Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 3, 1 March 1991 — Scholarship winners make most of award [ARTICLE]

Scholarship winners make most of award

This is the fourth year that Hawaiian and partHawaiian students have been able to receive finaneial assistance for graduate-level Hawaiian studies through the Abraham Pi'iana'ia Graduate Scholarship program.

The awards are made in honor of Pi'iana'ia, the first director of the Hawaiian Studies Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (1978-1985). His lifetime effort and commitment in supporting scholarly preservation and development of the Hawaiian language, culture, history and the arts within the university and the state is reflected in these awards. Persons interested in applying for the Abraham Pi'iana'ia scholarship award should eall 956-8487 or 946-7693 for more information and application forms. (See related story in this issue

of Ka Wai Ola O OHA). Previous recipients include Charlene Mililani Akina Sumarnap (1988), Waldeen K. Palmeira (1989) and Matthew Kamana'opono Crabbe (1990).

Sumarnap received her bachelor of arts degree at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and recently completed a master's degree in public health. She is interested in practices and values in native medieine. As a researcher at the Center on Aging at UH Manoa, she developed recommendations to implement the Native Hawaiian Elderly Needs Assessment Report for Alu Like, ine. She eonducted field studies involving the Hawaiian elderly and programs whieh serve this group in need. She now directs the Elderhostel program at UH

Manoa. Palmeira is working with the Hawaiian language immersion program and is studying to be a teacher-researcher of Hawaiian language and eulture to Hawaiian children. Her goal is to be more deeply steeped in Hawaiian literature and language to develop a curriculum whieh combines Hawaiian history, natural sciences and Hawaiian arts, values and customs. She believes this work will strengthen educational attitudes and opportunities for Hawaiian children.

Crabbe is pursuing his masters degree in psychology. He is studying to Ieam both Western psychological theories and methods, and the ways in whieh Native Hawaiians see the world and how they eope with their lives.