N Ū P E PĀ O M A M A K A ` A I A L O HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! Hope all is well with yourselves and families at this joyous time of the year. I’d like to extend the Board of Directors and my gratitude to Doug Ing, Bob Crowell and Willie Tallett for accepting the officer positions of Vice-President, Treasurer and Sec- retary. The latter two members have so graciously given up a lot of their time to continually keep the club running during leadership transitions. As retirement has brought more time to reflect on life, I like to remember, especially at Thanksgiving, the people who contributed so much to my growth and successes. As one once said, “Life isn’t measured by the accomplish- ments at the end but, by the route we traveled and the profound impact we have made on others along the way.” This is especially true of our many outstanding Mamaka Aialo brothers of the past as well as today. Many of them have made a profound impact on my life over the past 23 years. Their outstanding stature of integrity, character and leadership have made me proud to be Hawaiian and a brother of the club. Hopefully you feel that way too. Finally, may each and everyone of you have a joyous and safe Holiday with family and friends. Mahalo for your sup- port, involvement and contributions to Mamaka Aialo. And a special Mahalo to Hammie Ahlo for his untiring ef- forts to keep us informed by publication of Nupepa. Mele Kalikimaka and Hauoli Makahiki Hou!

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Christmas Past at O C C and First Hawaiian Bank THIS YEAR OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY WILL BE AT OAHU COUNTRY CLUB Tuesday, December 14th 5:30 Cocktails 6:30 Dinner

Dress: Jacket, Aloha Shirt Optional: Coat and Tie

Function Chairman is Agenhart Ellis

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Oahu Country Club, the venue of our coming Christmas Party, was founded on June I, 1906 and is one of the oldest private clubs west of the Rockies. We will be celebrating the Holidays in a club steeped in history and closely tied to a large segment of Hawaii’s community leaders. Oahu Country Club is a private club that has a tradition of being a comfortable place where members and their families enjoy the sport of golf and socializing with other members. OCC is known for many things: its stunning location, its elegant clubhouse, its beautiful kept grounds and its warm Hawaiian hospitality and its sense of place.

It’s easy to drive right by OCC without noting its existence, the road leading in winds through a quiet residential neighborhood.

Golf was introduced to Hawaii in the mid-1890s. In 1898, the year Hawaii was annexed by the United States, Samuel Mills Damon built the Island’s first golf course at his estate in Moanalua Valley. In 1904 a second course appeared in Manoa Valley but was quickly lost to residential development. With its demise imminent, a prominent local attorney, Wade Warren Thayer, decided to found a new golf course. In searching for a location for the club, the founders settled on 300 acres of land in Waolani Valley. King Kamehameha III deeded the Waolani land to Dr. Thomas C. B. Rooke, and it was with Rooke’s, heirs then living in England, that Thayer had to visit and negotiate a lease with a promise of an eventual sale.

The property known as Waolani or “heavenly wilderness” traced its history to Hawaiian royalty. For services rendered King Kamehameha III conveyed Waolani to former ships doctor Thomas Rooke as part of the Great Mahele of 1849. Dr. Rooke had married Grace Kamaikai, the granddaughter of John Young, an English seaman famous for his assistance to Kamehameha I. Grace and her sister Fanny were descendants of Kame- hameha the Great. Fanny married high chief George Naea and in 1836 had a daughter, Emma, who was hanaied as an infant to the Rookes. Emma grew up in the Rooke home at Beretania and Nuuanu but the family often stayed at Waolani in a large Hawaiian style grass house, located somewhere in the vicinity of the present club house.

Through her marriage to Kamehameha IV Emma became Queen. To make a long story short, Queen Emma [Emalani Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea] died in 1885 and there were many claimants to her land. It was not until May of 1900 that the claims were settled by the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii that title passed to Crewsell C. K. Rooke, nephew and godson of Thomas Rooke residing in England.

<<< OCC’s founding stone—Pohaku Aumiumi. Legend has it that a menehune atop Pacific Heights threw it at a threatening giant and killed him. Hawaiians of old settled their disputes here.

