Lamoni Chronicle
Lamoni, Iowa
Dec. 11, 1941

Hawaiian Students Have Not Heard From Home
Worried About Families
Expect Word

Lamoni citizens accepted the declaration of war Monday with characteristic calm but no so with the Graceland college students whose homes are in Hawaii, Aruba and the west coast. The four Hawaiian students were tense and nervous over the news of the attack in the Pacific, especially regarding the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Honolulu. Louise Blaisdell's parents reside in Honolulu and both her grandfather and father are members of the fire department which would cause them to be on alert with military authorities. The father of Gladys Ching works at one of the airports. The parents and family of Edmund and Faith Wong live at Wailuku, Maui.

Miss Hughes, whose parents recently returned to Aruba, a Dutch possession off the coast of Venequela, says that she expects her parents will be sent back to the states. The island is an important center of the oil industry and would probably be a military objective.

Students from the west coast, particularly from California, listened to broadcasts every hour and a number of them expressed the desire to return home.

Mr. and Mrs. Virgil B. Etzenhouser, who left Hawaii on November 21, were on Graceland campus Tuesday and visited at some length with the Hawaiian students, bringing them recent news from their homes. At press time Wednesday the students had not received word from home but were expecting a cablegram.

Copied from Reflections of Lamoni
The Lamoni Chronicle
Volume 90 Special Issue
April 1980
by Stacey McDowell Dietiker