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STARADVERTISER / MARCH 13, 1973
Wright Bowman, once a child apprentice to a Hawaiian canoe builder, polishes a nearly 40-foot racing canoe he made from a single koa log. Bowman is about to retire from his job as Hawaiian crafts teacher at Kamehameha Schools.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 27, 1963
Sister Peter Maris, a seventh grade teacher at Maryknoll School, and Misue Lum, a fifth grade teacher at Lunalilo School, watch as NASA lecturer Robert Ryder explains during a presentation at the University of Hawaii how the U.S. mooncraft Surveyor will be used for unmanned lunar exploration.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 14, 1971
Bumper stickers that read “Car Pools Work” are beginning to appear on cars around town. Occupants of this car practice what the sign on the bumper preaches.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 25, 1965
Here are Honolulu’s first two minibuses, designed to shuttle 30 passengers each from the Honolulu International Center to downtown and from the Toyo Theatre to the center.STARADVERTISER / MARCH 1, 1970
A new kind of academic freedom is being experienced by 170 biology majors in the University of Hawaii’s Biology Program, designed to train future scientists. It offers “open-ended” laboratories that allow students to work independently and set their own pace. Biology students, above, study in their individual carrels.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MAY 1, 1971
Barbara Carter, left, from Niu Valley Intermediate School suddenly found herself champion in the 22nd annual State Spelling Bee when she correctly spelled affi davit to win a spell-down against June Hashizume from Kapaa High and Intermediate School on Kauai in the last moments of the competition held at Farrington High School’s auditorium.STARADVERTISER / MARCH 23, 1976
Kam Wah, 76, behind the counter at Crackseed Center in Moiliili, keeps busy running the 25-year-old store across the street from the Varsity Theater. The store is a family-run operation that has been sucessful enough to send the four Kam children to college. “I’m not a rich man,” Kam said, “But my children have all been able to finish school.”