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IN THE MILITARY
Grumman Corp. honors
Inouye with battleship fundCFC nets $4.6 million
By Gregg K. Kakesako
Star-BulletinThe National Grumman Corp. has established the Sen. Daniel K. Inouye USS Missouri Heritage Preservation Fund, which will fund the battleship's restoration and youth-education programs.
The USS Missouri Association was recently presented a $25,000 check for the continued development of the battleship memorial now anchored at Ford Island.
Inouye, a decorated World War II hero, was instrumental in getting the Navy to donate the battleship to the island organization
Twenty-eight soldiers from Schofield Barracks' 45th Corps Support Group are in East Timor for 90 days assisting in the nation's recovery.
The soldiers make up a platoon from the 84th Engineer Combat Battalion.
A United Nations peacekeeping contingency force is currently in Deli, the capital of East Timor, providing security where 25 years of violence has left the country's infrastructure in disrepair.
The International Hospitality Center is seeking volunteers to help with a reception planned on July 2 for the Australian and Chilean navies participating in RIMPAC 2000 war games. For details, call the center at 521-3554.
More than 300 photographs from the Robert F. Walden collection of activities at Pearl Harbor during World War II have been donated to the University of Hawaii. The photographs focus on the salvaging of ships damaged during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941, and on civilian work crews.
Walden worked as an officer in Pearl Harbor's civilian housing area III from 1941-46. His collection includes photographs and manuscripts describing the development of the area. During the war, more than 12,000 lived in the housing area.
Walden's collection also contains 600 pages of manuscripts, including reports, copies of letters, war diaries of Adm. William Furlong, commandant of the Navy Yard, and speeches by Adm. Chester Nimitz, Pacific Fleet commander in chief.
Hawaii’s military and
Star-Bulletin staff
federal employees donate
record $4.6 million to charityHawaii's military, civilian and federal employees led the nation in the percentage of people giving to charities in 1999.
About 66.5 percent of the state's 70,000 military, civilian and federal employees donated a record $4,645,350 to the National Combined Federal Campaign.
The federal campaign holds yearly fund-raisers for local, national and international charities.
The Aloha United Way runs the fund-raiser for Hawaii and Nita Yates, director of the Hawaii-Pacific Area federal campaign, helps coordinate the campaign with federal agencies.
Yates said last year's campaign raised more than $1.6 million for local charities.
"Most of the federal employees in Hawaii are military and are only temporary residents, but they have been very, very supportive of the community," she said.
The Combined Federal Campaign began in 1961 as a method to streamline gift giving by federal employees. Every October, federal employees are asked to donate one hour of pay per month to one of the 1,400 charities listed by the federal campaign. In 1998, the campaign raised $206.4 million nationally.
Nationwide the number of donors has decreased, said Christopher Jay, the executive director of the Honolulu-Pacific Federal Executive Board.
"The trend is fewer people are donating, but the ones who are give more," he said. The Federal Executive Board is the "coordinating arm" between all federal agencies in the state and coordinates national Combined Federal Campaign fund-raising.
In 1999, the Hawaii National Guard and the U.S. Postal Service topped the list among large federal agencies in the state by donating 71 percent and 70 percent of their one-hour-of-pay-per-month giving potential.
Among the smaller federal agencies located in Hawaii, employees at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service donated 122 percent of their potential, while the U.S. Passport Agency gave 93 percent.
