Awards & scholarships

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Professor honored

Colby College alumna Diane Scrafton Ferreira of Pa'auilo, Hawai'i, a professor of English at Hawai'i Community College, received the Colby Outstanding Educator Award at the college's recent Family Homecoming Weekend. A member of Colby's Class of 1961, she began teaching in Chapel Hill, N.C., at the first high school in the United States to be racially integrated.

In 1970, as a faculty member of Leeward Community College, she created the English 102 curriculum.

In 1999 Ferreira team-taught with two faculty colleagues and three public school teachers in a learning-community program called "Creating Communities for the New Millennium," which brought public school children to the college campus and took college students to the children's classrooms to build partnerships. The program was recognized with the University of Hawai'i's Innovation of the Year Award for its positive impact.

Ferreira also served on the University of Hawai'i Professional Assembly Executive Committee as president of the Hawaii Association of Staff Program and Organizational Development.

Math students recognized

Mathematical Association of America scholarship awards sponsored by The Akamai Foundation have been awarded to several students who performed exceptionally well on the American Invitation Mathematics Exam. They are: Yoshio Goto and Ryan Lau of Iolani School and Nyssa Thompson of Punahou School.

Scholarship winners named

• Susan Culliney of Waimanalo has been designated a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar at Bowdoin College.
• Brian Leamy, a student at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, was one of 79 undergraduate students nationwide chosen to receive an Undergraduate Scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The foundation receives more than $500 million in assets from the estate of the late media mogul who also owned the Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Redskins.
• Felix Hing Tong Lui, son of Eileen and Anthony Lui of 'Ewa Beach, recently received an Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholarship to study at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He is a 2002 graduate of McKinley High School who gained recognition through his scientific achievements.
  
  
  

JA graduates begin college

Three outstanding graduates of the Junior Achievement high school program began college this semester, thanks to the Junior Achievement of Hawaii Scholars Program. They are: Judy Relosimon, a 2002 graduate of Farrington High School who plans to major in business, marketing and advertising at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa; Kurt Nakamura, a 2002 graduate of Hilo High School, who attends the University of Southern California; and Mijken Ray, a 2002 graduate of Waiakea High School, who will major in international business management at Brigham Young University-Hawai'i in La'ie.

Football player earns grant

Junior Achievement of Hawaii Inc. has awarded its first ever $1,000 NFL Charities Pro Bowl Scholarship to Victor Akauola, thanks to a grant from the National Football League Charities Pro Bowl Grant Committee. The 2002 Lahainaluna High School graduate was a starting offensive and defensive lineman on the school's MIL championship football team. He plans to major in communications at Maui Community College and to continue his education at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.