8 awarded HPM college scholarships

HPM Building Supply awarded five outstanding Hawaii high school graduates and three Hawaii Community College students with scholarships for their academic and co-curricular activities.

HPM Building Supply awarded five outstanding Hawaii high school graduates and three Hawaii Community College students with scholarships for their academic and co-curricular activities.

For more than 30 years, the annual Barney S. Fujimoto Memorial Scholarship has promoted academic achievement and excellence to Hawaii Island high school seniors planning to attend a University of Hawaii Institution. Last year, the scholarship also became available to Oahu and Kauai high school seniors.

Barney Fujimoto, a past president of HPM, strongly valued the importance of higher education. Today, HPM continues to express these same values through this $1,000 scholarship.

Recipients Theodore Uekawa of Waiakea High School and Liberty Ann Alconis and Sydney Millerd from Waipahu High School on Oahu will attend the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the fall. Uekawa plans to study biochemistry, Alconis will pursue pre-nursing and Millerd will major in chemistry.

Keaau High School graduate and chancellor’s scholar Lorelei Taylor Padasdao will study early childhood education and Eliot Sichter from Assets School on Oahu will pursue a marine science degree at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Hawaii Community College students Keoki Baily, Andres Chwoschtschinsky and Mike Tamayo were selected to receive $750 Building Future Builders Scholarships. Each year the Building Future Builders Scholarship is awarded to selected students entering their second year in the carpentry program.

Applications for the annual Barney S. Fujimoto Memorial Scholarship will be available again online via the University of Hawaii Common Scholarship Application in January 2017.