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Editor ‘The more things change, the more they Cheryl Ernst remain the same’ Art Director Aloha! Rowen Tabusa (BFA ’79 Ma¯noa) Designer Alphonse Karr’s well-known epigram, penned in 1849, rings true today as we Sherrie Lynn Dodo (BA ’96 Ma¯noa) head toward the completion of our Centennial Celebration later this year. One Associate Editor hundred years ago, UH’s first president, John W. Gilmore, was focused on starting Tracy Matsushima (BA ’90 Ma¯noa) Photographer the institution’s first full semester of classes in fall 1908. Michael O’Hara Faculty, facilities and finances were very much on his Online Editor mind, but so was the excitement of creating a new col- Jeela Ongley (BA ’97 Ma¯noa) lege in service to Hawai‘i and its people. Contributing Alumni Editor Stacia Garlach As we enter our second century, that commitment University of Hawai‘i President continues, much amplified in scale and scope. UH Hilo David McClain Professor of Economics David Hammes calculates that Board of Regents UH is a $1.6 billion player in Hawai‘i’s economy. His Andres Albano Jr. (BS ’65, MBA ’72 Ma¯noa) study shows that UH increases every dollar of general funds appropriated by the Byron W. Bender Legislature by an additional $1.88. Total UH-related expenditures generate over Michael A. Dahilig (BS ’03, JD ’06 $2 billion in business sales, more than 37,000 jobs and nearly $1.5 billion in earn- Ma¯noa) Ramon de la Peña (MS ’64, ings to Hawai‘i households. The study’s findings confirm that the state’s invest- PhD ’67 Ma¯noa) ment in UH continues to pay substantial dividends. Marlene M. Hapai (MS ’77, PhD ’81 Ma¯noa) Writing in 1675, Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by stand- James J. C. Haynes II ing on the shoulders of giants.” This issue of Ma¯lamalama chronicles some of (BA ’82 Ma¯noa) the giants of our first century, whose achievements and generosity have made Kitty Lagareta (BA ’81 Ma¯noa) Allan R. Landon your university the force it is in our community, our nation and the world. We Ronald K. Migita also highlight some of the innovative activities and partnerships under way as (BBA ’66 Ma¯noa) we create our future, with articles on the Polynesian voyaging revival past and Jane B. Tatibouet future, sustainability initiatives, participation of our campuses in bringing a Published three times a year by External Affairs and University Relations, Smithsonian traveling exhibition to Hawai‘i and a new Honolulu Community University of Hawai‘i College program that aims to bring Hawai‘i’s remarkable music tradition to a Change of address UHF—Address Update global audience. P.O. Box 11270, Honolulu, HI 96828 808 956-8829 or Like President Gilmore, I spend much of my time focused on insuring that [email protected] we can continue to attract and retain exceptional faculty and provide them with Voluntary mail subscription Suggested donation $10 the physical and financial resources they need. But every day for me is one of Send to Ma¯lamalama 2444 Dole St., BA2 wonder and excitement, as I see first hand the difference UH is making in the Honolulu, HI 96822 lives of our students and the life of our community. Free electronic subscription Email [email protected] (please include your name and address) Mahalo nui loa for your support of this great university! Advertising information [email protected] or 808 956-8856 UH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. This publication is available in alternate form for people with print disabilities. David McClain

Ma¯lamalama 1 CONTENTS

SPECIAL CENTENNIAL SECTION...... 9 Engineering a family tree Two families share multiple generations of UH engineering graduates 100 Contributions Selected ways UH has advanced scholarship, research and the public good during its first century Voyaging legacy lives on Ma¯noa faculty participated as Hokule‘a’s generated renewed Hawaiian pride; efforts continue with new investigations of ancient seafaring Going green Ma¯noa makes a commitment to sustainability on and off campus Distinguished Alumni UH celebrates 100 years of honorees Campaign update UH Foundation’s Centennial Campaign closes in on its goal to support UH programs through private contributions FEATURES Food for thought...... 25 Culinary programs at three community colleges join forces to bring the Smithsonian Institution’s Key Ingredients exhibition to Hawai‘i this summer Body and sew...... 27 An auto body instructor makes a dent in tough guy attitudes with a club that teaches students about quilting and giving The business of music...... 29 A new program prepares students for careers behind the scenes in the entertainment business DEPARTMENTS Campus News...... 3 Research and Scholarship...... 5 Alumni...... 7 Sports...... 31 Enlightenment...... 32

On the cover: At Honolulu Community College, Clint Kalaola and Kari Nakayama work the soundboard, recording the song of fellow MELE student Pam Okusi. Inset: UH’s 1919 commencement.

2 Ma¯lamalama Campus News

Biography conference addresses life writing bout 200 scholars, librarians, archivists and activists from around the world will converge on the Imin Center at Ma¯noa June 23–26 for Life Writing and ATranslations, the sixth biennial conference of the International Auto/Biography Association. “The conference explores the intricacies of translating from language to language, culture to culture and media to media and what effect translation has on biography, autobiography and the telling of lives in general,” says Craig Howes, director of UH’s Center for Biographical Research. “Participants are coming into a place that has a very long tradition of preserving and celebrating lives through nar- ratives.” Public presentation of genealogy chants, hula, dramatic re-enactment and song at Kennedy Theatre June 24 highlights different methods of recording Pacific life narratives. In keeping with the theme, some seminars and presentations will be in languages appropriate to the speakers. Keynoters include autobiography scholar Philippe Lejeune; Barbara Harlow, who studies life writing in resistance movements; former political prisoner Alicia Partnoy; and Ma¯noa Associate Professor Noenoe Silva, Honolulu CC team creates a Native Hawaiian rights activist. winning lunar outpost design In a related seminar for professionals and the public on July 1, Yvonne Young, archi- onolulu Community College stu- vist for The Troubles in Ireland and Northern Ireland, will talk about preservation of dents’ plan for a habitat capable ephemera as personal history. Hof sustaining human life on the For information call 808 956-3774, visit www.english.hawaii.edu/IABA2008 or email Moon won top honors in the 2007 Lunar [email protected]. –Heidi Sakuma Outpost Student Design Competition. Honolulu’s entry—featuring four intercon- An unexpected collection creates a design mystery nected 26-foot, three-level spheres— hen Ethel bested designs from universities across Shiraki de the nation. The only community college WSaussure team to enter, the Honolulu students Guyer’s family drew on expertise in the college’s moved their aging marine, aeronautic and science pro- aunt into a care grams. They incorporated carbon-fiber home, they discov- laminate construction, a 3-D nanotube ered an extraordi- solar system and other technologies, and nary collection of addressed aesthetic concerns to ease dresses, costume adaptation to prolonged confinement. jewelry and memo- The competition was sponsored by the rabilia from her Pacific International Space Center for days as a designer. Exploration Systems, an international Born Ethel Yoshiko research and education center created by Shiraki on a Kohala Curator Carol D’Angelo and student examine a Guyer gown the Hawai‘i Legislature in 2007 to sup- plantation, Guyer port development of technologies need- studied at New York’s Traphagen School of Fashion in the late 1940s and worked at ed to sustain human life on other planets the house of Mainbocher, designer of Wallis Simpson’s wedding gown for her mar- and promote testing in the Big Island’s riage to the Duke of Windsor. Guyer opened the boutique Ethel de Saussure Designs lunar-like environments. PISCES is based in Honolulu and in 1962 moved to California, where her family believes she created at UH Hilo, which recently signed a innovative gowns for Hollywood stars. Guyer’s family donated her designs to the partnership with second-place winner Historic Costume Collection in Ma¯noa’s Apparel Product Design and Merchandising Colorado School of Mines to support Program. Pieces reflect Guyer’s wide-ranging inspiration, including kimono fabric and faculty and student research opportuni- Indian saris on western dresses and Mexican, Spanish flamenco and Egyptian styl- ties. More on PISCES at http://pisces. ings. Guyer said little in the past and now suffers from Alzheimer’s disease; the family uhh.hawaii.edu; download the Honolulu hopes news of the donation will encourage people who knew their aunt to share infor- team’s report at http://www.honolulu. mation about her career. hawaii.edu/aec/lunar_habitat.pdf. For more on the collection, contact Carol D’Angelo, 808 956-2234 –Heidi Sakuma –Heidi Sakuma

Ma¯lamalama 3 Degree addresses dental care demands on Maui upported by the pro- Sfessional community, Maui Community College has added an associate in science program UH Ma¯noa athletes captured Western Athletic Conference championships in in dental hygiene three fall sports. Displaying their teams’ to help alleviate trophies are (front row) Julia Siljestrom, island dental care Kori Lu, Tehane Higa and Taryn Fukuroku from Wahine Soccer; (middle row) Raeceen needs. A 2001 survey suggested that more than 3 in 10 Maui residents lack access to Wolford, Jamie Houston, Juliana Sanders, dental care, and more than 9 in 10 dentists reported a shortage of dental assistants Stephanie Brandt and Dani Mafua from and hygienists. The new degree creates a career ladder, building on the college’s den- Wahine Volleyball; (back row) Ryan Perry, tal assisting certificate program, which has graduated 52 students. Antwan Mahaley, Dan Kelly and Joey Lipp from Warrior Football. The women’s teams won league and tournament titles. Part-time law program launched a¯noa’s William S. Richardson Degree pathways opened School of Law is launching a H Hilo and Hawai‘i Community Mpart-time program this fall with College established a degree an anticipated inaugural class of 24 Upathways partnership program in students. The program is designed to January to ensure that students begin- be flexible, but students meeting three ning their college education at Hawai‘i evenings a week could complete their CC can complete it easily at Hilo. The degrees in five years. See the law school inaugural articulation agreement creates website, www.hawaii.edu/law, for infor- a seamless transition from Hawai‘i’s mation, including application procedures business emphasis associate degree to a and deadlines for fall 2009. Photo by Chrissy Photo Lambertby Chrissy College of Business and Economics major A funny thing happened on the at Hilo. The program expands on informal West O‘ahu adds healthcare way to their future for 2007 collaborations, such as that by admin- administration program Ma¯noa nursing graduates Primrose Valdez and Sunghoon istration of justice programs at both eginning in fall 2008, UH West Alex Cho. Valdez’s essay for campuses, and commits to improved O’ahu will offer healthcare admin- the Parasol Events Wedding admissions and advising for students istration as a new concentration Giveaway presented by the B Honolulu Advertiser won the and better alignment between the learn- in its public administration BA program. grand prize—a $35,000+ wed- ing goals at each institution. “Current and future healthcare managers ding at the tony Kahala Resort will be expected to focus on improving with 80 guests. Everything about Post-injury death rate higher for access, containing rising costs, enhanc- the March 31 nuptials was pic- ture perfect, right down to the non-whites in hospital ing efficiency in healthcare facilities and sunset behind the gazebo just he death rate for Asian and African improving quality of care,” says West beyond the dolphin pond. The American patients hospitalized O‘ahu Associate Professor Kristina Guo. bride’s train was about as long after an injury is higher than that The program addresses the increasing as she is tall. The gold-dusted T layers of the wedding cake bore for Caucasians, according to a study need for healthcare managers and pro- images of cherry blossoms so reported in the February 2008 issue of vides future administrators with the skills real guests were tempted to Medical Care. Co-author Jerris Hedges, needed in a constantly evolving field. smell them. Befitting a couple an emergency medicine specialist who Those already employed in the health- who met at Leeward CC (Cho invented a math study session to joined the John A. Burns School of care field can fully develop management, get Valdez’s number), the new- Medicine as dean in March, calls for con- legal and behavioral skills for more effec- lyweds were soon back at the tinued research to get at the cause of the tive job performance. For information, books for their board exams this disparity. The study examined data from call 808 454-4732 or visit www.uhwo. month. –Mary Kaye Ritz Hawai‘i and 21 other states. hawaii.edu/news. –Heidi Sakuma

