Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Driver, Coleman Ferrel November 27, 1895 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

CAPT. COLEMAN FERREL DRIVER, Army Officer. The distinction of having organized 
the first unit of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at McKinley High 
School, Honolulu, is held by Capt. Coleman F. Driver, U.S.A., who served as 
military instructor at that school until 1925.
  Born at Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 27, 1895, he is the son of William A. and 
Charlotte (Ferrel) Driver. He was graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic 
Institute with the Class of 1912. He arrived in Hawaii, Sept. 23, 1920, with 
the 44th U. S. Infantry on the transport Great Northern, and served as 
assistant education and recreation officer for the Hawaiian Department from 
Sept., 1920, to April, 1921. After duty with his regiment from April, 1921, to 
June, 1922, he was chosen to inaugurate military training at the McKinley High 
School and to organize and command the regiment there.
  Since taking charge of military training at McKinley High School, Capt. 
Driver has taken a great deal of interest in athletics as well as in other 
school affairs. To him is due much of the credit for the construction of the 
fine new swimming tank at the school, the largest yet built in the Territory. 
Its cost is placed at about $35,000. This large sum was raised by Capt. Driver 
through teams of students in a campaign made in Honolulu in several drives. 
Plans for the tank, which is constructed of reinforced concrete and vitrified 
brick, were prepared by Capt. Driver, who also superintended construction 
work, much of which was done by the students themselves.
  Capt. Driver is also credited with the formation of the large student band 
at McKinley High School, having solicited the funds with which to buy 
instruments and equipment for the original organization which was formed early 
in 1922.
  Capt. Driver was elected first president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni 
Association of Honolulu, which was formed March 9, 1925. He was also chosen 
first chairman of the organization committee of the Inter-Fraternity 
Association of Hawaii, established on March 28, 1925.
  Captain Driver is a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner, a member of the Sigma 
Alpha Epsilon national fraternity, and the University, Pacific and Oahu 
Country Clubs of Honolulu.


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