University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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New members are sworn in. Pi Omega Pi A national society. Pi Omega Pi is composed of students in Business Education who have demonstrated high scholarship. The aims of the society are: to create, encourage, promote, and extend interest in scholarship; to promote the ideal of civic betterment through ihe practice of good citizenship; to encourage and promote high ethical standards in busi- ness and professional life; to teach the ideal of service as the basis of all worthy enterprise. Members strive to take an intelligent and active part in community affairs and to acquire and develop desirable traits and attitudes through participation in chapter activities- Through experience they acquire a keen sense of right standards and an ideal of service as the basis of all worthy effort. A pledge ceremony held in November inducted three members. During the spring, an initiation ceremony was held for members accepted during the second semester. The year ' s calendar consisted of dinner meetings, speakers, and service projects. Genevieve Clark Mary Culkin Mae Hirano Doris Imamoto Mei Quin Lee Mary Lum i j . yi Hi- V Ellen Togo Jade Tom Charlotte Tuthill Alciko U yeda 27

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Nancy Abe Marylou Downs Ruth Horiuchi Flora Kawamoto Lillian Kitagawa Elinor Kilamura Lillian Sakai Karol van der Veur advisor Carolyn Yap Paul van der Veur advisor Hui Pookeld As the only senior women ' s honorary society on campus, Hui Pookela, which means The Chosen Ones, concentrated its efforts this past year towards gaining membership in Mortar Board, a national senior women ' s honorary for high scholarship and activities. However, service to the University and community was not neglected and to this end members undertook a campus beautification project and engaged in volunteer work For the group ' s enjoyment and enlightenment coifee hours were held with several Uni- versity professors at which time various topics were discussed. Officers were Marylou Downs, president; Lillian Sakai, vice-president; Nancy Abe, secretary; and Carolyn Yap, treasurer. Advising the group were Dr. and Mrs. Paul van der Veur. Coifee tete-a-tete 26

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Harold Bilner Arthur Ernes Henry Iwasa Charles Mcrrshman Seiji Naya John Pietruszkie ' wicz Reginald Young Omicron Delta. Kappa The national honor society of Omicron Delta Kappa was founded in 1914 at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. There ace about ninety circles established throughout the uppermost universities in the United Stdes at the present time. The primary purpose of the organization is to honor student achievement in campus activities and scholarship, with emphasis being qualitative excellence in both. Membership is confined to junior and senior me.T possessing an accumulative grade point minimum of 3.0 and a required number of major activities. This includes leadership performances in scholarship, student government, athletics, student publications or speech and dramatic arts. Claude Kanemori, Ryokichi Higashionna, Samuel Blackman, Rudolph Rummel, Richard Esaki. 28