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On behalf of Hawaii’s Young Ladies’ Institute’s Ana Malia and Kailua institutes, district deputy Rosalie Smith of Ana Malia #208 presents Bishop Larry Silva with a seminarian education donation on March 15.

YLI’s grand president to make official Hawaii visit

Young Ladies’ Institute grand president Joan Vandehey of Salem, Ore., will make her official visit to Hawaii in June. While here she’ll visit the Kaneohe institute, Ana Malia #208, on June 22, and the Kailua institute, Kailua #213, on June 24.

Vandehey and a delegation of local YLI members will also make an official visit to vocations director Father Peter Dumag on June 24.

Coming with Vandehey to Hawaii are grand second vice president Lana Hanney, former grand director Jean Werner, and their husbands.

The Ana Malia and Kailua institutes on March 15 donated $3,550 to the Diocese of Honolulu for the education of diocesan seminarians, presenting the check to Bishop Larry Silva at a breakfast at Mid-Pacific Country Club.

On June 27, the Young Ladies Institute Hawaii district #22 will install the new officers for its Ana Malia and Kailua institutes at St. Ann Church, Kaneohe, at 10 a.m., with a luncheon to follow at the Joyful Gardens Restaurant in Windward City Shopping Center. The cost of the lunch is $16 and those interested in going may call Rosalie Smith at 247-3092, ext. 229.

Grand president Vandehey will preside at the annual YLI Grand Convention, held this year in Fresno, Calif., July 19-22. YLI members Emily Souza, Mary Wuscher, Linda Cravalho and Evelyn Cabral will be the Hawaii delegates at the convention.