A Retrospective Glance at Anniversaries Significant to Music at UHM

The year 2007 marks not only the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Centennial and the Music Department’s 60th anniversary, but also some other fiveand ten-year milestones significant to the place of music on this campus. The University’s first choral group, an extracurricular men’s glee club, was organized 90 years ago; its first offering of a credit course in music, band, 80 years ago; and its first professor of music appointed 70 years ago. It was Dorothy Kahananui’s teaching of music methods for elementary schools from the early 1920s in the Territorial Normal School, following its merger in 1931 in the UH College of Education, and after its establishment in the Music Department until 1960 when she retired that bridged the preand post-World War II activities in music. The University’s naming the Music Education Wing for her is significant not only to the Music Department, but to the entire campus, being the first and to date the only building to bear the name of a native Hawaiian member of its faculty.