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ON RELIGION

Shuttles will run
to Punchbowl rites

Star-Bulletin staff

The Easter Sunrise Service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl, has been an island tradition since 1902.

The gates will open at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow for the 6:15 a.m. service.

TheBus will run shuttle service with pickups in Waikiki and on Alapai Street. Buses marked "Special Punchbowl" will depart from the Monsarrat Avenue terminal near the Waikiki Shell at 5:15 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. and make pickups along Kuhio Avenue and Kalakaua Avenue and at the Kapiolani Boulevard bus stop fronting the Hard Rock Cafe. People may also board the shuttle at the Alapai Street terminal at about 5:30 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. The regular fare of $1 will be charged.

The Right Rev. Richard S.O. Chang, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Hawaii, will deliver the Easter message.

The Royal Hawaiian Band and the University of the Philippines Concert Chorus will provide music at the service. Liturgical dance and hula will be presented by "The Company" from The Movement Center.

The Easter offering will go to support the Samaritan Counseling Center and Nu'u Ministries, an outreach project for high-risk youth operated by four Samoan churches in the United Church of Christ Hawaii Conference.

An ecumenical coalition of Oahu churches sponsors the event.

Service to celebrate 100 years of YWCA in isles

The 100th anniversary of the establishment of the YWCA in Hawaii will be celebrated April 30 in a 4 p.m. service at Central Union Church.

Jane Lee Wolfe, president of the World YWCA, will be guest speaker at the event, which is open to the public.

Sixty-five women attended the first Honolulu meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association on April 30, 1900, at the home of Emma Dillingham, which was on the site of Central Union Church.

The national organization was formed to help young working women adjust to the changing lifestyle of the Industrial Revolution. As it did elsewhere, the YWCA in Honolulu has offered classes in a variety of skills and safe residential facilities for women in transition.

Susan Au Doyle, president and chief executive of the YWCA of Oahu, said: "At one time we taught lace making and typing. Today we help women with job training and child-care needs."

Reservations for the commemorative service may be made by calling Robin Doubleday, 538-7061, ext. 210.

Hallstrom appointed to Mormon quorum

Honolulu businessman Donald L. Hallstrom has been appointed to the international administrative organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Church President Gordon B. Hinckley named Hallstrom to the First Quorum of the Seventy, which administers church activities under the direction of the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles.

Hallstrom, 50, has been area authority, top lay leader position in the Mormon church in Hawaii. He is president of The Hallstrom Group Inc., a real estate consulting and appraisal firm.

With his new title as a general authority, he will serve the church full time until the age of 70, according to a church release.