The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 48

May 19, MRS THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIX ADVERTISER Last School Bell To Ring For Mayor's Wife school bell five days a week Z' u. She has taught in seven public schools here "mostly junior high school grades; the junior high idea 1 1 I Hill i ji -imn-i ill II 4 1 i 1 By MARY COOKE When that shout. "School's tf cut! goes up over the city Bext month it will ring loud end clear, and for the last WP "J- don't look fresh and I'm sure they're over-doing and not caring for their health." IN ORDER to get ready for Monday morning and a new week, the Mayor's wife says she usually schedules an early finish to Sunday activities "before supper time, so everyone can get home early." The Sabbath is almost always a family day for the Blaisdells, starting right aft-ter they attend services at Holy Nativity Church and their daughters' families attend Windward Oahu churches. "The Mayor and I go to Hauula or to one of the girls' houses, or we go on a picnic with all the family nearly every Sunday," she says. This includes their daughter Velma and her husband, James K.

Clark and their children, Lucy A 1 a i Jamie, Malcolm and Timothy, and daughter Marilyn with her husband, Charles Ane Jr. and their youngsters, Charles III, Malia and Neal Blaisdell. THE HOUSE at Hauula "has been in the family for 50 years," said Mrs. Blaisdell. "It was built by my father, Charles Henry Thurston, who was the Honolulu fire chief." More recently, the Blaisdells have also acquired a vacation retreat in the Vol bluffing, and I call them on it, absolutely.

I tell the youngsters I should have been a detective," she laughed. The remarkable thing about Lucy Blaisdell is her buoyancy. After getting to school each week-day morning and teaching social studies to about 178 ninth graders, she almost always ends her school day by inviting one of the other teachers to come home with her for tea and a chat. Then, after a brief rest, she usually dresses for cocktails or dinner or both, and starts out on a round of social events with her husband. THEY GO to as many official parties, to which they have received formal invitations addressed to "The Mayor of Honolulu and Mrs.

Neal S. Blaisdell," as they can, and they also to go to the informal parties to which their friends invite them. "Sometimes there are two or three places to go in one evening," she said. "You. know," she added happily, "the next morning in class I have more pep after we've gone out to a nice party." But she says she's concerned that some of her 14 and 15-year-old students aren't as peppy.

"Some of them come in so tired and yawning on Monday morning. They just was just starting here when I began teaching," she said. IN JUNE Mrs. Blaisdell will retire from the classroom. "But school won't be out of mind," she says.

One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I want to give more time to our little grandchildren. They want Grandma to come to their school activities, and I have always felt disappointed that I couldn't do it before. "Then," she continued, "I'm going to sit in a corner and read. And I want to do a little bit of letter writing more than just our annual Christmas letter. "I WANT to see my friends and play golf at Oahu Country Club and Waialae and out at Moana-lua.

And play the piano. And give some time to language study. I'm going to take Japanese lessons and afterwards work on Hawaiian. I want to learn more Hawaiian songs, too. "And cooking," she added.

"The Mayor is wonderful to cook for. He thinks everything I cook is so delicious. Who doesn't want to cook for a man like that?" She led the way from her formal living room, decorated in shades of white, off-white and turquoise, downstairs to the family dining and living room off the garden area. THERE, ARRANGED on ohelves, and displayed in glass-front cabinets, are some of their art objects dolls, fans, dishes, bowls and carvings from many lands gifts to the Mayor from cities he and Blaisdell have visited. Others have been collected by Lucy over the years.

She opened a doors and pointed to more gift items, still in the boxes they came in. "You see, I just haven't had time to do anything with them," said Mrs. Blaisdell. "I'm just going to leave my first year of retirement to myself to go through all these things. I might do a little re-decorating later and feature some of them that way." SHE SERVED tea in white German teacups from her china collection and talked about the passing parade of teenagers and sub-teeners who have set the campus pace over the three dozen years she has taught.

"There have been lots of changes," she said. "The earlier youngsters really tried to study. They were very attentive. Then, later, they became a little lax. Even now, you can see it's due to too many interruptions.

"Youngsters are so much smarter today. Yes, I really think they are, and things come a little easier to them because of travel, TV, radio, movies and being out of the home more. "But they get careless about digging into their work. And I think their manners are worse today." THE MAYOR'S LADY said she had had "only a very few" troublesome children to deal with and never really any problem dealing with them. "When a gets lough, I can get tougher," she said.

"I just stare them down and stand right over them and show them who's boss, and it never has to go any further. "I know when they're 1 cano area on Hawaii. Their home in Kaimuki with picture-window viewi of Waialae-Kahala and Koko Head is the one they built over 30 years ago and added to as their family and social duties increased. Mrs. Blaisdell says sh enjoys entertaining at home, "for small groups," and looks forward to seeing their friends more after her retirement.

"IT'S REALLY been a triple life," she said, "teaching and family activities and a very busy social life." Of all her official duties as wife of the Mayor, Mrs. Blaisdell says the highlight was when she went to Newport News, in 1957 to christen the Matson liner, Matsonia, then sailed home on her maiden voyage. But come June 14, one of her three careers will end the one that began when she got her master's degree at Columbia University aft-ter going throuch Punahou (class of 1922), the Old Normal School in Honolulu and the Colorado College of Education. She taught one year in Rochester, N. and then returned to Honolulu to serve at Washington Intermediate School, the Old Normal School, Liliuokalani, Stevenson, McKinley, Kaimuki High and Kaimuki Intermediate, from which sh is retiring.

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