Hawai'i Chapter

15 October 2008

This report is long overdue. In March of 2007, in Auckland, New Zealand, at its first Board Meeting, the newly elected PPSEAWA International Council agreed to accept PPSEAWA Hawaii's invitation to hold the MIDTERM COUNCIL MEETING, in Honolulu, leaving open the date.

The invitations for May of 2008, went out early October 2007. The International Executive Council worked hard to prepare the Agenda, related documents and to set the format for the Council Sessions.

25 September 2008

The Annual General Membership Meeting will be Friday, October 3, 2008, 10:45 am, UN Church Center and followed by the Annual Luncheon and PPSEAWA's 80th birthday to be held at Padre Figio Restaurant, NYC. The guest speaker will be Ambassador Patricia P. Brister, US Representative to the UN commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

1 January 2004

In 1928, did those delegates, over 150 women, from thirteen countries gathered in Hawaii, under the auspices of the Pan Pacific Union, really anticipate a continuity of their first meeting for so many years, devoted to the enduring problems ever challenging women?

The conference was made more memorable when the delegates were honored guests of the Territorial Governor and Mrs. Wallace F. Farrington at Washington Place. The records say "everywhere was lightness, color, and laughter".

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