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Art Director May is a month of milestones, as more than 4,600 students receive degrees and Rowen Tabusa (BFA ’79 Ma¯noa) certificates from one of your university system’s 10 campuses, indicating mastery Photographer of one of several hundred courses of study, ranging from Bob Chinn astronomy to zoology. These graduates are among the Associate Editor Tracy Matsushima (BA ’90 Ma¯noa) more than 1 million people who have taken courses for Online Editor credit at UH since the Territorial Legislature passed an Jeela Ongley (BA ’97 Ma¯noa) act creating the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Contributing Alumni Editor on March 25, 1907. Nico Schnitzler (BA ’03 Ma¯noa) Our diplomas reflect much more than University of Hawai‘i President David McClain academic accomplishment, of course. They mark the

Board of Regents transformation our students have experienced in their lives. More mature than Andres Albano Jr. when they started, more confident in their ability to learn, UH graduates truly are (BS ’65, MBA ’72 Ma¯noa) Byron W. Bender ready to change the world, as those of you reading this issue have done. Michael A. Dahilig (BS ’03 Ma¯noa) Your university is undergoing a transformation as well, in order to make as Ramon de la Peña (MS ’64, PhD ’67 Ma¯noa) much of a difference for Hawai‘i, the nation and the world in our next century James J. C. Haynes II (BBA ’65 Ma¯noa) as we have in the one hundred years past. We’re moving as far and as fast as Kitty Lagareta our imagination, our competence and our capacity allow to create a culture Allan R. Landon of innovation. This means empowering our campuses and their chancellors Ronald K. Migita (BBA ’66 Ma¯noa) and redoubling our efforts to raise private funds to complement the precious Alvin A. Tanaka resources entrusted to us by taxpayers and by students and their parents, in order Jane B. Tatibouet Myron A. Yamasato to provide the margin of excellence we all want. (BBA ’73 Ma¯noa) At the same time, we’re holding fast to the values that define this university, Published three times a year by including the Native Hawaiian ahupua‘a practice of sharing diverse but finite External Affairs and University Relations, University of Hawai‘i resources for the benefit of all as well as our tradition of respect for freedom of Change of address UHF—Address Update inquiry and expression of ideas both popular and unpopular. P.O. Box 11270, Honolulu, HI 96828 808 956-8829 or My wife Wendie and I are honored to have the opportunity to lead this [email protected] Voluntary mail subscription great university into its second century. As Wai‘anae community leaders Kaipo Suggested donation $10 Send to Ma¯lamalama Pomaikai and William Aila reminded us recently, for many of our citizens, UH 2444 Dole St., BA2 Honolulu, HI 96822 represents the best hope that their dreams of a better life really can come true. Free electronic subscription Email [email protected] (please include your name and address) Advertising information [email protected] or 808 956-8856 UH is an equal opportunity/affirmative David McClain action institution. This publication is President available in alternate form for people with print disabilities. University of Hawai‘i System

Ma¯lamalama 1 CONTENTS

FEATURES Supreme Court Jurist ...... 9 The Hon. Anthony Kennedy praises UH students, criticizes media and shares his perspective on decision-making in the nation’s highest court Where’s the Teach? ...... 10 Recruitment and retention are challenges in filling school classrooms. UH programs are ramping up to help Something about KTUH ...... 13 For four decades, Ma¯noa’s freewheeling radio station and its diverse staff have provided an alternative to mainstream programming ‘Imiloa Opens ...... 16 Hilo’s astronomy education and exploration center invites residents and tourists alike to learn about Hawaiian culture and astronomical research tied to Mauna Kea Arboretum Update ...... 19 After suffering from time, climate, insects and neglect, Lyon Arboretum has a plan for a comeback Sources of Inspiration ...... 20 Muse, discipline, serendipity and effort combine in the creative mind to produce works of art Cure-all or Fad? ...... 22 Noni is both a traditional treatment and booming industry, used by Polynesian healers and investigated by modern cancer researchers Celebrate graduation DEPARTMENTS or honor a loved one Campus News ...... 3 Preserve your legacy; purchase a brick on UH Ma¯noa’s Legacy Path today Research and Scholarship ...... 6 Alumni ...... 24 Class Notes ...... 27 Sports ...... 31 Enlightenment ...... 32

On the cover: Jean Abadilla investigates the meteorite exhibit with grandchildren Leimomi and Kekai Mattos on their first visit to ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, UH Hilo’s new science museum. Story on page 16.

Correction: Michael Nakasone is not the first non-Hawaiian person to lead the Royal Hawaiian Band. Ma¯lamalama regrets the editing error in the January issue that indicated otherwise.

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Agreements strengthen Pacific ties indward Community College will exchange students, faculty and research with Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, an indigenous New Zealand tribal Wcollege that teaches according to Maori customs. One of the first participants, Windward Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies Kalani Meinecke, plans to CTAHR helps families complete his doctorate there. At Ma¯noa, the School of Travel Industry Management learn to grow will collaborate with the World Tourism Organization on research and tourism devel- or six years, thousands of local opment in the Asia-Pacific region. The first project will offer technical assistance to families have been Learning to Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. F Grow with the help of a team from Ma¯noa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. The state-funded umbrella program includes four initiatives to encourage early childhood development. Kith and Kin Outreach Program offers materials and resources monthly to low-income parents who depend on family and friends rather than licensed pro- viders for childcare. Along with basic child development information, families receive ideas for simple, inexpensive activities that promote learning and books to encourage literacy. The Parent Consumer Education Program provides a video, resource booklet and brochure on how and why to choose high quality childcare. Family Resource Network Centers, located Photo by Kevin Photo Kanemori by Kevin in seven public elementary schools and Community college students experience Asia family service agencies on O‘ahu, point H community college students can study in China, Japan or Korea under a to programs and services that promote $1.2 million Freeman Foundation grant to operate the Kapi‘olani campus’s children’s safety, healthy development UInternational Language Study and Service Learning Abroad program for two and school readiness. The Dolly Parton more years. Each semester, 10 scholarships are given to eligible full-time UH com- Imagination Library Program provides a munity college students. After one semester in daily content-based language study child with one book per month for a year at Kapi‘olani, students spend a semester living and studying abroad. “The course is to encourage home literacy and build a really good opportunity for students, but it’s very intensive study. In the first five family-school relationships in selected weeks, you basically finish Chinese 101,” says participant Chrystin Stalter. The com- communities statewide. Learning to Grow munication and aviation major will spend the summer at Peking University in Beijing, assessments document an increase in where she hopes to learn things not covered in the traditional American classroom. children’s exposure to books from once a For information visit www.kcc.hawaii.edu/object/freeman.html. —Karla Brown week to once a day or more. For information, visit www.uhfamily.hawaii.edu. College coaches Ka¯‘anapali guides —Karla Brown aui visitors and residents alike can enjoy Ka¯‘anapali’s rich history thanks to a new tour designed by Maui Community College’s Visitor and Gifts top $100 million MInnovative Training and Economic Development Center. Staff researched H closed the calendar year by ancient legends, 18th-century battles, plantation-era tales and modern history to surpassing $100 million in private put together the 90-minute tour. Thirteen guides from various resort hotels have Udonations since the Centennial mastered the 35-page script and practiced dramatic presentation. Stories include Campaign began in July 2002. The gifts the tale of Kaulula¯‘au, who was sent in punishment for mischief to Lana‘i, then include $32 million for faculty and inhabited only by ghosts, and the bloody Koko I Na Moku battle between brothers academic support, $26 million for stu- Kauhiamokuakama and Kamehamehanui on what is now golf links. Tours are offered dent opportunities and $24 million for Tuesdays and Fridays; call Ka¯‘anapali Beach Resort Association, 808 661-3271. research, according to the University of —Heidi Sakuma Hawai‘i Foundation.

Ma¯lamalama 3 UH secures place in the Digital Universe California entrepreneur’s ambitious project to create a commercial-free storehouse of A authoritative information, Digital Universe Podcasts are part of online music debuteddebuted inin JanuaryJanuary withwith 5050 topicaltopical portalsportals onon thethe pilotpilot site.site. master’s degree AmongAmong thethe expert-vettedexpert-vetted resourcesresources forfor informationinformation onon thethe EarthEarth isis Ma¯noa’sMa¯noa’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, www.soest.hawaii.edu/asp/GG/index.asp. a¯noa’s music department is set- ting the tone for teaching with Mtechnology with its online MA in music education. Five faculty members offer 30 credits of graduate work through WebCT (Web Course Tools) in combination with other technologies to provide asyn- chronous (anytime, anywhere) access to videos, mp3 libraries, voice-over presentations, printed materials, assessment tools and other resources. Two dozen students from across the country have been admitted to the program; they use collaborative tools to discuss and present their work. Click the online program at www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic. —Heidi Sakuma Small farms get dot-com help H Hilo Professor of Agricultural Economics Sabry Shehata has created a website to link small local growers to a worldwide Umarket. It features interactive cost-of-production programs tailored to each farm and helps growers improve their management and marketing skills. Buyers can log in and order directly from participating growers’ websites, listed by commodity. Shehata plans to add an e-commerce clearinghouse component to more efficiently distribute Hawaiian products. He hopes training components on the site will help Native Hawaiian, rural and underprivileged high school Pacific conference proves that students and their families succeed in agribusiness. The Hawaiian Culture Moves! Agricultural Products site was featured at the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges’ Eighth Annual Food cholars, choreographers and danc- and Agriculture Science and Education Exhibition. The February event ers converged on New Zealand’s held in Washington, D.C.’s Rayburn Office Building was attended by Te Papa Museum in November for S members of Congress and their staffs. For information or a demon- the first comprehensive conference on stration, visit www.hawaiianagriculturalproducts.com. Pacific Island Dance. Ma¯noa Assistant —Heidi Sakuma Professor Katerina Teaiwa was a co- convener for Culture Moves! Dance in Oceania from Hiva to Hip-Hop. She was Project links higher education to the workforce joined by a half dozen UH faculty from H will participate in a Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Pacific Islands studies, dance and music project to examine the nexus between higher education and the state’s work- programs in three days of panel discus- Uforce and economic needs. The goal is to assist states in preparing a competi- sions and performances. Among the UH tive workforce for the high-skill, high-wage global economy of the future and ensuring alumni in attendance was anthropologist that formerly disenfranchised populations have access to high-skill jobs through Adrienne Kaeppler (BA ’59, MA ’61, PhD education. “This support from WICHE and its partners will assist the university in bet- ’67 Ma¯noa), oceanic ethnology curator at ter aligning our resources with state needs to maximize opportunities for all Hawai‘i’s the Smithsonian Museum. citizens,” notes UH System President David McClain.

4 Ma¯lamalama Here comes CSI O‘ahu awai‘i’s first undergraduate program in forensic anthropology opened this spring. The 2+2 certificate program is offered jointly by Leeward Community HCollege and UH West O‘ahu. The program builds on existing courses, which draw on the expertise of staff at the Army’s Central Identification Laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base. Forensic anthropologists apply scientific techniques developed by physical anthropologists to identify human remains and assist in criminal investiga- tions. In addition to anthropology, students take biology courses at Leeward and social science and justice administration courses at West O‘ahu. Women’s Campus Club dedicates grants he Women’s Campus Club dedicated its 2006 grants in honor the late Lorrie Beijing opera crusader honored Mortimer, past member and wife of former President Kenneth Mortimer. The ontact with Americans was politi- T club, which raises money through a thrift shop and the Exchange housing news- cally risky in 1979 China. Still, letter, will fund 10 projects at Ma¯noa, Leeward and Windward campuses this year. Crenowned Chinese actor and Awards range from equipment to create podcasts on Hawai‘i research and printing of teacher Madam Shen Xiaomei agreed a literary and art journal to support for a campus theatrical production and community to train Ma¯noa PhD candidate Elizabeth reading programs. Wichmann in the art of jingju. Their bold Ma¯noa gets ombudsman association created an intensive theatri- a¯noa turned to a veteran problem solver to establish cal resident training program at Ma¯noa its ombudsman’s office. Professor of Political Science and introduced western audiences to MNeal Milner, who previously helped establish the China’s national traditional theatre, also Program on Conflict Resolution, will set up the office, expected known as Beijing opera. In February, to open in the fall. The ombudsman will listen confidentially Wichmann-Walczak, now a professor to students, faculty and staff and give informal advice or refer in Ma¯noa’s internationally recognized matters to mediation. While the office won’t have authority Asian Theatre Program, assisted as the to supersede university rules or directly resolve disputes, the Neal Milner Board of Regents presented Shen with ombudsman will be in a position to alert the administration when patterns indicate an honorary doctor of humane letters. problems that need addressing. Appropriately, the ceremony took place on stage at Kennedy Theatre, just before a performance of Shen’s latest collabora- tion, Women Generals of the Yang Family, above. Regents also conferred honorary degrees on baseball great Tommy Lasorda in January and Hawaiian culture expert Pualani Kanahele in December. UH launches WOW in Hawai‘i onolulu Community College has spearheaded formation of Ha Hawai‘i chapter of the World Organization of Webmasters. The not-for- profit organization for web professionals is open to anyone who wants to improve their skills and influence the future of the Undergraduates work showcased World Wide Web. The local WOW chap- or more than a month this spring, Ma¯noa celebrated student work with the ter is headed by Honolulu Educational Festival of Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects. The campus-wide Media Center Director Jon Blumhardt with F showcase for student work included a range of events, from student research Ma¯noa Librarian Beth Tillinghast. Visit presentations to business plan and engineering design competitions to artistic perfor- http://joinwow.org/honoluluchapter for mances and exhibitions. more information.

