SHINING STARS
$150,000 raised for cancer research
The
Friends of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii raised more than $150,000 last October at the group's sixth annual fundraising event. More than 200 businesses made donations to the "Mauka Makai: Voyage of Discovery 2007" drive at Waialae Country Club.
Honored at the event were Joanna L. Sullivan and her late husband, Maurice J. Sullivan, for their contributions to cancer research, treatment and education in the state.
The Oo Syak Gee Lu Chinese Society awarded three of its four annual $1,000 scholarships to siblings John William K.M. Chang, a junior at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.; Roy Nicholas K.W. Chang, a graduate student of Stanford University in California; and Victoria M.L. Chang, a law student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. They are from Kahala and are graduates of Iolani and Punahou schools.
The fourth scholarship went to Morgen L.O. Chang, also of Kahala, a Punahou graduate now attending Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.
The society is a charitable organization formed in 1897 by former residents and descendants of a Cantonese village.
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