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Sanford
Ballard Dole was the first governor of the Territory of
Hawaii. The Territory of Hawaii was formed after the
overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani.
Governor Dole was a graduate of Punahou School in
Honolulu.
The school which, today, bears his name, Dole Middle School,
is located in Kalihi Valley on the island of O`ahu.
Below is a speech that was delivered at the opening
ceremonies of our school in 1956 which details more of
Governor Dole's life.
When our school was named SANFORD BALLARD DOLE lNTERMEDlATE SCHOOL by the Commissioners of Public lnstruction, three people were to help us become better acquainted with the person whose name now graces the top of our administration building. They are Miss Emily Warriner of the Hawaiian Historical Society; Mrs. Clorinda Lucas, Director of Pupil Guidance in the DPI; and Miss Damon. All three knew Mr. Dole well,- and it was Mrs. Lucas who introduced us to the other sources. We shall be forever grateful for the information and help given us during our beginning years by these gracious ladies. Significantly enough, Miss Damon has dedicated her book "TO THE YOUTH OF MANY RACES, WHO, CLEAR-EYED WILL MEET HAWAII'S CHALLENGE TODAY, TOMORROW AND BEYOND. "
Mr. Dole's father, Daniel was the first principal of Punahou School and also the person who started what was to become Koloa School on Kauai. "On the site occupied by the present public school was a thatch-roofed house with clapboard sides. Here the new Dole school opened, in a-thicket of indigo bushes, with a clearing to the road in front where the boys played a bat-and-ball game called wicket. The schoolhouse was a simple one without a ceiling, all the rafters in the interior exposed where not covered by blackboards around the sides." This was in 1855, coincidentally one hundred years before another school in Hawaii was to bear the Dole name.
Daniel and Emily Ballard Dole had two sons, George and Sanford. "Emily Dole lived but four days after the birth of Sanford, her second child, on April 23, 1844, and at the breast of an affectionate Hawaiian foster mother he gained, perhaps 'his first intimate Hawaiian heritage. Two years later the missionary widow, Charlotte Knapp, became his stepmother, and their lifelong devotion began. Tall and athletic (6ft. 2in. ), Sanford lived the typical life of a Punahou boy, with its hard study, manual labor, mountain-climbing, shell collection, horseback riding and swimming. Adept at konane, Hawaiian checkers-he mastered even the difficult Hawaiian diving called pahia.
"He read the Bible daily and was "inevitably called Sanballat; the name of the Samaritan overlord who vigorously opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem's fortifications by returned Babylonian captives under Nehemiah. As there were no girls in the family, Sanford also helped his mother with the dishes and sweeping, when needed; even if he did not enjoy doing them.
After finishing college and returning to Hawaii, Sanford Dole went into law practice; taught Sunday School at Kaumakapili Church and then at Kawaiahao Church; gave expression to his independent views in an anonymously edited periodical called "The Punch Bowl"in which he persistently fought the contract labor law, especially the clause permitting the transfer of a laborer from one employer to another regardless of his wishes Mr. Dole was the first president of the YMCA. In 1901, Mr. Dole was instrumental in helping to raise funds for the statue of President McKinley that stands in front of McKinley High School; and was chosen to unveil it.
He was remembered by his Williams College classmates "chiefly as a mighty swimmer, runner, climber, walker and fighter, He revisited Williams College in 1917, fifty years after his graduation, and returned with Clorinda (Jessamine) Low, Lizzie's daughter, who graduated that year from Smith College.Clorinda is now Mrs. Lucas, and her mother "Lizzie" had been almost like a daughter to the Sanford Doles' who had no children of their own. Mr. Dole believed in eventual statehood for Hawaii, but only on the basis of an educated citizenry.
On June 14, 1900 Sanford Ballard Dole was inaugurated first Governor of the new Territory of Hawaii. His inaugural speech was "an eloquent alignment of facts, responsibilities-dangers even-coupled with more than one plea that Hawaii's citizens might measure up to the dignity of their new American heritage including the hope of statehood, and the confidence reposed in them."To those who knew- him well there is still the echo of his footsteps passing up and down Emma Street. though the land of his home there now houses a community church and a school for Chinese. And his orchard in Pauoa Valley has passed by will to the family of the faithful Chinese friend who farmed it for him. And to the 355 children of Kalihi Intermediate School, recently named the Sanford Ballard Dole lntermediate, Mr. Dole was a living person in their dramatic skit prepared for his birthday April 23, 1956.