Ma¯lamalama 5 Research and Scholarship

Ethicists question blood study IN BRIEF: Names and histories team of three bioethicists, includ- ✱ Hilo Assistant Professor Mark Panek chronicles the ing Ma¯noa’s Ken Kipnis, have life of the first foreigner to reach the highest ranks of Achallenged a mainland study of Japanese sumo in Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of the use of synthetic blood. In this highly Chad Rowan (University of Hawai‘i Press). publicized research, trauma victims ✱ Ma¯noa archaeologists Michael Graves and affili- in the field are randomly given either ated graduate faculty member Ke¯haunani Cachola- saline solution or an experimental oxy- Abad received a 3-year, $100,000 grant to research gen-carrying fluid. Federal guidelines Kamehameha the Great for We the People, a National Endowment for the allow an exception to informed consent Humanities project on U.S. history and culture. when a patient in a life-threatening situ- ✱ NASA identified a new comet, named P/2005 VI Bernardi for Ma¯noa astronomer ation is unable to consent and proven Fabrizio Bernardi, who first spotted it on Halloween night images from the Canada- satisfactory treatments are unavailable. France-Hawai‘i telescope. The comet orbits the sun every 10 years, too distant to be Blood is not available in American visible to the naked eye. ambulances. According to the authors, the problem with the study is that the Plankton’s role in ocean explored investigators can continue to administer cientists the blood substitute in the hospital for have up to 12 hours, still without consent and Ssequenced even after blood becomes available. the genome of Without transfusion, severe blood loss plankton living at is likely to end in death. With transfu- depths of 40 to sion, there is a better than even chance more than 13,000 of survival. The authors argue that feet to identif y dif- withholding an effective, standard treat- ferences in their ment from non-consenting patients is a genes. Correlation violation of research ethics and federal with oceanographic regulations. data collected over the past 20 years Cars may become pollution by the Hawai‘i Photo SOEST courtesy of collectors Ocean Time Series’ Station Aloha should yield clues about the microbes’ role in the es earche r Roger Bab cock o f biogeochemical cycles of Ear th’s largest and perhaps most complex environment, M a¯noa’ s Wate r Reso u rces M a¯noa’s David Karl repor ts in the June 27 issue ofScience . Other data collected at RResearch Cen te r is exam i n i ng t h e Station Aloha and repor ted in an earlier issue of Nature indicate that increases in p e r fo r man ce o f S t re e t Va c p ollu t i o n s o r p - ocean temperature limit mixing with colder, deeper water. As a consequence, layers t i o n pads . T h es e resin - f illed f il te r pads of phytoplankton become unstable during periods of climate change. Isolated below a re d esig n e d to f i t wit h i n t h e w h e e l lighted surface waters, they may be unable to take up greenhouse gasses, exacerbat- we lls o f ve h i cles to cap ture p ollu tan t s ing global warming, Karl and Netherlands colleagues suggest. su ch as o il , m e tals a n d f i n e pa r t i culate mat te r e m i t te d by ve h i cles as we ll as Nitric oxide levels not linked to altitude sickness t h os e a l ready p res e n t o n roads . Ve h i cle - n the lungs, nitric oxide regulates blood flow and thus oxygen delivery. So some gen e rate d p ollu t i o n is a s e r i o us p rob - scientists have speculated that differences in nitric oxide levels might explain le m , esp e cially i n H awai ‘ i , w h e re r uno f f Iwhy some people suffer headaches, nausea, dizziness and even life threatening f ro m road ways is a l m ost i m m e d ia te l y edemas associated with acute mountain sickness while others more readily adapt to t ranspo r te d to n ears h o re re creat i o nal high altitudes. UH Hilo Professor of Anthropology Daniel Brown tested the theory with wate rs . Bab cock will assess t h e p ollu t- 47 campus volunteers, recording heart rate, blood pressure, nitric oxide levels and a n t s collec te d by t h e S t re e t Va c s ystem , symptoms at sea level, the 9,100-foot mid-level facility and 13,800-foot summit of e val u a te t h e collec t i o n e f f i cie n cies a n d Mauna Kea. As expected, the level of exhaled nitric oxide decreased at high altitudes. assist wit h p ro d u c t d e ve l o p m e n t o f t h e However, neither the level of nitric oxide nor oxygen saturation predicted the sever- te chn ol o g y. Read m o re a b o u t S t re e t Va c ity of volunteers’ symptoms. Only change in heart rate upon initial exposure to high a t w w w.st re e t vac.com . altitudes correlated with acute mountain sickness, so there remains no way to predict —Heidi Sakuma who will suffer without exposing people to high altitude.

6 Ma¯lamalama Professors suggest government abstain from distorted sex ed ffering abstinence-only sex education is akin to teaching driver’s ed by showing grisly pictures of traffic accidents without teaching students to stop at red Olights or buckle their seatbelts, according to one of the numerous sources cited in a new article by two Ma¯noa faculty members. Worse, it violates adolescents’ legal right to make informed choices, argued Professors Hazel Glenn Beh (law) and Milton Diamond (anatomy and reproductive biology) at the Columbia Journal of Photo by Jennifer Crites Gender and Law’s February symposium on sexuality and the law. The heavily footnot- Rapa Nui settlement estimates ed article reviews historical, biological, medical, economic, ethical and educational revised to later period aspects of the political battle over what schools will teach. xcavations on Rapa Nui suggest At the beginning the 20th century, American schools adopted sex education to colonization occurred 400–800 encourage restraint and promote Victorian values through graphic information on the Eyears later than previously consequences of venereal disease and the evils of promiscuity and prostitution. The thought. Surprised by radiocarbon dat- need to educate soldiers headed into world wars and recognition that earlier puberty ing results on samples excavated during and prolonged adolescence were accompanied by increasing premarital sexual an archaeological field school last sum- activity resulted in a broader curriculum. Since 1999, however, federal funds have mer, Ma¯noa Professor of Anthropology multiplied for programs that once again exaggerate the risks of abortion and sexually Terry Hunt and a colleague reevaluated transmitted diseases and condone sexual relations only in the context of monoga- previously published results. When mous, heterosexual marriages. The problem, according to the authors, is there is no eliminating samples known to compro- evidence abstinence-only programs are effective. Adolescents taking virginity pledges mise dating techniques, such as marine may delay sexual activity and have fewer partners, but most eventually engage in pre- specimens, both past and current data marital sex. And when they do, they are less likely to use condoms correctly, if at all, suggest settlement about 1200 A.D. Hunt and just as likely to contract STDs although less likely to be tested. will continue his work on the island this summer. The field school was featured in The article acknowledges lawmaker’s interest in advancing social values—the gov- the January 2005 Ma¯lamalama. ernment can legitimately remain silent on sexual activity or fund programs that extol abstinence, the authors write. But dissemination of false and distorted information IN GEOPHYSICS: Ridge rocks and that impairs minors’ ability to make informed choices endangers their health and stretch marks violates legal rights related to biological maturity. Reviewing court precedents, the olcanic rock forms at mid-ocean authors conclude: “The state’s right to convey its own message may not be had at the ridges much more quickly than expense of a minor’s decisional and privacy rights in matters of their own sexuality.” Vpreviously thought, Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics Ken Rubin reported in a September 2005 issue of Nature. Isotope dating of very young samples collected by submersibles suggests that new ocean crust formation takes no more than 100 years and perhaps only a few decades. That means underwa- ter eruptions may be more frequent than previously imagined and that the geological, biological and chemical conditions at submarine volcanoes thought to mimic early Earth fluctuate rapidly. This March in Nature, Rubin and colleagues described thick streaks in the upper mantle beneath the Indian Ocean Hot shot: Ma¯noa postdoctoral researcher Matt Patrick has been monitoring the eruption of using rock samples from the overlying Mt. Belinda in the remote South Sandwich Islands since it was first flagged by MODVOLC, an mid-ocean ridge. The mantle apparently automated system developed by Hawai‘i Institute for Geophysics and Planetology scientists. contains stretched remnants of subduct- MODVOLC detects high-temperature activity in infrared satellite images. In work he began as ing plates that were stirred in millions a UH graduate student, Patrick collaborates with the British Antarctic Survey to advance our sketchy understanding of volcano-ice interactions. His false-color image of the volcano spew- of years ago and just now return to the ing ash and steam last September was featured in Discover magazine in February. surface as lava.

Ma¯lamalama 7 Common gene determines different body plans ea anemones, like their coral and sea jelly cousins, are supposed to possess Healthy coral tree a radial body plan. Virtually all other animals, such as flies, frogs and humans, Shave bilateral body plans. Yet these differently-built organisms share many Wasps threaten coral trees genes from a common ancestor. Pacific Biosciences Research Center investigators a¯noa environmentalists didn’t David Matus and Mark Martindale have isolated a set of genes from the tiny, translu- have to go far to find the det- cent starlet sea anemone. The genes encode for proteins that play slightly different Mrimental effects of an alien roles in the development of the two types of body plans. Understanding what hap- species. Coral trees on campus have pens at the molecular level may help explain how the differences arose during evolu- been deformed by infestations of tiny tion, the researchers report on the March 7 issue of Current Biology. parasitic wasps that appeared in Taiwan in 2003 and spread to Singapore, Hong IN ASTRONOMY: X-rays and dust bunnies Kong, China and Hawai‘i within just two stronomers have long known that the Milky Way galaxy is moving toward the years. A popular ornamental prized for constellation Centaurus at 1.4 million miles per hour. Now an X-ray survey its red flowers, the native wiliwili and Abehind the Milky Way suggests that the reason is the pull of a grouping of gal- imported coral trees become stunted axies—the largest concentration of matter in the known universe—500 million light- and die after the wasps lay their eggs years away. The discovery was presented at the American Astronomical Society meet- in green stems and leaves. UH bota- ing in Washington, D.C., in June. Ma¯noa graduate student Dale Kocevski made the nists and entomologists are racing to observations with Institute for Astronomy scientists and Ma¯noa alumnus Chris Mullis. find solutions. Cutting and burning In another discussion at the meeting, graduate student Sean Andrews and IfA’s infected trees has proven ineffective; Jonathan Williams reported that disks of dust particles orbiting young stars disappear injecting trees with an insecticide is at quickly, allowing just a few million years for planet formation. Analysis of radio wave- best an expensive, stopgap measure. lengths captured on two Mauna Kea telescopes indicate that planets begin to form Researchers have traveled to Africa, within the ring when dust particles clump together like dust bunnies under a bed. where similar infestations have been reported, in search of a natural enemy, but they must ensure that any imported control agent won’t endanger native species. Meanwhile volunteers are har- vesting seeds from as many subpopula- tions as possible as a hedge against the possibility that the native wiliwili could become extinct. Cigarette related cancer risk linked to ethnicity ompared to whites, black and Hawaiian men and women who Csmoke up to a pack of cigarettes a day are 55 percent more likely to develop lung cancer while Japanese-Americans and Latinos are 50 percent less likely to develop the disease, regardless of diet, according to results reported in the Jan. 26 New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i and colleagues in Ma¯noa institute for Astronomy’s Fabio Bresolin helped create this portrait of galaxy Messier California are following 184,000 people 101, nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy. Dozens of exposures from the Hubble Space Telescope in the 8-year-old study of diet and cancer. are superimposed on images from the Canada-France-Hawai‘i and other ground-based The disparity appears to decrease as the telescopes. At 16,000 by 12,000 pixels, the composite forms the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever released by NASA. The portrait captures the galaxy 25 mil- level of cigarette use increases, observed lion years ago, revealing clusters of hot, blue newborn stars within its arms, which stretch CRCH’s Loic Le Marchand. nearly twice the diameter of our Milky Way.

8 Ma¯lamalama Decisive in Hawai‘i A Supreme Court jurist-in- residence reflects on students, media and judicial process

tudents enrolled in the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa’s William S. Richardson Law School are very good, Spromising students. That’s the word from visiting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He should Justice Anthony Kennedy, standing, and federal appeals court Judge Myron Bright, seated, know. The justice, former constitu- met with students. Below: Kennedy’s visit included a black-tie dinner with leaders from tional law professor and graduate of O‘ahu’s legal community. Stanford, London School of Economics jurisprudence. The students were eager each case with an overall perspective in and Harvard Law School has visited to ask him questions and share their an objective a manner as possible. Each Ma¯noa’s law school four times. personal thoughts on the nation’s judi- case is different, so one can’t apply a Three of the visits, including his cial system, he observes. standard, fixed criteria and mindset for most recent this past February, were In turn, he urged first-year law stu- every case.” as a jurist-in-residence, presenting dents to persevere and not get discour- When he was appointed to the talks and participating in classes. He aged by any form of adversity or disap- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth was accompanied by Myron Bright, pointment. “Our nation needs good, Circuit in 1975, Kennedy became one senior judge for the U.S. Eighth Circuit capable, passionate students ready to of the youngest federal appeals judges Court of Appeals. Bright is one of the tackle the challenging issues that lie in the nation at age 38. Honored by the founders and a regular participant in ahead. I want to encourage students appointment, but also challenged by the law school’s Jurists-in-Residence to ask as many questions as necessary, the issues that the nation faced at that program, which brings distinguished until they clearly understand everything time, he says he always relied on a firm national judges to meet and exchange there is to know about jurisprudence.” grounding in personal values and juris- ideas with students, faculty and the Noting that the news media doesn’t prudence to guide him. local legal community. Instituted in always accurately interpret Supreme “I would like to think that my 1987, the biennial program is always a Court opinions, he suggests report- views are pragmatic and not ideo- highlight of the year. Past participants ers make it a point to report opinions logical on issues impacting upon the include Associate Justices Ruth Bader factually, thoroughly researching and U.S. Supreme Court,” the 1988 Regan Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, John Paul presenting all aspects of opinions in as appointee says. “I make it a point to Stevens and Byron White. dispassionate a manner as possible. look at issues from an objective per- “I was especially impressed with Kennedy shares his own approach spective, being careful not to begin the number of foreign students enrolled to rendering opinions relating to chal- with any predisposed assumptions. at the law school here,” says Kennedy. lenging, controversial cases: “I look at That’s the real challenge, to study an He praises UH’s issue inside and out, to look at it from law students for every perspective possible, until you their curiosity, pas- feel comfortable enough to render an sion and persever- opinion that you’re certain is the pru- ance in aspiring to dent one.” become honorable by George Furukawa (BA ’76 Ma¯noa), a Honolulu professionals in freelance writer

Ma¯lamalama 9 UH’s response The Ma¯noa College of Education is doubling recruitment efforts, increasing capacity, adding and expanding Coming programs and making teaching more accessible to mid-career professionals and to the neighbor islands. With the DOE, it has also established tuition waivers and loan forgiveness programs. Up Short “People think of a teaching education as a four-year program,” says Hitz. Schools struggle to find the right equation for “That’s only one of our models. We have a post-baccalaureate and a mas- recruiting and retaining teachers ter’s degree. And we do lots of varia- by Janine Tully tions of all three by distance delivery.” The college’s Office of Technology and Distance Programs was created in 2002. ews about teacher Moreover, DOE has to grapple “Our objective is to ensure that shortages contin- with geographic shortages, Shimomoto teaching programs are available to ues to make head- says. “UH is producing more stu- people who are working fulltime and lines nationwide. In dents in elementary ed, but if you ask to students on the Neighbor Islands Hawai‘i, education these students if they want to teach and O‘ahu’s Leeward Coast,” said Paul Nofficials scramble to fill 400–500 vacan- in Wai‘anae or Moloka‘i, the answer McKimmy, who runs the programs. cies at the beginning of each school is ‘no.’” The most acute shortages are “Now we have programs for people year, depending on emergency hires in math and science at the secondary who want to become teachers and and substitutes to fill the gap, a move level and special education at all levels. teach in those areas.” The program that makes some educators nervous. But teachers are also needed in voca- offers four distance delivery methods: “Nobody likes hiring on an emer- tional trades, computer science, library ✱ Face to face instruction—faculty gency basis,” says Randy Hitz, dean of science, Hawaiian studies and English, and students go to the island with Ma¯noa’s College of Education. “The he says. state Department of Education is in a difficult position because someone has to teach a classroom full of kids.” Reasons often cited for the dearth in qualified teachers are an aging teaching corps moving into retirement, low salaries, competing professions, lack of professional support and poor facilities. Bruce Shimomoto, a veteran DOE recruiter, adds other factors: new federal and state mandates such as No Child Left Behind and the Felix Consent Decree. “We’ve had teacher shortages before in some areas, but as time goes on there are more and more areas that require certification, and the number of graduates from UH has not kept pace.”

