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Rath, J. Arthur

 
9780824830106: Lost Generations: A Boy, a School, a Princess
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ISBN 10 : 0824830105 ISBN 13 : 9780824830106
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005

Synopsis

"I learned who I was ... at Kamehameha."

In 1944, J. Arthur Rath, a part-Hawaiian boy from a broken home, entered the Kamehameha School for Boys 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.

In a lively talk-story manner, Rath reminisces about campus life and his classmates, many of whom became lifelong friends and influential members of the Hawaiian community. Years later Rath, a successful retired businessman, would call on these same friends to hold Kamehameha's trustees accountable for their mismanagement of Bishop Estate's vast financial holdings and ultimately their failure to carry out founder Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's mandate to educate Hawaiian children. Rath draws on his many personal ties to the school and the estate to provide surprising revelations on the trustees and the "Bishop Estate Scandal," which made headlines daily throughout the mid-1990s.

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À propos de l'auteur

J. Arthur Rath was a Kamehameha Schools graduate, author of several books, a retired public relations executive, and a former university adjunct professor. He is an inductee in the Kamehameha Schools Hall of Fame.

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Éditeur
University of Hawai'i Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0824830105
ISBN 13 
9780824830106
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
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Personne responsable
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9780824829490: Lost Generations: A Boy, a School, a Princess

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ISBN 10 :  0824829492 ISBN 13 :  9780824829490
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005
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