4 Ma¯lamalama Research and Scholarship

Mars images reveal salty spots; Mercury flyby detects magma ethodically review- ing a 20,000-image Mdata set from the Mars Odyssey orbiter, Mikki Osterloo detected a pat- tern. The artificially colored thermal infrared images of the red planet’s southern highlands signaled the likely Gulf Stream leaves its signature presence of chloride salts. Salt deposits indicate that seven miles high ew research from Ma¯noa’s water was once present, International Pacific Research possibly groundwater that Center suggests how the Atlantic ponded in low spots, the N Gulf Stream can affect climate far beyond Ma¯noa geology and geo- western Europe. Warm ocean currents physics doctoral candidate in the stream anchor narrow rain bands and colleagues report in with upward winds and cloud formation the March issue of Science. reaching as high as 7 miles, the American Ma¯noa researchers F. Scott and Japanese scientists reported in the Anderson and Victoria March 13 issue of Nature. By warming Hamilton believe the depos- the upper atmosphere, where resulting its are 3.5–3.9 billion years planetary waves can ride the jet stream, old. Since salt is a good pre- the Gulf Stream has a pathway poten- servative of organic matter, tially to influence climate throughout the it may flag a good place to Northern Hemisphere and perhaps even search for past life on Mars. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Arizona State University/University of Hawai’i State NASA University/University Jet Laboratory/Arizona Propulsion worldwide, Ma¯noa meteorologist Shang- Meanwhile at Mercury, Ping Xie explains. images from the first flyby in 33 years may settle the Dairy link doubted in prostate debate about formation of cancer risk factors plains on the innermost he amount of calcium and vitamin planet. NASA’s MESSENGER D in the diet had no correlation mission last January cap- to risk of developing prostate tured a kidney-shaped T cancer among participants in the Multi depression at the margin of Ethnic Cohort study conducted by Ma¯noa Caloris Basin surrounded researchers and mainland colleagues. by a smooth, diffuse edged, Curiously, however, consumption of light-reflective deposit, Laboratory NASA Applied Physics skim or low-fat milk was associated both consistent with volca- with increased risk of localized or non- nic rather than impact origins, says Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology aggressive tumors while consumption Assistant Researcher Jeffrey Gillis-Davis. New data also indicate floor-fractured craters of whole milk was associated with similar to those on the Moon, which were likely formed by magmatic intrusions and decreased risk, Cancer Research Center uplift of crater floors. MESSENGER captured sections of Mercury not photographed of Hawai‘i’s Song-Yi Park and colleagues during Mariner 10 flybys in 1974 and 1975. Additional flybys occur in October 2008 reported in the Dec. 1 issue of the and September 2009. American Journal of Epidemiology. Park Gillis-Davis is also one of three UH participating scientists for NASA’s Lunar cautions against drawing conclusions; Reconnaissance Orbiter, expected to launch in late 2008 as a precursor to a new it could be that men who opt for the manned mission to the moon. He will use radar data to assess lunar resources and health benefits of low-fat dairy products titanium dioxide in the soil; B. Ray Hawke will study photographs of pyroclastic are more likely to ask their doctors for deposits; Paul Lucey will do mineral mapping with laser altimeter data. prostate cancer screenings.

Ma¯lamalama 5 Fishpond manual available awaiians developed a unique fishpond aquaculture unparal- Hleled in sophistication for its time. Many fishpond wall remains still can be found along Hawai‘i coasts. Experience with restoring some of these ponds on Moloka‘i is reflected in a new book from Ma¯noa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Loko I‘a: A Manual on Hawaiian Fishpond Restoration and Management describes the history of for Institute illustration Astronomy Hawaiian fishponds and relates practi- Four-star dancing and magnetic personalities cal information about obtaining permits bservations from Mauna Kea telescopes have revealed that a bright object and creating a business plan. In addition, once thought to be a single star is actually a system of four stars, each about authors Graydon “Buddy” Keala, James Ohalf the size of our Sun. The stars orbit each other like two twirling couples Hollyer and Luisa Castro provide fish man- revolving about each other on the dance floor. The tight configuration suggests the agement checklists, pond troubleshooting stars formed in a single gaseous disk more than 500 million years ago, the Institute tips and an illustrated step-by-step guide for Astronomy’s Evgenya Shkolnik reported at the American Astronomical Society to constructing net pens. To order, call meeting in January. 808 956-7036 or select “for-sale publica- In another finding, illustrated above, Shkolnik and French colleagues observed the tions” at www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ocs. sun-like star tau Bootis flip its magnetic field. The team seeks to better understand how magnetic engines work in stars. The Sun’s magnetic field changes direction every Book explores Asian prominence 11 years, affecting the number of sunspots and influencing Earth’s climate. The data in classical music on tau Bootis was published in the February issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal ari Astronomical Society. Yoshihara’s Mlife expe- Burrowing may have saved moth riences—she was he fossorial behavior of a Hawaiian moth born in New York may help explain the rediscovery of spe- but raised in Japan; T cies thought to be extinct. In field studies trained as a clas- on Maui, the larvae of Omiodes continuatalis, an sical pianist and a endemic crambid leafroller moth, were found to scholar—prepared her to interview scores burrow up to 14 centimeters into the soil beneath of musicians for her latest book. In their host plants. College of Tropical Agriculture Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Human Resources scientists Cynthia King and Asian Americans in Classical Music, and Daniel Rubinoff suggest that the behavior provides some protection from (and she traces historical factors that shaped may have even been an evolutionary response to) natural predators and parasites like the growth of Western music in East Asia those released to control sugarcane and coconut leafrollers. If the behavior is unique and explores the prominence of Asians to certain populations, it could explain why some species persisted, albeit in reduced in a Western art form. “Asian and Asian numbers, they write in the November issue of Pacific Science. American musicians pursue classical music not despite their Asian identity Pisces finds possible new coral and sponge species nor because of their Asian upbringing,” esearchers diving on the Hawai‘i Undersea argues the Ma¯noa associate profes- Research Laboratory’s Pisces V submersible sor of American studies. “Rather, they Rhave found what they believe to be new species of coral and sponge in the Northwestern Hawaiian experience and practice classical music Islands. Biologist Christopher Kelley collected sam- through their identity, which is partly ples of the giant cauldron sponge and lemony col- shaped by their race and ethnicity, and ored coral tree for taxonomic identification and DNA come to understand and negotiate their analysis. The organisms were found during November Asian identity through their practice of dives in 3,000–6,000 feet of water at the new classical music.” Papaha¯naumokua¯kea Marine National Monument.

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UH ‘Ohana News from UHAA and affiliated alumni chapters UHAA News Chapter News UH Hilo Alumni and Friends celebrated its 2008 distinguished alumni in February. Distinguished Alumni Award recipients were Robert Dircks (AS ’84 Honolulu, BA ’89 Hilo, MEd ’02 Ma¯noa), Gay Porter (BA ’77 Hilo) and Hansen Tsang (BA ’82 Hilo). A silent auction raised scholarship funds for UH Hilo students; to date, the association has awarded 10 scholarships. The UHAA–Japan Chapter was The annual Membership Luncheon drew more than 170 inaugurated Mar. 30, alumni and friends to Honolulu’s Hawai‘i Prince Hotel March with more than 80 10. Attendees heard UH Ma¯noa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw people in attendance at and met new Warriors Football Head Coach Greg McMackin. the Oakwood Premier Pictured from left: Glen Higa (BA ’93 Ma¯noa), Janet Yoshida- Hotel in Tokyo. Chapter Bullard (BFA ’82 Ma¯noa), John McNamara (UH Athletics), board members, McMackin, Peggy Nakamoto (life member) and Mitch Ka‘aiali‘i back row from left, (BA ’92, MBA ’97 Ma¯noa). Hiromi Ohnaka ’03, UHAA’s recent membership drive yielded more than 3,000 Naoko Chimaru ’03, Naoko Takeshita ’06 and Greg Irwin ’88, pledges. We welcome new members and thank you for your welcomed UHAA President Ren Hirose ’85, front left, and patience—processing membership materials may take a little emeritus UH Community Colleges Chancellor Joyce Tsunoda ’60, longer than usual due to the increased volume. Questions? Call ’65. Not pictured: board members Noriyuki Kudeken ’99, Lloyd 808 956-2586 or 1-877-UH-ALUMS (toll free). Nakano ’74 and Richard Rucci ’70 and special guest, noted Congratulations to Jim Donovan (BA ’83, Japanese journalist Yoshiko Sakurai ’69. MBA ’96) on his appointment as Ma¯noa UHAA–California chapters hosted more than 200 prospective athletic director. The former UH student- UH students and their parents in February. The Garden Grove, athlete, baseball stadium manager and Calif., event was sponsored by UHAA–Los Angeles/Orange assistant athletic director is in his second County and UHAA–San Diego. Ma¯noa Assistant Vice Chancellor term on the UHAA Board of Directors Ronald Cambra and Admissions Counselor Belinda Nagashima and has chaired communication and presented opportunities available at UH while alumni membership committees. described their UH experiences.

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Ma¯lamalama 7 Last summer, Tenney became donation tool for Kapi‘olani Health vice president of development for the Foundation and engineered scoring and USS Missouri Memorial Association. nomination tools for the International The “Mighty Mo” was the last battle- e-Philanthropy Foundation. “Business ship built by the United States. It saw has many specializations and finding a the official Japanese surrender ending valued niche helps build a reputation World War II and served in the Korean and a network,” she says. conflict and 1991 Gulf War. Three Tenney is an adjunct professor in veteran friends convinced the Navy Chaminade University’s nonprofit MBA From Wyoming to appoint UMMA as the Missouri’s program and involved in Kapi‘olani caretaker. Tenney’s task is to gener- Community College’s nonprofit certi- to the Missouri ate private and public contributions fication program. She was a contribut- Sarah Tenney finds a home in Hawai‘i in support of the Hawai‘i nonprofit ing author for Major Donors: Finding and a career in philanthropy association’s mission of maintaining Big Gifts in Your Database and Online. by Lynn Nakagawa a memorial reflecting duty, honor, “I am so appreciative of the professors strength, sacrifice and resolve. Her and university staff who shared their netime electrical engineering motivation is the phenomenal staff. time and knowledge with me because major Sarah Tenney ven- She brings a wealth of experience it is key to my confidence and ability to Otured to Hawai‘i 16 years ago to the job, including head of philan- help the community now,” she reflects. with an interest in Asian studies and thropy services for a private wealth In her personal time, Tenney Japanese language stemming from a management bank in Hong Kong. She serves as president of the Rotary Club US Senate–National Japanese Diet stu- is 1 of 16 internationally recognized of Waikı¯kı¯, is a lifetime member of dent exchange and her knowledge of Certified Fund Raising Executives in the Navy League and Association of Wyoming’s Heart Mountain Japanese Hawai‘i and an expert in integrating Fundraising Professionals and over- internment camp. She fell in love with nonprofit and for-profit business mod- sees service projects. Striving to main- Hawai‘i’s culture and food, including els. She founded TenneyTech Corp., tain life balance, she sews projects for the Spam bentos served at an Andrews a nonprofit fundraising software and herself and friends and dances hula Amphitheatre Kanikapila concert and service firm that assisted a number of in Ma¯noa when she can find time. the campus computer room where she Hawai‘i educational and cultural orga- She invites emails to sarah.tenney@ met future husband Daniel Tenney nizations, contributed to the Hawai‘i ussmissouri.org. (’94). She stayed, earning a BA in Asian Community Foundation’s online schol- Lynn Nakagawa is a University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa studies in 1994 and an MBA in 2003. arship system, created the first online freshman planning to major in journalism

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A hundred years at the crossroads of the Pacific has imbued the University of Hawai‘i’s flagship campus with a rich heritage built on passion for learning, commitment to service and respect for diverse cultures

100A hundred years at the crossroads of the Pacific has imbued the University of Hawai‘i’s flagship campus with a rich heritage built on passion for learning, commitment to service and respect for diverse cultures

Inside: A century of contributions The legacy of voyaging A sustainable future Generations of graduates

Ma¯lamalama 9 Aloha! Serving as UH M¯anoa’s chancellor is a privilege—and I can assure you that it is never boring! Our Centennial and counting... Celebration activities have created many opportunities to look back at early everyone who lives in Hawai`i attended or earned a degree all that our scholars, from the University of Hawai‘i at M¯anoa, knows someone who researchers and N did or has some other link with the campus. The research that graduates have quantifies those connections also shows that M¯anoa’s strong academic accomplished in programs, the diversity of our population and the high regard for our a first century of professional programs in business, law, medicine and engineering make excellence. Because of the campus a desirable college destination. M¯anoa at 100 remains the their efforts, we now flagship of the state’s public higher education system, clearly the campus cross the threshold all Hawai‘i thinks of at the mention of “the university.” Classrooms, into a dynamic research facilities, academic programs and community outreach services second century with the promise of extend to five islands of the state. Cutting-edge research and scientific greatness. discoveries in ocean and earth sciences and astronomy receive worldwide To fulfill that promise, we must notice. A generation of Asian and Pacific leaders list M¯anoa credentials on meet head-on the dual challenges of their resumes. renewing our campus and refreshing Entering its second century, a mature M¯anoa has pledged to replace our academic and research agendas and restore aging infrastructure to keep pace with the vibrant research to best serve our students and solve enterprise and the expectations of students who sign on to fulfill their society’s problems, thus enabling UH hopes and dreams. “The jewel in the crown has lost some luster,” as M¯anoa to serve as a destination of new Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw points out, quickly adding, “We are choice for students, faculty, staff and determined to make it shine again.” In the end, of course, M¯anoa is still the citizens of Hawai‘i and beyond. the jewel, reflecting the light of knowledge—m¯alamalama—that nurtures Former President Jimmy Carter the future leaders of Hawai‘i and daily adds to our understanding of the says, “You must adapt to changing world in which we live. times, but hold to unchanging A host of activities is planned as UH M¯anoa marks the conclusion of principles.” Thus we are firm in its Centennial Celebration during Homecoming Week in early October. our resolve to keep and build on Stay tuned for details; the opportunity for alumni to re-engage the the underlying values that have campus is an appropriate way to close the observance as the institution made M¯anoa great, including the seeks to reinforce its pervasive presence in our community. commitment to recognize and honor A pair of centennial histories are available from UH’s founding colleges: our host culture, welcome and nurture • Hawai‘i’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources: diversity and always focus on the Celebrating the First 100 Years is due out in May. The hardbound, strategic imperatives that support our 300-page comprehensive history is illustrated with more than 670 photos mission to educate, explore and serve. from various archives and private collections. Cost is $30 plus shipping We savor this M¯anoa Moment and handling; to order, call 808 956-7036, email [email protected] or and look to the future with energy, download an order form at www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/adv_order.pdf. excitement and enthusiasm. Mahalo • College of Engineering Centennial History, 1908–2008 recounts to all of you for being members of our college personalities and highlights, from awarding of the first degree (to M¯anoa ‘ohana. Yong Fook Tong in 1912) through creation of the Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory in 2007 to future initiatives. For information on the softcover Virginia Hinshaw, Chancellor book, contact the dean’s office, 808 956-7727, or view www.eng.hawaii. edu/about-us/history/centennial.