10 Ma¯lamalama the largest enrollment, typically This fall, UH West O‘ahu will already live and work in the Leeward Maui. Flights and accommoda- launch a baccalaureate degree in early side will stay in the area,” says Wood. tions are covered by tuition. childhood education in hopes of train- Leeward Community College recently ✱ The Hawai‘i Interactive Television ing more Head Start professionals. established an associate of arts in System (HITS)—the system has The program is a response to recent teaching to create a pipeline into new receiving sites on Kaua‘i and congressional action that requires 50 West O‘ahu for students wanting to in West Hawai‘i and expanded percent of Head Start teachers to hold become teachers. operations for Moloka‘i, La¯na‘i a bachelor’s degree by 2010. Graduates and Ha¯na. Still, some students will receive a BA with a concentration School conditions, have to drive up to two hours for in early childhood education. “Because their video classes. the concentration will be embedded in low salaries and ✱ WebCT (Web Course Tools)— the social sciences degree, students will instructors post class materi- have a range of career opportunities bureaucracy als online and hold discussions beyond teaching,” says Melinda Wood, through email. program developer at West O‘ahu. hamper recruitment ✱ Web-conferencing—computer- The new program will partner with based courses use audio and community colleges on Maui, Kaua‘i UH Hilo offers a teacher educa- Internet capabilities, PowerPoint and Hawai‘i and in Honolulu, allow- tion program as well as a master’s in presentations and video clips. ing students to take early childhood education. However, those programs More than 200 neighbor island courses at the community colleges and only graduate about 20 teachers a year, students are enrolled in online licens- complete their bachelor’s course work notes Shimomoto. ing programs for elementary, second- at West O‘ahu. “I think we have dealt with the ary and special education. This fall, 125 In addition, West O‘ahu plans to capacity issue pretty effectively,” says more are expected to enroll. Four years launch an elementary education pro- Hitz, adding that next fall COE will ago the college implemented Transition gram in fall 2007 to address shortages admit 175 students. to Teaching, a fast-track, three-semes- in the Leeward area, where teacher “Increasing our capacity to meet ter federal program aimed at graduates turnover is a serious problem. “We are critical workforce needs in the state in other fields who want to teach math hoping to ‘grow teachers in their own is a top priority for the university,” and science. backyards,’ in hopes that teachers who says UH Interim Vice President for Academic Planning and Policy Linda Johnsrud. “That includes such areas as nursing, teaching and construc- tion.” The UH administration recently increased the College of Education’s budget by $756,000 to start programs on the neighbor islands. Last year COE received $500,000 from the Legislature for eight faculty positions, including an administrative one, and the governor has requested funds for two more. “The administration has been very supportive,” says Beth Pateman, elementary co-director in COE’s Institute for Teacher Education. “Two years ago we had to refuse students in the elementary program because we didn’t have enough faculty.”

Ma¯lamalama 11 Ma¯noa graduates 300 to 400 teach- Teachers’ exodus establishes a mentoring program. The ers a year with specialties in different Eclipsing teacher recruitment is the initiative would benefit emergency fields. Of that number, about half enter problem of retaining good teachers. hires, says Pateman. “They are thrown the public school system, says Hitz. “We can prepare, prepare and prepare, into the classroom with very little Recruitment challenges but they leave,” says Pateman. Every or no field experience.” Shimomoto Special education program Chair year close to 1,600 teachers leave the believes mentoring programs are one Amelia Jenkins knows too well the dif- islands, according to the Hawai‘i State of the most effective ways of keeping ficulties involved in recruiting special Teachers Association. Chattergy attri- teachers here. “It’s a very important ed candidates. The program has failed butes retention problems to what she component but also a very expensive to attract enough students, despite calls the three Cs: conditions, com- one when budget cuts come and fiscal strong recruitment efforts and financial pensation and culture. School culture realignment is required.” incentives, including a tuition waiver. particularly affects mainland teachers, The reasons teachers leave are Students going for a baccalaureate or whose temperaments may be incom- as diverse as the teachers themselves, a post baccalaureate degree get their patible with that of the school and says Shimomoto. Some don’t fit into tuition paid with the condition that whose expectations are often unrealis- Hawai‘i’s culture and are lonely, some they teach (three years for the bache- tic, she explains. flee the high cost of living, and some lor’s and five for the master’s). “Being leave because of lack of professional a special ed teacher is a tough job, and Expanded programs, support. “Compensation is part of the not only because of the students you mix but not the number one driver,” have to deal with,” Jenkins says. “There flexible delivery, Shimomoto says. are a lot of federal and state guidelines While teacher salaries have gone to adhere to regarding students with mentoring and up in the last few years, the Hawai‘i disabilities and a lot of paperwork.” teachers union contends wages have Schools are also having a hard time incentives help not kept pace with the high cost of recruiting candidates in math and sci- living. The average teacher’s salary is ence, where competing fields that did “A large portion of teachers’ time $46,000; the union would like to see not exist 30 years ago lure students away. is spent dealing with administrative that reach $60,000 when a new con- The university was hoping that TTT matters rather than teaching,” she says. tract is negotiated in 2007. (Transition to Teaching) would attract “This requires maturity, experience No one enters the teaching profes- mid-career professionals who want to and other skills that cannot be taught. sion to become wealthy, but teachers teach math or science. But the program The only thing you can do is provide should feel financially secure and sup- has been struggling to find individu- more incentives, including a more ported in their profession, educators als with the necessary credentials. As attractive environment.” say. Toward this end, the university of February, TTT had recruited 70 Last year state lawmakers intro- and DOE have been collaborating to participants for 100 openings. Students duced legislation that provides main- improve teaching conditions. “We all receive $1,500 per semester and $500 land recruits with housing assistance, struggle in Hawai‘i and throughout the for supplies, plus fee reimbursement increases funds for teacher develop- nation in our efforts to recruit teachers for students who pass the PRAXIS tests ment, provides bonuses to those in math, science and special educa- required to teach in public schools. In willing to teach in remote areas and tion,” says Hitz. “And we struggle to return, students must teach for three recruit people willing to serve in inner years in a Hawai‘i public school. cities and remote rural areas.” For information “The conditions of the schools, Ultimately, says Shimomoto, Ma¯noa College of Education “everyone is trying to figure out how the low salaries, the bureaucracy, all 808 956-8002, www.hawaii.edu/coe contribute to poor recruitment,” says we can best meet teachers’ needs West O‘ahu early childhood and elemen- while providing children with quality Virgie Chattergy, who heads the pro- tary education programs 808 454-4750 education.” gram. The bad press DOE frequently Hilo 808 974-7582, www.uhh.hawaii. receives doesn’t help, she adds. edu/depts/education Janine Tully (BA ’87 Ma¯noa) is a Hawai‘i freelance writer

12 Ma¯lamalama Celebrating the Centennial

There’s something Illustration by Rick Moses about KTUH Ma¯noa’s free-wheeling radio station makes a profound impact uncertain terms propaganda, we are unknowingly changed and molded into by Jeela Ongley a better corporate consumer.” People make the station go round t’s a rare musical genre that has “When you think about it, what Whether quirky, radical, effusive, intel- never aired on KTUH radio. In happens at commercial stations is very lectual, humorous, eccentric or just nearly 37 years of operation, close to censorship, and you can forget plain weird, on-air alumni of Ma¯noa’s the station’s programs have about hearing anything too uncon- student-run station have two things remained as dizzyingly diverse ventional or controversial,” says 15- in common—an intense love of music Ias the people who produce them. year KTUH veteran James Kneubuhl. and an appreciation for the camarade- Names like Da Flower Punk Show, If “Almost all of Honolulu’s commercial rie they found with their motley crew You Don’t Dig the Blues You Have a Hole stations sound just plain boring to of KTUH contemporaries. in Your Soul, The Lightsleepers Show, me.” While many KTUH DJs have Synocopated Paradidles with Rudi Mintz, gone on to professional radio careers, KTUH is O‘ahu’s only alter- The Armadillo Radio Program and Soul others share Kneubuhl’s aversion to native radio—that’s not just 69 give a sense of the creative freedom mainstream radio programming and at the station. Behind the elaborate practices. “KTUH is a safe haven of a slogan, it’s a reality. monikers are DJs opinionated, open- sound, a pu‘uhonua that conscientious, —Listener Neil Abercrombie minded, passionate and informed about choice-oriented people can go to,” says the music they love. They are given a highly cerebral DJ who prefers to be “Bespectacled classical DJs min- technical training and set loose on the known by his on-air name, MetaLX. gling with beatnik jazz bunnies, airwaves with complete creative control. “There is a saying, ‘by beholding one Mohawk clad punks, big-hair rockers Some of the resulting shows are, admit- becomes.’ By exposing ourselves to a and so on—there was a lot of cross- tedly, a little rough around the edges, seemingly innocuous and banal bar- pollination,” recalls Kit Grant of the and no one will like everything they rage of top 40 lyrics, which is in no dynamic early ’80s. “It was like family,” hear. But as a listener, the amazing feel- adds Bob “da Budman” Wiorek, who ing of a solid DJ turning you on to your worked for the station from 1976 to new favorite song is unbeatable. 1984, just before the station’s first big “What’s really great about good power increase. “Sure we had our dif- radio is that it exposes you to music ferences, but when it all came out, we you never would have heard—not stuck together and enjoyed those differ- only new music but old music as ences. We all had KTUH in common.” well—which is an incredibly important Grant is beginning a new career concept at KTUH,” explains Jay Junker. as outreach and development director The Ma¯noa music instructor and station alum urges all his students to do a Station staffers ran the acoustic stage for the popular Diamond Head Crater festival show on KTUH. during the 1970s

Photo courtesy of KTUH Ma¯lamalama 13 Veteran community DJ Kevan Scott says he joined KTUH for “the creative process this station allowed 30 years ago and still does today.” Honolulu cartoonist John S. Pritchett had been in Honolulu a year when he designed the station’s 1975 logo.

As a DJ, it was empowering to be able to expose my favorite songs to a mass of people without being invasive. As a mmusician,usician, I appreciateappreciate howhow KTUHKTUH iiss a ggreatreat mmediumedium forfor activelyactively supportingsupporting locallocal ttalent.”alent.” Like many alumni, ChowChow triestries toto playplay the SaturdaySaturday afternoonafternoon AlumniAlumni ShowShow (3–6 p.m.p.m. HST)HST) wheneverwhenever she’s in town. Fellow alumni around the for the American Civil Liberties Union radio!” worldworld can ttuneune in oonlinenline of Hawai‘i. Wiorek now works as an sayssays MilesMiles at wwwwww.ktuh.org..ktuh.org. “We“We encourageencourage allall electronics technician at a safety and Takaaze.Takaaze. “I“I formerformer DJ’sDJ’s toto staystay in touchtouch withwith us, security company in California. Late worked at radio stations throughout host our Alumni Show and let us know ’80s DJ and journalism major Derek Hawai‘i for the next 15 years.” Dixie where you are and how you’ve been,” Ferrar helped found Honolulu Weekly Alexander translated a semester at says current General Manager Justin and now works as an editor for the KTUH in 1977 into a 20-year radio Quezon, aka Sifu “Jive” Walker on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. “The best career. “Networking is the lifeblood Tuesday night Afrostylus show. Former thing about being involved with KTUH of broadcasting,” she emails from DJs can link up with the KTUH was the people I met and who I am still Southern California. “Friendships History Project at [email protected] or friends with today,” he says. made at KTUH can launch and resur- via http://ktuh.org. Equally important is the profes- rect careers.” sional experience gained when students “KTUH provided facilities and Breaking new ground every day commit themselves to a weekly 3-hour experiences that I otherwise wouldn’t KTUH was innovative and important time slot. Nowhere else in the state, have had,” adds Vivian Chow, a musi- from the start. In 1971 it was the first except the Big Island’s rising University cian, writer and recording artist who Hawai‘i station to broadcast in quad- Radio Hilo (see page 15), can students relocated to Los Angeles after graduat- raphonic sound. A September 1977 get hands-on experience and total ing in 1999. “I loved meeting other Honolulu magazine article counted creative freedom at the same time. people who were just as passionate KTUH as only half a station, “very Alumni work in entertainment, media, about music and had eclectic tastes. much minor league…an afterthought,” public relations and countless other industries, including high tech and non-profit sectors. Many credit KTUH Help celebrate the centennial for giving them a leg up. eading up to the University of Hawai‘i centennial in 2007, Ma¯lamalama will fea- “In addition to learning about Lture programs and developments that have had a significant impact in the lives of our alumni over the years. Contribute your memories by writing to Ma¯lamalama, the fundamental aspects of radio 1627 Bachman Place BA2, Honolulu, HI 96822 or [email protected] (put “centennial” broadcasting, my experience at KTUH in the subject line). Please mention other alumni involved and provide their contact landed me my first professional job in information if you have it.

