A Moment in Our History

For the first 25 years after its founding in 1900, YWCA O'ahu created and offered a number of classes at its main office and across town. The organization also made efforts to organize a camp program. In 1920, the YWCA  conducted the Halekipa (House of Welcome) program for a month in the summer to give camping experiences to students from grade schools, high schools and so-called “normal schools” (what later came to be known as “teacher colleges”—training for high school graduates).  This provided opportunities for “getting together in the out-of-doors away from school rooms and Y.W.C.A. buldings.”