Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Givens, Willard Earl December 10, 1886 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILLARD EARL GIVENS, Educator. The highest position in the educational system 
of Hawaii, that of superintendent of public instruction, was occupied from 
April, 1923, until July 29, 1925, by W. E. Givens, who had previously been 
principal of McKinley High School and principal of the Kamehameha Boys’ 
School. Mr. Givens resigned his office here to accept the post of assistant 
superintendent of schools in Oakland, Calif.
  Mr. Givens came to Honolulu on March 12, 1919, as educational secretary for 
the National Council of War Work, Y.M.C.A., and a few months later accepted 
the principalship of McKinley High School, serving until 1921, when he went to 
Oakland for a year as principal of the Garfield Junior High School. He was 
called back to Hawaii in 1922 by the Kamehameha Schools and the following year 
took office as superintendent of public instruction.
  He was born at Anderson, Ind., Dec. 10, 1886, the son of John Luther and 
Amanda (Hershberger) Givens. Mr. Givens was educated in the public schools of 
Madison County, Indiana. He attended Butler College at Indianapolis and later 
attended Indiana University, where he received his A. B. degree in 1913. He 
received his M. A. degree from Columbia University in 1915, and was granted a 
diploma by the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1916.
  Mr. Givens married Neva Galbreath on Dec. 10, 1917, and they have two sons, 
Willard Earl Jr., and Stuart Ray Givens. Mr. Givens is a member of the 
Honolulu Rotary Club, the Masonic lodge and Aloha Chapter of the Mystic Shrine.


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