{"id":31721,"date":"2015-02-11T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31721"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:18:58","slug":"scholarship-recipients-thank-their-benefactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/11\/scholarship-recipients-thank-their-benefactors\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship recipients thank their benefactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VnPfDUbxmo\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> students who receive scholarships don&#8217;t always get a chance to meet the people or the representatives of the companies and organizations that fund their scholarships. <\/p>\n<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Foundation<\/a> started an annual tradition&#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa<\/a> and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System Scholarship Celebration. It&#8217;s where scholarship student and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa sophomore <strong>Kadee Kalia Tamashiro<\/strong> met <strong>Ted Tsukiyama<\/strong> in 2015. Tsukiyama is responsible for her Varsity Victory Volunteers Scholarship. <\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scholarships-dinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scholarships-dinner.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scholarships-dinner-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/> <abbrÂ鶹´«Ã½students get a chance to thank the people or organizations that fund their scholarships.[\/caption]\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s a really great opportunity to be able to mahalo those who have helped me in my educational journey,&rdquo; said Tamashiro. &ldquo;It&#8217;s just really good to get to know them and get to hear why they feel like they&#8217;re giving back to the students.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We feel we are an integral part of the university and the university structure,&rdquo; said Tsukiyama. &ldquo;An opportunity to provide scholarships, we definitely wanted to be part of that.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about Ted Tsukiyama, the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhalumni.org\/s\/1220\/index.aspx?sid=1220&#038;gid=1&#038;pgid=968\">2012 Â鶹´«Ã½Founders Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The celebration draws hundreds of scholarship students and their benefactors each year. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is important because it&#8217;s an opportunity for us to thank the donors who have made such a difference in students lives,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Chancellor <strong>Robert Bley-Vroman<\/strong>. &ldquo;And for students to meet the donors whose work and whose donations have transformed their own lives.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>In 1976, the first permanently endowed scholarship was created by the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation to benefit students attending the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. Today, the foundation manages more than 1,500 scholarship accounts. In 2014 alone, students from <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s ten campuses received more than $11 million in scholarship aid from the foundation. Of that, $8 million supported 3,000 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Glad to see that there is this momentum to recognize and to help needy students, who otherwise might not be able to get an education,&rdquo; said Tsukiyama. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having these scholarships has really allowed me to not focus so much on the financial burden of getting a degree,&rdquo; said Tamashiro. &ldquo;It has allowed me to participate in a lot of extracurricular activities, social life, a lot of things so, it&#8217;s just a really big help.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scholarship-dinner.jpg\" alt=\"students and parents at dinner in a reception hall\" width=\"620\" height=\"268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scholarship-dinner.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scholarship-dinner-260x112.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Â鶹´«Ã½M&#257;noa and Â鶹´«Ã½System Scholarship Celebration give students a chance to meet the people or organizations that fund their scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[572,319,9,947,56],"class_list":["post-31721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31721"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149262,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions\/149262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}