HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - WAIHONA PUKE: Library
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “She is the repository of learning.”
(Said in admiration of a learned person.)

Erin Cute photo

October 15, 1919: Several women meet at the home of Mrs. S.A.Baldwin and formally create the Maui Women’s Club. Perhaps not surprisingly, Mrs. H.A. Baldwin is elected the Club’s first president. Shortly thereafter, the Club establishes Maui County’s first Public Library on High St. not far from where, in 1928, C.W.Dickey built the Wailuku library that still stands.The women draft a constitution which states the Club’s purpose: “First - To promote Americanism, and second, to take up any line of work which will promote the highest interests of the community.” Any female resident of Maui County was eligible to join, and the first year saw membership grow to 128 women.