NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — May 22, 1964
Alumni of Maryknoll High School have planned a reunion dinner for this Saturday evening at 6:30 at Hutch’s Supper Club. Planning the event are (sitting left to right) Jared Kaufmann, Mrs. C. T. Lee (Ellen Chun), Mrs. Norman Kam (Elsie Young), Mrs. David Tom (Virginia Sato); standing, left to right: Allan Yuen, Dr. Garret Yanagi, Andrew Yee. (Guy Miyakawa Photo)
25 years ago — May 26, 1989
Mary Jane Center is empty
The Mary Jane Center is empty. If it were because there are no longer any pregnant young women who need help, the sisters and volunteers who staff the place would be happy. But they know that is not the case.
Rather, they are finding out through a two-week-old community relations and promotion campaign, that many people don’t know the place exists. Good Shepherd Sister Bernardine Scott, director pro tem of the residence for unwed mothers, said she is amazed at the number of people and organizations she has run into recently who have never heard of the Mary Jane Center, the only home of its kind in the state. …
A nearly full house of 11 earlier this year dwindled to zero with the last birth in April and, for the first time since anyone there can remember, there is no one to care for.
10 years ago — May 21, 2004
Until we meet again
At his final public Sunday Mass before leaving Hawaii, Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo instructed the faithful with a message he has carried through his time as diocesan bishop — preach the Gospel and do God’s “loving will.”
At his farewell liturgy, the 9 a.m. Mass on May 9 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, the bishop said that he, too, must obey God’s call.
“As bishop, I am supposed to imitate the apostles,” he said. “Like them, at a certain moment in time, I am called to minister to another church. That is what happened to me. I go there (to Richmond, Va.), willingly.”
The 62-year-old bishop said that he feels a “certain amount of sadness” in his heart to leave the “paradise” he has served these past 11 years.