SHINING STARS
Rice aplenty for Hawaii Foodbank
More than 260 students at
ASSETS School collected 5,276 pounds of rice during a two-week rice drive for the
Hawaii Foodbank.
The Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at the University of Hawaii-Manoa received a two-year, $630,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to support its Na'au Pono Initiative. The funding will support the center's classes and programs for native Hawaiians and other Pacific and indigenous peoples.
The Women's Club of the College of Hawaii elected the following to its 2007-08 board: President Aurora Fruehling, past President Judy Rubano, Vice Presidents Brigitte Campbell and Lenore Johnson, Treasurer Annette Hee, Secretaries May Uyehara and Christobel Sanders, and Honorary President Wendy McClain.
Dr. Chester Ho, an acclaimed researcher and physician at the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center, was given the Morita Distinguished Fellow award by the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Ho came here for consultations and speeches on the latest in spinal cord research.
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