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50 years ago — Aug. 14, 1964
That’s it! They have won the 1964 Oahu CYO Junior League Softball Championship for St. Elizabeth’s Parish in Aiea. Making the victory possible were the following: (front row, left to right) Michael Robello, Mascot Paul Martin, Frank Barnes, Ronnie Mattos, Antone Gabriel, Kenneth Hatfield, Sammy Stevens, Henry Carvalho Jr.; (back row, left to right) Manager Henry Carvalho Sr.,Wayne Kama, Clyde Tavares, Alvin Luka, Henry Robello, Peter Kahai, Leo Kozlowski, Gilbert Kiaha, and Gregory Chincio. (Luke’s Photo Studio)
25 years ago — Aug. 18, 1989
Island-born sister elected to congregation’s top council
The top governing body of the 2,800-member Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet has taken on a new complexion.
Honolulu’s Sister Brenda Lau was elected one of three councilors in the order’s General Council last month. She is the first Hawaii-born sister and non-Caucasian to be chosen for the post in the congregation’s five-member governing body. …
Sister Brenda, who is Chinese, French, Spanish, American Indian and Puerto Rican, was actually nominated for both the councilor position and that of assistant general superior.
10 years ago — Aug. 13, 2004
Marists say farewell to the islands
It will be the end of an era in Hawaii with the departure of the Marist Fathers and Brothers on Aug. 31. …
At the end of the month, the Marist Order, compelled by a lack of vocations and an aging membership, will hand over the administration of Star of the Sea Parish in Waialae-Kahala, the church and school it founded 58 years ago, to the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, newcomers to the diocese.
More than 50 Marist priests and brothers have served in Hawaii — some returning several times — since the first members of their community set foot on Kauai in 1944. The last of three Kauai parishes formerly run by the order was turned over to diocesan administration last year.