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Show SpringviUe Woman is Yisited By Former Hawaii Student, Now Successful Man with them ever since, working upward up-ward to the position of foreman with the privilege of a three months vacation. "It was a pleasure to see my former dearly loved eleven year-old year-old pupil as a successful man, and I appreciate the very lovely purse made in Hawaii and the four cans of Dole sliced Pineapple which they brought me." ' A true friend is always a friend Mrs. Lucy Woolley Brown of this city learned on Tuesday of last week, when she had a visit from a former pupil in her school in the Hawaiian Islands. The report of the visit Mrs. Brown tells as follows: fol-lows: "Thirty-five years ago, during my mission in Hawaii, I taught a little Japanese boy, Shigeru Mat-sui, Mat-sui, in the fifth grade at the LDS church school at Laie. He was very mischevious, but very dear. He and Hisashi Okawa used to do many things for me after school, often bringing me fruit, shells, seeds from which to make lejs, etc. "Shigeru's father died before he finished the fifth grade, and . he had to go to work to help support sup-port the younger children, he being the eldest. "On Tuesday he- and his wife and son of nineteen years (he has three boys and a girl) came to visit me. He has been in the States since May, coming here for his son's graduation from a Michigan college. He told me that he came all the way to Utah just to see me again. I felt quite honored. He did not know that I was married nor where I lived, but he got the information from the church headquarters head-quarters in Salt Lake City, and came out here from there to visit me. He has a charming little wife and fine son. ."Though a good education was denied him, he has been able to give all of his children higher education. edu-cation. His daughter is coming this tali to a teacher s college m Ohio, and he plans to come to the States again when she graduates, and will visit me again. "He drives a "swanky" car and has traveled through many of the States. From Utah they were driving driv-ing to the Northwest and up into Canada, then down the coast to San Francisco, where they will sail for Hawaii on July 22. "When Shigeru left my fifth grade, he started to work for Dole Pineapple company. He has been |