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50 years ago — May 22, 1970
FIRST GRADE READERS – Achievement tests reveal that Hawaii’s Catholic school students are above the national norm in the reading process. The students pictured above attend Maryknoll Elementary School. In the back row are John Agrellas, Peter Stahl, Kris Markey; front row, Samuel Makahanaloa, Hitomi Kimura, Elizabeth Chun and Sister Maria Cordis of the Maryknoll Order.
25 years ago — June 16, 1995
Pilgrimage to a beatification
More than 35,000 people from all over the world surround the Basilica of Koelkelberg in Brussels, Belgium, June 4 for the beatification Mass of Father Damien. … Mother Teresa was spotted sitting in the audience before the start of the papal Mass. She later greeted the folks from Hawaii who participated in the offertory procession and those who received the relic along with members of the Halau Hula O Maiki and Marianist Brother Franklin Pao, who performed an oli chant.
10 years ago — June 11, 2010
‘Lost’ finds ‘heaven’ on Sacred Hearts Academy campus
The gateway to heaven is through the chapel doors at Sacred Hearts Academy in Kaimuki. Or so one could argue if he or she watched the series finale of the TV show “Lost,” on May 23. Several key scenes in the last episode were shot at the all-girls Catholic school.
The finale’s penultimate scene showed the major characters from the TV show’s six seasons reuniting after their deaths in a church before “moving on” to another life, as character Christian Shephard called it in the episode, named “The End.”