This document consists of the seven issues of a newsletter concerned with Hawaiian Community Colleges published during 1997. Issue 1 discusses the Maui College Telethon and includes personal stories of academic success. Issue 2 examines distance education and includes descriptions of new programs and facilities for various Hawai'i colleges. Issue 3 discusses how international agreements foster goodwill, the role of the Internet in education, and the shared responsibility of retention. Issue 4 describes the new solar-powered aircraft and Kaua'i Community College's role in assisting NASA with its development. It also includes personal profiles of success and accounts of student participation in community service. Five describes Maui Community College's new "ecocottage," and announces the recipients of teaching awards. Six describes the garden at Kaua'i Community College, which was created to help retrain sugar workers and has resulted in a training program that will benefit the diversified agriculture effort. Issue 7 describes the opening of a new building at Windward Community College and the creation of new programs at Honolulu Community College. (YKH)