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This week’s Pacific Timeline Tuesday…
Did you know that seventy years ago this month, the UH Manoa Pacific Islands Subcommittee on Area Studies submitted a proposal for a “Center for Pacific Islands Studies?” The committee was composed of Carl Stroven, Curtis Manchster, Robert Hiatt, and Leonard Mason (Chairman). The proposal eventually led to the approval of “PIP” (Pacific Islands Program) later in 1950 that was based on a framework of research, service, and teaching. This proposal and its subsequent approval set the stage for what would eventually become the CPIS we know today!
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Source: “History of the Pacific Islands Studies Program at the University of Hawaii: 1950-1986” by Agnes Quigg. (available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/15543)
Photo: Leonard Edward Mason, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Area Studies