Performance for the Royal Court at the 1964 Luau

Title

Performance for the Royal Court at the 1964 Luau

Description

A Pacific University student performs a dance at the university's annual Lu'au in 1964. A handwritten caption on the original slide describes the scene as "Royal Court watches hula performed." The "Royal Court" was a portion of the Lu'au in which students representing the King (wearing a yellow cape) and Queen (wearing white) of Hawaii witnessed dances performed by Princesses who represented the various islands of Hawaii. Those identified in this image include King Dayton Arruda (Class of 1967) and Queen Shirley Ann Kapuniai. This event, one of the earliest of Pacific's annual Luaus, took place in the Forest Grove High School gym.

Pacific University began hosting an annual Lu'au in 1961. Student members of Na Haumana O Hawai'i (Hawaiian Club) organized and performed in the event, raising money for scholarships. The Lu'au included a dinner, sales of leis and other products flown in from Hawai'i, and performances of Pacific island dances. The Lu'au is normally held on the second Saturday in April in Washburne Hall. The name of the event was changed to Lu'au and Ho'ike in 2019.

Identifier

PUA_LuauSlides_478

Date

1964

Subject

Luaus

Student Activities

Pacific University

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon

Format

slides

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Source

Pacific University Archives

Date Created

May 2, 1964