but extolled its strengths as the only his dedication to ’50s, ’60s and ’70s to their shows learned that they one of just three FM rock stations in rock and the Americana, folk, jazz and needed to comply with regulations, the state airing “considerable amount blues that grew out of it. observes attorney Brion St. James, of new talent.” One of the other sta- “We went from sitting in a studio who enjoyed college radio so much tions was syndicated from Dallas, the in Hawai‘i Hall with a psychedelic clock in the ’80s that he still volunteers at a other favored established artists. on the wall and a window that looked station near his home in Sacramento. over the grounds to the windowless An increase to 3,000-watt signal Being in the station was like room in Hemenway Hall, where it still strength and a new frequency reach- magic; it was like an endless is today,” recalls Wiorek. Because the ing the Windward side in the last five stream of inspiration. station’s early reach was relatively insig- years required a rise in the level of nificant, the Federal Communications professionalism to meet the expecta- —DJ MetaLX Commission paid little attention, and tions of a new audience. KTUH was one of the first sta- the culture that grew around KTUH Still, like its listeners, KTUH hasn’t tions in Hawai‘i to play jazz and was was even more freewheeling than it is abandoned its roots. “The station is an instrumental in popularizing reggae today. Privately, early alumni reminisce oasis of individualism in a desert of and hip-hop. Now common on the over the wildness of their youthful homogenization,” says U.S. Rep. Neil local dial, the genres still get special radio experience. Few care to see such Abercrombie. “I enjoy it every time I treatment at KTUH, where obscure reflections in print, so readers will have listen, and it’s heartening just to know cuts are spotlighted and sales figures to imagine life at the less regulated, it exists.” are irrelevant. Less frequently heard hippie-run station. Jeela Ongley (BA ’97 Ma¯noa) is web content coordi- styles, including punk, blues, Latin, Maturity requires adjustment. nator in External Affairs and University Relations, a graduate student in English and regular KTUH listener funk, Brazilian, Afrobeat and elec- People who felt they had a right tronica, thrive at KTUH. Even local mainstays like rock and Hawaiian find University Radio Hilo is the new kid on the rock new life outside of the limited playlists n the Big Island, UH Hilo and Hawai‘i Community College operate a small of commercial stations. but buzzing musical haven known as University Radio Hilo. Students Z “KTUH was built with the vision OKnight and Mark Farrell, both slated to graduate this month, wrote the char- and action of a small but committed ter and secured funding to launch URH as an group of students with very little input internet station four years ago. In March stu- from the administration or faculty of dents and staff installed four tenth-of-a-watt UH Ma¯noa,” says John Burnett, who transmitters on the roof of the UH Hilo Theatre, making an AM broadcast available to a 3-mile volunteered at the station in the ’70s radius that includes 10,000–15,000 people in and early ’80s. “What we lacked in skill, Hilo’s urban center. we made up in creativity and persis- “The AM station is one more way to make tence,” adds Russ Roberts, who was town and gown closer,” says staff advisor John Z Knight there at the beginning. Burnett, who’s spent 30-some years in radio For the first 15 years, KTUH and journalism, including a 14-year stint as the play-by-play announcer for the Hilo ran at 100 watts at best—about the Vulcans, since cutting his teeth at KTUH. Reflecting on the mostly 20-somethings strength of a light bulb—producing a who made the station a reality, he says, “I couldn’t be prouder of them if they were my own children.” signal that barely reached the student On the URH website, listeners can send requests and messages to the DJs live dorms and playing albums and audio and search the station’s small but growing music collection. Pukas in the schedule tape spliced with a razor. Community create ready opportunities for the right student DJs. When there are no shows on DJ Kevan Scott is a holdover—con- the air, URH offers an automated playlist handpicked by staffer Dori Yamada, a Hilo tinuously involved since 1973—who alumna Burnett calls “a hip indie rock chick with great taste in music.” The resulting counts Congressman Neil Abercrombie sound is reminiscent of the short-lived yet much-loved Radio Free Hawai‘i—a mosaic among his listeners. Scott’s Saturday of songs from a variety of genres that work together while flouting the rules of conventional broadcasting. afternoon Burnt Speakers show reflects Listen online at www.uhhradio.com or tune in at AM 1640 in Hilo.

Ma¯lamalama 15 Astronomy and Hawaiian culture come together under one sky at The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center by Arlene Abiang

ore than a decade the project, and in February, their Durrant chairperson and managing ago UH Hilo officials vision was brought to life. The ‘Imiloa principal. began to develop the Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i opened The landscaping surrounding growing research and to positive reviews from residents and the attraction features indigenous Mtechnology industry on the Big Island. tourists of all ages. and “canoe” plants (those brought by Its University Park of Science and early Polynesian navigators). It mir- Where astronomy and culture merge Technology opened in 1990, attract- rors the changing flora found as one ‘Imiloa means “exploring new knowl- ing international tenants representing ascends from ocean front to volcano edge.” The ‘Imiloa center takes visitors technology, agriculture, biotechnology summit. Earlier this year, the Hawai‘i on an exploration of Mauna Kea and and science, including UH’s Institute Island Landscaping Association recog- tells the story of its world-renowned for Astronomy and other leading nized local landscape architect Randall astronomy and rich Hawaiian tradi- astronomy institutions. Monaghan and the center with two tions. The $28 million, 40-square-foot Hawai‘i Sen. Daniel Inouye and awards for excellence for the design facility overlooking picturesque Hilo UHH officials envisioned the addi- and implementation. Inside, visitors, Bay is unique inside and out. The tion of a world-class astronomy students and families are invited to center’s three titanium-clad cones, learning center and visitor attraction immerse themselves in various learning with its bold radiance, is already a where people could learn about the exhibits that link Hawaiian cultural tra- landmark with the local community. remarkable research taking place atop ditions and the science of astronomy. Designed by Honolulu architecture Mauna Kea volcano, combined with “This place brings an important firm Durrant Media Five, the build- the cultural elements that early part of Hawaiian history to life,” says ing represents three volcanoes on Hawaiian navigators brought Executive Director Peter Giles. A sea- the Big Island—Huala¯lai, Mauna to the field. Inouye soned museum leader and fundraiser, Loa and Mauna Kea. “The helped the univer- Giles recently retired after 18 years of center celebrates a connec- sity secure NASA conceptualizing and realizing The Tech tion between Earth and funding for Museum of Innovation in San Jose. the universe beyond,” He arrived in Hawai‘i determined to says Melvyn Choy, establish ‘Imiloa with a reputation on par with the world-class recognition

16 Ma¯lamalama UH Hilo’s new visitor attraction features architecture designed to elicit a sense of place and hands-on exhibits that combine fun with facts

of Mauna Kea’s astronomy research. and back in time to the Big Bang build the image and reality of ‘Imiloa “Mauna Kea is the local tie for many more than 13 billion years ago. In the as the must see destination in the when it comes to astronomy, so it is Kumulipo theatre, compelling chant Pacific.” To achieve that, Hoo works fitting that ‘Imiloa blend a sense of and stimulating lights and sounds tell closely with the Big Island Visitors place into it,” says Giles. the Hawaiian story of creation in a the- Bureau to promote the center to the atrical way. travel and tourism industry. “The Big Cosmic evolution is cool The 120-seat full-dome, state-of- Island Visitors Bureau sees ‘Imiloa For those seeking an educational and the-art planetarium boasts a Digistar as having a huge potential to attract interactive experience, ‘Imiloa does 3 system, one of the most techno- visitors and encourage tourists to stay not disappoint. The center is filled logically advanced video production a night in Hilo,” she says. “We have with more than 100 learning exhib- systems available. Its reclining seats, already been contacted by many tour its—from games and video clips to a each equipped with keypads on the operators who are interested in adding 3D immersion theater that transports armrest, allow audience members to us to their schedules.” its passengers to outer space. customize their viewing experience. “Our exhibits are visually appeal- Currently showing is Maunakea: ing, fun and hands-on, fascinating our Between Earth and Sky, a 22-minute visitors, especially the kids,” says Gloria film focusing on the sacred mountain, Chun Hoo, ‘Imiloa marketing man- its connection to Hawaiian culture ager. A veteran in both museums and and our ongoing exploration of the marketing, Hoo was born and raised origins of the universe. Once installed in Honolulu. She worked with Giles at this summer, the planetarium’s laser The Tech for 10 years and moved back projector will provide the highest to Hawai‘i this year to join him in cre- resolution available—up to 16 million ating another exceptional attraction. pixels of video resolution. Her enthusiasm is palpable. “Entering UHH officials are also committed the main exhibit gallery, one can’t help More to come to making the center a major attrac- but feel an initial sense of awe in mov- Not yet open at press time, the center’s tion for the island and the state. “The ing onward with their explorations,” 2,000 square-foot café will build on the relationship between ‘Imiloa and UH she says. center’s theme through a menu devel- is symbiotic, and the partnership is In the entry exhibit, the Piko, visi- oped in conjunction with food-service vital to both,” says Hilo Chancellor tors ascend through a simulated koa provider Sodexho. The center also forest that winds its way to the top of plans to involve UH Hilo and Hawai‘i Mauna Kea. Another crowd-pleaser is CC students as volunteers, interns and ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center the 4D2U experimental theatre, devel- part-time workers. About 80 volunteers of Hawai‘i oped with the National Astronomical from the local community have signed Hours: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday Observatory of Japan, which oper- on to assist the 15 full-time employees. Extended Hours: planned for summer; ates the Subaru Telescope on Facing an annual operating budget available to scheduled groups Mauna Kea. Viewers take a of $3 million, Giles intends to place Admission: $14.50 general, $7.50 ages 4– 3D journey through space ‘Imiloa on a solid financial basis. His 12, free under 4; kama‘a¯ina rates available sustainability plan calls for half the Directions: from Route 11 (Kanoelehua revenue from admission, store sales, Hwy), turn onto Pu¯‘ainako¯ Street and head rental fees and membership; 25 percent mauka (uphill) 1.5 miles; turn right onto Komohana Street; turn right onto Nowelo from grants and 25 percent from pri- Street; take the second left onto ‘Imiloa vate donations. State contributions are Place; follow signs for parking. expected through an appropriation to Contact: 808 969-9700 UH Hilo. Online: www.imiloahawaii.org Another priority for Giles is “to

Ma¯lamalama 17 Manua Kea astronomy featured in new books Look for two books by people with UH ties to learn more about Manua Kea and the astronomical activities that take place on the mountain. In A Gentle Rain of Starlight: The Story of Astronomy on Manua Kea (Island Heritage Publishing), UH Hilo Professor of Astronomy Michael J. West compiles a sumptuous record of the history of astronomy on the mountain, the people involved and the discoveries made. The title—a reference to photons, droplets of starlight that fall onto telescope mirrors—hints at the often poetic text. An abundance of photos—historic, documentary and artistic—gives even the armchair traveler a taste of the mountain’s beauties and working conditions. Meet Peter B. Giles, Manua Kea: A Guide to Hawai‘i’s Sacred Mountain (Watermark Publishing) is a com- ‘Imiloa Executive Director prehensive resource for anyone who plans to visit in person. UH Ma¯noa alumni Leslie Lang Roots: Salt Lake City, raised in (MA in anthropology) and David Byrne (BS in geology and geophysics, MBA) include sec- San Francisco tions on cultural significance, natural history, recreation and side trips along with practical Career: President and CEO, The considerations and visitor etiquette. Tech Museum of Innovation; Both books acknowledge conflicting views that arise in the debate over use of a place president, Silicon Valley that is at once the world’s best site for astronomy, a unique ecosystem and perhaps the most Leadership Group; board mem- sacred of locations to Native Hawaiians. And both tomes offer an abundance of fun facts ber, International Association of (e.g., a light bulb gives off more light in an hour than Mauna Kea telescopes collect in four Science and Technology Centers years) and information on each of the observatories that can help you ace the quiz below. Academic training: History and public administration Match the facility with its attribute Family: Wife Leanne, 7 children, 1 Caltech Submillimeter Observatory ___ 10 grandchildren 2 Canada-France-Hawai‘i Telescope ___ Hobbies: Languages, fitness, 3 Frederick C. Gillett Gemini Telescope ___ music 4 W. M. Keck Observatory ___ 5 James Clerk Maxwell Telescope ___ On life in Hawai‘i: “It’s a new 6 NASA Infrared Telescope Facility ___ adventure, with new and intrigu- ing personalities.” 7 Submillimeter Array ___ 8 Subaru Telescope ___ 9 UH 0.6-Meter Telescope ___ Rose Tseng. “The university provides 10 UH 2.2-Meter Telescope ___ the expertise of its faculty and a great 11 United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope ___ resource for volunteers among fac- 12 Very Long Baseline Array ___ ulty, staff and students, while ‘Imiloa’s a. operated remotely from Waimea, this tri-nation popularity as a visitor destination telescope uses the world’s largest “camera” b. its radio antennas create the world’s largest telescope—92 feet in will bring more visibility to UH Hilo diameter—below the summit on a national and international level. c. its veteran 5-inch-thick Pyrex mirror, small by current standards, was installed by the Air The mutuality will result in increased Force in time for the first lunar landing d. it observes by recording waves in the region of light just below infrared prestige for both institutions, making e. this northern hemisphere twin creates its own laser star in order to measure light distortion the marriage of ‘Imiloa and UH Hilo f. Institute for Astronomy scientists used its data to identify the first object discovered in more than just the sum of its indi- the Kuiper Belt vidual parts.” g. with technological advances, this 27-year-old’s infrared images rival those taken from space h. it is named for the star cluster known to the west as the Pleiades and to Hawaiians as Giles adds, “Astronomy remains Makali‘i one of the exciting frontiers that can i. its two mirrors have documented more extra-solar planets than any other ground-based only be crossed with technological telescope j. its 8 antennas can be located in varying configurations using 24 pads innovation. It will be an important k. instruments beneath its low silver dome have monitored volcanic activity on Jupiter’s part in making Hawai‘i a home for moon Io for nearly two decades technology innovation.” l. named for a Scottish physicist, it’s shaded by the world’s largest piece of Gore-Tex fabric Arlene Abiang (BA ’01 Ma¯noa) is an External Affairs 1 d, 2 a, 3 e, 4 i, 5 l, 6 k, 7 j, 8 h, 9 c, 10 f, 11 g, 12 b and University Relations public information officer Score: 9–12 correct—you’re a star; 5–8—amateur astronomer; 1–4—not bad for a beginner