210 Ma¯lamalama M¯anoa at 100 Leonard Hung Leon Young ‘59

Walter Yun Hung Joong Thomas Hung Reginald Hung Hung Hee Young ‘41 Tung Young ‘50 Fo Young ‘59 ‘61 Quan Yuen Ching ‘32 Jeffrey George Jon Bruce Young Young Young Young Engineering ‘76 ‘78 ‘79 ‘80 a Family Tree

Quan Yuen Ching appears serious of adding to the family’s UH engineer- Raymond Len, a ing tally. and confident in his picture in the 1962 UH grad, Ethan Young 1932 Ka Palapala annual. He must Only slightly less prolific is the engi- albeit in mechani- have been a good role model—four neering family dynasty of Wallace cal engineering, is now retired. nephews followed in his footsteps Endo, who earned his UH civil But wait, there’s more! Howard Endo Qas UH engineering students: Hung engineering degree in 1954 and co- married Linda Hihara-Endo (’78), Joong (’41), Thomas Hung Tung founded SEY Engineers. Endo’s three a UH engineering alum now with (’50), Leonard Hung Leon (’59) and children also graduated from UH the US Army Corps of Engineers. Reginald Hung Fo Young (’59), emeri- M¯anoa’s College of Engineering. Linda’s siblings are also UH engineer- tus professor of civil engineering and Son Howard Endo (’78) now serves ing graduates—M¯anoa Professor of interim dean of the college from 1989 as SEY president. Daughters Sheryl Mechanical Engineering Lloyd Hihara to 1993. Their cousin Walter Hee (Endo) Nojima (’80) and Carolyn (’83) and Shirley (Hihara) Matoi (’61) is also an engineering graduate. (Endo) Len (’92) got more than their (’80), presently with NAVFAC Pacific. Four Young nephews then followed degrees at UH; both married engi- Lost count? That makes 10 engineers suit: Jeffrey (’76), George (’78), Jon neering classmates—Michael Nojima in the Endo/Nojima/Hihara/Len clan, (’79)—who married engineering class- (’81) and Peter Len (’91), respectively. all UH alumni. mate Linda Katsura (’79)—and Bruce Sheryl, who at one time served as the (’80), the lone mechanical engineer college’s assistant dean, and her hus- The College of Engineering will celebrate among all the family civil engineers. band are with Gray, Hong, Nojima its centennial with a homecoming event Oct. 7, 5:30–9 p.m., in the Stan Sheriff That’s 11…and counting. Reginald’s and Associates. Carolyn is with Belt Center. Watch events at www.eng.hawaii. grandson, Ethan Young, just finished Collins Hawai‘i; her husband is with edu for details. his freshman year with every intention NAVFAC Pacific, and her father-in-law Save the Date:

M¯anoa College of Engineering’s centennial year opened with the 50th anniversary of the UH chapter of national civil engineering honor soci- ety Chi Epsilon. More than 180 students, alumni and guests gathered in December to initiate new members and recognize the founders. Net proceeds, totaling more than $10,000, were donated to the endowed scholarship honoring founding advisor Arthur N. L. Chiu. Attendees included founding members, from left, Edward Lau, Hisao Yamada, Allen Matsuoka, Richard Sato, Hanako Kuniyoshi (representing her late husband Shinki) and Ed Hirata, with Katherine Chiu, Dean Peter Crouch, Manoa¯ Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw and Hawai‘i Chi Epsilon Alumni Association President Carl Iwasaki. For information on the association, contact Iwasaki at 808 841-8024.

M¯anoaMa¯lamalama at 100 113 Pioneering faculty 10 John Craven established the Natural Center for International Business Education Energy Laboratory at Ke¯ahole Point, proposed and Research helped Shidler College of 1 Frederick Krauss joined UH as a professor a floating city and predicted the Navy would Business earn a top-25 graduate school of agriculture from 1911. He explored the stop bombing Kaho‘olawe if Hawai‘i people ranking. viability of various crops and headed the would exert political pressure. Extension Service. 16 Linguist George Grace joined UH in 11 Vincent De Feo identified hormone- 1964 and introduced Austronesian language 2 Carey Miller’s 1936 induced changes to the uterus during instruction. Robert Hsu’s concordance book on the nutritional pregnancy. He recruited faculty who advanced and Pacific and Asian Linguistics Institute content of Hawai‘i fruit understanding of human sexuality and reference works took the languages of remains a standard. championed problem-based medical training. Micronesia from among the most poorly 3 Doak Cox helped documented to among the best. Later Teresita plan UH’s Hawai‘i New disciplines Ramos introduced the world’s first Ilokano Institute for Geophysics program. Comparative philosophy was advanced and establish the Joint 12 by Charles Moore, who hosted the first East- 17 The School of Travel Industry Tsunami Research Management integrated hospitality, tourism Effort, Natural Hazards and transportation in 1966 Group and Water Resources and addresses cultural and Research Center. sustainability concerns now. 4 Albert Tester, a UH zoologist Economist James Mak’s new from 1948 until his death in book examines a half century 1974, developed an international of local tourism for lessons in reputation for early research Developing a Dream Destination. on tuna and extensive work on 18 Alternative future studies shark sensory systems. resident expert James Dator 5 O. A. “Ozzie” Bushnell worked participates in the World 50 years on Gifts of Civilization: Futures Studies Federation. Germs and Genocide in Hawai‘i, UH has the only department his 1993 book describing the offering an advanced degree in effect of diseases on an isolated the subject. island group. contributions 19 Ethnobotany was 6 Klaus UH concludes its centennial with some introduced to a generation of Wyrtki students when Beatrice Krauss, identified key remarkable achievements under its belt. the first woman to earn a BS components Here’s a sampling of ways the university has from UH in 1926, returned after retirement to teach as a of the El Niño made a difference during its first 100 years. phenomenon volunteer. and produced 20 A creole language the most (Hawaiian pidgin) bibliography was the first comprehensive and first West Philosophers’ Conference in 1939. Eliot publication of the Oceanic Linguistics Special computer-made atlas of the Deutsch joined the faculty in 1967 and edited Publications. Derek Bickerton conducted a Indian Ocean. the journal Philosophy East and West. large historical study in the 1970s and wrote 7 Hampton Carson joined UH’s genetics 13 World History, established in 1990 with extensively on pidgin and creole linguistics faculty after working with the Hawaiian Jerry Bentley as editor, fit an institution that through his retirement in 1995. Drosophila Project in 1963. His research on was the first to offer world civilization courses 21 Political scientist Glendon Schubert evolutionary genetics earned international (in 1945) and became headquarters of the built on writings he began in the 1950s to acclaim. World History Association. help develop subdivisions 8 George “Doc” Wollard, head of the Hawai‘i 14 Ethnomusic developed of judicial behavior and Institute of Geophysics 1963–1979, studied when classical pianist biopolitical behavior during gravity and magnetism. His name graces an Barbara Smith learned koto, his UH tenure, 1971–2000. Antarctic mountain and a Geological Society hula chant and Bon dance 22 The Center for of America award. drumming after joining the Biographical Research, music department in 1949; founded under George 9 George P. L. Walker, first to hold the a master’s program was Simson in 1976, was the first Gordon A. Macdonald Chair in Volcanology, established in 1960. is considered the father of modern such center in the country. volcanology for his work on basaltic volcano 15 Asian-focused MBA It produces the journal formation around the globe. programs and early federal designation as a Biography, popular brown-bag talks and the

412 Ma¯lamalama M¯anoa at 100 Biography Hawai‘i public television series. 32 Growing Old in a New Age was an 40 Women’s Health Initiative is a 15-year ambitious undertaking of Anthony Lenzer’s project investigating lifestyles, treatments and 23 Decision science founding Chair Ralph Center on Aging. The series aired on national health concerns. UH and 23 other institutions Sprague’s framework article on decision public TV in 1989 and was licensed to 40 began enrolling women in 1994. support systems was one of the 25 most cited colleges as a telecourse. works in the information systems field during the 1980s. Scholarly achievements Research initiatives 24 Conservation biology launched as a 41 Kabuki, graduate specialization in 1991, building 33 The performed at UH on the 5-year-old Hawaiian Evolutionary Engineering as early as 1923 and Biology Program. Materials Testing at the opening of facility opened in Kennedy Theatre in 1915, demonstrating 1963, set the stage Outreach lessons and for the university’s 25 Pacific Islands experts advised U.S. testing concrete prominence in Asian officials in post WWII administration construction at Pearl theatre. of Micronesian islands. Political scientist Harbor dry dock. The College of Engineering 42 A Hawaiian language text with 83 lessons Norman Meller helped emerging Pacific continues materials corrosion studies. in grammar and vocabulary was released by nations develop their constitutions. 34 Coconut Island’s Hawai‘i Marine Henry Judd in 1936. 26 Advancing the Laboratory was UH’s first designated research 43 Asian identity is explored in Ch’en arts, Professor of lab. Robert Hiatt courted individuals, Shou-yi’s 1930s examination of 18th-century Music Raymond foundations and agencies for resources English literature depictions of China and Vaught founded the and lobbied lawmakers to designate 64 Takie Lebra’s ongoing investigation of sense of Honolulu String surrounding acres of coral reef a marine self among Japanese women. Quartet; dance Chair laboratory refuge. Carl Wolz, left, co- 44 Medieval Japanese history translated 35 A food irradiator was brought to M¯anoa created the Asia Pacific from the Azuma Kagam by Minoru Shinoda in 1964. James Moy, principal investigator Dance Alliance and in 1960 is still an important document for since 1968, developed low-dose protocols for Hawai‘i’s Artists in the Schools program. Japan scholars. disinfestation 27 Satellite communication for educational of fruits for 45 Rain maps created by UH meteorologists and humanitarian purposes was realized in export. In 1995, and geographers in the 1980s remain the 1969 with the Pan-Pacific Education and Hawai‘i became standard. Communication Experiments by Satellite, or the first place in PEACESAT. Multiple technologies now link 16 the world to use 46 In ancient writings, Walter Maurer was Pacific Islands sites. the technology. a leading Sanskrit scholar; Robert Littman digitized the oldest Greek manuscript of the 28 The Citizens Chair in English, created by 36 Hawai‘i Bible; Ulrich Kozok identified an ancient the Legislature in the mid-1960s, gives Hawai‘i Geothermal Project, organized in 1972, Malay legal code. readers access to prominent literary figures. demonstrated that volcanic heat is a Pulitzer winning biographer Leon Edel held viable source of electricity. Cultural and 47 Chinese lexicography advanced with the post 1969–78. environmental concerns created resistance. Emeritus Professor John DeFrancis’s ABC (Alphabetically Based Computerized) Chinese 29 UH Art Gallery earned five Print 37 Hydrogen fuel research began at UH in English Dictionary and other publications. Casebooks Best in Exhibition Design honors 1983. The Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute during the 1980s. Excelling the Work of program hosted an international conference 48 Seventeen academic journals published Heaven received an American Association of the following year and was designated a by UH Press cover topics from Buddhist- Museums 2008 MUSE award. National Research Success Story in 1999. Christian studies and contemporary Chinese art to archaeology, geography and science 30 Children’s Literature Hawai‘i, a 38 Criminologist Meda Chesney-Lind has of the Pacific/Asia region. See www.uhpress. biennial conference founded by the English brought national attention to issues including hawaii.edu. department in 1982, focuses on creating, juvenile offenders, women in the criminal using and interpreting literature for children justice system, gangs and school safety. Namesake buildings and teens. 39 Hawai‘i Ocean Time 49 John M. Young Quadrangle for the 31 Philosophy in the Series has obtained physical first engineering professor, whose plan for Schools has been teaching and biogeochemical the college in 1909 included schools of law, children to think critically, observations for 20 years at medicine and architecture and an observatory express their thoughts and a location north of O‘ahu on Wa‘ahila Ridge. develop reasoning skills characteristic of the central since the mid-1980s. North Pacific Ocean. 50 William George Hall for the former Geneva College president who served in the

