Applications for a music scholarship being offered by The Mokihana Club are currently being accepted from graduating high school seniors interested in pursuing a study of music in college. The 44th Annual Music Scholarship competition hosted by The Mokihana Club
Applications for a music scholarship being offered by The Mokihana Club are currently being accepted from graduating high school seniors interested in pursuing a study of music in college.
The 44th Annual Music Scholarship competition hosted by The Mokihana Club will take place April 3 at the Lihu‘e Parish Hall with the winners of the competition receiving scholarship funds to further the study of music in college. Deadline for applications is March 8.
Call Winnie Lu, The Mokihana Club Music Scholarship chair, at 639-7777, or email Winnie@winnielu.com for an application.
The Mokihana Club, the oldest women’s nonprofit organization on Kaua‘i, was started in 1905 when ladies of Kaua‘i built a gathering place, a social hall across the Kaua‘i Museum, on plantation land for $3,000.
Faced with a short fall of $1,400, the ladies organized a grand fair featuring games, food and a sale of items to help with the deficit.
People from all parts of the island flocked to the event in horse-drawn carriages and on foot to take in the unusual event filled with flower lei, a band, dinner and shopping.
This was the start of The Mokihana Club, which over the past 100 years, has grown to include more than a hundred members.
Described as a social club, the main purpose of The Mokihana Club is to provide nursing and music scholarships to graduating seniors of high school students of Kaua‘i.
