in Arlington National Cemetery 82 83 West Point graduates Generals Albert Lyman 1906 and Charles Lyman 1908 were the first ethnic Hawaiians to attain that rank 84 General C B Stewart 30 was a Ph D in nuclear physics and General Frances Mossman 50 has her J D 85 Admiral Alma Lau Grocki 77 was a member of the 2nd Naval Academy class to admit women Many Punahou teachers in its history have been military reservists or ex military Former computer and math teacher Henry Wells Lawrence was one of the first pilots to respond to the Attack on Pearl Harbor Others Edit One of the many large old monkey pod trees on campus Agnes Baldwin Alexander 1895 was an author and Hand of the Cause in the Bahaʼi Faith In 2007 Cox Enterprises passed to two former Punahou students who are highly philanthropic like their mother Barbara Cox Anthony who twice married Punahou alumni daughter Blair Kennedy 68 a former schoolteacher is now the second wealthiest woman in Australia son James C Kennedy 65 was Atlanta s philanthropist of the year 2007 and 61st on the Forbes 400 list 2012 Charles Gates Jr 39 has donated 147 million through his Gates Family Foundation Gates last appeared on the Forbes 400 list in 2006 As mentioned above the philanthropic founders of AOL and eBay were Punahou students with both still listed on the 2012 Forbes 400 USA Today reported that Pierre Omidyar s 84 total charitable contributions exceeded 1 billion 86 Charles L Veach 62 was an astronaut on two shuttle missions Nancy Cordes 91 is a senior CBS News White House correspondent and anchor Emily Chang 98 is the anchor and executive producer of Bloomberg news shows Punahou students were crowned Miss Hawaii or Miss Hawaii USA in 1977 1981 1997 1999 and 2004 with Judi Anderson 76 becoming Miss USA and Brook Mahealani Lee 89 becoming Miss Universe Punahou students appear across the political spectrum from Ronald Reagan s favorite economist and former Enron board member Wendy Lee Gramm 62 Ryan Henry 68 and Robert Silberman 75 Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army respectively for George H W Bush to centrist Ray Schoenke 59 a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association an alternative to the National Rifle Association to Jerry Berman 58 chief counsel of the ACLU Ellery Chun 27 invented the Aloha Shirt Punahou in fiction and literature Edit He started his scholarly investigation while still at Punahou although he later took his B A at Yale his M A at Harvard his Ph D from Oxford and his D Litt from the Sorbonne He received honorary degrees from eleven major universities but when he died in 1914 the Honolulu Mail announced simply The great scholar was educated at Punahou None of the rest really mattered James Michener Hawaii Gramps grabbed me by the arm Hell Bar he whispered this isn t a school This is heaven Obama Dreams from My Father I wanted a station wagon like the family in The Brady Bunch I wanted to go steady with someone like Marcia or Jan girls who dressed mod and spoke cool My new school was full of girls like Marcia and Jan I d just started seventh grade at Punahou Wright Punahou Blues In the Descendants Matt George Clooney s character accuses Sid of being a hundred miles away from Smartville Sid responds that he is Vice President of the Punahou chess club In Hawaii Five O Charlie Fong the extremely capable lab technician is a Punahou graduate As part of chapel every year the school held a special memorial day ceremony The JROTC cadets dressed in full gear and stood at attention the whole time Arm in arm a boy and girl from each grade level walked slowly down the aisle with a wreath of flowers while the names of all of those in the Punahou family former students of the school who had been killed in war were read off By the end the entire floor at the front of the chapel was filled with flowers Lum Letting Go We had attended high school together at Punahou the most exclusive private school in Hawaii Charley Memminger Aloha Lady Blue What do people do here in the evening The movies Just at present the girl told him everybody visits Punahou to see the night blooming cereus It s the season now you know Biggers House Without a Key Alma Mater Edit School carnival in 2007 Oʻahu AOʻahu a Oʻahu aPunahou our Punahou Mau a Mau oh mau a mau Punahou our Punahou Throughout the years we ve shown our light We glory in Oʻahu s might The Buff and Blue s a glorious sight Punahou our Punahou The song is sung to the tune of Maryland My Maryland also known as O Tannenbaum The lyrics are taken from a poem Oahu Wa by then student Wilhelm Albert Gartner 1902 87 School shout Edit Ready Hit it Strawberry Shortcake Huckleberry Pie V I C T O R Y Are We In It Well I Guess Punahou Punahou Yes Yes Yes This cheer is typically shouted by the marching band and cheerleaders at Punahou at events such as football games and other sports activities and gatherings following the