Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 5, 1 May 1988 — Ivy League College Recruiting Native Americans [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ivy League College Recruiting Native Americans

Three Hawaiian Students CheckOut Dartmouth

By Deborah Lee Ward, Assistant Editor Ka Wai Ola O OHA It's the final month of school, and a flurry of activities are occupying the minds of graduating seniors — finals, proms, graduation, goodbye to friends. But as the class of 1988 looks forward to the future, college is on the minds of many. Ka Wai Ola O OHA spoke with three Hawaiian or part Hawaiian seniors who were invited in April to visit the New Hampshire campus of Dartmouth College. As covered in a December, 1987, story in this newspaper, Dartmouth College is conducting an energetic recruiting program for native Americans and native Hawaiians. While eaeh of the three students had applied to and been accepted by an impressive ehoiee of Ivy League colleges, they were interested in the all-expenses paid trip offer by Dartmouth to eheek out the college. Dartmouth has also offered eaeh an attractive financial aid package. At press time, the students had not yet made their final choices, whieh seniors must do by May 1. The three seniors are: Jennifer Chun of Kamehameha Schools, Elizabeth Carey of Maryknoll High School and Raymond Chung of Punahou School. Jennifer Ekela Yukie Chun is the daughter of Thomas S. K. and June Chun of Pearl City. Her sister Christine is an eighth grader at Kamehameha A NationaI Merit finalist, Jennifer ranks third in her graduating class. She has been accepted by the University of Hawaii, University of California at Davis and Dartmouth. She is also wait-listed at Princeton and Harvard universities. While she has not yet decided on a major, Jennifer is interested in either business, education or engineering.

She is recording secretary in student government, president of the math club, and an officer in the campus Japanese club, Club CounciI, and Literary Society. She is also a member of the National Honor Society, speech society, National Forensic League and chapter president of Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society. Elizabeth Sprague Kahalaomapuana Carey, is the daughter of Cyrus Edward Carey and Geraldine Ku'upualehua Kelekolio Carey of Hawaii-Kai. She has two sisters, Victoria Newman Kalehuapuakea, a ninth grader at Maryknoll, and Catherine Anne Kaleihulumamo, a fourth grader at Star of the Sea. A talented and scholastically active student, Elizabeth has been accepted to the University of Chicago, Vassar College, Lake Forest College, Lewis and Clark College, Central University of Iowa and Dartmouth. She told Ka Wai Ola O OHA that she applied to Dartmouth

because her mother had read about it in our December story. Elizabeth is a vice-president and member of the Nahonal Honor Society, and also president of the Maryknoll Hawaiian club. She has danced for the halau of Hoakalei Kamau'u since the fifth grade. She is interested in a career involving languages and international relations, (she has studied Spanish and French), and is looking for a strong college program in this area. Because of her interest in language, she will be spending a year in Spain beginning this summer, through the Ameriean Field Service Program. AFS students live with a family and are able to study language and customs on a first-hand basis. She plans to ask for a one-year deferral admission to college for this reason.

The third student visiting Dartmouth was Raymond Kalikiano Chung, son of Raymond W. L. and May Lee Chung of Manoa. His sister Katherine Maile Chung, who attended Stevenson Intermediate and Punahou School, is graduating from Smith College this summer, on the dean's iist. Raymond was also accepted to the University of California at Davis and to Purdue University, but is strongly interested in the liberal arts program at Dartmouth. His major interests are engineering, physics and math. He is active in the Punahou chorale and Central Union Church, and is an avid reader, and plays football and chess. I

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Raymond Chung