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The early problems encountered by the membership were overcome by savvy business men of the Territory of Hawaii such as Walter Dillingham, E. Faxton Bishop, Governor George R. Carter, all early presidents of the club augmented over the years by other community leaders. Early pictures of the club show little or no large tress, indigenous trees were mostly “shrubery”. Trees today are several species of eucalypts, casuarina [ironwood], melalucas – all imported. Many Norfolk Island Pine and Cook Island Pine were planted but winds knock these over so easily they are no longer planted. By 1913 the course was expanded to 18 holes and since has been lengthened, constantly reshaped and improved over the years to its present pristine beauty. Over the years thousands of trees have been planted on the course.. In 1978-79 over 1,000 trees were planted.

Of course our activities will be in the club house, however, it is hoped that during the evening we will all have a chance to view the course surrounding the clubhouse.

First Club House

Mamaka ‘Aialo members have been active at Oahu Country Club over the years. In 1960 Ernie Kai was president of OCC. Hammie Ahlo had been a member of OCC for over 35 years and during that period served as a director. Others known to the writer as members of OCC are Rick Richardson, Bob Crowell, Oz Stender, Corbett Kalama, Tommy Lalakea, and Jim Scott.

Holiday Issue 2010 NŪPEPĀ O MAMAKA `AIALO Page 4 N Ū P E PĀ O M A M A K A ` A I A L O Firm creates endowment for future landscape architects

PBR Hawaii recently contributed $40,000 to the UH School of Architecture to create an endowment . You will recognize the first two people in the picture as Mamaka ‘Aialo members R. Stan Duncan, executive vice president and Frank Brandt, chair- man emeritus along with Virginia Hinshaw UH-Mano chancellor; Thomas Witten, PBR president; Vincent Shigekuni, vice presi- dent; Grant Murakami, principal; Donna Vuchinich, president and CEO , UH Foundation; Russell Chung, executive vice president; and Clark Llewellyn, dean of School of Architecture. Note: This article excerpted from “Hawaii Landscape” written by Sarah Pacheco and contributed by Dudley Makahanaloa.

This year PBR HAWAII & ASSOCIATED INC. celebrates 40 years of serving Hawaii’s community planning and landscape architecture needs. But during a ceremony at the University of Hawaii last month, the firm was the one giving a gift, and a sub- stantial one at that.

PBR founder/chairman emeritus Frank Brandt was joined by other principals of his company in the ceremony pre- senting the check for $40,000 to the UH School of Architecture. This amount will create an endowment for studetnts pursuing a focus or concentration in landscape architecture, environmental design or urban design—the first of its kind created by a land- scape architecture firm at the school.

“To celebrate our 40 years of professional practice in Hawaii, the PBR partners felt an endowed scholarship directed to a Hawaii student to pursue a landscapre architecture degree would encourage local students to enter our profession of land- scapre architecture, community and environmental planning,” said Thomas Witten, PBR president.

contributed by Dudley Makahanaloa

Holiday Issue 2010 NŪPEPĀ O MAMAKA `AIALO Page 5 Uluwehi O Ke Kai Pane Mai

He ho`oheno ke `ike aku So precious to witness Ua ala `oe e ku`u ipo You’ve awakened my love

Ke kai moana nui lā The great expansive ocean Kāhea ana au iā `oe I call unto you

Nui ke aloha e hi`ipoi nei A great affection is nourished within I ka lipolipo o ka pō In the darkness of the night

Me ke `ala o ka līpoa With the fragrance of the lipo seaweed Pane mai, pane mai Answer me, answer me

Hui Chorus

He līpoa i pae i ke one The lipoa washes up on the sand Huli, huli kou kino Turn, turn your body [to me]

Ke one hinuhinu lā The glistening sand Pumehana i ka la`i Pleasantly warm in the calm

Wela i ka lā ke hehi a`e Scorching hot from the sun to sleep on Kīpuni `ia kāua me ke aloha You and I are encircled with love

Mai mana`o he pono kēia Don’t think that this is what must be Pane mai, pane mai Answer me, answer me

Ho`okohukohu e ka limu kohu The limu kohu so alluring Ho`omaha `oe i ku`u poli Rest here in my arms

Ke kau i luna o nā moku lā Set atop the reef rocks Honi aku a honi mai I kiss you, you kiss me

`O ia moku `ula lā e ho! Those clumps, `ula lā e ho! He aloha wau iā `oe For I love you

`Oni ana i o i `ane`i Waving back and forth Pane mai, pane mai Answer me, answer me.

