Hale Pai
Pacific American-News Journal
`Okakopa - October 1996 Volume 2 Issue 10
Nanakuli Student Wins 1996 International Title
Naleisha Pelekai-Wai, a sixth-grade student at Nanakuli
Elementary School, has won the title of 1996 International
Cinderella Miss.
Representing the state of Hawai`i at the Mobile, Ala.,
competition, Naleisha competed in the Miss Division along with 57
other girls from across the United States and Brazil.
This is the first year that Hawai`i sent representatives to
the international event. “I am truly honored to have had the
opportunity to represent our state and to capture the title of
1996 International Cinderella Miss. This is a very prestigious
title which girls try for many years to receive. I want to share
this accomplishment with everyone in our community,”
Naleisha explains.
The Cinderella International Scholarship Program believes in
the importance of education. “Which I strongly believe in
also,” she say.
In addition to the title, Naleisha also won more than $15,000
in prizes and gifts, including a $5,000 in cash college
scholarship, a $4,000 educational saving bond, $500 in cash, a
$400 John Robert Powers Scholarship, and official Cinderella
diamond pendant valued at $375, a wardrobe and other gifts and
prizes. She also gets a paid return trip to the 1997
International Finals for herself and a chaperon.
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