Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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I came back in 1943, I came back to Waiki‘i. After, I stayed with those guys and they
finally got a guy from Honolulu to take care, help Souza. Then from that, I came back to
Waiki‘i. I still wanted to come back over here.
Yes.
That guy who was working at Waiki‘i, he was traveling back and forth to Hilo every
weekend and he and Ralph didn’t get along. No one could get along with Buzzard
anyhow.
Was Buzzard’s wife…
She was a school teacher, she was still teaching Waiki‘i.
School teacher. What was her first name
Dorothy.
Dorothy Buzzard. Big heavyset woman.
Tall.
Tall, heavyset.
The school house there, was it a one room or was it divided
One room.
One room.
The children, when you were going to school there from kindergarten to…
Kindergarten to the eighth grade.
Eighth grade. Just like the mainland school back in those days. One building, one room,
you had eight grades in one room.
How many children about, would be in the school
At the most, thirteen.
About thirteen, fifteen.
I don’t know if you remember Betty Bowman, Elizabeth Bowman, Pierre’s wife
Yes, I know of her.
Her story about taking the books up to Waiki‘i School to the library.
Yes, yes.
Before, they truck books, yes
Yes. Even when Dorothy Buzzard was there, they used to go down, borrow from the
other schools, Kuka‘iau, Honoka‘a, the other one, mauka side. I used to take her, drive
and go down. She’d pick out books, take back to Waiki‘i.
She’d bring these boxes and she’d keep it about three months, and so we read
everything. And we’d read them over and over again till she’d take it back.
[chuckles]
And then they trade ‘um, take it back.
Oh, that’s funny.
At least you get new books. Same way back in the states, we had an old country school,
we had eight grades, we had fifteen, twenty guys when we were in school. But we had all
the classes in the same room, I don’t know why, we got taught good, we learned good.
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