Our 50th reunion memorial celebration will be an impactful experience.
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Reunion memorial services in the chapel are an honor now specifically reserved for the 50th reunion class. It’s an honor of which you should avail yourself.
For Punahou74, this honor is a special opportunity to relieve one of our most cherished student experiences.
Thurston Memorial Chapel is where we last stood together at our senior chapel. It is from where we exited to receive a plastic bag filled with a live baby koi. We released each of those koi to the lily pond as part of a gift–the last in the school’s 70-year old tradition of senior class gifts–that “… return[ed] to the Living Spring a symbol of the life we have received from Punahou.”
Through this gift, we would forever enshrine our class as a part of the spiritual essence of Punahou School.
Our 50th reunion memorial service will also demonstrate Punahou74’s spiritual essence.
We will celebrate our class through diverse faith traditions. We will celebrate through a hula performance of our Punahou74 classmates. We will remember our classmates who have passed and rejoice in our living.
Please come to be with us. Please come to share with us. Please come to remember with us.
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Thurston Memorial Chapel. Find the chapel on the current campus map.
Cost: FREE
Guests: No limit.
A short history of Punahou74 classmate memorials
Our departed classmates have been remembered in various ways during the past fifty years.
We’ve remembered them at their funerals through our cards, our eulogies, and our presence.
We’ve remembered them through our prayer chain. (See the right hand column.)
We’ve remembered them through the blog posts that we’ve written about them. (Note: Just recently, hyperlinks have been added to the prayer chain listings to make it easier for you to connect to these posts, these memories.)
We’ve remembered them through the Pinterest version of the Prayer Chain to better see the faces of many of our departed classmates.
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We’ve remembered them at the annual Lantern Floating Hawaii ceremony. For the ceremony Babs Miyano Young carefully inscribes each classmate’s name on the lantern, adds her artistic floral touches, and then sends the lanterns out to sea with much aloha. Her 2018 effort was shared both via a blog post and in the video, “Remembering Punahou 74’s Departed Classmates.”
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We’ve remembered them during our 40th reunion via a wonderful video that was prepared by Mary Jane Markoskie and her Kamahameha students. It thoughtfully uses many of our yearbook photos to deliver a look at how each classmate appeared to us and insight into what he or she was while at Punahou.
We’ve remembered them during our 45th reunion both at the Friday night party and, more significantly, on Sunday while at Secret Island. It was there that Alvin Cabrinha sermonized and classmates shared their love and aloha for those who have left. Songs were sung as and we–together–tossed loose flowers for them into the water.
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It was the most impactful moment of our 45th reunion.
I expect nothing less for our 50th at the memorial service.
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