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50 years ago — Jan. 27, 1967
Renae Sanborn (left) and Kelly Gilman (right) accept the girls’ division trophy in the annual speech contest from the co-sponsor, St. Francis Convent and its principal, Sister Antoinette, O.S.F. The girls represented St. Anthony’s School in Kailua. (Photo by David Charlesworth)
25 years ago — Jan. 31, 1992
Year-round!
Star of the Sea Elementary will be the first Hawaii Catholic grade school to go “year-round” starting in July.
The Waialae-Kahala school will join the approximately 1,000 schools nationwide which spread the required school days more evenly across the calendar. The traditional three-month summer vacation is traded for shorter, more numerous breaks throughout the calendar year.
Darla DeVille, principal of Star of the Sea, calls year-round schooling, “participatory education at its highest level.”
According to DeVille, the school will be offering more continuity to the curriculum, and more opportunities for enrichment and remedial courses and alternative intermural team sports.
10 years ago — Jan. 26, 2007
Musicians, people in pews differ on what encourages singing in church
People in Catholic music ministry and Catholics in the pews hold slightly different opinions on what helps congregations sing, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.
Participants included 1,541 people who said they were involved in church music ministry, and 808 people who said they were not involved in music ministry.
All respondents were asked to choose from up to 14 different factors that help them sing in church, and only two were cited by a majority of the Catholics in the pews: a familiar melody and “easy to sing.” …
The survey was conducted online through the organization’s website, www.npm.org. Results were announced Jan. 10.
