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50 years ago — Aug. 6, 1971
SENIOR CITIZENS – At a recent meeting of the Campaign for Human Development, the various interested parties met to discuss the 120 apartments to be built for senior citizens on the ground of the Sacred Heart Convent School on Bates Street. Those taking part in the discussion were: (left to right) Mother Philomena Fraga, SS.CC.; Wayne Howard, director of Development of Hawaii Council for Housing Action; Rev. Richard Neil, executive director of HCHA; Rev. Edwin J. Duffy, director of Campaign for Human Development. Others not show in the picture and yet who participated in the discussion were Sister Grace Marie Tom, SS.CC.; Sister Carmen Mary Cruz, SS.CC.; Sister Mary Gertrude Creach, SS.CC.; architect Duane Cobeen of Hogan and Chapman Firm; Thomas Flynn, attorney.
25 years ago — Aug. 9, 1996
An Easter story
Officially dead and gone for 26 years, an old soldier returns to a rejoicing family
He was 1996’s Easter story, for he had returned from the dead.
The frail, aged man, a shadow of the handsome trim soldier he once was, stood with his brothers and sisters in the sanctuary of Kalihi’s St. Anthony Church at a June 2 Mass of thanksgiving celebrated by his priest brother, Father Henry Sabog.
He is U.S. Army Master Sergeant Mateo (Matt) Sabog, missing for 26 years and once declared dead by the United States Government. A Vietnam veteran, his name is carved into the gray granite wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Editor’s Note: Mateo Sabog lived the rest of his life back in Hawaii where he died in 2007. His brother, Father Henry Sabog, passed away in 2017.
10 years ago — Aug. 5, 2011
Aloha, Carmen. Mahalo nui loa
Hawaii’s Catholic Schools needed a superintendent like Carmen Himenes — a believer. Himenes believes in the tremendous value of Catholic education and its power to evangelize, to mold responsible, generous American citizens in an environment of Catholic values and morals, to pass on the faith, and to sacramentalize and sanctify a new generation.
