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50 years ago — Dec. 6, 1963
On their way to class are collegians, Clarence Liu, Jr., Wayne Ventura, and James Kauhane, who are completing their seventh year at St. Stephen’s Seminary. Within a matter of months they will be leaving for St. Patrick’s Major Seminary in Menlo Park, California. This explains the envious looks on the faces of younger classmen in the background.
25 years ago — Dec. 9, 1988
Opportunity to greatly enhance charity, education, Waikiki ministry seen in land sale
The diocese seeks to enhance its ministry in Waikiki with plans to build a new church and parish facilities for St. Augustine Parish there while adding substantially to diocesan educational and social ministry endowments when it sells the property on which the present parish church stands.
Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario announced the agreement to sell the parish’s 130 Ohua Street property to Hama Kikaku Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, last Thursday for $45 million or $900 a square foot, pending approval from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy.
The new church will be built on the block bounded by Aloha Drive, Seaside Avenue and Royal Hawaiian Avenue. The parish will have use of the present location for the next two and a half years while the new church is being constructed.
10 years ago — Dec. 5, 2003
St. John Vianney opens preschool
St. John Vianney Parish School in Kailua opened an Early Learning Center in October. The facility, for four-year-olds, prepares them to enter the school’s kindergarten through grade eight program.
Twelve children were in the first class. Their teacher, Casey Rahmanian, is completing her master’s in education at Chaminade University of Honolulu. …
The pre-school was created through the fund-raising efforts of the school’s Parent Teacher Student Association and by grants from the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, the Atherton Family Foundation, the G.N. Wilcox Trust, the Mary F. and Walter D. Frear Eleemosynary Trust, and the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation.