Damien debate team does well
Advertiser Staff
A Damien Memorial School debate team finished in the top 20 among teams competing last week in the National Forensic League's championship event.
Junior Christopher Ballesteros placed eighth in a field of 454 in national speech competition at the event, held in Wichita, Kan., according to a release from Damien Memorial. Ballesteros has won the past two Impromptu Speaking state titles.
Damien's Public Forum Debate team includes Ballesteros and Brack Duvall, also a junior.
A Hawai'i student last won a National Forensic League title in 1990 when Chad Ho of Damien took top honors in U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking. Ho is now vice president for business and legal affairs at My Space.com in Beverly Hills, Calif.
LA PIETRA TO HONOR ANTHONY
Alice F. Guild, chair of the La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls board of rrustees, announced this month that the athletic complex at La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls will be named after Barbara Cox Anthony, who founded the school with Lorraine Day Cooke in 1964. Anthony died May 28.
La Pietra, founded in 1962 as Hawaii School for Girls, first opened its doors at Central Union Church in Honolulu. The school is currently situated on the former Walter and Louise Dillingham estate.
$150,000 GIFT FOR HAWAIIAN JOBS
The Hawaii Building Industry Foundation is the recipient of a $150,000 Office of Hawaiian Affairs grant to prepare Native Hawaiians to enter the construction industry through a pre-apprenticeship construction training career program.
Full scholarships are available for Native Hawaiians and Hawaiian clients through the Construction Training Center of the Pacific.
The CTC is a nonprofit organization established by the Hawaii Building Industry Foundation to provide educational opportunities within the construction industry.
Applications for Kapili Pu scholarships are now available online at info@ConstructionTraining.org, or may be picked up at the Building Industry Association of Hawaii offices on Dillingham Boulevard.
Interested applicants may also contact Barbara Nishikawa, 847-4666, ext. 212. The deadline for the first training tract is Aug. 15.
