NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — March 23, 1973
SEEKING HEAVENLY HELP — Bishop John J. Scanlan, flanked by Msgr. Francis A. Marzen and Father Louis Yim, join with priestly candidate John C. Belt (prostrate) in the recitation of the Litany of the Saints, seeking God’s blessing upon this moment. Belt was ordained March 18, 1973. … Father Belt is presently assigned to Ouer Lady of Peace Cathedral as an assistant pastor and also serves as an assistant editor of the Hawaii Catholic Herald.
25 years ago — March 20, 1998
Documenting a day in God’s dwelling
Ewa Beach school will write and photograph their own book
As the students at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ewa Beach dispersed from a campus assembly March 12, the usual chatter of TV, pop music and what they had for lunch instead turned decidedly prophetic.
“I think God is in the trees and the flowers …,” one older student said.
“Yeah, he’s everywhere,” another boy said.
The purpose of the assembly was the surprise announcement that the school would be writing and photographing their own book — in one day.
Its title — “Seeking God in the Gathering Place” — had much of the student body pondering God’s dwelling places.
10 years ago — March 15, 2013
Making hoop history
The St. Francis boys basketball team emerges from nowhere to hop to the top of the state’s Division II heap
“Awesome!” “Amazing!” A Catholic high school that five years ago didn’t even have boys, now has a state championship boys basketball team.
The St. Francis School boys basketball team notched a historical milestone last month, winning over several of the islands’ best high school hoops squads to take the Division II state championship, Feb. 23.
It’s the first boys basketball title for the Manoa Catholic school, which, after 87 years as an all-girls institution, only last year fully transitioned into a co-ed campus.