18 Ma¯lamalama Part visitor attraction, part research facility, UH’s botanical garden makes a comeback

Remember the Arboretum Less than three and a half miles, as the mynah flies, from Botany Clifford Morden as interim director. Renovations downtown Honolulu lies 194 seemingly primeval acres have begun with $3 million in state funding provided over nestled deep in the back of Ma¯noa Valley. Jurassic Park could two years. Still, Gary K. Ostrander, Ma¯noa vice chancellor have been shot here; the popular television show Lost has for research, cautions that since past difficulties developed filmedfilmed nnearby.earby. MajesticMajestic treestrees canopycanopy thethe lushlush forestforest overover anan extendedextended period,period, itit willwill taketake timetime toto resolveresolve floorfloor aandnd a cconstantonstant murmurmurmur ofof bbirdsong,irdsong, insectsinsects them.them. “We’ve“We’ve gotgot somesome workwork inin frontfront ofof us.us. We’reWe’re and dripping water fills the moist, fragrant air. onon thethe rightright ttrack,rack, wwe’ree’re definitelydefinitely makingmaking prog-prog- Established by the Hawaiian Sugar ress.ress. ThoughThough it’sit’s goinggoing slowerslower thatthat we’dwe’d like,like, I’mI’m Planters Association in 1918 to demonstrate tryingtrying ttoo ffigureigure ooutut hhowow ttoo ensureensure itsits long-termlong-term watershed restoration, test tree species for success.success. I’mI’m notnot interestedinterested inin a quickquick fix.”fix.” reforestation and collect living plants of eco- He has no such reservations about the staff, nomicnomic value,value, HaroldHarold L.L. LyonLyon ArboretumArboretum becamebecame whowho kkeptept tthehe pplacelace rrunningunning dduringuring tthehe cclosure.losure. partpart ooff tthehe UUniversityniversity ofof Hawai‘iHawai‘i inin 19531953 andand waswas “They“They aarere tthehe bbiggestiggest uunacknowledgednacknowledged rresourceesource tthehe named for the botanist who served as its first director. arboretum has, incredibly dedicated, hardworking and It is at once repository for more than 5,000 species of rare focused. They have been absolutely wonderful during this tropical plants, research facility, living laboratory and class- transitional period.” room and a Zen-like oasis. But the eternal sense generated A biologist by training, Ostrander seems as by the garden’s green and tranquil ambiance belies recent enchantedenchanted byby thethe arboretumarboretum asas thethe casu-casu- uncertainty over its future. alal vvisitor.isitor. “It’s“It’s a veryvery peaceful,peaceful, quiet,quiet, The Most of the facility’s buildings, charming wooden cottag- tranquil place. When I go up there Harold L. Lyon es built in the 1920s, are suffering from the valley’s humidity, I certainly feel the stress of every- Arboretum insects and the onslaught of time. The arboretum was forced day life at the university ebbing 3860 Ma¯noa Road in Honolulu to close for five months in 2004, its buildings deemed unsafe out. There are so many unusual Open to the public for self-guided for daily use. The state Department of Land and Natural plants that you don’t see very tours 9 a.m.–4 p.m. weekdays Resources registered concerns about moneymaking activities often anywhere else in the world. www.hawaii.edu/ on Conservation District Lands and the State Auditor cri- Many of them are novel species lyonarboretum or tiqued management, charging UH with neglecting the facil- forfor me.me. AtAt variousvarious timestimes ofof thethe yearyear 808 988-0456 ity. Various groups, including environmental and community differentdifferent plantsplants flowerflower andand thatthat givesgives organizations, weighed in and two university task youyou a differentdifferent sensesense everyevery timetime youyou go.”go.” groupsgroups mademade recommendationsrecommendations onon corecore He also exudes optimism about the arboretum’s future. educationeducation aandnd rresearchesearch missionsmissions inin “I have a vested interest in seeing the arboretum reestablished keepingkeeping withwith aann aacademiccademic iinstitution.nstitution. and fulfilling its mission of teaching, research and service to Initial accommodations to the community. I want to get the arboretum to a place where assureassure safesafe publicpublic accessaccess allowedallowed thethe it’s fiscally solvent and meeting that mission with excellence. arboretumarboretum ttoo reopen.reopen. ArboretumArboretum We’re going to be unique, we’re going to be different, and staffstaff aapplaudedpplauded tthehe aappointmentppointment we’re going to be very very good at what we do.” ofof MMa¯noaa¯noa AssociateAssociate ProfessorProfessor ofof by Dale Moana Gilmartin (BA ’89 Ma¯noa), a Honolulu freelance writer

Ma¯lamalama 19 music at UH Hilo. “It’s through that process that they’re building the basis for inspiration, which is released in the moment of creation and performance.” Donald Womack, composer and acting chair of Ma¯noa’s music department, puts it this way: “We tend to think that inspiration is somehow magical. I think it’s more a matter of putting in the perspiration so the idea finally presents itself in an understandable way. It’s like the idea is out there all along but it’s too blurry, disconnected or hidden and you can’t quite see it. The moment we call inspiration is when you suddenly understand what was there before.” “I think inspiration comes from some of the most unexpected places Whether springing from Muses, discipline or serendipity, at the most unexpected times,” says creativity begins with David Behlke, assistant professor of art at Kapi‘olani Community College and director of the campus’s Koa Gallery. He recalls a summer trip home during his college days and “being inspired in the middle of the night in my mother’s Inspiration kitchen to paint a self portrait on the by Jennifer Crites spot.” For Behlke, inspiration often arrives in the form of doodles while ome of us feel it in the produces great works of art as a result. he’s on the phone or in a meeting. “I shower. Others get it in In keeping with East Asian and South have to pay attention (to the phone dreams or while exercis- Asian traditions, each in their own way, call or meeting speaker) just enough to ing. Author J. K. Rowling it was thought that artistic creativity keep my conscious mind off the draw- took hers to a coffee shop involves a kind of disciplined sponta- ing,” he confides. Swhere she wrote the first Harry Potter neity resulting from extensive training Lee finds inspiration in the book. Inspiration—that “Aha! I’ve in a particular practice, such as paint- inspired works of other musicians got it” moment—seems to come out ing or music. “The belief that one is and feels it flowing when he’s impro- of nowhere. But does it really? What suddenly inspired to write a symphony vising in the confines of a studio. exactly is inspiration and how do we or an epic poem is no longer in fash- Debra Drexler, Ma¯noa associate go about getting some? ion,” he says. Current thinking holds professor of art and art history, also Pumped for an inspiration primer, that “inspiration” is a creative process creates a separate workspace that UH Ma¯noa Professor and Chair of that requires technical skill, deep feel- allows her to declutter her mind so Philosophy Eliot Deutsch explains that ing and both conscious and uncon- inspiration can do its thing. Music is the idea of inspiration in the context scious mental determination. part of the process—“everything from of aesthetics and artistic creativity is And preparation. “Musicians jazz and blues to rock, U2 and the no longer understood in the Platonic- spend years rehearsing, running scales Beatles, depending on what I’m in the like notion that one is taken hold of and learning their instruments,” says mood for and the kind of work I’m by some external divine power and Richard Lee, associate professor of doing,” she says. The initial inspira-

20 Ma¯lamalama tion for Gaugan Zombie—a complex Current events can’t help but ation or problem solving. “You can be art installation that includes massive influence the creative process, notes inspired by someone’s example. I have paintings, woodcarvings, fictional Womack, whose composition “After”— a friend who’s fighting cancer, and I’m writing and a thatched hut—came performed by the Honolulu Symphony inspired by his strength. Inspiration to Drexler in a dream in 1998. Since in concert with Japanese composer might lead you to try to be a better then, she says, “I rework and add new Shigeaki Saegusa’s “Cantata Tengai”— person or to emulate someone.” ideas each time it shows” at art cen- memorialized the grief and honored “The literal meaning of inspira- ters nationwide. the victims of the Ehime Maru ship tion is breathing in and out, respira- sinking tragedy. “The motivation of tion,” explains Ma¯noa Professor of ehlke keeps a dream wanting to do something about it English Frank Stewart, a poet and journal. He also relies on started the process,” says Womack, “but editor of the literary journal, Ma¯noa. “a little voice that talks the inspiration came along when I got “So inspiration has to do with mor- to me when I’m making those ‘ok-I-know-what-to-do-next’ tality—to take life in and let it out, art. It tells me what col- moments.” After six months spent but in a way that has value to others. Bors to put where.” Womack finds that deciding on the character of the piece endorphins from exercise put him in and its instrumentation, Womack still Inspiration dawns in the inspired-creative driver’s seat. For had not written the music. Sitting in MidWeek editor and East-West Center his office one day grading papers, he doodling, discipline Fellow Don Chapman, it can be as heard a student outside play a few and a sudden simple as a shower. Chapman needed notes on a clarinet. “That sounds like a understanding of a headline for a cover story on former shakuhachi,” he thought, jotting down UH athletes in the military. “I had the notes. The resulting Japanese bam- what’s already there tried a few and none worked,” he says. boo flute solo became a major part of “Then on deadline day, getting ready the composition. That’s why we can be inspired by a for work, my head far from headlines, What about those of us who aren’t teacher, community leader, athlete, stepping out of the shower, the idea artists, musicians or writers by profes- artist, performer or heroic act. There’s popped into my head: Hawai‘i’s True sion. Is inspiration beyond our reach? something about true inspiration Rainbow Warriors.” Emphatically no, says Lee. “In any that’s selfless, and therefore it’s the field—plumber, carpenter, auto repair, giving of a gift. That’s why it’s impor- housekeeper, whatever—there has to tant to everyone. Inspiring people are be a vision of some kind to do problem role models. They act, create, sing, solving. We’re all unconsciously seek- speak or risk their lives for all of us ing solutions to problems even while who can’t do it as articulately, joy- doing everyday tasks. fully, mournfully or passionately as we “I think people are inspired con- would like to.” stantly by their surroundings,” suggests When it comes to inspiration, little Chapman. “The process of solving is certain. It treats us all differently, problems is the same one artists go arriving when we’re ready. You can’t through; it’s just that artists focus on pluck it from the air like fruit from a it as a fundamental part of their craft. tree or download it at will like a file My friend races cars. He does things as from the Internet. But, to paraphrase a mechanic or behind the wheel that the message of the baseball diamond are creative and inspired but he’s not in Field of Dreams, if you’ve done your thinking about it that way. He’s just homework and tuned your internal trying to make the car go faster.” antennae to the right frequency, it will There are different kinds of inspi- come.

ration, Chapman adds, and inspiration Jennifer Crites (AA ’90 Windward, BA ’92 UHWO) is a doesn’t always involve artistic cre- freelance writer/photographer in Honolulu

Collage by Susanne Yuu Susanne by Collage Ma¯lamalama 21 use. Oil is derived from pressed seeds for use in shampoos and other modern topical applications. The market for noni products is worldwide, with largest distribution in North America, Mexico, Asia and Australia. The plant may have colonized Pacific islands naturally, but many believe it was brought to Hawai‘i by the Polynesians, who used the noni bark and root to make yellow and red dyes. As botanists, the voyagers knew what they were doing—noni thrives in a wide range of precipitation levels, temperatures and soil conditions. It survives in arid regions, lava fields and Wonder Drug brackish tide pools. It regenerates after fire or severe pruning and can flower year-round. The Polynesians generally lim- or Latest Fad? ited noni’s use to topical applications, Not all noni’s purported benefits have traditional origins according to Ma¯noa ethnobotanist Will McClatchey. The elder healers he’s by Cheryl Ernst interviewed in Hawai‘i and other Pacific regions describe using heated leaves as bandages, placing chopped leaves within wounds and applying green fruit umbo, cheesefruit, lada, Odorous when ripe and bitter tast- in external remedies. Non-healers used nho, bankoro, hog apple, ing when aged, noni has a reputation crushed or sliced fruit as poultices for mouse’s pineapple or as a cure-all for ailments ranging from infections or skin ailments. limburger tree. With so arthritis to ulcers. Scientists are looking Noni juice has grown in popu- many names, perhaps at compounds that may have potential larity over the past 20 years, fueled Bit shouldn’t come as a surprise that benefits, but experts say the fruit is by claims that it can treat cancer, products from Morinda citrifolia, aka unlikely to live up to all the claims. high blood pressure, diabetes, AIDS noni, represent a $3 billion industry. A member of the coffee fam- and depression. “The popularity of At about $1 per fluid ounce retail, ily, noni is a small evergreen tree or M citrifolia fruit in modern noni has one of the world’s highest shrub that bears bumpy, fleshy yel- Hawai‘i seems to hinge on a profit-margins for juice beverages, lowish-white fruit. The fruit is turned combination of its tradition according to Scot Nelson, a plant into juice and sold in its pure form of use among Polynesians, pathologist in Ma¯noa’s College of or as juice concentrates, beverages or development and distribu- Tropical Agriculture and Human powders. Dehydrated pulp is made tion of modern products Resources who has developed the into fruit leather and dried leaves are and a mixture of factual definitive noni website. crushed for medicinal and cosmetic and fanciful information

22 Ma¯lamalama A healthy newcomer

provided directly by manufacturers anti-inflammatory scopoletin and anti- and indirectly by academic research- septic anthraquinones. ers,” McClatchey writes in Integrative Some studies have begun to test Cancer Therapies. He groups noni specific claims. A. Y. Hirazumi stud- lueberries, nature’s little sack health claims in three categories. One ied anticancer and immunotherapy of vision protecting, choles- Bterol lowering antioxidants, relates to traditional Polynesian uses. potential of the fruit for her UH doc- could become a high-value niche Others he traces to an undocumented toral dissertation. She determined that crop for Hawai‘i. Ma¯noa researchers noni juice could stimulate an immune and USDA colleagues are testing While it’s probably response in cells and exhibited promis- the crop’s viability at the College ing anticarcinogenic properties. Ma¯noa of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources’ Mealani Research not a cure-all, noni Professor of Pharmacology Eiichi Station in Waimea. Six heat-toler- has exhibited anti- Furusawa demonstrated antitumor ant cultivars of the North American activity of noni juice in mice. shrub are being tested. cancer potential in The Cancer Research Center Researchers will follow the of Hawai‘i continues the work with plants for several years, but preliminary observations are promis- preliminary studies funding from the National Institutes ing. Four cultivars have produced of Health and Hawai‘i Community good yields of quality fruit. Emerald 1985 botanical garden newsletter Foundation. Researchers must first and Misty had the largest berries, article that extols an unsubstantiated determine safe and tolerable dosages Sharpblue the sweetest. Visit www. alkaloid dubbed zeronine. Third are of noni capsules. Measurement of bio- ctahr.hawaii.edu/freepubs to miscellaneous vague claims. logically active chemicals in the urine download the blueberry flyer under “Fruits and Nuts.” “As with other panaceas, M citrifo- helps determine a minimum level to lia is being marketed as ‘hope in a bot- maintain presence in the bloodstream A traditional staple tle’ which will ‘naturally’ treat illnesses while interviews gauge the maximum Hawaiians once cultivated breadfruit, or ’ulu, in large groves. Its that are otherwise out of the control dose that can be accommodated with- wood was used for surfboards and of the average person,” concludes out adverse effects. Later, efficacy stud- its bark for kapa and bandages. McClatchey. ies will compare noni against a placebo The sap served as a salve, calk and Noni juice is high in vitamin C, to determine actual benefits. It’s only glue for catching birds. The pale and scientists have isolated poten- anecdotal evidence so far, but lead pulpy fruit was used to chum for fish and feed pigs. And baked, boiled, tially promising researcher Brian Issell says some of the worked into a poi or cooked as a compounds, 50 patients participating in the dosage pudding, ’ulu was a dietary staple including study report reduced pain. that rivals taro in nutritional value. immune- Bottom line? Drink noni if you Breadfruit’s popularity as a food boosting like—Nelson’s website will even tell you declined by the 1920s, but Ma¯noa and anti- how to make your own juice—but be food scientists Alan Titchenal and Alvin Huang aren’t ready to aban- bacterial cautious about unsubstantiated claims. don the plant. “This beautiful, polysac- And learn more at The Noni Website: productive tree has an ongoing role charides, www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/noni to play in the Hawaiian lifestyle,” —Cheryl Ernst is Ma¯lamalama editor and creative they write in Hawaiian Breadfruit: services director in External Affairs and University Ethnobotany, Nutrition and Human Relations Ecology. Go to www.ctahr.hawaii. Noni photo courtesy of the College of Tropical edu/PIO and click on “for-sale publi- Agriculture and Human Resources; noni products cations” at left or call 808 956-7036 provided by ‘Umeke Market. to order the book.

