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50 years ago — July 22, 1966
Miss Suzanne Nitta, a junior of Maryknoll High School, is conducting research as an apprentice to Dr. Thomas C. Cheng of the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii. Suzanne was selected to participate in the Hawaii Junior Science Apprenticeship Program on the basis of high scholastic ability, interest and aptitude in science. (Photo by Masao Miyamoto)
25 years ago — July 19, 1991
Another Kauai school closed
The woeful financial status of Immaculate Conception School in Kauai continued to be extreme. And the ultimate solution was swift but not painless.
The new pastor, who felt that he had been getting meager support from parents, closed the 39-year-old Lihue school after registration conditions he had set were not met in time.
Sacred Hearts Father Clyde Guerreiro, who has been at Immaculate Conception Church in Lihue since February, closed the parish school July 2 when enrollment figures fell far short of the 111 students he said was needed to keep the school running. By July 1 only 65 students were registered. …
The school had five lay teachers and five members of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, a Philippines-based order.
10 years ago — July 14, 2006
Local Capuchin brother to make final vows
Brother Marvin Castillo Bearis will be the first from Hawaii to make his final profession of vows as a Capuchin Franciscan friar. The profession ceremony is Aug. 12, at 10 a.m., at his home parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ewa Beach. …
“I just know this is what I am meant to do,” he told the Hawaii Catholic Herald by phone on July 7.
“Life won’t be fulfilling,” he said, if he did not follow this calling which will culminate with ordination to the priesthood in about two years. …
Brother Bearis earned a bachelor’s degree in family resources specializing in adolescence from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2000. He joined the Capuchin Franciscans, the Vice-Province of Our Lady, Star of the Sea – Guam and Hawaii, in January 2001.
