Wellesley Club of Hawaii Newsletter
Summer 2016
Hawaii Sends Five to Wellesley for the Class of 2020
Pictured L to R: President Alli Kim-Yamane ’87, Courtney Sato’s visiting cousin (also entering), Samantha
Churchill (Kalani), Justine Duan (Iolani), Kalau Tanaka-Pesamino (Kamehameha), Admissions Chair
Ashley Morris Biddle ’08. Not present: Karyana Norris (Hilo) and Alexis Hawks (Kapaa).
The Pool and Pupu party was held at Alli’s house and enjoyed by all on a very warm July 17th afternoon.
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Party Pix.
Center row: (L) Jill Ramsfield ’72 and Kaoru Harada ’72
(R) Priscilla Vivar ’17 tells it like it is for the new first year students
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Save the date…
Annual Dinner Meeting Waialae Country Club
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Guest of Honor and Speaker Prof. Amy Bansaert
Director of Engineering Studies at Wellesley’s We-Lab.
Amy, with a BS, MS, and PhD from MIT, researches
engineering education and the development of technologies
that can benefit under-served populations worldwide. She
will share with us some of her work on campus and during
Wintersession trips with her students to Nicaragua.
Tech Savvy
Tiana Ramos ’13 and Jennifer Higaki
’03 explained STEM opportunities at Wellesley to eager middle school students who visited their table
as part of a program for young girls interested in science, tech, engineering or math. The day-long
event at Hawaii Pacific University in Kaneohe on May 21, was sponsored by the AAUW.
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