Ma¯lamalama 23 Alumni

Seiji Naya (BBA ’58) has been ex- tensively involved in international economics for more than 40 years. Abroad, he served as a visiting professor at Thammasat University in Thailand and chief economist of the Asian 2006 Distinguished Alumni Awards Development Bank. At home, he served as director of Hawai‘i’s Department of The UH Alumni Association celebrates these alumni for outstanding Business, Economic Development and contributions to their professions, community and university on May 18 Tourism. A UH emeritus professor, he at the Sheraton Waikı¯kı¯ serves as distinguished visiting senior fellow at the East-West Center. Kent Tsukamoto (BBA ’78) is a leading authority in taxation and managing partner of the Honolulu office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. A strong advocate for UH, he is the UH Alumni Association’s only two-term president and a 1994 Outstanding Alumnus of Thomas Kaulukukui Jr. Samuel Koide Patricia Y. Lee Robert G. F. Lee the College of Business Administration. Other volunteer activities include work with the St. Louis School and the Blood Bank of Hawai‘i. Victor Yano (BS ’74, MD ’78) is the minister of health for Palau. The first Palauan physician to return home to work, he established the Belau Medical Clinic, prompting the government to Seiji Naya Kent Tsukamoto Victor Yano Genoa Keawe improve the public healthcare sector. He was a driving force in development Distinguished Alumni Award Patricia Y. Lee (BA ’65, JD ’79) is an ac- of the Pacific Basin Medical Association complished trusts and estates attorney at to support medical practitioners in the Thomas Kaulukukui Jr. (JD ’77) was the the law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn region. first William S. Richardson School of and Stifel. Honorary consul of France Law alumnus to become a circuit court in Honolulu, she holds a doctorate in UH Founders Lifetime judge. An activist for Native Hawaiians, French and was recently awarded the he is chair and managing trustee of the Achievement Award Ordre National du Mérite by the French Queen Lili‘uokalani Trust. He has also Genoa Keawe is lovingly known as government for her service to the French served on the boards of several local Hawai‘i’s admired Lady of Song for her community in Hawai‘i. Lee has served UH non-profit organizations. gentle presence and strong falsetto—her in various capacities, most recently as trademark for half a century. She has Samuel Koide (BS ’45) produced foun- chair of the Board of Regents. recorded more than 20 albums and 150 dational reproductive biology research Robert G. F. Lee (BS ’71, MBA ’83) built singles with her group Genoa Keawe instrumental to many of the break- impressive civilian and military careers. and Her Hawaiians. “Auntie Genoa” was throughs in human fertility regulation. In 2004 he was promoted to major recognized by the National Endowment His international research collaborations general, the highest rank in the Hawai‘i for the Culture and Arts and inducted into include publication of more than 300 sci- National Guard. He serves as Homeland the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 2000 entific papers. Koide strives to improve Security advisor to the governor and and awarded an honorary doctor of hu- secondary schools in New York and is a director of the Hawai‘i Civil Defense, as mane letters from UH last year. nationally ranked long distance runner well as a board member of several chari- and triathlete in his age group. ties, including the American Red Cross Hawai‘i Chapter.

24 Ma¯lamalama Art, Wine and UH ‘Ohana Cuisine in Dordogne Hawaiian Islands and Provence UH Alumni Golf Club members played at Hickam Golf Course– Ma¯mala Bay on Feb. 8. A UHAA Travel Study Program West O‘ahu Chancellor Gene Awakuni shared his vision for the campus in Kapolei at the UHAA Member Luncheon, and Ma¯noa Vice Chancellor for Research Gary Ostrander discussed recent research breakthroughs at an April alumni reception. At Ma¯noa, Interim Chancellor Denise Eby Konan spoke at the Colleges of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association spring breakfast. ABOVE: Sheraton employees and other Travel Industry Management alumni and friends helped paint the interior of George Hall as part of the school’s 40th anniversary activities. College of Business Alumni and Friends tasted more than 75 different September 11–22 wines at the Executive Vineyards Wine Tasting in the Stan Explore the culture and history of Sheriff Center. School of Architecture Alumni Association held enchanting southern France, from its annual benefit at the Ramsey Museum in Honolulu. Bordeaux to Provence, with Honorary French Consul Patricia Lee UH Hilo alumni and friends honored Gregory Chun, Henry Lee Loy, Jim Melody, Robert Fujimoto and Dwight Takamine at its Destinations Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet. The finest wineries in Bordeaux and Patricia Lee the Dordogne, the Palace of the Popes in Avignon International UHAA launched the UHAA-Korea chapter Mar. 28 in Seoul. Sights Ma¯noa Chancellor Denise Eby Konan, UHAA Executive Director Prehistoric cave paintings, Roman ruins, ancient Kevin Takamori and UH Foundation President Donna Vuchinich castles welcomed chapter members to the inaugural reception. Exquisite landscapes of Arles and St.-Remy-de- Mainland Provence The College of Business held spring events for alumni and Accommodations friends in New York and California. Colleges of Arts and A medieval bishops’ castle and 15th century chateau Sciences’s travel tour celebrated spring in Pennsylvania; A hotel with vinotherapie spa amidst the Chateau Washington, D.C.; Virginia and South Carolina. Smith Haut Lafitte vineyards BELOW: UHAA-East members toured the Marquesas Islands Dining exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art curated by Ma¯noa Michelin-starred restaurants alumnus Eric Kjellgren (MA ’92, PhD ’99). UHAA-Las Vegas’s Eighth Annual Membership Stew Dinner featured Jean Ariyoshi, Before you go, join UHAA for a lecture on prehistoric former first lady of Hawai‘i. and medieval art by Leeward CC Professor Barbara Saromines-Ganne and a wine tasting with Master Sommelier Chuck Furuya Space is limited; contact us today UH Alumni Association, Kevin Takamori 808 956-6410, [email protected] www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu

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Name (last, first, middle/prior last name) M / F Circle Finding their niche Alumni on two sides of the Pacific have found success by identi- fying niche markets. Mailing address In Hawai’i, licensed physical therapist Robert Makiya (AS ’84, AA ’95 Honolulu; City State Zip Country BS ’97 Ma¯noa) founded SLR Therapy Services to provide physical and occupa-

Telephone (home, work, fax) tional therapy house calls. At the rehabili- tation facility where he worked, families described the challenge of getting parents Email Birthdate to outpatient clinics and asked if he could continue helping them at home. Makiya is convinced that the comfort of a familiar envi- UH Campus(es) attended* ronment and involvement of family members make many patients more receptive to treatment and more likely to continue exercises on their own. His company specializes in service to the geriatric UH degree(s) Graduation year(s) community, including balance, strength and endurance training, management of back pain and orthopedic surgeries, self-care and Name of spouse/significant other M / F Circle caregiver training. Contact him at 808 732-4288. Maile Inagaki (BA ’00 Ma¯noa) imports

UH Campus(es) attended* a bit of Hawai‘i to the Rocky Mountains. Her Little Grass Shack Hawaiian Boutique (www.spreadingaloha.com/index.htm) in UH degree(s) Graduation year(s) Denver sells authentic lei, including or- chid, tuberose, maile, ti leaf and kukui nut. Designate one alumni chapter; complete list at UHalumni.hawaii.edu The one-time blackjack dealer and sushi New member Renewal chef developed a business plan in a community college course and began importing lei from Hawai‘i and teaching lei making. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP (check one) The large number of Hawai‘i students attending Colorado colleges $50 Single $60 Joint make the garlands a popular item for local graduations, and the $25 Recent Graduate (within 5 years of graduation) luau is a popular theme for restaurant events and corporate par- $25 UH Faculty/Staff ties, Inagaki says. She offers wedding services too. “I’m definitely LIFE MEMBERSHIP (check one) providing something you can’t find at Wal-Mart,” she told the $750 Single $1,000 Joint Denver Business Journal. This spring, the shop introduced shave $175 (1955 graduate or prior/age 70 and over) ice to Coloradoans. ”Most people here have only tasted sno METHOD OF PAYMENT (check one) cones; hopefully, once they’ve experienced shave ice, they’ll be Check or money order enclosed (payable to UHF/UHAA) back for more,” she says. VISA MasterCard AmEx UH Alumni Career Credit card no. Expiration date Networking

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Campuses: UH Ma¯noa, Hilo and West O‘ahu; officer. He worked for 32 years at Deloitte & Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Kapi‘olani, Kaua‘i, Leeward, Touche LLP as a certified public accountant. Maui and Windward Community Colleges Melvin Gionson (BA ’77 Ma¯noa) works at Columbia University as the assistant to the 1950s acting vice president of facilities manage- Owen Miyamoto (BS ’50 Ma¯noa) received the ment. Still acting, he recently completed a Citizen Engineer Award for 2005 in recogni- production of Ivanov. tion of his accomplishments in the area of Roberta Wong Leung public service. He is the retired administrator (BBA ’70, BA ’71 of the Airports Division of the Hawai‘i State Ma¯noa) is dean of the Department of Transportation and a lecturer at Shunde Polytechnic, Honolulu Community College. Foshan School of Hotel and Tourism Nancy McMahon 1960’s Management in Archaeologist, rodeo cowgirl Odetta (Ululani) Fujimori (BEd ’62, PD ’63 Guangdong, China. Ma¯noa) has been inducted into the McKinley She was inducted into Career: State archeologist the Ma¯noa’s TIM Alumni Hall of Fame in 1993 High School Hall of Honor for her contribu- UH degrees: BA ’81, MEd ’88, MA in tions to education in Hawai‘i as a teacher for and was one of 75 Outstanding UH Rainbow anthropology ’90 Ma¯noa 30 years and the first president of the Hawai‘i Award Alumni. State Teachers Association. She was the first Ernest D. Libarios, Sr. Roots: Denver Asian American elected to the executive com- (MEd ’72 Ma¯noa) was Family: Son Jeremy, 9 horses, 10 mittee of the National Education Association. included in the ninth cows, 5 dogs, 6 parrots Karen (Mendyka) Huff (BEd ’65 Ma¯noa) and edition of Who’s Who Emil Pawlik announce their marriage on Among America’s Sports: Helped launch Rainbow April 2, 2005, at the Alice Millar Chapel in Teachers. He has Wahine softball as assistant coach; Evanston, Ill. They live in Jackson, Miss. Emil previously received started professional women’s tackle and Karen enjoyed one of two honeymoons Ma¯noa’s Board of football in Hawai‘i and was invited to in Hawai‘i, where they competed in the Regents Excellence in play at the Orange Bowl National Masters Track and Field Competitions Teaching Award. Best thing about UH: Good cultural at Ma¯noa. Emil won four gold medals and a Victor Lim (BBA ’73, MBA ’75 Ma¯noa) is the experience. “It was interesting being silver while Karen won silver in the javelin and owner/operator of a McDonald’s franchise, with in a class of more than 100 people bronze in the shot put. seven locations in Honolulu. He is the vice pres- and being the only white person.” May Leiko (Togo) ident and board member of the Organization of Imamura-Uruu Chinese Americans, Hawai‘i Chapter. lame it on extreme weather. The har- (BEd ’62, PD ’65 Lynn (Ziemianski) Maunakea (MSW ’79, rowing experience of being stuck in Ma¯noa) has retired MBA ’05 Ma¯noa) accepted a position at her car in the middle of a blizzard from teaching from B Kamehameha Schools as executive director of convinced Denver native Nancy McMahon Waipahu Elementary the Ke Ali’i Pauahi Foundation, a non-profit, to attend UH Ma¯noa. After graduation, she School after 35 years educational support organization. For the past of Department of eight and half years, she served as a public commuted between O‘ahu and Kaua‘i for Education service. On advocate for Hawai‘i’s homeless as the execu- work until getting “stuck” on the Garden June 11, 2004, Kamehameha Day, she married tive director of the Institute for Human Services. Isle after Hurricane Iniki and deciding to Lawrence “Larry” Uruu of Aiea. All of couple’s John Penebacker (BA ’73 Ma¯noa), special make it home. An archaeologist for the five children are UH graduates. assistant to Hawai‘i’s state librarian, was Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Gregory Pai (BArch ’67, BA ’67 Ma¯noa) is retired honored at the Hawai‘i State Library on his State Historic Preservation Division, from his job as director of Office of State retirement from the library system. He served McMahon works to preserve historic sites. Planning and the governor’s special assistant for nearly 18 years as a legislative library The position involves a lot of paperwork but for policy development under Gov. Cayetano. advocate under three state librarians. He spends much of his time fixing up an old also has its perks. “I get to see parts of this Robert “Mick” Minicola house, indulging in art and music and teaching (‘75-’76 Leeward) is island that many people have never seen and studying the art of meditation. regional vice presi- and will never get to see.” By foot, kayak 1970’s dent of operations and helicopter she ventures into remote for HTH Corporation, areas to survey burial sites, heiau, terraces Stephen Alexander (MSW ’76 Ma¯noa) is overseeing daily and other archaeological finds. assistant director for Adoption Journeys, a operations at Pacific statewide post adoption support program in Beach, Pagoda and McMahon also conducts Hummer Tours Massachusetts. King Kamehameha’s of Kaua‘i, archaeological tours of Kaua‘i’s Sondra Dockham-Leong (MSW ’77 Ma¯noa) is Kona Beach Hotels. He joined HTH in 2003 south shore. Five years ago she “started the regional coordinator for the Counseling as regional general manager, with more than hanging around the rodeos here because and Advocacy Program at the Pearl Harbor 20 years of experience in multi-property I wanted to learn to ride more.” She now Fleet and Family Support Center. hotel management for U.S., Marshallese and presides over the Kaua‘i All Girls Rodeo Japanese owners. Lloyd M. Fujie (BBA ’71, MBA ’73 Ma¯noa) Association, as well as running barrels, rop- recently accepted a position at Hawai‘i Pacific Alvin Tomita (BBA ’72 Ma¯noa) recently became ing and tying up goats. —by Kristen Bonilla University as vice president/chief financial the new deputy fire chief of the Honolulu Fire

