The KHS Class of 1964 has been supporting the awards of at least two scholarships, one to a Waimanalo resident and the other to a Kailua resident that will be awarded annually.  To support these scholarships, in 2017 we established the Hana Hou Hui (One More Time Club or Encore Club) whereby classmates have pledged to make a yearly donation of $50 or more for five years. A reminder was sent out to HHH members to send in checks for the coming year on October 31st so we would know how many scholarships and what amounts we would offer at the May Awards Ceremony at KHS.  Due to the generosity of many members of the class, we collected enough funds to support many more than two scholarships.  However, as of June 2021, we will no longer be soliciting funds for the scholarships but will use whatever is in the scholarship fund for a final round of KHS scholarship awards in 2022.  In 2022 we decided to solicit funds for another year of scholarships in 2023.  This resulted in an overwhelming amount from generous members of the Class of 1964 that we will be able to fund a final year of scholarships in 2024 without soliciting additional funds.

Tax deductible scholarship support checks should be made payable and sent to:

Friends of Kailua

c/o Kailua High School

451 Ulumanu Drive

Kailua, HI 96734

Please indicate on your check that it is for the "Class of 1964 Scholarship".

2023 KHS Scholarship Awards

This year, we opened up the scholarship donations to classmates other than those in the Hana Hou Hui, that had pledged to donate funds for 5 years.  Wereceived an overwhelming amount of donations totaling $26,000.  As a result, we were able to fund seven $2000 scholarships, including the Haywood Kalima Memorial Scholarship.  The remaining funds will be used to fund our last year of scholarships without the need to solicit additional funds. 

The 2023 KHS Class of 1964 Scholarships were awarded to Ashlyn Tai (Haywood Kalima Memorial Award), Margaret Rose Agcaoili, Abigail Dumlao Bolo, Malia Forness, Alicia Kaita, Steven Inouye, and Jacob Su'a Tisdale.

The scholarship awardees submitted video "thank you's" to the class, which can be viewed below or watched on YouTube.

2022 KHS Scholarship Awards

Last year was to be our 5th and final year for offering our KHS Class of 1964 Scholarships.  However, so few students applied so we decided to offer a final round of scholarships in 2022.  We awarded five scholarships ranging from $500 to $1400 to use up our remaining scholarship funds.  The five recipients were, Kai Kaneko, Hunter Ryman, Jaren Shimoko, Madeline Tamura, and Precious Wilson.  Four members of the Scholarship Committee, Irene Mackenzie Chung, Lena Waki Kanemori, Joyce Ono McCaman, and Joanne Katsuyama Swearingen, met on the KHS campus to review the applications and attended the Awards Ceremony on May 7, 2022 to present the scholarships to the awardees.

We asked each of the students to submit a video of their thank you's to our class and the video below was created to capture their messages.  The Scholarship Committee was so impressed by these students that we decided to solicit funds from our class for scholarship awards in 2023.  An email was sent to class members to submit a minimum of $20 to the Friends of Kailua (see information above) by July 31, 2022.  

Class of 1964 Awardees

Class of 1976 Awardees

Class of ’64 Scholarship Committee members, Irene Mackenzie Chung, Lena Waki Kanemori, and Joanne Katsuyama Swearingen presented the 5 scholarships awarded this year due to the generosity of our class members!

 CLASS OF 1964: Chris Croft, Joanne Katsuyama Swearingen, Conor Lyden (Kailua), Kaho’opomaika’i Kekua (Geographic Exception), Joseph Hernandez (Waimanalo), Lena Waki Kanemori.

 CLASS OF 1986: Nikki Harada, presenter, Matthew Nagao, and Ambrosia-Ariana Kaleo.

The KHS Cafetorium was filled with enthusiastic students, their families and friends who attended the Awards Ceremony.

This photo was featured in the Midweek Windward issue.  Click HERE to see a copy.  We're featured on page 5.