This announcement was included in the playbill of the performances of the Summer Arts Experience show "It's in the Stars", July 26-27, 2002

It is with both profound joy and sadness that we at Pacific School of the Performing Arts dedicate this production of "It's in the Stars" to Mr. James Clayton Wilson. Without Jim's generous support and love, our school would not have been able to educate, train and inspire the many children of Hawaii that have attended our various classes and programs over the past five years.

As he put it, Jim strongly believed in education as a way to "Help people help themselves." He was an honorable man, who lived by his convictions, and who gave generously to numerous organizations that he believed would improve the world in which we live. It is fitting that we honor him this evening and we are proud to announce a manner in which we can honor him in the future.

Pacific School of the Performing Arts has established the James Clayton Wilson Scholarship Fund, which will enable at risk and underprivileged youth to attend classes at the school. In this manner, we can keep Jim's legacy alive in a way that he would have surely approved.

With a twinkle in his eye, Jim once said that after delivering an evening sermon for a church in Nashville, Tennessee, a gentleman came up to him and exclaimed, "Tonight you have reached up to the heavens and pulled down the stars!" Well, our dear friend Jim, tonight you are in the heavens smiling down on these young "stars" who are doing their best to shine for you.