Word: pitcairns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great conch shell no longer blew to summon the people together, but from all over the island, leaving their goats and gardens behind, the people came flocking to watch the carpenters at work. Not since the days of the Bounty mutineers had Pitcairn Island made such an ado over a building. The island was getting a new schoolhouse, and with it, its first properly trained teacher...
...progress for Pitcairn to swallow. For one thing, it would mean giving up the old schoolhouse that John Adams, last of the mutineers, had built some 150 years ago. There Adams first taught the islanders to read from the Bounty's Bible, and to write with the worn quill pens from Captain Bligh's desk...
Newly elected officers for this fall are as follows: Frank H. Stewart '38, President; Edwin Akutowiez 3G, Vice-President; and Miss Anne Childs, Radcliffe '47 and Joseph Pitcairn '43, Secretaries...
After getting a brand-new Government House built and holding mock trials to rehearse officials in their new duties, Commissioner Maude, satisfied with his job, bade a long farewell to Pitcairn. Until the war is over, its only regular contact with the outside world will probably be its radio...
...While Pitcairn won a constitution, it lost a relic. Fretted by constant surf, sand in the shallows of Bounty Bay finally bared the Bounty's battered rudder. Promptly the British Admiralty claimed it, had it transferred to Fiji. The Navy had not forgotten...