Ma¯lamalama 27 Department. He was previously the assistant & Touche after 10 years of working for the fire chief and has been responsible for the company’s New York, Silicon Valley and Hong UHAA Activities HFD’s budget and labor and union issues Kong offices. since 1998. More at www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu. Nolan Kawano (BBA Anna Viggiano (MA ’76, PD ’94, MEd ’03 ’84 Ma¯noa) was May 12 UHAA Army ROTC Reunion at Ma¯noa) is the standards resource develop- promoted to senior Hickam Air Force Base. Contact Ed ment specialist at Hawai‘i’s DOE. She is host- vice president and Gayagas, 808 486-2153. ing a series on standards-based education. chief financial officer She has a daughter at University of Notre at Island Insurance May 18 UHAA Distinguished Dame and a son at Punahou School. Companies. He Alumni Awards Dinner, Sheraton Ellen (Boggs) Wilhite (BA ’79 Ma¯noa) put her was previously vice Waikı¯kı¯ Ballroom. Contact brandi. degree in theatre and dance to use—most president and CFO [email protected]. recently in a production of Steel Magnolias. at Island and, before that, vice president and treasurer of First Insurance Company. May 19 School of Architecture 1980’s Lisa Matsumoto (BA ’87, MFA ’92 Ma¯noa) was Alumni Association’s Endowed (BA ’86 Ma¯noa) has been in the musical The Adventures of Gary and Scholarship Golf Tournament, Kimberly Bevers working as an actress in the United Kingdom Harry at the Hawai‘i Theatre. The play is based Hickam Golf Course–Ma¯mala Bay. for the past 17 years. She attended Webber on the book she co-authored. Contact hennigerg001@hawaii. Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Jeffrey H. Sakamoto (BBA ’85) has been rr.com. Melissa (Celebrado) Bojorquez (BSW ’87 named chief financial officer at Deep Sea May 24 Leeward CC Great Museums Ma¯noa) has been a case management super- Water International in Kailua-Kona on the Big of Europe Study Abroad Tour departs. visor at HMSA for 14 years, with a special Island of Hawai‘i. He was previously chief financial officer at Cyanotech Corp. in Kailua- Contact [email protected]. interest in geriatrics. She is president of the Case Management Society of America, Hawai‘i Kona. June 4 College of Business Alumni chapter. Lisa (Kunimune) Sakamoto (BBA ’81 Ma¯noa) is and Friends brunch at Saddle Valarie (Jeong) Cesar (ATT ’85 Leeward; BBA vice president of finance at Catholic Charities Peak Lodge in Malibu Hills, Calif.; ’88 Ma¯noa) is the owner/consultant of eSearch Hawai‘i. She previously worked for Young $20. RSVP by May 31 by email, Hawai‘i, an executive recruiting company. Brothers. [email protected]. Vincent Chan (BS ’84 Scot Shimamura (BA ’85 Ma¯noa) is a prin- June 24 School of Architecture Ma¯noa) accepted a position at Belt Collins cipal of William Scott Alumni Association General Hawai‘i as project man- Kitchen Design, a resi- Membership Meeting and ager and civil engineer. dential kitchen design Distinguished Alumni Dinner. He was previously company and importer Contact [email protected]. employed at The Keith of Canadian built cabi- netry. July 15–16 UHAA Los Angeles/ Companies as senior project engineer. Kenneth Silva (BA Orange County chapter hosts a booth (BA ’80, MFA ’89, PD ’91 Ma¯noa) ’89 West O‘ahu; MPA ’01 Ma¯noa) is the at the 28th Annual Ho‘olaulea. Allen Cole played the part of Mr. Robinson in the Ma¯noa Honolulu Fire Department’s new chief, the Contact [email protected]. Valley Theatre production of The Graduate. department’s 33rd. He joined HFD in 1981 as Aug UHAA Los Angeles/Orange He works at the Advanced Technology a firefighter and was promoted to captain, County chapter Fifth Annual Summer Research Branch of the Hawai‘i Department battalion chief and, in 2002, assistant chief. In 2001, he was named the department’s Send Off and Picnic. Contact of Education as part of e-school, an online course offered by the State of Hawai‘i. Manager of the Year. [email protected]. Paul Cravath (PhD ’85 Ma¯noa), professor of Lance Wilhelm (BA ’87 Ma¯noa) has been Sept 9 UHAA National Capitol drama at Leeward Community College, has appointed senior vice president for national Region Chapter alumni reception at contemporized a classic by directing The general contractor, Kiewit Building Group. He Wolf Trap Center’s Faces of America Duchess, based on the John Webster original is responsible for all of Kiewit’s building con- Hawai‘i concert in Vienna, Va. but set in the year 2025. struction operations in Hawai‘i. Contact [email protected]. Beadie Kanahele Dawson (JD ’81 Ma¯noa) was 1990’s edu. honored with the Sally Rodgers Award for Lifelong Achievement by Whitman College. Elizabeth Burdick (MFA ’98 Ma¯noa) recently Sept 11–22 UHAA Travel Study She is recognized as a prominent attorney, directed The Graduate at Ma¯noa Valley Program Art, Wine and Cuisine in business executive, community leader, Theatre and an acted in David Mamet’s Dordogne and Provence. Contact Hawaiian activist and devoted family woman. Boston Marriage at the Actors Group. [email protected]. Tammy Duckworth (BA ’89 Ma¯noa), an Iraq Kyle Chock (BEd ’95, MPA ’99 Ma¯noa) is Oct 13 UHAA Golf Tournament war veteran, formally announced her candi- executive director of The Pacific Resource Partnership, a nonprofit, labor-manage- at Kapolei. Contact Kevin. dacy to run for the Illinois congressional seat of retiring Republican Henry Hyde. She will run ment program of the 6,000-member Hawai‘i [email protected]. as a Democrat. Carpenters Union, Local 745, and its 220 con- Dec 9 UH International Alumni Paul H. Higo (BBA ’82, MAcc ’83, MBA ’90 tractors across the state. Reception in Hanoi, Vietnam. Contact Ma¯noa) returned home to the islands as [email protected]. the Hawai‘i managing partner for Deloitte

28 Ma¯lamalama Kyung-Soo “Steven” service agency Parents and Children Together Choi (BBA ’93 Ma¯noa) on the island of Kaua‘i. recently accepted Mellinda Lloyd (BSW ’92, MSW ’95 Ma¯noa) a position at Dong is a social worker for the Queen Liliuokalani Sung Co. as vice Children’s Center and a family therapist for president. He was Homeless Solutions. employed at W Seoul Celine Roberts (AA ’95 Leeward; BA ’99 West as manager market- O‘ahu; MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is with Child and ing communications. Family Service’s Comprehensive Counseling Steven will be responsible for company day- and Support Services. to-day operations. Noelani Schilling (BBA ’91 Ma¯noa) is the Larenda Duley (BA ’90 West O‘ahu; MSW ’94 senior director of sales and marketing at the Ma¯noa) is a doctorate candidate at Barry O‘ahu Visitors Bureau. Martin Martens University in marriage and family counseling. The hula of business She holds an LCSW in Hawai‘i and Florida. Lee Stein (MSW ’99 Ma¯noa) was among 100 Maui County Centennial Honorees. An instruc- Lucille (Endo) Dwight tor in human services at Maui CC, she was UH Degree: MBA ’93 Ma¯noa (BS ’95 Ma¯noa) joined selected for volunteering with Women Helping the Organ Donor Career: Assistant professor, Women, representing Hawai‘i on the National Center of Hawai‘i Concordia University’s John Molson Coalition Against Domestic Violence and as public education School of Business founding Alternatives to Violence. coordinator. She was Roots: Western Nebraska employed as a mar- Lacene Terri (BA ’94 Ma¯noa) accepted a posi- keting assistant at tion at PBS Hawai‘i as the new director of Adventures: Spent a month inside a Oceanit, a local engi- community relations. She will be responsible Russian volcano and watched solar neering/tech company. At the donor center, for maximizing the public TV station’s expo- eclipses from various locations she will building relationships with commu- sure in the community and the media. Lacene was previously Republican caucus director UH impact: Entered a PhD program nity, educational, religious, civic and social and pursued an academic career at organizations to increase awareness on the at the state Capitol and worked at the Pacific the urging of then Professor David need for organ, tissue and eye donation. Basin Economic Council. McClain and other Ma¯noa faculty Jodi Endicott (MFA ’96 Ma¯noa) has a show, Dorothea Tsipopoulos (MSW ’97 Ma¯noa) was the keynote speaker at an Annual Candlelight Beasts to Birds scheduled at the Maui Arts ornhusker Martin Martens became Vigil in Hawai‘i during Domestic Violence and Cultural Center May 19–June 17. Building a hula dancer after moving to the paintings as if they were sculptures, the O‘ahu Awareness month. islands to work for The Hawai‘i artist uses animals as metaphors for state- C ments about society. Her public installations 2000s Newspaper Agency in 1988. Informal lunch- can be seen near Honolulu Hale, at Makalapa Della Au Belatti (JD ‘03 Ma¯noa) started a new time hula lessons with a few co-workers Elementary, in Kailua and online at www.jodi- position as research attorney at the Senate evolved into a full ha¯lau. “I learned a lot endicott.com. Majority Research Office, working with Krislen about the meaning of aloha by being part Chun (JD ’03 Ma¯noa) and Paul Schwind (AS ’96 Chad Funasaki (BBA of this group,” he says. ’95 Ma¯noa) was Kapi‘olani; JD ’01 Ma¯noa). promoted to senior Jennifer Benck (MEd ’02, JD ’05 Ma¯noa) joined Martens earned a PhD at the University audit manager at the Carlsmith Ball law firm, working in real of British Columbia in 2002 and settled Nishihama & Kishida, property, land use, hospitality and project in Montreal, where he studies corporate CPAs, Hawai‘i’s largest financing. governance, sustainable development and accounting and busi- Rhea Burtness (MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is a social antidotes to toxic organizations. ness consulting firm. worker with Child and Family Service’s adop- Blake Isobe (BBA ’98 tions program in Hawai‘i. Last summer, he returned to Hawai‘i for the Ma¯noa) was promoted Anni Candland (JD ’05 Ma¯noa) does public law international Academy of Management con- to senior audit man- at a one of New Zealand’s “Big 6” law firms. ference. Joined by Ma¯noa graduate student ager in the 50-mem- Kim David Chanbonpin (JD ’03 Ma¯noa) will do Aaron J. K. Sala and Kamehameha Schools’ ber Honolulu firm at a semester-long internship with the World Kaleo Trinidad, he presented ‘A‘ohe Pau ka Nishihama & Kishida, Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity. CPAs. ‘Ike i Kau Ha¯lau, a serious look at what can Calvert Chipchase (JD ’02 Ma¯noa) and Laura be learned from Hawaiian dance. A panel Bryan S. K. Kim (BED Chipchase (BA ’99, JD ’02 Ma¯noa) welcomed ’92, MEd ’95 Ma¯noa) discussed how layers of literal and symbolic second daughter Gianna Marie on Dec. 28, is an associate professor in the Department meanings in hula and chant communicate 2005. of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology history, religion and a sense of community at University of California, Santa Barbara. He Ellen Eichberg (JD ’04 Ma¯noa) and husband Eric announce the birth of a baby boy, Felix bonds. The symposium was a revelation to received the 2006 Fritz and Linn Kuder Early those unfamiliar with hula, and quite emo- Career Scientist/Practitioner Award from Frederick, on Sept. 24, 2005, in Cologne, the Society of Counseling Psychology of the Germany. tional for some. One participant explained American Psychological Association. Brooke Evans (MSW ’05 Ma¯noa) is a crisis how her involvement helped her understand Mona Kidd (AAT ’93 Windward; BSW ’02, MSW counselor at the Sex Abuse Treatment Center her own Cherokee heritage. Martens and ’03 Ma¯noa) is a therapist for Hawai‘i family at Kapi‘olani Health Center in Honolulu. Sala plan follow up articles. —Heidi Sakuma

