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5 unusual facts about Punahou School


Charlie Ane

Now known as Kale Ane, he is currently the head football coach and assistant athletic director at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where both he and his father attended high school and played football.

Hylocereus undatus

There is a locally famous cacti hedge on a lava rock wall of the Punahou School in Honolulu, the hedge of Kapunahou.

Jane Flanders

After two years teaching English at the Punahou School in Hawaii (from 1962 through 1964, well before Barack Obama was in attendance), she obtained an M.A. in English (history of the English language) at Columbia University.

Kimo Wilder McVay

High school student Robin Luke was appearing in a 1958 Punahou School music program when McVay saw the potential

Men of Harlech

The song was played by the marching band of Punahou School, Barack Obama's alma mater, at his second inauguration in 2013.


J. T. Gulick

In 1853, after reading Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle and Hugh Miller's The Footprints of the Creator, Gulick presented his paper, "The Distribution of Plants and Animals", to the Punahou School Debating Society.

Lawrence M. Judd

Judd was born March 20, 1887 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, who was an early American Missionary, a cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III, and co-founder of Punahou School.


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Robin Luke

Luke was living in Honolulu, Hawaii, attending Punahou School, in 1958 when he wrote and recorded a Billboard #5 hit, "Susie Darlin'" a song named after his then five-year-old sister, Susie.