Chelsie Kualii is this year’s winner of the Big Island Retired Military Association’s $1,000 BIRMA-Mark Allen Traxler Memorial Scholarship award. Kualii, who graduated from Kamehameha Hawaii, started studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this summer. Chelsie Kualii is
Chelsie Kualii is this year’s winner of the Big Island Retired Military Association’s $1,000 BIRMA-Mark Allen Traxler Memorial Scholarship award. Kualii, who graduated from Kamehameha Hawaii, started studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this summer.
This award is made annually to a Hawaii County high school senior who is a child of an active duty, reserve, National Guard or retired military member of the U.S. armed forces, or whose parent is an honorably discharged military veteran who has been awarded a service-connected disability rating. The award also is open to students who have completed at least two years in a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps or Civil Air Patrol program or belong to the guard or reserve. For further information, call 935-1946.
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