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50 years ago: Aug. 29, 1969
Chaminade’s New Women Residence Now Completed
Hale Lokelani, a new, three-story, 80-student women’s residence facility will be available to Chaminade College students with the opening of the fall semester next week…
Located off Kaminaka Drive on the upper college campus, the new facility was erected at a cost of $445,000, and was financed by a college housing loan from the U.S. Office of Housing and Urban Development. …
Furnishings for the structure, totaling some $30,000, include wall-to-wall carpeting throughout the building, an intercom system connected to the reception desk and chandelier-like lighting fixtures with special rheostat controls. …
The parlor was furnished by the Chaminade Alumni Association which also provided a color television set for the recreation area.
Editor’s Note: Hale Lokelani is now a co-ed, first-year student dorm at Chaminade.
25 years ago: Sept. 9, 1994
Best attended
House-to-house invitations by the Santo Nino Prayer Group of Maui brought out about 100 participants for an evangelization workshop conducted by Maryknoll Sister Grace Dorothy Lim, Aug. 3-7 at the Maui Adult Day Care Center in Puunene, Maui. Sister Grace Dorothy, who, as director of the diocesan Office of Ethnic Ministries, holds these workshops to promote Filipino ministry in the islands, said the Maui seminar was the best attended up to this point. Participants from Kahului, Kihei, Makawao and other points on the Valley Isle learned “the basics” of the Catholic faith, including salvation history, church history, the sacrament of baptism, and marriage. The Santo Nino Prayer Group attends the weekly Bible study by Father Florencio Rebebes, the coordinator of Filipino Ministry on Maui.
10 years ago: Sept. 4, 2009
Bishop urges parishes, schools to view canonization on TV
In an e-mail message “to all parishes and schools regarding Father Damien’s canonization,” Bishop Larry Silva encouraged them to “view these historic festivities together in parish halls or churches” on television.
The canonization Mass, celebrated on Oct. 11 by Pope Benedict XVI at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, will be broadcast live on EWTN, which will be 10 p.m., Oct. 10, Hawaii time.
