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  • Home
    • Upcoming Events
    • About hakalauhome
    • Contact Us!
  • Yesterday
    • Timeline
    • Camps
    • People >
      • The Ross Families of Hakalau
      • Satoru Kurisu
      • Toraichi Morikawa
      • Waichi Ouye
      • Aigoro Uyeno
    • Schools >
      • Hakalau School
      • John M. Ross School
    • Churches & Cemeteries >
      • Churches >
        • Hakalau Jodo Mission
        • Honohina Hongwanji
      • Cemeteries >
        • Honohina Cemetery
    • The Voice of Hakalau
    • Sugar Production >
      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company
    • Infrastructure and Transportation >
      • 19th Century Hamakua Roads
      • Bridges
      • The Railroad
  • Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today >
      • Newsletters
      • Obon Festival
      • Memorial Day
      • Celebrations at Hakalau Jodo Mission
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
      • Mochi Pounding
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua CDP & the CDP Action Committee
Hakalau school was then moved to this new site. Mr. John Allam Baptist was the first teacher, followed by Mr. Carvalho, then Mr. Anjou.

In 1901, Mr. Eugene S. Capellas, Sr. came from Maui as a teacher and later as principal of the school for forty-seven years. 1917 saw the first regular graduating class when students were graduated from the eighth grade. 

Mr. Capellas was succeeded by Mr. Ernest Spillner, followed by Mr. Eugene S. Capellas, Jr., Mr. Yoshitsugu Yamada, Mr. Kengo Takata, Dr. Margaret Oda and Mr. Gilbert Choi. The last principal of the school was Mrs. Marguerite Ooka. In 1972, the school, along with Pepeekeo School, was consolidated with Kalanianaole School and school operation in Hakalau was terminated.
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Over the years the school extended its curriculum to take in students from kindergarten or grade 1 to grade 9, and for sometime grade 10.

- Excerpt from program published for the 100 year celebration, 1981
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For the Hakalau Kuleana, our responsibility is to care for the land, the people, and the culture. We are guided by cultural values of YESTERDAY: Engage in collective effort. Look out for each other. Honor hard work. Show respect for those who came before us. Aloha and Mālama `Aina. In 2021, Akiko Masuda added two more values to the list: Consistently show up. Whatever has to be done, jump in and do it!