alma mater School mascot Edit Punahou does not have an official mascot The closest thing is the hala tree whose image is used in the school s seal Fans often refer to athletic teams as the Sons of Oahu or Buff amp Blue In 1890 the colors buff and blue officially became Punahou s school colors representing sand and the sea In 1890 long before the development of high rises and hotels in Waikiki all that was visible in the distance from the top of Punahou s campus was the buff colored sand and blue colored sea of Waikiki Beach See also Edit Hawaii portal Schools portalList of Punahou School alumniReferences Edit a b National and State Register of Historic Places on Oʻahu PDF Historic Preservation Division wb site National Hawaii state Department of Land and Natural Resources June 2009 Retrieved September 9 2010 Punahou School Profile 2020 21 Honolulu HI Private School Review Retrieved November 8 2020 Punahou School Oʻahu College Images of Old Hawaiʻi July 15 2019 Retrieved November 8 2020 Sustainable Practices 2006 www deq state ne us Retrieved November 8 2020 Sustaining Hawaii PDF Honolulu Weekly Vol 18 April 16 2008 p 16 Retrieved November 8 2020 a b Abramo Nick August 7 2017 Punahou athletics No 2 in national standings Hawaii Prep World Retrieved May 18 2018 a b Private School Interest Increases Hawaii News Now Retrieved November 8 2020 Punahou School Timeline Harbor Graphics and Fine Printing 1991 a b Dorothy Rinconda October 4 1971 Punahou School Campus nomination form National Register of Historic Places U S National Park Service Retrieved September 9 2010 William DeWitt Alexander 1907 Oahu college list of trustees presidents instructors matrons librarians superintendents of grounds and students 1841 1906 Historical sketch of Oahu college Hawaiian Gazette Company pp 4 5 The Punahou Campus During World War II December 7 2010 Fitzgerald Donald 1991 Pearl Harbor the Army Corps of Engineers and Punahou s Cereus Hedge Hawaiian Journal of History Hawaii Historical Society hdl 10524 148 Punahou Goes Home Hubert V Coryell in Hawaii Chronicles III World War Two in Hawaii Bob Dye U H Press 2000 Punahou Carnival Raises 240 January 28 2011 Star Bulletin staff February 4 2005 A pirate s life for all Aarghh Honolulu Star Bulletin Retrieved July 21 2007 A Look Back at the History of Punahou s Holoku May 6 2011 Punahou School Sustainability Fair Punahou edu April 20 2007 Archived from the original on November 2 2012 Retrieved January 25 2013 Beach Clean Ups 2012 Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii Archived from the original on July 16 2012 Retrieved January 25 2013 History and Traditions Punahou School Reunion and Alumni Week Punahou School Archived from the original on December 27 2014 Retrieved December 17 2014 Punahou Admissions Punahou school Retrieved May 17 2018 Tuition and Financial Aid Sidwell Friends www sidwell edu Retrieved May 18 2018 Tuition Information www hw com Retrieved May 18 2018 Punahou Fund Raising Dr Jim Scott s Perspective April 9 2011 Punahou Tuition and Payments Punahou School Archived from the original on April 29 2013 Retrieved April 14 2007 Punahou School Endowment Punahou edu Archived from the original on August 13 2013 Retrieved January 25 2013 trulia com Issue2 6 pub PDF Archived from the original PDF on May 18 2018 Retrieved September 21 2009 Seabury Hall Private School in Makawao HI Independent Schools Petersons com Retrieved September 21 2009 Punahou Bulletin Winter 2015 Thirty Punahou Students Named National Merit Semifinalists Punahou edu September 15 2011 Archived from the original on November 24 2011 Retrieved January 25 2013 Punahou School Archived from the original on October 5 2012 Retrieved June 7 2013 Punahou School Archived from the original on May 24 2013 Retrieved June 7 2013 Presidential Scholars Presidential Scholars Archived from the original on June 27 2012 Retrieved January 25 2013 Punahou School Scholar Recognition Punahou edu Archived from the original on June 20 2010 Retrieved January 25 2013 Sustainable Practices 2006 www deq state ne us Retrieved November 8 2020 Sustaining Hawaii PDF Honolulu Weekly Vol 18 April 16 2008 p 16 Retrieved November 8 2020 Here s How Hawai i Schools Are Encouraging Students to Follow Their Passions Honolulu Magazine August 17 2018 Retrieved November 8 2020 Ronald P Loui www cse wustl edu Archived from the original on April 8 2013 Retrieved May 18 2018 Punahou Alumni Directories 1995 2002 and 2008 Punahou School Campus Punahou edu Archived from the original on January 23 2013 Retrieved January 25 2013 a b Honolulu s Best Architecture Honolulu Magazine June 7 2012 Retrieved August 16 2021 Duchemin John January 28 2000 10 million grant from Steve Case energizes Punahou Pacific Business News Retrieved July 18 2007 Case Middle School 6 8 Punahou School Archived from the original on February 17 2013 Retrieved January 25 2013 McRandle P W Smith