M¯anoaMa¯lamalama at 100 135 French army and Italian ambulance service 61 Shunzo Sakamaki Hall for the alumnus 70 Integrated Korean, by the Korean in WWI before becoming dean of arts and who taught Asian history for 34 year and Language Education and Research Center sciences in 1930. established summer course sessions. (2000), first volume of a five-level series that has dominated the Korean language market. G. Donald Sherman Laboratory for 51 Arthur L. Andrews Outdoor Theatre for 62 Authors include M¯anoa’s Young-Geun Lee the soil scientist and American Association an early Cornell-trained professor. He taught and Ho-min Sohn. English and organized the first play, campus for the Advancement of Science fellow who newspaper and annual. promoted Hawai‘i’s guava and passion fruit industries. Economic stimulus 52 Leonora (and Earl) Bilger Hall for the 71 Food crop chemistry couple. She oversaw construction 63 Stan Sheriff Center for the athletic varieties developed of the building, was named the nation’s director who secured broadcast deals, by UH are many, outstanding female chemist in 1953 and balanced the books and successfully fought including disease donated $25,000 to remodel a biochemical for the 10,000-seat domed complex that resistant Sun Up and laboratory in her husband’s memory. opened one year after his death. Rainbow papayas, 53 John A. Johnson Hall for the student which saved a $40 UH Press best sellers by decade leader and athlete turned sugar company million industry manager and 100th Battalion soldier. He died 64 The Hawaiian Kingdom, Volume 1: threatened by papaya in the Battle for Cassino. 1778-1854, Foundation and Transformation, by ringspot virus. Ralph S. Kuykendall, associate professor 54 Arthur R. Keller Hall for the lawyer and 72 Aquaculture research of history (1948). Describes pre-contact civil engineer whose paving experiments begun in the 1960s has Hawai‘i and foundations of modern produced the first gained momentum. In the Hawai‘i. Later volumes cover efforts campus road. late 1980s, UH became one to maintain independence and the He designed a of five U.S. Department Kal¯akaua dynasty. drainage and of Agriculture designated flood control 65 Hawaiian-English Dictionary, by aquaculture centers. Marine system for lower Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Research Training Center M¯anoa. Elbert, professor of pacific languages and demonstrated projects linguistics (1957). The expanded 1986 involving shrimp, fish and 55 Charles Edmondson Hall for the version, considered the most complete snails in K¯ane‘ohe Bay. biologist who wrote the first text on marine of any Polynesian dictionary, has sold 107,000 animals and organized the first Pacific Science 73 Black coral is a profitable, well managed copies and the 1992 pocket version, 200,000. Congress in 1920. and sustainable $15 million industry thanks 66 Place Names of Hawai‘i, by Mary to a 1970s research program. 56 Kenichi Watanabe Hall for the physicist Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert (1966). considered a pioneer in study of ozone 74 The multiplier effect converts every $1 of Revised and expanded in 1974 with UH concentration in the upper atmosphere. He state general funds invested in the university language instructor Esther T. Mookini and established a vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy into an additional $1.88 in education-related released in paperback in 1977. lab before his untimely death in 1969. spending. Since 2000, economists have pegged 67 Atlas of Hawai‘i, by the UH’s value at about 3 percent of the gross 57 Harold St. John Laboratory for UH M¯anoa Department state product, generating well over $100 the botanist who oversaw harvesting of Geography (1973). million in state and local taxes annually. of Cinchona bark as an alternate Professor R. Warwick source of malaria drugs during WWII. Armstrong’s project Greater good was updated with new 58 Willis T. Pope Laboratory for 75 An antidiscrimination proviso in the census data in 1983 and one of UH’s first doctoral candidates, 1907 legislative charter creating UH states: completely redone by UH who served as a UH instructor “No person shall, because of sex, color or Hilo faculty members with and administrator and territorial nationality, be deprived of the privileges computerized cartography in 1998. superintendent of public instruction. of this institution.” During WWII, Regent 59 Wilfred Holmes Hall for the dean who 68 A is for Aloha, by Stephanie Feeney, Hemenway helped convince authorities of the oversaw growth in engineering enrollment professor of education, with photos by Hella loyalty of Japanese Americans, saving many in from a few dozen to 800 in two decades Hamid (1980). UH Press’s first children’s Hawai‘i from internment camps. work provided tots with a book portraying following WWII. 76 Student Health Services was one of the local experiences. Three additional Feeney nation’s first college health programs to offer 60 Allan (and Marion) Saunders Hall for books followed. the political scientist who fought for the right family planning services to students. 69 Ka Lei Ha‘aheo: Beginning Hawaiian, by to wear aloha shirts in 1953, helped establish 77 The Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Alberta Pualani Hopkins, professor of Indo- the state constitution and started the Hawai‘i Peace has provided a multi-disciplinary Pacific language (1992). Widely used for first- chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union approach to peace studies since 1984. in 1965. year classroom and personal instruction.

614 Ma¯lamalama M¯anoa at 100 78 The Rare Hawaiian Plant Project was the birth of volcanic islands. 13,226 times in geoscience journals between launched by Lyon Arboretum in 1991 to 1991 and 2001. 87 The Chemistry of Marine Natural protect and Products, Paul Scheuer’s 1973 book, was the propagate first in any language Inventions native plants on the topic. Working Floriculture varieties developed and create a 94 well into his 80s, he for growers by UH breeders include new germ plasm identified marine anthurium and orchids created first by collection of toxins with potential Minoru Aragaki, followed by Haruyuki endangered anti-fouling and anti- Kamemoto and now Adelheid Kuehnle. species. cancer properties; work 95 Before cloned and green transgenic mice, 79 Hawaiian sovereignty discussions continues under Richard Ryuzo Yanagimachi laid the groundwork resonate in UH classrooms. M¯anoa Library’s Moore. for in vitro fertilization by identifying the Special Collections has assembled resources 88 Glowing bacteria growing on undersea conditions necessary to produce “test-tube” on the topic at www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/ thermal vents were first observed by offspring. Four decades later, he continues to hawaiisites.html. oceanographer David Karl, UH’s first National publish on factors that enhance fertilization 80 Nuclear fallout drove Marshallese from Science Foundation Young Investigator and influence early embryonic development. their Rongelap atoll for weapons testing in awardee. Later, Microbiologist Maqsudul ALOHA, the Additive Links On-line the 1950s and from lingering contamination Alam was the first scientist to sequence the 96 Hawai‘i Area systems network developed by three decades later. In 2002 the Pacific genome of the new bacterial species. electrical engineer Norman Abramson in Business Center coordinated assessment 89 Sexual selection, the 1970s to transmit data by radio waves, and community planning for their return. the concept that mate was a steppingstone to advanced wireless Journalism Professor Beverly Keever’s 2004 preference influences communication systems. book News Zero explores the role the New species formation York Times played in shaping public opinion and populations 97 Towed sidescan sonar designed by Margo about U.S. nuclear weapon testing. faced with extinction, Edward’s Hawai‘i Mapping Research Group is charting the ocean floor. 81 Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian was first described by Law, a federally funded center for education, Hawaiian Drosophila 98 Ciguatera testing developed by Yoshitsugi research and outreach was established in 2005. project researcher Hokama helped detect fish-borne toxin that Kenneth Kaneshiro creates unpleasant side effects in an estimated 82 Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement in 1987. 100 cases a year in Hawai‘i and Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust, co-authored by Professor 90 Marine mammal behavior, including 99 A termite barrier of granular material of Law Randall Roth, in 2006 documented dolphin cognition, song patterns, humpback developed by entomologist Minoru breaches of fiduciary duty resulting in the migration routes and mother-calf interaction, Tamashiro provides cheap, permanent, downfall of trustees overseeing Bishop Estate’s are among findings made during 17 years of non-polluting protection against destructive management of Kamehameha Schools. research by psychologist Louis Herman and subterranean termites. associates. Discoveries 100 A 16-megapixel camera developed by 91 The first Kuiper’s Belt object was the Institute for Astronomy optics group 83 Food chemistry advances were made discovered by astronomer David Jewitt in made a 30-year-old telescope the best infrared by Alice Thompson, who analyzed the 1992. The ring of debris and small bodies imager in the world. nutritional value of guava in 1915, and Alice beyond Neptune generates short-period Ball, known for extracting chaulmoogra oil comets and holds clues to planet formation What’s missing? and dust rings around other stars. to treat Hanson’s Disease, who identified the Tell us about the UH contribution you find active ingredient in kava. 92 Neutrinos have mass, a 1998 finding memorable. Email magazine@hawaii. 84 Hormonal growth and protein synthesis challenging the Standard Model of Physics, edu or write M¯alamalama, 2444 Dole St., research by Department of Biochemistry and is just one of the advances stemming from Honolulu HI 96822 Biophysics founder Theodore Winnick laid international collaborations that involve UH the groundwork for later cancer research. physicists. Vincent Peterson began assembling the core high energy physics team in the early 85 Coral reef ecology has been a Hawaiian 1960s. Institute of Marine Biology focus since the 1960s. Researchers documented affects of 93 Geoscience temperature change and sewage discharge and citations tallied identified the phase of the moon when coral by Science Watch Nancy Morris contributed to this report. References include Building a Rainbow, spawn. placed M¯anoa in the top 20 M¯alamalama: A History of the University 86 L ¯o‘ihi volcanism was first documented international of Hawai‘i, Moku o Lo‘e, UH and Sea SOEST Report 04-01 and various print by UH scientists in 1970. Repeated dives and institutions, with remote monitoring add to knowledge about and online college and department UH research cited histories.

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Hokule‘a’s Legacy Sails On After 30 years, voyaging still sparks Hawaiian pride and academic study by Dale Moana Gilmartin

he Hawaiian renais- sance—arguably the most important social development in Hawai‘i since statehood and the envyT of indigenous nations throughout the world—can be traced to the suc- cessful completion of the 1976 voyage of Hokule‘a, the replica of an ancient Hawaiian voyaging canoe, from Hawai‘i to Tahiti. “The rebirth of traditional Hawaiian non-instrument navigation has made for a kind of cultural, spiritu- al and academic rebirth of the Hawaiian people,” observes Polynesian Voyaging Society board member and UH Ma¯noa Professor of Hawaiian Studies Lilikala¯ Kame‘eleihiwa. Polynesian-style voyag- ing is now widely hailed as the most sophisticated and effective long-dis- tance, non-instrument navigation in the history of global seafaring. That wasn’t always the case. When Ben Finney was a young UH Ma¯noa graduate student in anthropology in the ’50s, scholars held that the Pacific

islands were settled by chance. In 1966 Project Taumako Documentary Films; graphic used wind Vaka with compass of permission Photo by Naalehu Paliku¯ Anthony,