Ma¯lamalama 29 Jennifer Goodlander (MFA ’04 Ma¯noa) was Theresa Tevaga (MSW ’03 Ma¯noa) is program selected to participate in the Lincoln Center director of a therapeutic recreation program Director’s Lab, where she directed the reading with Hawai‘i Child and Family Service. of the play Fireflies by Japanese playwright Delia Parker-Ulima (JD ’00 Ma¯noa) and high Suzue Toshiro. Goodlander is a teacher at school friend Bella Finau-Faumuina opened a Cornerstone University. scrap booking business called Creative Native Crystalyn Hottenstein (BA ’00, MSW ’04 Crafts in Ka¯ne‘ohe on O‘ahu. Ma¯noa) is a project coordinator for the Fun 5 Staci M. Uwaine (BA ’02, JD ’05 Ma¯noa) has Program in the public health sciences depart- also joined the law firm Watanabe Ing & ment at the UH Ma¯noa School of Medicine. Komeiji specializing in labor and employment. Beverly Javier (BSW ’03, MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is Michelle Webb (MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is with the a behavioral specialist at ‘Aikahi Elementary Hawai‘i Department of Health’s early interven- Faye Kurren School and teaches hula and jazz dance at tion section. Hawai‘i Starshine Dance and Music Academy. Business leader Barbara Uphouse Wong (JD ’03 Ma¯noa) is Kristine “Kris” Jenkins (MSW ’03 Ma¯noa) is a executive director of Hawai‘i’s State Campaign UH Degree: JD ’79 Ma¯noa program monitor for the Child and Adolescent Spending Commission. Mental Health Division, Hawai‘i Department Current position: President, Hawai‘i of Health. Dental Service; Chair, UH Foundation Lara Lindsey Kasperowicz (JD ’05 Ma¯noa) In Memory Board of Trustees joined the law firm of Paul Johnson Park & C. O. “Andy” Anderson (AAT ’78 Leeward; BA Roots: ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i Niles’s Honolulu office. She will concentrate ’82 West O‘ahu), 84, died on Jan. 1, 2006, at on commercial litigation. Tripler Army Medical Center. Anderson was a Family: Husband Barry (BA ’73, JD ’77 Julie Longworth (MSW ’05 Ma¯noa) received Marine for 34 years before dedicating the last Ma¯noa); two daughters a Fulbright travel grant to study languages in 30 years of his life to community service in Honors: 2006 YWCA Exceptional Asia. Waipahu, Hawai‘i. Originally from Floyd, Iowa, Anderson moved to Hawai‘i in 1975. Leader Honoree; 2002 Pacific David Minkoff (MFA ’00 Ma¯noa) works on Business News Businesswoman of the design faculty at the Ernestine M. Raclin Daniel Joseph Johnson (PhD ’89 Ma¯noa), 46, the Year School of the Arts at the University of Indiana, died on Oct. 4, 2005. Johnson worked at South Bend. Central Washington University in the Geodesy Key to success: “We’re all on different Laboratory in Geological Sciences for six and David Y. Nakashima (BA’01, JD ’05 Ma¯noa) has paths, but we should support each a half years. He investigated magma storage joined the law firm of Watanabe Ing & Komeiji, other along the way and not be afraid at Kı¯lauea Volcano while studying geology and practicing government regulation and public to change our routes, if necessary. geophysics at Ma¯noa. He is survived by his contracts and procurement. And we should take the high road, so wife Eileen Llona. Donna Asako Oshiro (BS ’01, MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) that when we succeed, others will feel Eddie Tjien Wan Liekwie (BBA ’71), 58, of is a case manager with Hale Na‘au Pono. proud to have invested in us.” Mililani, died on Oct. 12, 2005. Born in Hobbies: Reading Rebecca “Becky” Phillips (MSW ’03 Ma¯noa) is Suriname, he was a sales representative for a social services supervisor for the Hi-Desert All Pool and Spa. Medical Center in Joshua Tree, Calif. ear of failure may have caused her Harvey Moeai (MSW ’80 Ma¯noa), 51, of La‘ie, some youthful timidity, but Faye Kurren Avis K. Poai (BA’00, JD ’04 Ma¯noa) joined died Aug. 24, 2005. He was a psychiatric F savors challenges now. Trained in Carlsmith Ball, specializing in labor employ- social worker for Hawai‘i and an accom- sociology and law, she was working as an ment law. plished musician. attorney at Pacific Resources, Inc., when she Trity Pourbahrami (MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is a proj- Patsy Sumie Saiki (BEd ’54, PD ’55, MEd ’59 was urged to head the petroleum company’s ect coordinator at the Western Justice Center Ma¯noa), 90, died on Dec. 2, 2005. Saiki Foundation in Pasadena, Calif. international marketing and supply efforts. was an educator, award-winning author and (MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is the director philanthropist who taught journalism and Her team sourced crude oil from throughout Alissa Rogers of social services at Po¯hai Nani Retirement English at Hawai‘i’s public schools before the world. “It’s the best thing I ever did. I Community. becoming a Department of Education pro- learned to have confidence in myself,” she Jodi Shaw (MSW ’01 Ma¯noa) is a case man- gram specialist. says. “Your greatest growth comes when agement coordinator for HMSA insurance Ritva Sinikka Hayasaka Strand (MA ’66 Ma¯noa), you’re in a place in which you’re not comfort- company. 65, a retired linguistics professor and president able.” She grew into the company’s top job. Paul Southworth (MSW ’05 Ma¯noa) is a case emeritus of the UH Professional Assembly, As president and CEO of HDS, the unpre- manager with Hawai‘i’s Institute for Human died in Florida on Dec. 20, 2005. Her 39-year Services. UH career included serving as acting provost, tentious leader encourages employees to acting dean and chair of the language arts divi- Avaiu Sunia (BA ’97, MSW ’03 Ma¯noa) returned move beyond their own comfort zones. sion at Leeward Community College. Kurren also knows the value of a UH educa- to American Samoa and is developing child- rens’ mental health services there. Tatsuye “Barbara” Yoshizumi (AAT ’78 tion. Sister Carol Kitaoka earned a UH law Windward; BSW ’81 Ma¯noa), 77, of Kapolei, Megan Tanabe (MSW ’04 Ma¯noa) is with the degree. Their parents, retired educators, are died on Aug. 25, 2005. She was a retired state Hawai‘i Department of Health’s early interven- social worker. alumni. Husband Barry, a federal magis- tion section. trate, has served as an adjunct law professor, and her late father-in-law, Oscar Kurren, was a longtime Ma¯noa faculty member. Post notes at www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu or send to [email protected] or Ma¯lamalama, 2444 Dole St., Honolulu 96822. Please indicate campus(es) attended, graduation year(s) and any name changes. 30 Ma¯lamalama Sports

Sports camps produce revenue and fun by Brendan Sagara

t the University of Hawai‘i, sports camps are serious business. Fees range from $100 to $515 for the three- to six-day youth camps, and some draw well over 100 participants per session, generating funds for Warrior, ARainbow Wahine and Vulcan programs.

Wahine Soccer holds winter, summer and goalkeepers camps. Sports photo Media Relations UH Ma¯noa “We average about 100 kids, and we think that everyone has a good Fresh from earning 2005 WAC Freshman of the Year in softball, Wahine Kaulana Gould helps a young softball player with batting tips time all around,” says Assistant Coach Derick Kato. On a typical day, campers work on four topics and play a mini-scrimmage. Camp usu- Joey Estrella entered his 30th season as Vulcan head baseball ally concludes with a World Cup, with campers allowed to pick their coach in February and, just as significantly to him, his third decade country’s team name. “The kids have so much fun with it. They really of providing camps for Big Island youth. “Part of my responsibility get into it and get excited. Sometimes they even start their own as a college coach is to repay the community that helped give me chants. We really enjoy it too,” Kato says. The program also runs the opportunities I’ve had,” the former Rainbow shortstop says. In a free spring camp in conjunction with HMSA for youth of Ha¯lawa addition to an annual summer camp, his program offers free clinics Housing and Kuhio Park Terrace. throughout the year in conjunction with county parks programs at lo- “We have an obligation to the community. We represent the cations such as Ka‘u¯, Pa¯hoa, Honoka‘a, Waia¯kea Uka and Keaukaha. highest level of sport in the state without the presence of any pro- “The free camps offer us an opportunity to go to places where fessional teams,” Kato adds. “The camps give kids a chance to meet kids would not otherwise have a chance to learn about baseball,” the Wahine and form relationships with our players. It helps them Estrella says. “Sometimes there are kids without any baseball gear, realize that someday they could be playing college soccer as well.” no gloves, but they all have a great time.” The Vulcans also host the Former Wahine campers Duke goalkeeper Allison Lipsher, Gonzaga annual Kalae Iki Clinic in Kailua-Kona, with free instruction by cur- freshman Dayna Omiya and Hawai‘i striker Tobi Kanehira have rent and former college coaches from across the country. joined the instructors’ sorority. Riley Wallace’s Rainbow Basketball Camps are always popular. Hundreds of young hoopsters are coached by Rainbow staff and other distinguished clinicians in two summer sessions. “We re- (dates and fees subject to change) Tentative Camp Schedule ally appreciate the camp,” says parent and Rainbow Basketball Wahine Volleyball former Chaminade basketball player Mike June 9–11 or June 12–14, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., June 19–22, two sessions TBA in July, ages 5–17 grades 4–12, $150, 808 956-2496 Robertson. “Our daughter attends every $150, includes basketball and camp t-shirt, Aug. 1–4, residency camp, year, and they’ve really taught her a lot, not 808 956-6501 grades 8–12 $400, Warrior Volleyball Camps 808 956-2496 only about technique and drills, but also the July 24–28, 1:30–4:30 p.m., youths Wahine Softball Camps philosophy of the game.” July 24–28, 6–9 p.m., ages 18 and over Late June, 3-day beginners/instructional The biggest perk is a lot simpler to the cost TBD, 808 956-4623 camp and 2-hour skills camps in fielding, Ma¯noa Men’s Tennis hitting and pitching, ages 8–12 campers. “They teach us a lot of stuff, like June 18–23 or June 25–30 cost TBD, dribbling and shooting and playing de- $415 day camp, $515 extended day camp, 808 956-9227 fense,” says 10-year-old camp veteran Kiki $715 resident camp, 808 956-3655 Vulcan Basketball Rainbow Wahine Soccer June 21–24, boys and girls Robertson. “But my favorite part is shooting Early and late summer, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., $110, 808 933-0576 around with the Rainbow players. My favor- ages 5–13 Vulcan Baseball ite is Julian (Sensley). They’re always real $150 includes soccer ball and camp t-shirt, June camp, 3 hours per day, ages 5–12 808 956-6330 $100 includes camp hat, t-shirt and nice, they always talk to us and ask us how Wahine Basketball evaluation, 808 974-7700 we’re doing and stuff and it’s always fun.” Mid June skill camp, ages 5–12 July Kalae Iki Clinic in Kailua-Kona, Late June elite camp, girls age 13–18 ages 7–17, free, Brendan Sagara (BBA ’97, Hilo) is a Honolulu free- $135, 808 956-6518 808 974-7700 lance writer

Ma¯lamalama 31 Enlightenment

Archive, a painting about watching water acrylic on canvas by Mary Mitsuda (BFA ’76 Ma¯noa) 72" x 48"; from the collection of Ron and Sanne Higgins; photo by Brad Goda “Growing up and living in Hawai‘i surrounded by nature and, especially, surrounded by water, continues to be the central theme of my work,” writes Mitsuda. “We are aquifers, rain, ocean, streams, waterfalls, puddles and, of course, we are plants also.” Mitsuda’s work has been exhibited in museums from Seattle to Japan and included in the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, The Contemporary Museum and corporate and private collections.

32 Ma¯lamalama Local business leader Charles R. Hemenway died in Hawai‘i in 1947.

This year, he’ll help 367 students get a college education.

As we approach the Centennial of the University of Hawai‘i, we salute Charles Hemenway for his foresight harles Hemenway achieved much dur- and generosity. ing his lifetime. However, his passing For information on leaving a bequest didn’t put an end to his good works. to the University of Hawai‘i through CAt last count, Mr. Hemenway’s bequest has provided your will or trust, please contact us in confidence at 808-956-8034 or at over 5,000 scholarships to deserving students at the [email protected]. University of Hawai‘i. Through proper planning and a generous heart, Mr. Hemenway continues to trans- form the lives of hundreds of students, and positively

impact the people and economy of Hawai‘i. Please visit us at UHFLegacyGift.org

Ma¯lamalama 33 LECTURES ETC May 17 Moving from Exclusion to Inclusion in Faith, how tra- May 23-June 20 Intermediate Slack Key Guitar class, learn music ditional sacred texts can be interpreted differently to theory, two tunings, chords, solos, vamps and riffs, respond to contemporary global issues; Ma¯noa, www. cultural and linguistic insights into slack key music; outreach.hawaii.edu, 808 956-8246 Windward CC, 808 235-7433 May 24 Moving Toward Interfaith Harmony: Next Steps; June 9 Canon Open House, digital in-jet printing Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii.edu, 808 956-8246 demonstration; Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii.edu, May 31 Through Our Eyes: A 808 956-8246 Photographic View of Hong June 14 Epson Digital Printing Open House, digital workflow Kong by its Youth; Ma¯noa, demonstration from image capture to printing; www.outreach.hawaii.edu, Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii.edu, 808 956-8246 808 956-8246 June 15 Podcasting Update; Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii. June 14 Trials and Tribulations: Sapphire Nakanishi, AKA edu, 808 956-8246 Judge Marie Milks; Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii.edu, Aug 13 Ma¯noa Commencement; 808 956-8246 www.uhm.hawaii.edu, June 20 Improving Literacy Achieve- 808 956-8447 ment: Lessons from Successful Sept 16 Ho‘olaulea with music, Schools in Hawai‘i and food and crafts Chicago, by Kathryn H. Au; 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Windward CC, [email protected] or Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii. 808 235-7396 edu, 808 956-8246 Oct Mealani Taste of the On the Road to Energy Self-Sufficiency: A Vision to June 21 Hawaiian Range food Make Hawai‘i More Sustainable, with Bob and Kelly and agriculture festival; King; Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii.edu, Big Island, College of 808 956-8246 Tropical Agriculture and June 29 Lola’s House: Women Living Human Resources, with War, M. Evelina Galang 808 322-4892 discusses and reads from her MAINLAND recent works, Lola’s House Sept 2 Ma¯noa’s Warrior Football and One Tribe; Ma¯noa, team opens the 2006 www.outreach.hawaii.edu, 808 956-8246 season against the July 12 A Photojournalist’s Vision, by University Alabama at veteran Frederic Larson; Tuscaloosa; http:// Ma¯noa, www.outreach.hawaii. uhathletics.hawaii.edu edu, 808 956-8246 Sept 20 Ma¯noa’s Annual Athletic Golf Tournament Royal Vista SEMINARS/CONFERENCES Golf Club; Walnut, Calif., [email protected] May 31 Kupuna Care, community resources available to Oct 3–31 Ninth International seniors or those caring for seniors; Windward, 808 Shoebox Sculpture 235-7363 Exhibition, California State May 31–June 1 Managing Project Teams; Ma¯noa’s Krauss Hall, www. University, Dominguez outreach.hawaii.edu/ibpd, 808 956-8400 Hills; University of June 15-17 Imagining Other Lives, Other Times, Other Places, Hawai‘i Art Gallery, 13th Biennial Conference on Literature and Hawai‘i’s 808 956-6888. The Children; Manoa, http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/ exhibition moves to childrenslit, 808 956-7559 Columbus Museum of Art in Indiana Nov 25 July 28–Aug 4 Islands of the World IX: Sustainable Islands– Sustainable Strategies; Maui, www.maui.hawaii. edu/isisa2006, 808 984-3670

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