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50 years ago — June 5, 1964
Ronald Pang, Mary Magdalen Chun and Carolyn Lee of Maryknoll Grade School received awards in the 1963-64 Ford-Future Scientists of America contest for written reports of their science projects. Over 8,000 project reports were entered in this year’s national contest. Ronald placed first in the Intermediate Division for which he received a $25 Savings Bond and Certificate. His project was “The Effects of a Straight Coconut Meat Diet on Albino Mice.” Mary Magdalen Chun placed second in the Intermediate Division and received a Silver Plaque and certificate for her project “Do Rats Prefer Mild Or Strong Cheese.” Carolyn Lee received an Honorable Mention certificate for her project “Does Nail Biting Increase or Decrease Among Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Graders.” Adviser for the students was Sister Lourdes Marie, 8th Grade Science teacher at Maryknoll Grade School. (Tanigawa Studio)
25 years ago — June 9, 1989
Dominican Sisters celebrate 25 years in the islands
Twenty-five years ago on September 2, 1964, four diminutive Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary — M. Caridad Pinuela, M. Felicitas Macsera, M. Helen Magallon and M. Juanita Veniola — arrived in Honolulu, from Iloilo City in the Philippines. Their order of religious women is now the fifth largest in the islands.
Invited by Bishop James J. Sweeney to open St. Elizabeth School in Aiea, Hawaii was the order’s first foreign mission. Beginning with grades 1-3 and 145 pupils, the congregation added a sister and a grade each year until the intermediate level was completed in 1967 with a total of nine teaching sisters.
Today the Dominicans have 35 sisters in their Hawaii region which includes a parish school in San Francisco.
10 years ago — June 4, 2004
Interim leadership
Father Thomas L. Gross may not share the former Bishop of Honolulu’s outgoing and animated style, but Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo recognized the value of his quiet and sensible leadership four years ago when he named him vicar general. Father Gross now has been picked to temporarily fill Bishop DiLorenzo’s shoes until a new bishop is selected.
The 10 priest members of the diocesan College of Consultors elected Father Gross to be the Diocesan Administrator, a position prescribed by the Code of Canon Law to manage a diocese when it has no bishop.
Hawaii has been without a bishop since Bishop DiLorenzo was installed as Bishop of Richmond, Va., on May 24.