NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — June 16, 1972
Brother James Anguay Is Ordained a Priest
The Fathers of the Sacred Hearts, the initial group of Catholic priests that brought the Faith to these islands, received a new member last Friday evening. Brother James C.P. Anguay, SS.CC. became a priest. The ordaining prelate was the Most Reverend John J. Scanlan, Bishop of Honolulu. The ordination took place at St. Joseph’s Church in Waipahu.
Editor’s Note: Father Anguay died in 2014 after serving in Hawaii, Chicago and the Cook Islands.
25 years ago — June 13, 1997
A dream come true
Fifty years of prayers have finally been answered. On Aug. 4, the first Catholic high school on Kauai will open its doors.
St. Francis School Kauai Campus, a satellite of the well-known Oahu all-girls St. Francis School, will also be the first new Catholic high school in the state since Damien Memorial opened in Honolulu in 1962.
The new school will be co-ed and open with grades nine and ten only. Grade 11 will be added next year and grade 12 the year following.
Editor’s Note: St. Francis’ Kauai campus closed in 2001.
10 years ago — June 8, 2012
A tradition ends
At the commencement ceremony for Saint Francis School, May 27 … the words from the song “Wherever I Go” were especially appropriate for this year’s historic ceremony. The class of 2012, comprised of 52 bright young ladies, would be the last all-girls class to graduate from the Manoa institution. …
Saint Francis will be a fully co-ed, pre-kindergarten to 12th grade school beginning this fall. The school officially ends its 87-year tradition of all-girls education as it sends off this year’s high school graduates.
Editor’s Note: Saint Francis School closed permanently in 2019.
