Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 8, 1 August 1986 — Repeat Winner Ayau is also UH Haumana Recipient [ARTICLE]

Repeat Winner Ayau is also UH Haumana Recipient

Nanaikapono HCC Awards Three Scholarships

Three Nanakuli High School graduates are recipients of scholarship awards presented by the Nanaikapono Hawaiian Civic Club July 12 at its annual fund raising scholarship luau held at Aunty Lydia Namahana Maioho's Nanakuli residence. One of the three — Elyse Ayau— is a repeat winner. She is a 1984 graduate and has been a scholarship recipient the past three years. She is currently a junior at the University of Hawaii Manoa campus where she is majoring in pre-med technology. She is also in the Haumana Biomedical Program at Manoa whieh is designed for native or part Hawaiian undergraduate students pursuing careers in the bio medical sciences. Miss Ayau began working fulltime June 1 in a research laboratory during the summer with a selected university faculty member on a biomedically related research project. During the school year, she will continue her research efforts on a part-time basis while carrying a mini-

mum of 12 university course credits. Haumana and the Minority Access to Research (MARC) Honors Program are funded by the Nahonal Institutes of Health. The other two recipients are 1986 graduates who are pursuing higher education. They are Charmaine Mahiai and Crystal Ballinti. Both plan careers in business with Charmaine going to Leeward Community College and Crystal enrolling at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore. Charmaine was on the dean's list at Nanakuli and belonged to the National Honor Society. She was also the class valedictorian. Crystal was active in sports and is also the recipient of an award from the Nanakuli Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). Among two of today's prominent people who benefited from Nanaikapono HCC scholarships some 25 years ago are Office of Hawaiian Affairs Administrator

Kamaki A. Kanahele III and Joseph Lapilio, administrative assistant in the office of the governor. Kanahele was among the more than 270 people in attendance and he was called upon to address the crowd. He was later to speak to members of the Waimanalo Hawaiian Homes Association at their installation banquet in Kaneohe. Nanaikapono officers are Caesar Paishon III, president; Marjorie Plaee, vice president; Maunaala Chillingworth, second vice president; Doreen K. Lindsey, secretary; Tasha Lindsey, treasurer. Directors are Christina Kunukau who is also the past president; Buster Plaee, Hale Paishon, Clifford Chillingworth, Joseph Kahaulelio, Charles Lindsey, Genevieve Shito and Sarah Kawailima.

Entertainment was furnished by the Sounds of West Beach and the Hi'ipoi Serenaders. Bruce Keppeler, president of the Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, rendered two songs shortly after ' arriving from a eouneil meeting in Wahiawa. Kupuna Katherine Maunakea, a lauhala artisan who teaches classes at the Bishop Museum, founded and organized the club 38 years ago on May 12, 1948. It was chartered Apr. 16, 1966, thus becoming the seventh club in the association following Honolulu, Koolauloa, Waialua, Waianae, Koolaupoko and Ewa. Today, there are 42 Hawaiian Civic Clubs in the state. The Hawaiian Civic Club movement was conceived by Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole and the principle objective of the clubs has been to raise funds so that well-deserving Hawaiian youths may achieve their educational goals. There are other club objectives such as being involved in civic, community and social affairs, particularly those affecting Hawaiians; develop and support projects and programs to both teach and leam about the Hawaiian heritage; and to serve as examples of being a good citizen.