Donor Spotlight

I am filled with excitement about our Educating Girls to Change the World Campaign to expand and renovate our campus to meet the needs of our students. It is my honor to lead this campaign for Sacred Hearts – so we may enhance the educational experience of our students both today and in the future.”

—SHELLEY CRAMER

Chair, Board of Directors and Capital Campaign

Dr. Lawrence K.W. Tseu

Meet the man behind “The Tseu Innovation Center”, whose generous gift started our “Building Our Future” campaign.

IN JANUARY 2021, Dr. Lawrence Tseu started a serious dialogue with Sacred Hearts Academy Board Chair, Shelley Cramer. Shelley launched the idea of developing an “Innovation Center” on the lower school campus that would be a creative center for students in grades 1 through 12 to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM). Dr. Tseu made a significant gift towards the project, which is now named, “The Tseu Innovation Center”. This generous gift was the impetus of Sacred Heart Academy’s “Building our Future” Campaign, a $3.1 campaign to renovate several areas on campus.

Dr. Tseu remains very active in the community and has served on several boards in Hawaii and at the University of Oxford, where he is the chairman of the Tseu Medical Institute. Dr. Tseu is now a member of the Academy’s Capital Campaign committee and continues to share his expertise and wisdom to help make this latest capital campaign a success.

Dr. Lawrence K.W. Tseu was raised in Kalihi, O‘ahu and put himself through high school by shining shoes. He graduated from St. Louis College in 1951 and joined the U.S. Air Force for the next four years during the Korean Conflict. After his service, he attended Brigham Young University and graduated in 1958. He then went on to graduate from Northwestern University Dental School in 1962 and was later the recipient of the prestigious Alumni Merit Award from the University’s Alumni Association. Following graduation, Dr. Tseu opened his own private practice of cosmetic dentistry in Honolulu in 1963, and in the process garnered honors as one of the America’s Top Dentists by the Consumers’ Research Council of America and Honolulu Magazine. He ran a successful practice for nearly 50 years before retiring in 2011.