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50 years ago — Feb. 28, 1969
Chaminade Prof Receives Legion of Merit Honor
Captain Jack J. Lynch (USN, Ret.), assistant professor of business at Chaminade College, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for “exceptionally meritorious performance of duty as chief of the Joint Petroleum Office, Logistics Division of CINCPAC from July 1965 to August 1968.
Lynch retired from military service on September 1, 1968, after a 27½ year Naval career. He was commissioned in 1941 following graduation from the University of California.
Lynch was cited for his outstanding ability, judgement and professional knowledge of worldwide petroleum matters during a period of increased petroleum consumption in Southeast Asia.
25 years ago — Feb. 25, 1994
Oahu’s most far-flung Catholic elementary school gains a new lease on life and learning
Just two short years ago, St. Michael Parish Elementary School, nestled on the edge of a Waialua sugarcane field way out on Oahu’s north shore, came perilously close to closing just short of its 50th anniversary.
That was before help arrived in a dynamic part-Hawaiian Franciscan Sister. Appointed as principal in 1992, Sister William Marie Eleniki took the sleepy kindergarten through eighth grade school of 125 students and hustled and bustled life back into it.
10 years ago — Feb. 20, 2009
Bishop delivers abortion postcard protest to congressional offices
Bishop Larry Silva was a mailman, delivery person and pro-life advocated rolled into one when he led a small delegation on Feb. 13 that brought more than 40,000 postcards protesting the Freedom of Choice Act, or FOCA, to the Honolulu offices of Hawaii’s U.S. senators and representatives.
The postcards, transported in cardboard boxes by hand truck, are part of a protest campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, opposing the proposed bill that, they said, would turn abortion into a “fundamental right that government could not limit but would have to support.”