Super Students
Saturday, September 20, 1997
Name: Emily A. Nomura
Age: 18
School: Baldwin High alumnus
Favorite subject: Mathematics
Pastimes: Sewing
Future: Financial planner
Emily Nomura is not only an excellent student. Family and friends know her as a seamstress with a heart. She's got it all sewed up
Nomura, 18, a Sterling Scholar Awards winner with a grade-point average of 4.1, has been a volunteer, mending jerseys for the Baldwin High School football team.
She also has been sewing easy-to-wear clothes for mentally retarded people.
"By sewing for them, I'm helping their own self-confidence," said Nomura, who will attend the University of Washington this fall. "Sewing is something I really enjoy doing, so it becomes a fun project."
Counselor Iris Nitta said Nomura takes the initiative to help the community and uses her sewing skills to fill a need. "She's turned that skill into something very positive," Nitta said.
Nomura was vice president of the senior class and a Key Club sweetheart, helping to pick up litter at beaches and make Christmas decorations for the elderly at Hale Makua.
She was also a member of the National Honor Society.
The daughter of Patrick and Sue Nomura said she started sewing in the sixth grade through the Wailuku Roselani Bearettes 4-H Club. Her first piece was an apron. She now teaches sewing classes.
She said her aunt Bette Nomura, a home economics teacher at Baldwin, has guided her in sewing projects.
Gary Kubota, Star-Bulletin
