Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 1, 1 Ianuali 1989 — Katherine Farm Is Honored By AHCC [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Katherine Farm Is Honored By AHCC

A demonstrated belief in and commitment to the Hawaiian civic club movement are qualities that led to Katherine Farm, a life member of the Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu (HCCH), being named "Outstanding Hawaiian Civic Club Member" at the 29th annual AHCC convention. Mrs. Farm picked up the tradition of club membership from her mother Mary Avant who was a member in the 1920's, by becoming a member of the founding Honolulu civic club in the 1960s. She served on the club boardof directors in various eapacities for at least eight years and for the past four years has been chair of the club's aloha committee, responsible for contact with membership in support of club projects. Through her enthusiasm and example, other family members have also joined and remain with the club, including her unele Alex Beck, Sr., his wife and children, and her daughter Dawn FarmRamsey, a member since the early 1970s, who has served as club director, president, AHCC director, and lobbying chair for HACPAC. In addition to the considerable time Mrs. Farm. devotes to HCCH matters, she finds time to record audio cassettes of reading material, including Hawaiian history, literature and mo'olelo for the blind. She provides support to her church parish, St. Stephen's in Nu'uanu, and is also a member of the Daughters of Hawai'i. Farm is also avolunteer at the Kamehameha Schools and serves as a literacy tutor in the community.

Katherine Farm (left), is congratulated by fellow civic club members as she is named "Outstanding Civic Club Member."