816 Ma¯lamalama M¯anoa at 100 he helped construct the first modern As subsequent voyages by Hokule‘a replica of a Polynesian voyaging canoe and two later canoes reached as far as at the University of California at Santa New Zealand, Rapa Nui and Japan, Barbara. The 40-foot scale model of voyaging research became an inter- Kamehameha III’s double-hulled royal disciplinary effort. Ma¯noa oceanog- canoe, which Mary Kawena Pukui rapher Dixon Stroup and meteorolo- named Nalehia, meaning “the skilled gists Bernard Kilonsky and Thomas ones,” was too small for long distance Shroeder documented trips using voyaging, but the experience was satellite tracking and on-board obser- instructive. The researchers gathered vations. More recently, archaeologist data on canoe performance to counter Barry Rolett teamed up with geolo- the prevailing theory that wind and gist John Sinton to study stone adzes current accidentally pushed crude unearthed at archeological sites in Polynesian canoes to new islands. French Polynesia. “The critics were slandering a “Hokule‘a and other Polynesian whole nation,” says Finney, “But we Voyaging Society voyages showed that didn’t have systematic studies to prove intentional long-distance two-way Voyaging influenced Lilikala¯ Kame‘eleihiwa’s otherwise. All the old navigators of the voyages were possible, but they didn’t views; now the professor of Hawaiian studies serves on the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Polynesian Triangle were gone, the old prove that they actually happened,” board of directors. On page 8: Hawaiians may canoes had rotted away, and no one explains Rolett. For physical evidence, have used a wind compass in voyaging seemed to know much about them. But he and Sinton analyzed the specific we could reconstruct the canoes and chemical composition of adzes found been possible without the context pro- test them over a long voyaging route.” at well-dated archaeological sites in vided by Hokule‘a and the Polynesian the Marquesas, where it is widely Voyaging Society, he adds. “This is Stars and stones believed the first Hawaiians originated. really their story.” Back in Hawai‘i to teach at Ma¯noa, High quality stone adzes were vitally Wayfinding with wind Finney formed the Polynesian important to a culture that didn’t pos- Voyaging Society with Hawaiian art- sess metal implements. Knowing the The story continues to be written as ist Herb Kane and waterman Tommy chemical fingerprints of ancient tools Hawaiian and other Pacific island com- Holmes in 1973. To show that the enabled the researchers to identify the munities build additional canoes and ancient Polynesians could have volcanic rock the adzes came from rediscover more about how ancient purposefully settled the Polynesian and trace their movement along inter- voyagers found their way across vast Triangle, the society constructed island trade routes in pre-European Pacific seas. Hokule‘a’s first voyage Hokule‘a. The 62-foot replica was contact Polynesia. primarily depended on star map navi- the first double-hulled voyaging The exchange pattern of adzes gation. Micronesian master navigator canoe built in Hawai‘i in more than over time indicates that Polynesian Mau Piailug used a traditional naviga- 600 years. It left for Tahiti on May 1, long-distance voyaging reached its tion system based on a mental star 1976 and, without using instruments, heyday approximately 800 years before compass with observations of the stars, arrived 33 days later in Papeete. The Captain Cook arrived in Hawai‘i and planets, moon, wind, ocean swells and crossing dramatically demonstrated fell off sharply after 1450. “The results the flight of navigator birds. He taught how ancient Polynesians could have are pretty clear,” says Rolett. “The adzes Nainoa Thompson, who integrated used stars and swells to navigate long show that there was little inter-island concepts such as nautical miles and voyages of exploration and settlement; contact in late prehistory but lots degrees to guide Hokule‘a throughout and it captured the imagination and of open sea voyaging during earlier Polynesia. sparked the pride of people through- periods. The adzes confirm some of Finney now believes that the out Polynesia. the oldest Hawaiian legends regarding ancient Polynesians employed a wind long voyages.” The work wouldn’t have compass rather than one based on

M¯anoaMa¯lamalama at 100 179 Kame‘eleihiwa is among those who have learned onboard and says it changed her life. “For the very first time I understood that knowing our ancestors, and seeking their wisdom, was one of the most important things that I could do, even more important than politics. What good would it be to have an independent Hawai‘i if we no longer knew our culture?” She helped develop the Hawaiian astronomy and navigation courses now taught by Associate Professor Carlos Andrade. His first voyage inspired him to return to college at age 43 to learn the Hawaiian language. The one-time subsistence farmer/fisherman who earned a living doing odd jobs is now a college professor with a PhD who envisions carrying the voyaging cur- riculum into a master’s-level program. “Glimpsing the history of Pacific Islanders’ settlement has brought me and many other Hawaiians into a stronger appreciation for our col- Geologist Barry Sinton and archaeologist Barry Rolett track travels through adze samples lective identity as Oceanic peoples,” says Kamakaku¯okalani Center for stars. “We used to think that the wind wind compass. Like the Polynesian Hawaiian Studies Director Jon compass, which is actually a mental Voyaging Society, it is a cultural revival Osorio. “We can express a different construct of bearings named after key project steered by members of its own perspective on the world than simply wind directions rather than a physical culture. Finney, who returned from as Americans.” instrument, had totally died out,” he Taumako early this year, hopes that “Everyone who sails Hokule‘a, says. Then, in 1993 a colleague, anthro- once the Taumako people are regularly whether Hawaiian or not, feels pologist Marianne “Mimi” George, sailing their canoes again, Polynesians it in their na‘au (inner core),” met Koloso Kaveia, an elder who could can make pilgrimages there to learn Kame‘eleihiwa adds. “We Hawaiians still navigate by the Polynesian wind the ancestral way of navigating and the are back, we are 400,000 strong, and compass. Kaveia comes from Taumako, Taumako can sail their puke voyaging we will ensure that the knowledge of a small volcanic island in the southeast canoes around Polynesia to demon- our ancestors is never lost again.” Solomons far to the west of Hawai‘i. strate their highly efficient double It is completely outside the Polynesian crab-claw sails woven from specially Comment on this story, email Triangle, but its inhabitants are of grown pandanus leaves. [email protected] Polynesian descent, language, culture For more on Polynesian voyaging, read Finney’s A new generation books, Hokule‘a, Voyage of Rediscovery and Sailing and lifestyle. in the Wake of the Ancestors or visit the society In 1994 Kaveia and George Now emeritus though hardly retired, website at http://pvs.hawaii.org. founded the Vaka Taumako Project Finney never lost the vision of More on the Vaka Taumako project at www.aloha. to document this navigation system, Hokule‘a as a floating classroom—a net/~vaka/NohoangaTeMatangi.html. rebuild the old canoes and navigate dream come true in school, commu- Dale Moana Gilmartin (BA ’89 Ma¯noa) is a Honolulu freelance writer them between the islands using the nity college and university classrooms.

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Focused on sustainability and committed to reducing its environmental footprint… Ma¯noa Gets

Green by Paula Bender

aunders Hall opened in 1974 “Saunders Hall is a giant concrete bun- when hands are waved under the spig- with energy-conserving features ker,” observes Associate Professor David ots. On the roof, an essentially silent and of the day—bronze glass to Nixon, principal investigator for the initia- bird-friendly wind turbine contributed by Sreduce heat gain and mercury tive. “We wanted to see what we could Energy Management Group and a solar lights. Hardly green by today’s stan- test in this building for energy efficiency PV array are being tested. If successful at dards, the building formerly known as and roll out to the rest of the campus Saunders, systems can be fitted through- Porteus is now a field site for testing and to the community.” UH pays $1.5 mil- out the university system and scaled to more efficient operation. The Sustainable lion per month for electricity. Saunders’ larger facilities, allowing communities Saunders Initiative, a pilot project in the seven floors of offices and classrooms to benefit from the UH experience, says UH–Hawaiian Electric Company Energy account for more than $150,000 of that. Energy Management Group President Partnership, is spearheaded by the Early in 2008, a de-lamping project Richard Figliuzzi. College of Social Sciences’ Public Policy began removing hundreds of light bulbs. Ma¯noa hopes to generate 25 percent Center and an independent student orga- It was a small step, but resoundingly suc- of its own electricity from renewable nization called the Sustainable Saunders cessful pilot—175 people participated; sources by 2020 and become energy HUB, for “Help Us Bridge.” Shanah real savings resulted, Nixon says. independent by 2050. Leading the effort Trevenna, a mechanical engineering “We didn’t want just to reduce the is the Sustainability Council, whose graduate student coordinates more than electric bill, but also to create a more Kuleana Program trains volunteer coordi- a dozen projects including alternative pleasant working environment,” he says. nators to encourage sustainable practices energy, water catchment, xeriscaping, Students built courtyard picnic tables out in their workplaces. In March, the council recycling and worm composting. “Our of recycled plastics. The Horticulture Club brought together faculty from fields as passionate team of students believes is greening up the balconies. Sixth-floor diverse as English, physics and engineer- in leading by example,” she says. “We restrooms feature low-flow toilets and ing who have incorporated sustainability try to use Earth-friendly products and no-flow urinals. At the sinks, water spins content in their courses. “With a trans- showcase vendors who are local and turbines in the drains, creating energy disciplinary topic such as sustainability, sustainable.” to power sensors that release tap water no one person can cover even a fraction

M¯anoaMa¯lamalama at 100 1119 Energy Resources Michael Antal has cre- award for incorporated energy-saving ated a Flash Carbonization Reactor pres- features such as use of cold seawater in sure vessel that efficiently converts green air-conditioning systems at the Kaka‘ako waste—including corn cobs, macadamia facility. (Sea Grant College Program’s Arlo nut shells, invasive weeds, grasses and Fast first demonstrated the feasibility of other plant byproducts—into a high-qual- cooling with seawater in the early 1980s, ity, clean fuel alternative to wood or coal. using an old truck radiator and household Soil scientist Goro Uehara also uses the box fan at a Keahole aquaculture lab.) In charcoal as a soil enrichment additive. addition, motion sensors deactivate lights Application of Antal’s technology has and air conditioning when rooms are not earned the university $200,000 in licens- in use. Other Ma¯noa initiatives include a ing revenue. Much more is expected. campus fleet based on alternative fuels Licensees include charcoal manufacturer and purchase of Energy Star appliances Kingsford Products. for residence halls. Buildings are being Antal is also exploring charcoal-powered assessed against U.S. Green Building carbon fuel cells. More efficient than Council standards, and a campus bicycle hydrogen fuel cells, the carbon-based plan designed. In the future, bio-diesel technology is of interest to the military, he food kiosks will dot the campus, and says. Colleagues continue HNEI’s 25-year more buildings will be cooled with chiller- hydrogen research program, looking at loop renovations. solar-to-hydrogen conversion and renew- Leyla Cabugos suggests an organic Graduate student Leyla Cabugos proposes use of native plants for growing, insulating able biological and biomass gasification approach to reducing the need for air green roofs technologies for hydrogen production conditioning. The botany master’s candi- and storage techniques including PEM date assessed native ground cover plants of the issues,” says Mary Tiles, council fuel cells. Also, Michael Cooney explores for their potential as insulating green chair and professor of philosophy. production of biodiesel from yeast and roofs. She found akulikuli grew well In addition, the Ma¯noa Climate microalgae; Bor Yann Liaw tests advanced in a layer of coconut fiber, cinder and Commission is addressing carbon diox- batteries and electric vehicles; Scott compost. She hopes future studies will ide reduction efforts (oceanography grad- Turn explores potential for local ethanol document green roofs’ abilities to lower uate student Craig Coleman is working on production; and Jian Yu develops biode- building temperatures and reduce runoff a campus CO2 inventory) and focusing gradable plastics from organic wastes. in storm water systems. on island adaptation to climate change. Researchers are also exploring methane As interim chancellor, Professor of Members Makena Coffman and Lorenz hydrate found under the ocean floor as a Economics Denise Eby Konan joined Maagard sit on the State Climate Change potential source of natural gas. colleagues across the nation in pledg- Task Force. The Center for Smart Building and ing to curb greenhouse gas produc- In research initiatives, College of Community Design translates new tion. She calls student participation in Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources technologies into practical applications. “recycle mania” impressive. “To better faculty are addressing the politics and Director and Associate Professor of understand our waste stream, students economics of water use and identifying Architecture Stephen Meder is helping inventoried rubbish that was tossed into promising crops for biofuels, such as the the Montessori School of Maui construct a dumpster, and then devised recycling drought-tolerant Jatropha curcas tree. a sustainable, green campus that blends efforts tailored to the waste generated Professor David Christopher employs new technology with ancient Hawaiian on campus,” she says. “Give people an technology to hasten the benefits of principles, works with the existing opportunity to channel their heart-felt crossbreeding. “People often think that topography, includes indigenous and environmental intentions and watch for genetic engineering is working against functional plants and uses photovoltaic results,” Nixon adds. “These projects the environment,” he observes. “Our goal and solar water heating units. The facility allow them to translate that conscious- is to make plants more resistant to pests earned an environmental sustainability ness into real outcomes.” and pathogens that attack them so that award from the National Association Paula Bender (AA ’91 Kapi‘olani, BA ’94 Ma¯noa) is a farmers don’t have to power up their trac- of Independent Schools’ Leading Edge freelance writer in Honolulu tors and spray their fields with chemicals Program. Closer to home, Meder’s help- Comment on this story, email that linger in the environment or run off ing create more sustainable and efficient [email protected] into streams and rivers.” marine laboratories. More at http://sustainability.hawaii. edu/group/council and At the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute, Ma¯noa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine http://sustainablesaunders.hawaii.edu Coral Industries Professor of Renewable earned a Hawaiian Electric Company

2012 Ma¯lamalama M¯anoa at 100 A Century of Outstanding Alumni UH Alumni Association celebrates its heritage of distinguished alumni May 22 at the Sheraton Waikı¯kı¯ Hotel. Past honorees are listed; degrees are from Manoa¯ unless otherwise listed. Class Notes returns next issue.

