Posted at 6:22 p.m., Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Damien graduate gets Nainoa Hoe scholarship
Advertiser Staff
A $1,000 scholarship was presented to a Damien High School graduate today at Schofield Barracks in the name of 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe of Kailua, a Kamehameha Schools graduate who was killed in Iraq in 2005.The inaugural 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe scholarship was presented to Justin Sambueno of Kalihi at the battle command training center at Schofield that bears Hoe's name.
Hoe's father, Allen, along with Ohelo Kaopio and Col. Matthew Margotta, who commands the U.S. Army Garrison, Hawai'i, presented the scholarship to Sambueno.
Sambueno, 18, the son of Jason and Muriel Sambueno, will attend DePauw University.
The scholarship was endowed by Kaopio, a Waimanalo businessman.
