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Lost Generations: A Boy, a School, a Princess - $21.99
University of Hawaii Press
J. Arthur Rath
softcover, 367p.

During the Depression years, J. Arthur Rath spent his early childhood shuttled between relatives and foster parents in Hawai‘i and the mainland while his single mother, Hualani, struggled to make a living. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, his grandparents sent him to the Big Island and Konawaena School, where he heard the Kamehameha Schools boy choir at a school assembly. The performance made a deep impression on Rath, and a year later, in 1944, he entered Kamehameha as an eighth-grade boarder. Thus began Rath’s love affair with an institution that he credits with turning his life around, with giving him and other disadvantaged children of native ancestry—Hawai‘i’s "lost generations"—the confidence and support necessary to make something of themselves. This is the story of that love affair. It is also the story of Rath’s recent battle, together with other alumni, for the integrity of his beloved Kamehameha against the school’s trustees and their organization, the powerful Bishop Estate.

 

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