MEMBERS & VISITORS
MY DAD WAS A GOOD MAN AND I LOVE HIM DEARLY
My father, Edward Singer, died on his 88th birthday on February 9, 1999. I miss him dearly but his memory holds a huge place in my heart. At the close of his funeral I just sat on a nearby bench and thought about him and his meaning in my life for the next three hours. He knew that I wanted someday to return to Africa, my ancestral homeland. With that knowledge he wished me well and left with with his ever-recurring advice to me, “There’s always a market for excellence, even in the worst of times.”
He lived well with his own advice to himself. With its location just north of Downtown Honolulu’s Central Business and Government Districts and the Downtown campus of Hawaii Pacific University, the Nu’uanu YMCA serves all those who live and work in the heart of Honolulu. With its cornerstone dating back to 1963 at its current site, the Nu’uanu YMCA is the biggest YMCA on the island, consisting of 4,800 members and houses the YMCA of Honolulu’s Metropolitan Offices and Youth Department. Edward Singer was its first Director who was hired from his position of Assistant General Secretary of the Pasadena, California YMCA over 17 other highly qualified candidates because of his exceptional abilities to make maximum use of the resources, money, and time available on the many previous YMCA programs and projects he had lead. He was instrumental in raising most of the money required to build Honolulu’s largest and best equipped YMCA Branch.
ABOUT THE NU’UANU YMCA (See https://www.ymcahonolulu.org/locations/nuuanu )
Prof. Oku Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer
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