Key: FA - Founders Association Alumni Award; John A. Burns (attended ’30–’31)* Governor DAA - UHAA Distinguished Alumni Award; FA ’63 LA - Founders Association Lifetime Achievement Oswald “Ozzie” Bushnell (BS ’34)* Author FA ’56 Award; * Deceased Francis M. F. Ching (BA ’36)* Mayor FA ’61 Hung Wo Ching (attended ’31–’32, ’41)* Executive general FA ’67 1910s FA ’58 Edna Taufaasau (BA ’37)* Administrator LA ’90 Wing Kong Chong (attended ’36–’38, ’47)* Leslie A. Hicks (BS ’17)* Executive FA ’52. Hei Wai Wong (BA ’37)* Broker FA ’80 Businessman FA ’71 William H. Meinecke (BS ’13)* Educator FA ’51 Douglas Yamamura (BEd ’38, PD ’39)* Educator Dai Ho Chun (BA ’30, MA ’37)* Educator FA ’59 FA ’78 1920s George V. Clark (BS ’38)* Engineer DAA ’76 1940s Daniel K. ‘Ainoa (BS ’27)* Organizer FA ’52 Marion Diamond (BEd ’35)* Educator DAA ’91 Gwenfread E. Allen (BA ’24)* Historian FA ’67 Hubert V. Everly (BEd ’34, PD ’38, MEd ’39) Isabella Aiona Abbott (BA ’41) Educator DAA ’94 Neal S. Blaisdell (attended ’21–’23, ’27–’28)* Educator FA ’59 Shiro Amioka (BEd ’42, MEd ’52)* Attorney FA ’74 Mayor FA ’63 Hiram L. Fong (BA ’30)* U.S. Senator FA ’60, DAA William K. Amona (BA ’49) Educator FA ’69 Laura P. Bowers (BA ’25)* Educator FA ’53 ’91, LA ’02 George R. Ariyoshi (attended ’44–’47) Governor Hung Wai Ching (BS ’28)* Developer FA ’54, Mitsuyoshi Fukuda (BS ’38, PD ’39)* Executive FA ’75 FA ’89 FA ’72 Gladys K. ‘Ainoa Brandt (BEd ’42)* Educator FA Quan Lun Ching (BA ’28)* Educator FA ’78 Edward T. Fukunaga (BS ’34, MS ’35)* Researcher ’60, DAA ’87, LA ’00 Ezra J. Crane (attended ’19–’21)* Editor FA ’61 FA ’59 Rosie Kim Chang (BS ’47, MPH ’77) Administrator Carl Farden Sr. (BS ’25)* Chemist FA ’72 Yasutaka Fukushima (BA ’37) Judge FA ’71 DAA ’95 May K. Gay (BA ’23)* Educator FA ’52 Lillian A. Givens (BA ’30)* Educator FA ’69 Walter G. Chuck (BEd ’41)* Attorney FA ’66 Baron Goto (BS ’24)* Educator FA ’53 Allen Hawkins (BA ’30)* Judge FA ’80 Elmer F. Cravalho (BA ’47) Lawmaker FA ’68 Bernhard L. Hormann (BA ’27, MA ’31)* Educator Hiro Higuchi (BA ’31)* Minister FA ’67 Charles A. Engman Jr. (BS ’49) Educator FA ’74 FA ’58. William Hiraoka (BA ’39)* Executive FA ’88 Thomas P. Gill (attended UH, ’40–42, ’47) Doris K. M. Keppeler (BA ’24)* Educator FA ’54 Edward Hiroki (BS ’38)* Manager FA ’79 Attorney FA ’68, LA ’07 Herbert A. Keppeler (BS ’24)* Engineer FA ’69 Martha K. Hohu (BA ’32)* Musician FA ’57 Raymond Y. C. Ho (BA ’48)* Businessman FA ’57 Beatrice Krauss (BS ’26, MS ’30)* Educator FA Robert H. Hughes (BS ’38) Executive FA ’73, David Hyun (BS ’40) Architect DAA ’95 ’56, DAA ’98 DAA ’89 Teruo Ihara (BS ’40, PD ’41)* Educator LA ’92 Richard K. C. Lee (attended ’27–’29)* Educator Clement M. Judd (BS ’31)* Educator FA ’85 Andrew W. S. In (BEd ’42, PD ’48) Educator FA ’68 Dorothy Kahananui (MEd ’36)* Educator FA ’53 DAA ’95 Richard Lyman Jr. (BS ’25)* Legislator FA ’75 Thomas K. Kaulukukui Sr. (BEd ’38, PD ’39, MEd Haruyuki Kamemoto (BS ’44, MS ’47) Educator Iwao Miyake (BS ’26, MS ’29)* Educator FA ’53 ’41)* Trustee FA ’88, DAA ’90 DAA ’01 Jen Fui Moo (BA ’22)* Banker FA ’57 Charles Kwock (BA ’33)* Minister FA ’71 Jean Sadako King (BA ’48, MFA ’68) Lawmaker FA Richard Penhallow (BS ’26)* Rancher FA ’59, Kan Jung “K. J.” Luke (BA ’36)* Entrepreneur FA ’81, DAA ’87 DAA ’89 ’77, DAA ’92 Ralph Kiyosaki (BEd ’42, PD ’42)* Educator FA ’62 Richard H. Rice (BS ’28)* Executive FA ’64 Ah Quon McElrath (BA ’38) Activist DAA ’89, Samuel Koide (BS ’45) Physician DAA ’06 Shunzo Sakamaki (BA ’27, MA ’28)* Educator LA ’04 Richard Kosaki (BA ’49) Educator FA ’68, DAA ’96 FA ’55 Calvin C. McGregor (BA ’37)* Judge FA ’54 Daniel B. T. Lau (BA ’41) Entrepreneur FA ’02 Theodore “Pump” Searle (BS ’26)* Administrator Anita K. Moepono (BA ’39)* Counselor FA ’55, Robert M. W. Lee (BA ’42, MA ’51) Businessman FA ’55 FA ’85 FA ’73 Toma Tasaki (BS ’29) FA ’70, Educator FA ’83 James Masami Morita (BA ’36)* Banker FA ’82, Fujio Matsuda (attended ’42, ’46–’47) Educator Fortunato Teho (BS ’27)* Educator FA ’77 DAA ’90 FA ’74, DAA ’91 Masayuki Tokioka (BA ’25)* Businessman FA ’81, Mark Y. Murakami (BA ’34)* Spark M. Matsunaga (BEd ’41)* U.S. Senator FA ’86 Theodore F. Nobriga (BA ’32)* Administrator FA ’66 Masao Yamada (BA ’29)* Minister FA ’80 FA ’56 Patsy T. Mink (BA ’48)* Congresswoman FA ’66, Ah Hee Young (BA ’25)* Actress FA ’62 Seido Ogawa (BA ’37)* Minister FA ’66 DAA ’87 Charles F. Penhallow (BS ’33) Executive FA ’81 Ralph M. Miwa (BA ’48, MA ’50)* Educator 1930s Hebden Porteus (BA ’33)* Attorney FA ’58 DAA ’92 Abraham Akaka (attended ’34–’36)* Minister Richard Y. Sakamoto (’30) FA ’82 Margaret Oda (BEd ’47, EdD ’77) Educator DAA ’92 FA ’62 Robert Stevenson (BS ’37, BBA ’37)* Adjutant William S. Richardson (BA ’41) Chief justice FA

