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50 years ago — July 16, 1965
His Excellency, The Most Reverend John J. Scanlan, Auxiliary Bishop of Honolulu, turns over the first shovel full of dirt at the site on which St. Francis Hospital will erect new service buildings at an estimated cost of a million dollars. The new buildings, which will contain maintenance, service and store room facilities, will be located in the back of the hospital on Mahalo Street. Sister Maureen, O.S.F., Hospital Administrator, announced the Architect as Vladimir Ossipoff. Hirano Brothers, Ltd., will demolish the present buildings and erect the new. Pictured with Bishop Scanlan at the Ground Breaking is Fr. Philemon Lefever, SS.CC., Hospital Chaplain.
25 years ago — July 20, 1990
Without its high school, Star of the Sea is sprouting new life
Star of the Sea Schools underwent a substantial pruning this past June with the closing of the 38-year-old high school, but bright new shoots are coming up everywhere in the remaining lower grades as the Waialae-Kahala school readies itself for the opening of the 1990-91 academic year. …
Star of the Sea’s 10 year-old Early Learning Center, recent accredited, has expanded into the adjoining former high school library to accommodate the 50 to 60 additional new students expected this semester. …
Star of the Sea Elementary School will have a record enrollment of more than 300 students this year. Supervisory principal Sister Rose Miriam Schillinger, CSJ, and elementary principal Sister Margaret Leonard Perreira, CSJ, have been hefting and pitching and making off materials in the former high school classrooms to make way for their junior high students.
10 years ago — July 15, 2005
Brother and bishop
“He always wanted to be a priest. Since he was nine years old.”
Childhood memories came flooding back as Trudy Silva recalled early stepping-stones on her baby brother’s path to becoming Bishop of Honolulu. …
Her brother, Father Larry Silva, has been celebrating Mass for real for 30 years now, and lately Trudy had had this feeling that more might be in store. Maybe it was because she was aware that the place where they both were born was without a bishop.
“I kept asking him, ‘Did they choose somebody for Hawaii yet?’ He would respond, ‘Nope, not yet.’ I said, ‘Well, maybe they are waiting to choose you.’ He said, ‘No. No way.’”
Yes way.
Trudy was one of the first to know. Her brother Larry called her on Sunday, May 15, two days before the Vatican made the official announcement.