patsy mink: be the change.

Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink was born in Maui in the 1920s, the third-generation descendant of Japanese immigrants (sansei). Mink grew up on a sugar plantation and entered high school in 1940, one year before Honolulu was attacked by Japan. In 1942, anti-asian hostility and violence hit a boiling point, and FDR passed Executive Order 9066,…

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Connecting through Quilting

In honor of Black History Month, everyone at PSCS—students, administrators, interns, and teachers—completed an individual project, researching a person, event, or movement in celebration of Black culture, contribution, creativity, and activism.

The result was many individual art pieces in the form of a cardstock square, a smaller block of what’s to become a large paper quilt in the entrance of the school.

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