HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	21
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

HONORING AND CELEBRATING HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB OF HONOLULU'S CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY AND THE HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB MOVEMENT.

WHEREAS, the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB MOVEMENT was the fulfillment of a dream for Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, a delegate to the United States Congress, his concern over the decline in spirit and devastating spike in the mortality rate of the Native Hawaiian people, and the fear that they would not have the educational skills to protect their interests; and

WHEREAS, along with other Hawaiian leaders, Prince Kūhiō recognized that Native Hawaiians were going through a very difficult period of adjustment after losing their nation, their lands, their way of life; and

WHEREAS, in 1918, Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, and a group of his cohorts established and organized the Hawaiian Civic Club, now called the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB OF HONOLULU and often referred to as the "mother club"; and

WHEREAS, the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB was formed with the objectives of providing scholarship aid for the education of Hawaiian students; preserving and promoting the Hawaiian heritage, traditions, language and culture; promoting and supporting organizations interested in improving the conditions of the Hawaiian people and community at large as well as legislation beneficial to the Hawaiian community; and of perpetuating the values that dignify all human life, which are the moral and ethical foundation of our cultural expressions that comprise a unique, rich and enduring legacy of the ingenuous people of Hawai‘i; and

WHEREAS, the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB OF HONOLULU was the first of five councils and sixty-seven clubs to follow in the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB MOVEMENT, all working toward the goal of improving life for Native Hawaiians; and

WHEREAS, the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB OF HONOLULU continues to thrive and serve as a leader within the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs that was created in 1959 to facilitate the goals and objectives of bettering the conditions of Native Hawaiians; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawai‘i, Regular Session of 2019, that this body, in the malama of Kaulua and the rising of the Kūlua, hereby honor and congratulate the HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB OF HONOLULU'S CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY AND THE HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUB MOVEMENT and offers a warm aloha and best wishes.

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Hawaiian Civic Club Centennial Anniversary