M¯anoaMa¯lamalama at 100 1321 ’64, DAA ’95, LA ’03 Denis Wong (BA ’50) Entrepreneur FA ’82 Robin K. Campaniano (BA ’73, MBA ’83) Executive Winona Rubin (attended ’47–’49, ’50s, ’60s, Edwin S. N. Wong (BA ’51)* Businessman FA ’83, DAA ’00 ’72–’73) Educator DAA ’87 DAA ’01 Fred Shiu Leung Chan (BS ’72, MS ’74) Francis Y. Sogi (BA ’49) Attorney DAA ’94 Livingston M. F. Wong (BS ’52) Surgeon DAA ’98 Philanthropist DAA ’99 Sakae Takahashi (BS ’41)* Legislator FA ’61 Richard S. H. Wong (BA ’56) Legislator FA ’79 Chang-Yoon Choi (MA ’70, PhD ’73)* Educator Richard S. Takasaki (BS ’40) Educator FA ’64 James Yagi (BBA ’57) Coach FA ’85 DAA ’96 George Wackenhut (BS ’43)* Businessman Elroy K. Chong (attended ’71–’72) Coach FA ’86 1960s DAA ’87 David C. Cole (BA ’76) Executive DAA ’97 Neil Abercrombie (MA ’64, PhD ’74) Congressman Gregory Dever (MD ’78) Administrator DAA ’96 Dick Yin Wong (BA ’42, MA ’44)* Judge FA ’77 DAA ’91 Madeline A. L. Ehia (AS ’79 Kapi‘olani, BA ’88 Hirotoshi Yamamoto (BA ’46)* Broker FA ’69 Dyanne Affonso (BS ’66) Educator DAA ’98 West O‘ahu, MPH ’89) Adminstrator DAA ’90 Wadsworth Y. H. Yee (attended ’40–’47) Amefil Agbayani (MA ’66, PhD ’69) Administrator Eddie Flores Jr. (BBA ’70) Entrepreneur DAA ’99 Businessman FA ’76 DAA ’96 Jack S. Fritz (BA ’73, JD ’79) Official DAA ’01 1950s Doris M. Ching (BEd ’63, PD ’65, MEd ’71) William Fruean (MD ’77) Physician DAA ’94 Educator DAA ’99 Lucile Abreu (attended ’53, ’54)* Policewoman Madeleine J. Goodman (PhD ’73)* Educator Michael Chun (MS ’68) Educator DAA ’94 FA ’78 DAA ’95 David E. K. Cooper (BA ’63) General DAA ’98 Joshua C. Agsalud (BEd ’55, PD ’61) Educator Warren Haruki (MBA ’77) Executive DAA ’02 Walter A. Dods Jr. (BBA ’67) Banker DAA ’93 DAA ’89 Stanton Ho (Cert ’75 Kapi‘olani) Chef DAA ’90 Frederick Duennebier (MS ’68, PhD ’72) Scientist Daniel Akaka (BEd ’52, PD ’53, MEd ’66) U.S. Allan K. Ikawa (BBA ’71) Businessman DAA ’03 DAA ’05 Senator DAA ’87, LA ’99 Thomas Kaulukukui Jr. (JD ’77) Judge DAA ’06 Robert P. Hiam (BA ’69) Executive DAA ’05 Eileen Anderson (BA ’50) Mayor FA ’81 Kent M. Keith (JD ’77) Educator DAA ’93 Ronald N. S. Ho (BS ’67, MS ’68) Engineer DAA ’00 Charles T. Araki (BEd ’57, PD ’61) Educator Soon-Kwon Kim (PhD ’74) Educator DAA ’98 Lawrence M. Johnson (BBA ’63) Banker DAA ’93 DAA ’05 Robert G. F. Lee (BS ’71, MBA ’83) Adjutant Clement M. Judd Jr. (MBA ’69)* Executive FA ’86 Ronald Au (BA ’58) Attorney FA ’83 general DAA ’06 Eleanor Judd (BA ’66) Educator FA ’83 Ronald E. Bright (BEd ’56, PD ’57, MEd ’73) Attilio Kanei Leonardi (AS Honolulu ’72, MPA ’94) Howard Karr (BBA ’66) Banker DAA ’03 Educator LA ’05 Fire chief DAA ’04 Asad Khan (PhD ’67) Educator DAA ’95 Momi W. Cazimero (BFA ’55) Businesswoman Wayne Carr Metcalf III (BA ’75, JD ’78) Judge Mo-Im Kim (MS ’67) Administrator DAA ’99 DAA ’90 DAA ’89 Walter Kirimitsu (BA ’62) Judge DAA ’07 Vernon Char (BA ’56) Attorney DAA ’92 Michael S. Nakamura (AS ’74 Honolulu)* Police Patricia Y. Lee (BA ’65, JD ’79) Attorney DAA ’06 Robert M. Fujimoto (BA ’51) Businessman DAA ’93 chief DAA ’98 Alexander Malahoff (PhD ’65) Scientist DAA ’93 Walter M. Heen (BA ’53) Lawmaker FA ’70 Barbara Peterson (PhD ’78) Educator DAA ’97 Harold Masumoto (BA ’60, MA ’68) Administrator Philip Helfrich (PhD ’58) Scientist DAA ’97 Dudley Pratt (MBA ’71) Executive DAA ’87 DAA ’88 Edward Hirata (BS ’56) Administrator DAA ’93 Pamela Samuelson (BA ’71, MA ’72) Educator Marie Nakanishi Milks (BA ’66) Judge DAA ’89 Daniel K. Inouye (BA ’50) U.S. senator FA ’60, DAA ’00 Sharon Narimatsu (BA ’67, MA ’75) Administrator DAA ’00 Peter Savio (BBA ’70) Developer DAA ’87 DAA ’91 Satoru Izutsu (BA ’50) Educator DAA ’93 Terry T. Shintani (JD ’79, MD ’85) Educator Ernest K. Nishizaki (BBA ’69) Executive DAA ’98 Robert N. Katayama (BA ’50) Attorney DAA ’01 DAA ’99 Gary A. Okamoto (BA ’66) Executive DAA ’05 E. Alison Kay (PhD ’57) Researcher DAA ’89 Patrice Tanaka (BA ’74) Executive DAA ’03 Carole Kai Onouye (BMus ’67) Entertainer DAA ’05 Francis Keala (BA ’53) Police chief DAA ’00 Donna Tanoue (BA ’77) Banker DAA ’02 Richard Parsons (attended ’64–’68) Executive Dewey Kim (BA ’50) Educator DAA ’94 Lydia L. W. Tsui (BBA ’75) Entrepreneur DAA ’01 DAA ’97 Donald C. W. Kim (BS ’58) Engineer DAA ’90 Kent Tsukamoto (BBA ’78) Accountant DAA ’06 Larry D. Price (BS ’67, MEd ’71) Radio host Yoshi Tanji Koga (BEd ’51, PD ’57) Educator LA ’89 Michael B. White (BBA ’72) Hotelier DAA ’92 DAA ’89 Richard Mamiya (BS ’50) Surgeon DAA ’87 Alan Wong (AS ’79 Kapi‘olani) Chef DAA ’02 Melvyn K. Sakaguchi (BA ’60) Educator FA ’85 Dorothy I. Matsuo (BS ’50, MPH ’70, EdD ’82) Victor Yano (BS ’74, MD ’78) Administrator Yoshiko Sakurai (BA ’69) Journalist DAA ’95 Educator DAA ’90 DAA ’06 Puongpun Sananikone (BA ’68) Businessman Helen R. Nagtalon-Miller (BEd ’51, PD ’51, MA ’67) 1980s DAA ’03 Educator DAA ’94 Jay H. Shidler (BBA ’68) Developer DAA ’07 Beadie Kanahele Dawson (JD ’81) Advocate Harriet Natsuyama (BA ’59, MS ’60) Scientist Jeanette C. Takamura (BA ’69, MSW ’72) Educator DAA ’04 DAA ’91 DAA ’94 David Iha (MEd ’80) Educator FA ’88 Seiji Naya (BBA ’58) Economist DAA ’06 Barry K. Taniguchi (BBA ’69) Businessman Jong-wook Lee* (MPH ’81) Executive DAA ’05 Thelma Chock Nip (BA ’50, PD ’6l) Educator DAA ’04 Kurt Osaki (BFA ’88) Businessman DAA ’02 DAA ’04 Andre S. Tatibouet (BA ’64) Hotelier DAA ’90 Tina Shelton (BA ’80) Communicator DAA ’89 Frederick F. Y. Pang (BEd ’58, MBA ’72) Joyce S. Tsunoda (BA ’60, PhD ’66) Educator Administrator DAA ’95. 1990s DAA ’90 Abraham Piianaia (BA ’53, MA ’55)* Educator FA Walter Wong (MPH ’68) Administrator DAA ’92 Kevin Hughes (attended Honolulu CC ’91–’93) ’73, DAA ’96 Software developer DAA ’02 Patricia Saiki (BS ’52) Congresswoman DAA ’87 1970s Patsy Saiki (BEd ’54, PD ’55, MEd ’59)* Educator 2000s Naleen Naupaka Andrade (BA’76 Hilo, MD ’82) DAA ’92 Educator DAA ’01 Elmer Botsai (ArchD ’00) Educator DAA ’05 Ben Taguchi (BS ’54) Engineer DAA ’94 S. Haunani Apoliona (BA ’73, MSW ’76) Advocate Francis S. Oda (ArchD ’00) Architect DAA ’03 Edmund K. Toma (BA ’55)* Educator FA ’79 DAA ’92 James Walker (BS ’59, PhD ’62)* Administrator Non-Alumni Patricia Lanoie Blanchette (AA ’72 Leeward, BA DAA ’92 ’74, MD ’79, MPH ’79) Physician DAA ’92 Genoa Keawe* Musician LA ’06 Frank Watase (BA ’50) Businessman DAA ’04 Reiko Brandon (MFA ’74) Artist DAA ’87

1422 Ma¯lamalama M¯anoa at 100 plantation store, earned a UH bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Harvard and helped establish Aloha Airlines and Hawai‘i National Bank. 1994: The Center for Korean Studies has the largest concentration of Korean studies resources and scholars outside of Korea. A $2 million endowment from the Korea Foundation, matched by $1 million from private supporters in Hawai‘i and Korea, supports the center’s activities. 1995: Coconut Island is purchased and Centennial a laboratory built 1939: Hemenway Hall thanks to a $9.6 opens at a cost of million gift from $85,000, contributed by the family of former Campaign the university community. owner Edwin W. The first student union Pauley. He was a longtime supporter of building still serves the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, students with food and providing $10,000 in 1951 toward recreation. construction of the first laboratory on the Approaches 1959: Charles R. island and additional funds to rebuild Hemenway Scholarship the lab after a fire in 1961. is named for the regent 2004: The Investigator in Marine Science known to slip graduates an envelope award recognizes Manoa¯ Goal with his congratulatory oceanographer David handshake, their student Karl for research and loan agreement inside community leadership. The University of Hawai‘i Centennial marked “paid in full.” The five-year, $3.85 million Campaign, launched publicly in Half a century and grant from the Gordon and August 2007, is closing in on its thousands of recipients Betty Moore Foundation continues Karl’s $250 million target. As of Mar. 31, later, his trust continues to provide work on marine microbes’ role in ocean scholarships. more than 80,000 donors, including ecology and global climate change. 1963: College Hill, valued at $182,563, 2006: Shidler College of Business nearly 20% of alumni, have contrib- is donated by is named, recognizing a $25 million uted $212 million toward campaign the children of donation from alumnus and commercial goals in areas of academic priori- Frank and Eleanor real estate developer Jay H. Shidler. UH’s ties, student scholarships and aid, Atherton as a largest single donation to date supports research programs and other pro- home for the UH scholarships, faculty positions and president. It serves as a venue for grammatic support. program support and has matched more university functions. than $2.5 million in contributions from Private support for the university 1984: The Dai Ho Chun Chair in other donors. comes from a variety of sources and Manoa’s¯ Colleges of Arts and Sciences 2007: The Norman W. H. Loui Conference amounts (see pie chart). Significant supports a scholar whose work Center recognizes the largest single donations from past decades are transcends traditional boundaries donation—more than $3 million—to a of liberal arts disciplines. Born to a highlighted at right, but every gift UH community college. Honolulu CC Waipi‘o Valley rice farmer in 1905, carpentry graduate and equipment helps build a stronger university. Chun earned graduate degrees at About one in five alumni have made UH and Ohio State University and Gifts that Changed UH a gift; to join them in supporting pro- promoted new trends in education. grams on the 10 UH campuses, give 1991: K. J. Luke Chair of rental magnate Loui established three online at www.uhf.hawaii.edu/give International Finance and Banking endowment funds before his death in promotes research and teaching or call 808 956-8849 or (toll free) 1 2006 to assist students in his alma focused on Asia and the Pacific. Luke mater’s technical and trades programs. 866 846-4262. worked in his parents’ Big Island

M¯anoaMa¯lamalama at 100 1523 24 Ma¯lamalama Food for Thought Community colleges partner to bring Smithsonian exhibit to Hawai‘i by Jennifer Crites

“ ou are what you eat,” is presented in Hawai‘i by UH com- the project and professor emeritus goes the popular saying. munity colleges with culinary arts of history at Kapi‘olani. The exhibi- But according to a new programs and the Hawai‘i Council for tion’s local segment—Hawai‘i: A Place exhibit touring three the Humanities. It opens June 28 at Apart—was developed at the college islands, we are defined Kapi‘olani Community College and with input from all the campuses. It notY just by what we eat, but by how travels to other campus and commu- traces the islands’ food history from we grow, cook and serve our food as nity locations (see box on page 26). pre-contact sustainable agriculture well. Key Ingredients: America By Food “Our focus will be on Hawai‘i as through the missionary era, commer- is a nationwide culinary exhibition a separate yet equal part of the whole cial cash-crop farming, importation from the Smithsonian Institution’s American experience,” says Loretta of cattle and Spanish cowboys that Museum on Main Street. The exhibit Pang, humanities council scholar for started Hawai‘i’s beef and dairy indus- tries and laborers immigrating to the plantations. It also includes WWII and the Vietnam war, the rise of the tourism and decline of the sugar and pineapple industries. “Now we’re finding the future in the past thanks to today’s refocus on diversified agriculture and sustainabil- ity,” notes Louise Pagotto, Kapi‘olani’s acting vice chancellor for academic affairs. Pagotto hopes to hear from islanders with stories to share, per- haps about the days when rice took the place of taro and became a major cash-crop export, or of food shortages during WWII when Hawai‘i residents

Key Ingredients explores food across America, including Hawai‘i’s fascination with Spam and plate lunches and growing local interest in cuisine featuring fresh local ingredients like the herbs in Kapi‘olani Community College’s culinary garden

Ma¯lamalama 25 At all venues, look for dinner lectures, cooking demos and classes, appearances by well-known chefs, storytelling events, activities for school groups and possibly a food- film festival. Most will be free. Spam musubi, kim chee, haupia pudding and Portuguese bean soup, anyone? Jennifer Crites (AA ’90 Windward, BA ’92 UHWO) is a freelance writer/photographer in Honolulu

Where to see Key Ingredients June 28–Aug. 23 Kapi‘olani Community College Lama Library Aug. 30–Oct. 20 Kapolei Library embraced Oct. 27–Jan. 31 canned goods like Lyman Museum Vienna sausages and Spam. (in partnership with Hawai‘i The exhibition’s displays, historic engineer taro. Community College) photos and artifacts reveal a continu- “We want this exhibition to ally changing cultural smorgasbord. stimulate thinking and discussion,” Feb. 14–Apr. 12, 2009 Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean emphasizes Leung. Maui Community College and other immigrant plantation Maui Community College is the laborers’ field lunches evolved into tour’s final whistle stop in Hawai‘i. More on the Smithsonian’s exhibit, including today’s plate lunches, lunch wagons “Our people are passionate about mainland exhibition sites through 2010, at www. and ubiquitous plastic-box bentos, sustainability and environmental stew- keyingredients.org explains Kapi‘olani Culinary Arts ardship, and that’s where our exhibit Information on Hawai‘i exhibits at www.kcc.hawaii. Educational Specialist Daniel Leung. focus will be,” says Suzette Robinson, edu/objects/keyingredients “The original bentos—Japanese for vice chancellor of academic affairs. To comment on this story, email magazine@ ‘packed meal’—were little boxes Maui students already can opt for reus- hawaii.edu. stacked on top of each other with the able woven bags and washable plates To learn more about UH culinary programs, hot rice at the bottom so the steam instead of disposable plastic at the see food service at http://uhcc.hawaii.edu/ programs/programs.php would heat food in the upper layers.” food court. The culinary staff trans- On view will be cooking utensils forms unused agricultural by-products and equipment from Hawai‘i’s many into tasty pineapple and wine jellies. cultures, menus from steamships car- And the campus’ Sustainable Living rying the first well-heeled tourists to Institute researches ways to recycle and island shores and panels detailing the use alternate energy sources. sociological and political aspects of The Maui organizers plan food across America. Even the effects to kick off their Key of marketing on eating habits are Ingredients exhibi- addressed, as are controversies over tion with a cel- commercial development of agricul- ebration of ethnic tural land and attempts to genetically foods.

