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50 years ago — June 18, 1965
Bro. James Wipfield, S.M., Director of the Hawaii Marianist Community, today announced plans for construction of a chapel for the priests and brothers of the Society of Mary to be built on the St. Louis High School-Chaminade College campus on Waialae Avenue.
The new structure has been designed by Guy N. Rothwell, Sr., architect, and Bro. James Roberts, S.M., artist. It will be located at the Palolo end of the campus, just below Kieffer Hall, the Marianist Scholasticate.
25 years ago — June 22, 1990
Diocese collects $35,000 in disaster relief for Samoa
The Diocese of Honolulu has gathered an estimated $35,000 in relief aid for the Archdiocese of Samoa/Apia to assist the rebuilding of Western Samoa which is still far from recovered from February’s devastating Hurricane Ofa.
Kristi Dinell, director of Parish Social Ministry and coordinator of the diocesan relief effort, said this past Tuesday she hoped some of the money would be wired to Western Samoa soon. One Oahu parish, St. Elizabeth in Aiea, collected and sent $5,000 on its own to the island nation.
The Office for Social Ministry sponsored a state-wide parish appeal for Samoa on June 2 and 3. …
Hurricane Ofa swept over Western Samoa Feb. 1-3. Whole villages, entire coconut plantations, forests, transportation and communication systems were destroyed by violent winds which gusted up to 130 knots.
10 years ago — June 17, 2005
St. Francis to sell its two hospitals, dialysis program
Hawaii’s two Catholic hospitals will be sold to a group of local doctors and a Kansas-based hospital group later this year, pending the necessary approvals.
St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii announced June 7 that it has agreed to sell St. Francis Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Center-West to Cardiovascular Hospitals of America (CHA) and a group of about 100 physicians led by Dr. Danelo Canete.
In a separate deal, St. Francis is planning to sell its outpatient kidney dialysis program, Renal Institute of the Pacific.
The sales mark St. Francis’ change in focus away from acute care and toward services to the elderly and dying, areas in which it has long been a pioneer and is now expanding.