Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 48

TWO HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1937 TWO LIVES OF USEFUL SERVICE HERE ARE MEMORIALIZED Presentation Monday; Open House 3 Days A brief but impressive program will formally present Montague ball to Pucahou. Beginning at 5 o'clock Monday 4 i the program will be: 1. Remarks by John S. Slade, dean and acting president of Puna hou, presiding.

2. Presentation of Montague Hall, 1 and turning over keys of the hall to board of trustees of Punahou represented by Cyril F. Damon treasurer) by a member of the Atherton family. 3. Response by Mr.

Damon, who will turn over the keys to Verne Waldo Thompson, director of Puna hou Music school. 4. Response by Mr. Thompson. Open House Three Afternoons Open house will be held at Mon tague hall on Monday.

Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, December 13, 14 and 15. No cards of invita tion are being issued, but all friends of the school, together with, music lovers and Interested people -t the IF city are being asked to The hours for inspection of the building will be from 4 to 6 on the afternoons listed. Because of the large numbers of friends who T. 7 (0 2 will be the guests of the music school, the three days are being set apart for special groups as lol lows: Monday. December 13 The irus 1 I i tees of Punahou school and their .1 guests.

Members of the Punahou alumni erouns. Parents and teachers of Funanou I 'ft srhool. Patrons of the Punahou Music school. 1 i TiipsdaT. December 14 Musical organizations and Ensemble groups tit Members of tne Honolulu tym JCLIETTE MONTAGUE COOKE juLlt-l lli MONTAGUE ATHERTON nhnnf orchestra.

Members of tne Morning Music club. Building Honors Members of the city's choral Juliette Montague Cooke A Pioneer in Mission Work groups. Wednesday, December 15 1 in- Of Juliette M. Atherton cipals and teachers of the city schools. Faculty members of the Umver clearness that soared above all Juliette Montague Cooke Ather sity of Hawaii.

ethers." Teachers of music. "Her gifts' of song greatly in Music lovers and interested creased her personal influence. Mrs. Cooke was born in Sun friends. ton, wife of Joseph Ballard Atherton, tvas for more than half a century a strong, constructive and inspiring influence in the developing and expanding cultural life of In all cases guests are invited to derland, March 10, 1812, the bring their own fnenas to the Mon daughter ox Caleb and Martha War tamie hall reception.

Lists as sched ner Montague, She was the oldest TL 1 The new Punahou music school building, honors her uiea aDOve are suggestive aim guests will be welcome on any afternoon, whether they belong to and her mother, 'Juliette Montague Cooke tne iesignatea groups or nou Mrs. Atherton's father was Amos Starr Cooke, who with Mrs. Cooke arrived in Honolulu for missionary "Music serves to enliven many an hour of sadness, or what would be sadness otherwise. It is an expression of the sensations of the heart, a comfort under affliction, an alleviation of distress, a disperser of gloomy clouds and a medium by which thought is raised from this groveling earth to that other world where sorrow ne'er invades and where our songs shall be eternal praise." Thus did Juliette Montague Cooke write 100 years ago while on the slong ocean voyage on the barque, Mary Frazier, en route to the jla-wdiian islands. What joy would have "been hers if she could have glimpsed ahead of the pages of time and seen 100 years later the beautiful, excellent ly equipped building dedicated to music, being given in 1937 in her name at Punahou! She would have been encouraged as later she labored to teach music to the young children of the Ha turned to Boston.

They sailed on the Mary Frazier from Boston, De work on April 9. 1837. cember 12. 1836. Mrs.

Atherton was born in the After a voyage of 116 days, the barque arrived at Honolulu har of four children. Her father died when she was 15 years of age. Inherited From Her Mother It was from her mother that she inherited her love for music. Once she said, 'I feel more than ever obligation to my mother' for warbling thofesweet strains, to me in early life which gave me a taste for the? pleasures of i music. Never shall forget her teaching me to sing imy first tune, Hush, My Lie Still and Slumber, Holy Angels Guard Thy Bed.J; The History of Sunderland says the following the Deacon Warner girls, of which Mrs.

Cooke's mother was one: They all sang, and the fugues old Royal school. Honolulu, on August 21, 1843. When eight years of age she moved with her parents to bor, April 9, 3837. Japan, Australia and Alaska. Deep Interest in Ed oration She had a deep interest in the education of Hawaiian and Oriental young people.

Atherton hall, the girls' building of Mid-Pacific Institute, was given by her in memory of her husband, who was a trustee and treasurer of Kawaiahao remi-nary for many years. Mrs. Atherton "was a liberal donor to religious, educational and charitable institutions. She was extremely fond of flowers and plants of all kinds. The old Atherton homestead on King now known as Fernhurst and which was given to the YWCA shortly before her death as a home for working girls, has many plants and flowers which are sweet monuments to her memory.

Mrs. Atherton died at Luakaha, her summer home in Is'uuanu valley-, on August 25, 1921. Mother ot Six: She was the mother of six children, two of whom are living. They are Mary Atherton Richards, wife of Theodore Richards, and Frank C. Atherton, chairman of the board of directors of Castle Cooke.

