Wallace Farrington News Today

Yap’s story was recounted by Tim Dolan at the November 1 event marking the launch of the foundation’s historic $1 billion campaign: For UH • For Hawaiʻi.

When Yachiyo Hamada and Jeanette Rhamsey were born in March 1922, Warren Harding was president, Wallace Farrington was governor of the Territory of Hawai‘i and Babe Ruth had already signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees at $52,000 a year. Later that month, the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, was commissioned and the first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.