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50 years ago — Feb. 26, 1965
Sixty-seven members of the Creighton University Alumni Association are visiting Hawaii as part of their $9 million dollar fund raising drive in support of six graduate schools. The Hawaii Chapter of the CU Alumni Assoc. hosted the group at a luau at Duke Kahanamokus. Among those enjoying the party were (L to R) Gloria Henson, MacKenzie Tours Hawaii; Joseph Harold, President of Creighton University Alumni Assoc.’s Hawaii Chapter; the Very Reverend Henry Linn, President of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska; Bernard Conway, Director of Alumni Activities of America and President of CU Alumni Assoc.; Leo Peiper, Mr. Conway’s assistant and Mrs. Anna Marie Peter, Tour conductor. (MacKenzie Tours Photo)
25 years ago — Feb. 23, 1990
Remaining Oahu high schools to accept displaced Star of the Sea students
Oahu will have one less Catholic high school come September — five instead of six — but, it is hoped, no fewer Catholic high school students.
With the announcement last Friday by the pastor of Star of the Sea Church that the parish high school would close this June came assurance that “careful attention” would be given to enrolling the displaced students in other Catholic schools.
On Feb. 20, Oahu Catholic high school officials made a commitment to offer Star of the Sea students admission at a meeting at Star of the Sea Church. Of that commitment, Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario said, “The Catholic school system does not abandon its students. There will be a place for every student who wants one.”
10 years ago — Feb. 25, 2005
Mother Marianne Cope to be beatified May 15 in Rome
Pope John Paul II will beatify Venerable Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai on Pentecost Sunday, May 15, at the Vatican.
The Sisters of St. Francis announced the date on Feb. 21 from the order’s motherhouse in Syracuse where Mother Marianne left 122 years ago to care for the victims of leprosy in Hawaii. …
The pope will also beatify on May 15 Charles de Foucauld, the famous French priest who was killed in 1916 during an anti-French uprising in southern Algeria after living for years as a hermit in Palestine. Also scheduled for beatification are seven Spanish martyrs killed in 1936 during the Spanish civil war and two other women religious. …
In anticipation of her beatification, Mother Marianne’s remains were exhumed from her grave in Kalaupapa on Jan. 24.
