Sacred Hearts Academy receives grant of $500,000 for new performing arts building

Sacred Hearts Academy on Jan. 18 received a $500,000 grant for the school’s new performing arts building from the Mary D. and Walter F. Frear Eleemosynary Trust. Bank of Hawaii grants administrator Paula Boyce, presented the check to head of school Betty White at the morning assembly.

The Academy’s performing arts program includes beginning, intermediate and concert band, guitar, choral music, drama, dance, and Hawaiian chant and dance. The grant will help build a place to accommodate these programs.

Judge Frear was a chief justice and a governor of the Territory of Hawaii. Mary Emma Dillingham Frear was a University of Hawaii regent and one of the founders of the YWCA and the College Club of Honolulu. Their trust has supported religious, charitable, literary or educational projects and programs in Hawaii since 1936.