Month: April 2017

Caroline Lee, an LIS student, has received the Faith C. Ai Memorial Scholarship. Caroline will be using the $5,000 award toward her tuition. She thanks the interview panel and board for selecting her. She said:

Teaching high school students have been tremendously rewarding and dedicating my life to my school and students has left me with absolutely zero regrets. Trying to balance full time teaching, multiple school related organizations, motherhood and graduate school has been a daunting task. However, the LIS graduate program has been one of the best professional experiences of my life and I can only hope to show my gratitude by my continued commitment to serving our community as a future librarian and educator.

This scholarship is dedicated to Faith C. Ai (1915-1997), who was a teacher, administrator, and a community volunteer who dedicated her life to public education. The scholarship is awarded to deserving students currently enrolled in an accredited American college or university who are undergraduates majoring in Education, graduate students intending to teach, or certified teachers who are pursuing graduate degrees.

The LIS Program is pleased to announce that Hōkū Kaʻahaʻāina was selected as a recipient of the 2017-2018 H.W. Wilson Scholarship, which is generously funded by the H.W. Wilson Foundation.

Hoku shared the following about herself with the LIS Program:

After seven years of college on the mainland, study abroad, and teaching English in Japan on the JET Program, I was feeling rather homesick. The next question was this: what would I do when I finally returned home? Iʻm the kind of person who always needs a plan of action, so winging it upon arrival was definitely not an option. When trying to puzzle my future out, I saw one person who knew where she was going, and she was going there fast: my fellow Kamehameha Schools alumna Kylie Kaʻeo. Through her commitment to the community and her passion for libraries, I was inspired to pursue a degree in LIS like she did.

Approximately one year later, Iʻm in library school as a part-time student and thanks to the H.W. Wilson Foundation scholarship, Iʻll be able to move to full-time status for the upcoming academic year. When not in class, I can usually be found at work in the Richardson Law Library or ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi. Although my next goal is working in the local public library system, working in these different settings with a wide cast of characters is proving to be a great experience. Itʻs funny how my life has come to revolve around libraries in such a short amount of time.