Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Workshop guides school reps through nuts and bolts of grant writing

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Development officers and other representatives from nine Oahu Catholic schools and one representative from Kauai attended the first grants and funding workshop sponsored by the Hawaii Catholic Schools Diocesan Board on April 25 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Twenty-five people participated in the four-and-a-half-hour presentation which featured as guest speaker Maryknoll School’s director of institutional […]

Cathedral first isle Catholic school to adopt ‘project-based’ learning

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Cathedral Catholic Academy will change its method of teaching in the next school year to “project-based learning,” an innovative approach to education which the school describes as “student-centered,” “hands on,” “experiential” and “beyond traditional textbooks and worksheets.” Located on Nuuanu Avenue, the kindergarten through eighth grade parish school for the Cathedral of Our Lady of […]

Maryknoll to expand its top scholarship program

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Maryknoll School’s Kekumano Scholarship program has been expanded for the next school year to awards for 16 students totaling $40,000. “We know there is a great need for tuition assistance, and the board wished to expand the number of students receiving aid through the school’s largest fundraising event, the Kekumano Dinner,” said Cori Weston, Maryknoll […]

First quarter grants to Chaminade top $360,000

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Chaminade University received grants totaling more than $364,000 in the first quarter of 2014. Awards ranged from several thousand dollars for scholarships to $150,000 for campus renovations, and include the following: An anonymous California-based foundation awarded $150,000 for renovations to create new nursing classrooms. First Hawaiian Bank Foundation awarded $75,000 to build new athletics support […]

Chaminade University names nursing lab for late Sen. Inouye

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To honor the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye for his impact on Chaminade University of Honolulu, the university on Feb. 24 named its School of Nursing skills laboratory after him. University president Marianist Brother Bernard Ploeger said Chaminade named room 113 in Henry Hall as the “Senator Daniel K. Inouye Nursing Skills Laboratory” because, according […]

Michael Rockers: Sex curriculum imbued with the Catholic world view

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Several people have asked me recently, “What is the difference between the Pono Choices curriculum, a “safe-sex” and pregnancy prevention program for Hawaii’s public middle schools now under public scrutiny, and what is taught in the Catholic schools?” My answer is, “You can’t even compare Pono Choices with our Family Life Programs. They have different […]

The story of Ann Kazimirski

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On Jan. 27, as part of Catholic Schools Week, the seventh and eighth graders of Holy Family Catholic Academy in Honolulu had the privilege of meeting Seymour Kazimirski, picture above with eighth grader Magellan McCartney,  who told them the story of his mother, a Holocaust survivor. Holy Family eighth grader Ayla Tago wrote the following […]

Bishop to educators: learn from the past, plant seeds for the future

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Catholic educators hold hands praying the Our Father at the educator’s conference, Jan. 31 in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. (HCH photos | Darlene Dela Cruz)   Bishop Larry Silva urged the hundreds of Oahu’s Catholic school teachers and administrators who gathered Jan. 31 in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa for the Annual Conference of […]