Ltd. Her other children were Benjamin Hawley, Charles Henry Atherton, Dr. Alexander Montague Atherton and Miss Kate Marion Atherton. Within twoiyears of their arrival, the first frame house erected in the Mr. and Mrs Cooke were assigned by the members of the mission islands, located on King St.

near historic Kawaiahao church. in general meeting to the task of Graduated at Punahou in 1860 She was educated at Punahou conducting a school for tne chiels' children. school, being graduated in the class of Two Chosen The two were well chosen for On June 29. 1865. she was married to Joseph Ballard Atherton of Bos their work as the following testimonials show.

ton who came to Honolulu in 1858 Of Mrs. is the following and entered the firm of Castle and Cooke. Before her marriage, Mrs. Ather by one who knew her in Sunderland: "She is in a measure self taught, but well taught. She has the right kind of education for a missionary.

ton spent a year visiting with relatives in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In later life she made many trips to the mainland, Europe, "She is not only apt, but a pleas ant teacher; she has a sweet natural disposition. Her domestic qualifications are all suited to such a think we should have more rational hope 'of success." waiian chiefs. In a letter to her sister on January 20, 1840, she wrote wistfully, "I have been teaching them for the past few days the song. Try Again.

I have sometimes wished 1 had some kind of musical instrument for them to learn to play on, but Miss Hannah More doesn't think it well for youipg princes to give their time -to such things while they shduld be learning; how to govern their provinces, and perhaps she is right. Music a Part of Her Life But music was a part of Mrs. Cooke's very being and with characteristic far sightedness hje wrote: "I believe the time will come wbt-n parents realize that music an important influence and that it affords a delightful medium for the communication of thought and is therefore a source of happiness. "It is a duty and privilege to station." Of Mr. Cooke, his Danbury pastor A "Bright Spot" Incidentally, she mentioned one said, "I can freely say that no one in the circle of my acquaintances little" bright spot in her cloudy hemisphere and that was the es they delighted in were lilting rollicking, quick metered tunes, as jolly as those to which they danced, for though all were church members, all were lighthearted, sunny faced girls, whose amusements accorded with the fashion of the era." Eager, to Attend School After her father's death, Cooke obtained her education largely by her own efforts.

She attended Miss White's school in Amherst She was one of the earliest women to attend the lectures at Amherst college. From Amherst she went to Ips-awich where she taught in the Ips- wich seminary. While there she' was associated with Mary Lyon who is noted for her work of education and Christianity in New Married in 1836 When M-r. Cooke was appointed missionary, Juliette Montague was recommended as a suitrle wife. They were married on November 24, 1836, a few weeks after meeting.

The redding took place at the home of Mr. Cooke in Dan-bury, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Cooke were commissioned as teachers to the Sandwich Islands mission when they re- tablishment of a boarding school fostered it in every way she could.

Groups under fcer direction were often called upon to sing in the community. Among the most conspicuiAis of her "pupils was the warrrihieorted Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Mrs. Bishop was a talented musician- and learned to sing and play the piano under direction of Mrs. She always regarded Mrs.

-Cooke as a second mother and in years when she conceived of the idea Torn to Page Three of his age and standing promises so much. I know of no one who answers more fully the Negro's definition of perseverance. It is to for missionaries children at "If we continue to remain in our take hold, hang on and never let go. I wish the board had more present situation, I shall send my boy very early," she said. of such spirits to send forth." In, all her work, Mrs.

Cooke en School for Chiefs Children The schoof for the chiefs children couraged the study of music. She encourage their children taculti-. i i was opened in 1839. It closed in 1851 when there were no more royal youths to educate. i.j Those 12, years with the school vaie meir voices, 10 learn i songs of Zion and join in the pl-aises of the sanctuary." Mrs.

Cooke, wife of AmosStarir Cooke and member of the seventh company of missionaries to come to Hawaii, was said to have had "a voice of singular power and were strenuous years for Mr. and Mrs. Cooke. It meant unstinted, unselfish labor. It was work which re quired a tremendous amount of tact, patience and perseverance.

In addition to the school work. Mrs. Cooke had her own family of seven children to care for. There C. J.

MARR I Plumbing-Contractor .9.85 WAIMANU STY! PHONE 5435 The Lyric Ensemble of Honolulu extends congratulations to the Punahou Music School on the were countless problems" to solve and the students required constant Once -Mrs. Cooke wrote: "We have 13 children in our family and brought up in such a way that you will judge that we have a great many difficulties to settle. It is teaching, endeavoring correct, to fix principles of right and wrong, from dawn until evening. "People who say, 'do you have only so I would beg to undertake, the task one day. Six of are under 6 years of age and I wish they all were.

I Our congratulations on the dedication of Montague Hall completion of' Montague Hdfl. 11, BES DRAGOO, president. R. KENNETH HOLT, director. ISABEL FAULKNER, accompanist.

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