Hawaii contributed at least 15 vocations to the Maryknoll Sisters. The first local-born Maryknoll Sister was Sister Marie Mediatrice Botelho from Olaa on the Big Island.

During the 1930s, 40s, 50s and later, the island church watched her daughters being sent to assignments in fields afar, mostly through the pages of the Hawaii Catholic Herald. The reports went something like this:

• Sister Jean Xavier, the former Jean Yamashiro, a Roosevelt grad, is sent to Middle America…
• Sister Consuela Torrecer, of Puunene, Maui, a member of the Maryknoll Sisters Cloister in Ossining , N.Y., leaves for a special assignment in Guatemala to establish a contemplative community there…
• Sister Roberta Marie, the former Roberta Ann Chang of Honolulu, makes her final vows on Aug. 22, 1965, in her mission in Korea…
• The “Higa girls,” both graduates of St. Francis Hospital in Honolulu, take their final vows as Maryknoll Sisters on the same day half a world apart, Sister Regina Therese (Mary Louise Higa) in Ceylon and Sister Marie Bernadette (Theresa Bernadette Higa) in Kansas City, before embarking on her assignment in Hong Kong…
• Sister Cordis Marie, the former Mary Fukuda of Honolulu, makes her profession in Los Angeles…
• Sister Rose Jacinta, the former Evelyn Kitabayashi of Anahola, Kauai, makes her profession at the Motherhouse at Maryknoll, N.Y…
•  Sister Rose Ancilla, the former Charlotte Anderson and graduate of Maryknoll High School, is named superior of Corepto, Chile…
•  Sister Anna Marian, the former Ida Pavao of Honolulu, is the superior of Likiep in the Marshall Islands…
•  Sister Rose Damien, the former Beatrice Carvalho of Wailuku, is named superior of Puerto Armuelles, Panama…
•  Sister Corinne Marie, the former Isabel Adoracion Rabbon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dionisio Rabbon of Lanai city, pronounces her first vows at the Maryknoll Sisters Motherhouse in New York…
•  Maryknoll Sister Leonila Bermisa, a former paralegal from Kalihi, is working with battered women as justice and peace coordinator for the Philippine Catholic prelature of Ipil, Zamboanga del Sur…
•  Hawaii-born Sister Harriet Lum is appointed principal of St. Paulo Catholic high school, the only Catholic high school in Aileu, East Timor. She also serves as an English language newscaster for Vatican radio in Indonesia during Pope John Paul II visit there in 1989…