The September 11th attack
Trade Center victim Maile Hale remembered
By Walter Wright
Advertiser Staff Writer
Family and friends have gathered to pay tribute to former Hawai'i resident Maile Rachel Hale, who was killed Sept. 11 in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
Her life was celebrated at a memorial Sept. 29 in the Aloha Meetinghouse of Mystic Seaport, Conn., where she had spent a maritime studies semester before graduating from Wesleyan University.
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Donations in the memory of Maile Hale may be sent to Labaree Scholarship Endowment Fund, c/o Williams-Mystic Program, P. O. Box 6000, Mystic, CT 06355-0990; and Rotary Club of Honolulu Foundation, c/o Royal Hawaiian Hotel, 2259 Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu, HI 96815.
Hale, of Boston, was attending a seminar at Windows on the World restaurant at the Trade Center when terrorists flew commercial jetliners into the twin towers.
She was 26.
Born in Honolulu on Valentine's Day 1975, Hale was a Kaiser High School valedictorian in 1993.
"I don't think there's a gentler, kinder soul than Maile," said librarian Diane Ueki.
After graduating from Wesleyan, Hale moved to Boston and went to work in 1997 as an administrative assistant for Boston Investor Services. Within two years she was named vice president and chief operating officer.
Her "wonderful sense of humor pervaded everything she did," said company president Ted Wendell.
Hale is survived by her parents, Rob and CarolAnn Hale of Honolulu; sisters Marilyce Hale of Boston and Martha Farrell of Providence; and grandfather Nathan S. Hale of Buckland, Mass.