Ha`ina mai ka puana The refrain is told ̀Olu`uolu `oe e ku`u ipo You are so pleasant my sweet

Ka līpoa me ka limu kohu Of the lipoa and the limu kohu seaweeds I kēia ho`oipoipo nei At making love

Hoa pili `oe me ka pahe`e You are accompanied to the pahe`e I ka wai welawela nui Feeling surge

`Ānoni me ka līpalu Mixed together with the līpalu Pane mai, pane mai Answer me, answer me

In this favorite hula mele, Edith Kanakaole describes one’s This composition by Robert Cazimero reminds us that the relationship with the ocean through various limu such as the urge to hold a dear one can come at any time, even waking lipoa, limu kohu, pahee and lipalu. you from a deep sleep.

THE STAFF OF NŪPEPĀ O MAMAKA ` A I A L O WISH YOU AND YOURS A VERY MERRY HOLI DAY SEASON AND BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY, SAFE AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

WILLIE TALLETT LES MURRAY HAMMIE AHLO

Holiday Issue 2010 NŪPEPĀ O MAMAKA `AIALO Page 6 N Ū P E PĀ O M A M A K A ` A I A L O WASWAS THETHE NIGHTNIGHT BEFOBEFO CHRISTMASCHRISTMAS

Was da night befo Christmas, and all ova' da place, He make mempachi eyes and he go, "Ho, ho, ho!" Not even da geckos was showin' their face. By now, I stay thinking this guy kina slow! Repeated

for the Da stockings was hangin' on top da TV He look like my Tutu, but little less weight, benefit of [Cause no mo' fireplace in Hawai'i] And his beard stay so white, mo' white than shark bait! new mem-

bers. Da kids stay all crashed, my old man too. He stay all in red, specially his nose, They leave all da work for you-know-who. And get reindeer spit on top his nice clothes!

So me, I stay pickin' up alla dea toys, But him, he no care; he just smile at me, When - boom! - outside get only big noise! And he start fo' put presents unda da tree.

I run to da window, I open 'em up, I tell 'em, "Eh, brah, no need make li'dat, I stick out my head and I yell, "Eh! Whassup?!" And watch where you step! You going ma-ke da cat!"

And then, I no can ba-lieve what I seen! Then, out from his bag, he pull one brand new computah, Was so unreal, you know what I mean? Choke video games, and one motorized scootah!

This fat haole guy get his reindeers in my yard! He try for fill up da Christmas socks too, And reindeers not housebroken, you know, as' why hard! But had so much pukas, all da stuff went fall troo.

But nemmind, this Christmas, so I cut 'em some slack. When he pau, I tell 'em, "Eh Santa, try wait! Plus, had uku pile presents pokin' outta his sack! I get plenty leftovahs, I go make you one plate!"

So I wait 'till he pau tie up his reindeer, But he nevah like hang, he had so much fo' do; Then I yell out da window, "Huui! Brah, ova hea!" Gotta make all dem small kids' wishes come true.

An' I tell 'em first ting, when I open da door, So I wave 'em goodbye, and I flash 'em da shaka, "Eh, Hemo your shoes! You going dirty my floor!" And I tell 'em, "Mele Kalikimaka!"

He take off his boots, he tell, "You know who I am?" When he hear that, he stop...and I telling you true, I go, "Ho! From the smell, must be Mr. Toe Jam!" He go, "Garans ball-barans! Merry Christmas to you!"

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