CNMI Museum executive director Robert Hunter said sisters Ann Walker Smith and Mary Walker Gough presented a yearbook and report card material from the 1947 American Dependents School.
“The sisters also presented to the museum shoes crafted in leather by Manuel Blanco,” Hunter said.
The school’s other former students included former Gov. Lorenzo I. Deleon Guerrero, Felix Rabauliman, Gregorio Sablan, Tony Blanco and Rita Pangelinan.
Hunter said Smith and Gough’s mother, Birdie Walker, taught at Chalan Kanoa School during the day and taught literacy to the armed forces in the evenings in 1947.
He said the sisters visited the CNMI Museum in 2008.
“Their visit to the museum two years ago compelled the sisters to make the donation on this return visit,” he said.
The items donated by Smith and Gough are valuable additions to the museum’s post-war collections, he added.
The sisters lived on Saipan between 1948 and 1950. They moved to Guam and resided there between 1953 and 1955.
Walker is now 68 and Gough is 66.
