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50 years ago — Feb. 27, 1970
Needle and Thread Were Busy at CYO Art Workshop
Sunhild Hampson receives an assist from Sister Susan Glass, M.M. (right) of the CYO Art Department.
For more than forty people on Saturday afternoon, the CYO Art Workshop held at St. Patrick’s Auditorium provided a challenging experience. Armed with thimbles, needles, yarn and burlap, they began practicing various stitches…Those in attendance included teachers, craft helpers and students from fifteen parishes around the island…Some teach crafts, art, language, and religion classes, in addition to basic curriculum subjects. Others were simply interested in learning a creative skill.
25 years ago — Feb. 24, 1995
Father Robert Mackey
A dedicated educator, an enriching presence, a generous life.
You can almost always find Marianist Father Robert Mackey in or around the Mystical Rose Oratory on the Chaminade University of Honolulu Campus. As chaplain and director of special ministries, he can be seen offering the Eucharist on a Sunday morning, blessing a wedding of a Chaminade or St. Louis graduate, worshiping with a group of the Family of Mary on a Monday evening, or acting as confessor for St. Louis students.
Father Mackey is the founder [and was the first president] of Chaminade University.
Editor’s Note: Father Mackey passed away on Feb. 5, 1995, and Chaminade now holds an annual lecture series in his honor.
10 years ago — Feb. 19, 2010
Fire destroys St. Sophia, Kaunakakai’s main church
“The church is on fire.”
The word spread quickly over Molokai by phone the night of Feb. 11, but not quick enough to save the 73-year-old St. Sophia Church in Kaunakakai. …
The church was going to be demolished later this year to make way for the building of a new one. Still, sad thoughts went through [parishioner Rose] Brito’s mind as she looked at the charred structure illuminated in the dark night by the firefighter’ flood lamps.
Editor’s Note: The new St. Damien of Molokai Church, replacing St. Sophia, was completed and dedicated in December 2011.