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50 years ago — Sept. 29, 1967
An editorial cartoon printed in the Sept. 29, 1967 Hawaii Catholic Herald issue. The cartoon caption reads, “You’re in the wrong pew.”
25 years ago — Sept. 25, 1992
The hurricane called Iniki
Sitting across the street from the beach in Kekaha, Kauai, St. Theresa School was in the direct path of the eye of Hurricane Iniki when it roared ashore Friday afternoon, Sept. 11.
The school is now just a pile of rubble among the wreckage of the Catholic parish worst hit by the most powerful storm to pound Hawaii this century.
Kauai’s other four parishes fared better, but none were spared the ravages of the driving rains and 165 mile-an-hour winds which slashed across the island of 51,000 residents leaving a devastated and crippled community. …
Iniki, a Hawaiian word meaning to pinch, nip or pierce, was rated a “category four” hurricane, the same as Hurricane Andrew which tore through South Florida weeks earlier. ..
Miraculously with Iniki, the island was spared a great loss of life. .. But Iniki left more than 350 injured and about 7,000 people homeless.
10 years ago — Sept. 22, 2007
Newman will be renamed University Catholic Center
There’s a new name for the Newman Center/Holy Spirit Parish at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The campus ministry center will now be called the University Catholic Center/Holy Spirit Parish to make it more recognizable as a Catholic entity.
Jesuit Father Christopher Cartwright, the pastor and director of the center, said the name University Catholic Center “situates us in the university, proclaims us as Catholic, and the word center says that there’s a [physical] place” on the UH-Manoa campus. …
The bishop granted the request in a letter to Father Cartwright on Sept. 11. …
The center, which is adjacent to Saint Francis School toward the end of East-West Road, has 930 registered members, a third of them university students. It started out as the Newman Club in 1932 and got its first building, the Newman Hall, in 1957.