26 Ma¯lamalama Sew Satisfying

An unlikely club produces untold benefits by Courtney Baum

his isn’t your grand- or item to donate, to learn community seen a sewing machine before, but mother’s quilting circle. service.” The first projects went to chil- Body & Sew fulfills their yearning to Body & Sew, an after- dren at the Ma¯noa Ronald McDonald learn and socialize in a safe place off of school quilting club at House. Subsequent projects are reach- the streets. Windward Community ing other facets of the community. This “We’re able to use Body & Sew to College,T draws its members from year, the students are providing quilts teach the students basic math, how to Auto Body Repair and Painting, an to the Windward CC Employment read a ruler, how to follow instructions, Employment Training Center pro- Training Center’s nursing program; the how to work together as one group or gram formerly located at Honolulu nursing students will donate the quilts ‘like a family’ and to be creative and Community College. Students are to their patients in care homes. think on their own,” says Frost. “We’re detailing more than cars; they’re apply- Keiki and kupuna aren’t the only teaching them a life skill, and they’re ing their creative drive to the world ones who benefit. Frost sees changes learning to think outside the box, of sewing and it’s taking them for an in club members as well—the experi- enlightening ride. ence teaches them to give. “For these Body & Sew is the handiwork of kids it’s something to learn, because Don Frost, assistant professor of auto nobody’s ever given to them,” he body repair and nationally certified explains. “These are students who master technician who boasts quilting don’t have much themselves, but they as a hobby. Frost started the program get the greatest satisfaction out of with his wife Melissa in 2007 when, giving away their work.” Some of his after showing his students some of the quilters have minimal reading and quilts he had made, they each asked math skills and live with physical and/ him to make one for them. or learning disabilities. Some have “We decided to teach them to been homeless or live in shelters. Some Volunteer Melissa Frost, left, helps auto make their own,” says Frost. “Melissa are gang members, arrive fresh out body student Racquel Tom plan her quilt; at agreed to help teach them if they of rehab programs or have served jail top, Assistant Professor Donald Frost offers would agree to make at least one quilt time as felons. They may never have pointers to James Koyanagi

Ma¯lamalama 27 Body & Sew Wish List The quilting club seeks the follow ing items for quilt-making or auto upholstery. Contact Don Frost, 808- 636-0270 or [email protected] Students, from left, Todd Snyder, Dustin Dudoit and Tyler Martin work in a Windward classroom Fabric (especially Hawaiian prints) decked with quilts made by club members. Some participants who come from tough circumstances Thread say their new hobby keeps them out of trouble. Rotary cutters and blades to make their own decisions and be “Body & Sew keeps me out of trouble.” Quilting rulers and cutting mats accountable for such, to help the com- “The students want to learn to sew Sewing machines munity and to be respectful.” everything,” observes Melissa Frost. Embroidery machines Todd Snyder is an auto body “We both have full-time jobs and what Industrial sewing machine graduate and one of the original mem- we can do with Body & Sew is limited Vinyl and upholstery tools and bers of Body & Sew. He got involved to our time off work, but it is so satis- threads Expert advice on legal and sales at a time when hours away from class fying that we could do it full time.” The issues meant getting into trouble. “I used to Frosts hope to one day accommodate Room to expand classes be one bad kid,” he says. Snyder now students from every curriculum who works fulltime at a local auto repair would like to learn how to sew and shop, but his day job doesn’t prevent have a safe, after-school place to him from continuing to be creative. express their creativity. For now, Body sew- “I sew on Saturdays and Sundays & Sew is limited to auto body students ing,” he adds. and now I’m working on a t-shirt quilt because lack of space has the club “We are going to out of old shirts that I don’t wear any- bursting at the seams. take them up on their offers.” more,” he says. One of the most impor- One thing that isn’t lacking, The spirit of giving and love of tant things Body & Sew taught him is though, is community support. When learning are the common threads that to not be afraid of trying new things. word of the club spread, the local sew- bind this atypical group together and “At first sewing was so scary. Now it’s ing community responded. Fabric to the community. It’s been said: when easy and I do it at home.” donations have come from fabric and life gives you scraps, make a quilt. In Snyder’s sentiments are shared by quilt stores, manufacturers and local Body & Sew, Don and Melissa Frost many of the students who have fallen residents. “A lady coming to Hawai‘i help individuals who might have oth- under the Frosts’ influence. A class poll on vacation packed an old suitcase full erwise been relegated to the remnant asking students to describe Body & Sew of her fabric and carried it all the way pile create productive lives. in their own words elicited responses from Arizona to donate to us,” Frost Courtney Baum is executive assistant to the UH president for community affairs and protocol including “giving back to the commu- marvels. “We have gotten offers of nity,” “family network,” “helps me not people wanting to help teach and pass Information on the auto body repair and painting program at http://etc.hawaii.edu/programs/prog/ to drink,” “stay away from fights” and on their knowledge of years of auto-body.htm

28 Ma¯lamalama Program coordinator Keala Chock, seated, provides hands-on instruction to MELE students like Sean Stewart, left, and Ken Callahan

A new program prepares students to work in the business of

Making Music by Crystal Ware

onolulu Community helping the state develop the bridge and Tourism and Hawai‘i Legislature College has composed between local musical talent and the and promoted in Gov. Linda Lingle’s a new MELE that it global music industry. 2008 State of the State address. It hopesH will be Hawai‘i’s next musical MELE was initially proposed operates through a partnership with hit. Music and Entertainment Learning as part of the Hawai‘i Innovation Nashville’s Mike Curb College of Experience opened in fall 2007 with Initiative, developed through start- Entertainment and Music two introductory courses focusing up grants from the Department of Business at Belmont on the music business and dreams of Business Economic Development University. In

Ma¯lamalama 29 addition to its pioneer program in the students and professors, the vision is College’s Hawai‘i Music Institute country music capital, Belmont offers the same: partaking in a program that offers non-credit classes with a focus programs in New York and Los Angeles. enables them to collaborate with the on performance. In MELE, col- “Our program is fairly new, and best in the business. lege officials designed a two-year being able to make connections with degree program that can segue into a college that has more than 30 years In MELE, Honolulu CC students Belmont’s bachelor’s programs in of experience is a huge opportunity,” have a unique opportunity to music business, audio engineering, says Keala Chock, MELE program access the technology, skills entertainment industry studies or coordinator. “Belmont has expressed and opportunities they need to songwriting. The associate degree cur- a strong willingness to provide a sup- succeed in the music industry riculum was approved by the Board portive atmosphere for our students in of Regents this spring. “The MELE a world-class program. We could not MELE is for students interested program is exceptional in that it offers have asked for more support and a bet- in careers in business and profes- students the opportunity to seek an ter opportunity for our students.” sional aspects of the music industry. associate degree through an open- “Classes are going really great,” Participants will focus on three areas door, low-cost, no-prerequisite pro- enthuses John Tussey, a MELE pro- of interest—artist creativity, entertain- gram while gaining real-world techni- gram student who is pursuing music ment business expertise and technical cal and musical skills,” says Chock. business and songwriting. “The dis- production skills—and have access to With enrollment growth from 25 tance learning courses with Belmont’s internship opportunities in the music students the first semester to more than professors are working out very well. industry across the country. “Now stu- 60 during the spring, the program is The instructors have volumes of prac- dents will have a unique opportunity to off to a great start, he adds. “Honolulu tical knowledge about the music busi- access the technology, skills and oppor- CC will continue to offer innovative ness and can answer most any question tunities that will allow them to grow course work in both music business you can think of.” Tussey and 24 other and succeed in the music industry,” and audio engineering during the next students attend online classes that pre- says Chock. The payoff is more than two years and looks forward to further pare them for a future in the industry. economic, he adds. “As a community, increasing opportunities.” MELE cours- “As a keyboard recording artist, we continue to support the Hawaiian es are team-taught via live distance arranger, songwriter, music publisher culture. This program will allow our learning by Belmont and Honolulu and private music instructor, I want students endless opportunities and CC faculty. Students participate in live to gain as much knowledge as I can. provide a more educated workforce to discussions with faculty and students I also look forward to networking help our culture to flourish.” from Belmont as well as join in on the and possibly collaborating with those MELE is a new twist on UH Insider’s View, live lectures or chats in the program who have the same community colleges’ nod to the local with professionals in the field. interests,” Tussey says. Among these music scene. Windward Community MELE will provide those seri- ous about musical professions with opportunities to be seen and heard. Within 5–10 years, officials hope, the graduates will have a far greater impact on the music business, cre- ating a broader world identity for Hawaiian music. To comment on this story, email magazine@ hawaii.edu.

For more information about the MELE program and its coursework visit http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/mele

Crystal Ware is an External Affairs and University Relations student writer pursuing her master’s de- gree in intercultural communication at UH Ma¯noa

30 Ma¯lamalama Sports

Behind-the-scenes, crews keep teams

Equipped to Compete by Brendan Sagara

he hustle and bustle around the University of Hawai‘i Dedicated students help keep athletes ready to play. Pictured at Ma¯noa’s athletic complex late last December must clockwise from top left: Ivy Severan Robertson, Nick Mortell, Kyle have resembled the second boarding of Noah’s Ark. No Kamau, Jaki Falch, Nicole Isemoto, Meghan Yamamoto, Brianna Lagat-Ramos animals two-by-two, but lockers and containers by the T the team,” says Equipment Manager Kyle Tateishi. “We have dozen were loaded onto moving trucks as the Warrior Football team headed to a bowl appearance an ocean and continent to pack equipment for the plane, make sure the stuff gets off away. Thirteen foot lockers, each the size of a love seat; 113 the plane, rent a moving truck, pack all the stuff into that, and player equipment bags packed with helmets, shoulder pads then go to the team hotel, where we unpack again and set up and shoes; ice chests and water coolers; practice and game shop—all in the same day.” uniforms; a stationary bike; dozens of footballs; 12 cases of They do the same for 18 other athletic programs as well as athletic tape; quantities of coffee, chocolate-covered macada- ordering apparel, equipment and uniforms and managing mia nuts and pineapple…about 12,000 pounds of cargo in all. laundry services and equipment repair. Each team has its Sorting, packing, unpacking and distributing all that gear unique set of needs, notes Tateishi. “Besides fixing face masks (and reversing the process for the trip home) falls to 35-year and pads during games, we set up all the headsets at Aloha equipment room veteran Ken Stadium. Coach June Jones didn’t want any white to show on Fujimura. With an assistant They are committed our players’ shoes, so during football season, we also had to spray paint all the guys’ shoes.” manager and a skeleton crew to our players and of five student managers and a A good equipment manager is critical, says Joey Estrella, head volunteer, he gave new mean- coaches and always baseball coach at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, where ing to The Big Easy as they coaches are responsible for their teams’ equipment needs. transformed the New Orleans make sure we are “That person, if they do their job correctly, can save an athletic Marriott ballroom into UH outfitted properly department tons of money.” Just as the right equipment main- equipment headquarters. tains the health and safety of student-athletes, proper care “The equipment room is understaffed, but they do an unbe- extends the life of the equipment. lievably good job,” says Associate Head Football Coach Rich “The staff is underpaid for the time and effort they put in,” Miano. “They are committed to our players and coaches and Miano observes. They enjoy working with student-athletes. always make sure we are outfitted properly.” Practice helps. “Like any job, it has its ups and downs,” says Tateishi. “Sure, Hawai‘i’s geographic isolation necessitates similar logistics when we have all these sports going at one time it can get every road game. “Most mainland teams pack a moving truck really busy. But I love my job.” and send their equipment ahead while the managers fly with Brendan Sagara (BBA ’97 Hilo) is a Honolulu freelance writer

Ma¯lamalama 31 Enlightenment

Film Crew at Diamond Head Screenprint 26" x 36" In this print commissioned by the Honolulu Printmakers, islanders past and future join the Hollywood film crew derived from a 1931 Ray Jerome Baker photograph in references to a variety of printmaking methods and genres. It is part of Laura Ruby’s Diamond Head Series, which incorporates cultural, historical and contemporary images with the geo- logical landmark known to Hawaiians as Lae‘ahi and a recurrent theme of mahele, the Hawaiian division of land. A lecturer in UH Ma¯noa’s Department of Art and Art History since 1977, Laura Ruby was awarded a 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts by Hawai‘i’s State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Her print and sculpture works have appeared in nearly 200 regional, national and international exhibitions, and she has mounted more than 30 solo shows, including the popular Nancy Drew Series. She edited the 2006 historical photo/ documentary book Mo‘ili‘ili: The Life of a Community. More at www.hawaii.edu/lruby.

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