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50 years ago — April 29, 1966
Maryknoll Grade School students Daniel Druecker and Diantha Goo receive Governor Burns’ congratulations as the Building Fund Drive for the new school at Maryknoll gets under way. The children are selling the World’s Finest Chocolate. (Craig Stevens Photo)
25 years ago — April 26, 1991
Diocese honors 3 Catholic educators in first annual awards ceremony
A country principal, a city elementary school teacher, and a neighbor island high school teacher were the winners last week in the first ever outstanding educators awards sponsored by the Diocese of Honolulu.
It was the Academy Awards, a school rally, a teachers’ convention, and a church banquet all rolled in one as nearly 500 Hawaii Catholic school teachers and principals and others packed the Hale Koa Hotel’s banquet hall in the evening of April 18 to applaud the best of their colleagues. The awards were for outstanding elementary school teacher, outstanding high school teacher and outstanding principal. …
The prizes, a polished koa box and a $1,000 check, went each to Frances J.C. Wong, the 7th and 8th grade language arts teacher at Maryknoll Grade School in Honolulu; Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Frances M. Darling, English department chairwoman and senior class moderator at St. Anthony High School, Wailuku, Maui; and Franciscan Sister Davilyn Ah Chick, principal of Our Lady of Sorrows School in Wahiawa.
10 years ago — April 21, 2006
Bishop Silva’s Easter video spot aims at audience outside church
Bishop Larry Silva is speaking to an audience outside the Catholic Church this Easter season in a 60-second public service announcement produced for television, his first for Honolulu.
The bishop said his message was intended for non-practicing Catholics, Christians who misunderstand Catholic belief, and people who do not believe in Jesus.
“Easter is not just about remembering a past event,” he says in the video which was shot at his residence at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, “but is the celebration of Jesus’ continuing presence with us.” …
The spot was produced and directed by veteran island television producers Venny Villapando and Jessica Ordona. A public service announcement or PSA is a non-paid “commercial” aired at the discretion of a television station. The spot was distributed to all the major stations in Honolulu.