Sara Smiley August 15 2006 The Top 10 Green Schools in the U S 2006 The Green Guide Archived from the original on May 4 2007 Retrieved April 12 2007 a b Shenitz Bruce July 11 2007 A Green Star msnbc com Archived from the original on July 14 2007 Retrieved July 17 2007 Star Bulletin staff and wire service January 16 2007 Shining Stars Punahou s Case Middle School wins award Honolulu Star Bulletin Retrieved April 12 2007 2006 Energy Efficiency Award Winners Fact Sheet Hawaiian Electric Company Archived from the original on September 30 2007 Retrieved July 21 2007 Punahou School Archived from the original on August 25 2010 Retrieved August 8 2010 Punahou School s Omidyar K 1 Neighborhood earns LEED Platinum certification Schools Urban Honolulu News Urbanhonolulu 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22 2012 Punahou School Archived from the original English on May 10 2006 Retrieved June 22 2012 Punahou School HHSAA Championship Records English Retrieved May 19 2020 Plass Richard M Annual Contest Review for Scholastic Yearbooks Magazines and Newspapers Yearbooks 2006 FIRST PLACE American Scholastic Press Association Archived from the original on January 1 2008 Retrieved July 21 2007 115801 Punahou 2003 UW236 JPL Small Body Database Browser March 21 2006 Retrieved April 12 2007 Lawsuit against Honolulu school alleges sex abuse by coach Associated Press Another standout athlete files suit against Punahou alleging sexual assault Days after lawsuits filed against Punahou new sex assault allegations come to light Punahou School teacher terminated following allegations of sexual misconduct Hawaii News Now January 27 2021 Retrieved January 29 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link a b Essoyan Susan January 28 2021 Punahou School 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University of Hawaii Press April 1999 The Admission Advisory Group About Us Marie Mookini www admissionadvisory com Retrieved June 24 2021 Top 100 Library Books LibrarySpot Lists Libraryspot com Retrieved January 25 2013 Noh David December 24 2015 The Wonder of Christmas Eve Gay City News Retrieved September 3 2020 Search of Prefixes from 2008 Punahou School alumni directory and add Larsen Masterson and Grocki Stanley Larsen Recipient Military Times Hall Of Valor valor militarytimes com Retrieved May 18 2018 Burial Detail McCormick Michael T Section 60 Grave 8247 with Robert A Clark ANC Explorer In Memorium Lt Michael Timothy McCormick Punahou School Class of 1964 Punahou Class of 74 s Blog Retrieved July 3 2020 New Page 0 www javadc org Retrieved May 18 2018 Biographies General C B Stewart Af mil Archived from the original on March 11 2013 Retrieved January 25 2013 Most Popular E mail Newsletter USA Today February 6 2012 Oahu wa Do You Still Remember the Words Punahou Class of 74 s Blog October 6 2013 Retrieved July 3 2020 Further reading EditA Alexander Baseball at Punahou Thirty Seven Years Ago Oahuan June 1906 Mary C Alexander C P Dodge William R Castle Punahou 1841 1941 U California Press 1941 John B Bowles Day Our World Changed December 7 1941 Punahou 52 Remembers Pearl Harbor Ice Cube Press 2004 ISBN 1 888160 02 0 Punahou School a private school with a public purpose Hawaii Business September 1 2003 http findarticles com p articles mi go2021 is 200309 ai n9142055 T K Chow Hoy An inquiry into school context and the teaching of the virtues Journal of Curriculum Studies 2001 D Cisco Hawaii Sports History Facts and Statistics University of Hawaii Press 1999 Ethel Mosely Damon The Seventy Fifth Anniversary Pageant Punahou published by the author 1916 Charlotte P Dodge Punahou The War Years 1941 1945 1984 Nelson Foster ed Punahou The History and Promise of a School of the Islands published by Punahou School 1992 James A Michener Hawaii New York Random House 1939 OCLC 706668842 Norris W Potter The Punahou Story Pacific Books 1969 Punahou Class of 1957 Na Halia Aloha o Punahou Class of 1957 June 2007 https web archive org web 20071127163651 http www2 punahou edu pdf Bulletin Classof57BookWeb pdf includes many historical photos and legend of founding M Tate The Sandwich Island Missionaries Lay The Foundation for a System of Public Instruction in Hawaii The Journal of Negro Education 1961 Kirby Wright Punahou Blues Lemon Shark Press 2005 ISBN 0 9741067 1 2 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Punahou School Official website Campus map The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands at Project Gutenberg transcription of 1857 text about early history of the school Historic American Buildings Survey HABS No HI 22 Punahou School School Hall 1601 Punahou Street Honolulu Honolulu County HI 3 photos 5 data pages 1 photo caption page Works by Punahou School at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Punahou School at Internet Archive Works by 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