15 Facts About Punahou School

Punahou School is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Punahou School was originally a school for the children of missionaries serving throughout the Pacific region.

Punahou School students volunteered in hospitals and raised enough in war bonds to purchase two bombers and a fighter, which were named after alumni who had fallen in service.

Punahou School students are a few minutes away from the trail to Manoa Falls, the beaches at Ala Moana and Waikiki, downtown Honolulu, Lyon Arboretum, and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Punahou School football plays the second half of its season at the Aloha Stadium .

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Punahou School requires all students to attend chapel once a week, where each homeroom is assigned its own seating and attendance is taken.

Ka Punahou School is the student newspaper, and Punahou School Bulletin is the alumni magazine.

Punahou School has a strong history of academic competition with its math, debate, and academic bowl teams, and at times has had organizations for computing, chess, and gaming.

Punahou School marching band travels periodically, and participated in the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, the 2012 London New Year's Day Parade, the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, the 2007 New Year's Day Rose Parade, and the 2015 Rose Parade.

Punahou School has produced many leaders in the government of Hawaii.

At least three other Punahou graduates have represented Hawaii in the U S House.

Punahou School has produced seven NFL linemen and four running backs, including Mark Tuinei, who played 195 games over 15 years for the Dallas Cowboys, winning three Super Bowls and playing in two Pro Bowls.

Punahou School alumni include endowed professors at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Illinois, Notre Dame, Purdue, and Boston University, and research professors of medicine at UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Indiana, Texas, Maryland, Pitt, Walter Reed, and Baylor.

Punahou School was the founder of the Hampton University Museum, the country's oldest African-American museum and Virginia's oldest museum.

In 1890, long before the development of high-rises and hotels in Waikiki, all that was visible in the distance from the top of Punahou School's campus was the buff-colored sand and blue-colored sea of Waikiki Beach.