The Black and Gold 1975
Ethnic Clubs Nurture Friendship, Perpetuate Culture
No other club can boast of having the school principal as an adviser as the SAMOAN FAALOFANI CLUB does. he co-advises with Mr. Toitu Solatai of the State Immigration Office.
Faalofani means friendly and this is what the fifty students of Samoan ancestry had organized to be. They strived to encourage friendship and do projects which benefit the school. For many afternoons they could be seen and heard practicing dances and songs for performances at Kalakaua and Central Intermediate Schools. This culminated with a performance at McKinley's May Day celebration.
Service projects undertaken were supervision of the cafeteria at lunchtime and clean up during the carnival. and a trip to Kauai was foremost on their agenda as they scurried about raising funds.
Participating in the Aloha Week Parade was just one example of the many and varied activities of the KOREAN CLUB. Members kept active by going on picnics and meeting regularly each week with their adviser Miss Lynette Oshima.
In December, as in other years, they made and donated burlap panels depicting Christmas scenes to the Festival of Trees. The panels were sold and proceeds went to the Queen's Medical Center Auxiliary.
Open to all interested students, the FILIPINO CLUB kept in mind the idea of perpetuating the culture of the Philippines. Sharing their ideas and helping each other out with problems, the club tried to have a better understanding of Hawaii and what McKinley had to offer. With their adviser Mrs. Fely Serra, members--most of them immigrants--kept the culture they had brought with them alive with social activities and service projects.
An interschool picnic brought the members into social contact with other schools.
McKinley High School Class of 1977
40th Reunion Summer 2017
No comments:
Post a Comment