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EDITOR’S NOTE 6 44 38 pg. pg. : Jun/Jul 2018 : Jun/Jul 10 43 Volume 8/3Volume & pg. 42 pg. Seniors and Technology and Seniors Is Assisted Living a Negative? R & R Caregivers’ Family Exercises Breathing Care: Respiratory Disability Benefits Q&A Belongings With Treasured Parting Ready? You Are If Inflation Returns, Mastering Change What do all Those Designations Mean? Our Choice Our Care, Abuse Numbers up Elder Adding Salesman or Scammer? or Phrases Find 16 Words AIP Workshop: Yoga Just for Ku¯puna Just for Yoga Biking for Seniors for High Blood Pressure Guidelines New Free Pain Stepping Down Mighty Can Skip Costly Equipment: Use the GIVING CARE GIVING SERVICES & PROGRAMS WISDOMS WORDSEARCH HEALTH 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 62 42 43 44 45 46 24 STORY COVER pg. School Pride The 12th Annual AIP Workshop Schedule Annual AIP Workshop 12th The TV Revisited Generations Partners A Closer Look at our Generations Annual Senior Classic Games The Life of a Centenarian in Place: Community Strategies Aging Is It Time for Medicare? Shine Our Volunteers the Spotlight, Beyond Giving Back — Project Singing Seniors Commonsense Election Modernizations of ‘Spoofing’ Beware Further A Step for Seniors: Hurricane Prep Life and Independence Quality of Pride, GENERATIONS MEDIA GENERATIONS EDITORIAL LIFE LIVING COVER: DEPARTMENTS: WORKSHOP PLACE IN AGING 10 12 14 16 18 20 21 34 35 36 37 38 40 24 - - -

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COVER STORY 24 27 COVER STORY ❱❱ with always a fond memory. a fond memory. with always — The MPI mandatory 2.5-hour study hall every every study hall mandatory 2.5-hour The MPI alumni to be helping Dottie is proud Today, school was that caring for my classmates, and classmates, for my caring that was school Dottie. says me,” even the grade; make students helped evening out, they lights went hall, when the after study under flashlights their studies with continued everyone a given; was work Hard their blankets. only allowed were college-bound. Students was and were and Sunday off campus on Saturday clean at their dorm rooms for keeping responsible were inspection, they failed room If they all times. The discipline of chores. work” assigned “penalty in later life too. dorm life paid off She attends as many and supporting students. at greeting “Owls” games as she can, and delights all one ‘ohana,” says are “We graduates. returning Dottie Mid-Pacific Institute was structured to protect to protect structured was Institute Mid-Pacific hall, and to the dining walking “One time I was I love sharing memories I love and fun stories with alumni Mid-Pacific At of all ages. all one ‘ohana.” are we and support every student and assure his or her student and assure every and support or “sister” “brother” An upperclassman success. life and to dormitory get accustomed helped them cur- college preparatory rigor of a the scholastic that the dormitory remembers Dorothy riculum. to su- “dorm mothers” two nurse, had a live-in senior class “Senators,” and two pervise activities - and representa tutors who acted as counselors, in lived Teachers of the student government. tives - avail were to the dormitories and cottages next school staff The entire able 24/7 in emergencies. one close family students to become encouraged and assist one another. and asked caught up alongside me Bakken Mr. homesick. doing. I told him that I was I was how - but that eve to me, more anything He didn’t say up at Honolulu showed aunty from ning, my had called Bakken because Mr. door my The me. her to come and see asked and “

Photography by Scot Allen Photography what activities they what activities they — “While helping others, I discovered that my that my I discovered “While helping others, As we flipped through the yearbooks, Dottie the yearbooks, through flipped As we was growing. Now they are housed in a climate- housed are they Now growing. was and Dottie a week, days two and area, controlled Sakamoto manage the Bobbi alumna volunteer for information from requests collection and fulfill Historical requests the families of graduates. looking for pictures family members come from or ancestors of their parents enjoyed in high school or who their friends were. friends were. in high school or who their enjoyed grads Mid-Pacific alumni I knew. “Sometimes it is close. are Maui, from Hanamaika‘i, Reba sister, grandfather’s attended school here in 1904 and 1905 when this 1905 and in 1904 attended school here says for girls,” Seminary Kawaiha‘o campus was founded officially Institute was Mid-Pacific Dottie. located for boys, when Mills Institute in 1908 From to Ma¯noa. Honolulu, moved in downtown boarding this small college preparatory that time, students to less than 100 from grew school slowly The than 1,500. student body of more a current discontinued in 2003. was program boarding One was pride. of her school us the roots showed Dottie in 1951, the MPI headmaster who recruited Eng- parents He taught Dottie’s Bakken. Joseph trusted parents lish at Maui High School, so her college material, his decision that Dottie was boat to high school in sent her by and they Honolulu. ottie Crowell ottie Crowell graduated Dorothy “Dottie” Crowell “Dottie” Dorothy ’55 Class of Institute, Mid-Pacific Admissions, of Director Former from MPI in 1955 MPI in 1955 from - and began work in school ing there administration. No one knows Mid-Pacific more - alumni than Dot for tie because, D Today, Dottie Crowell volunteers her time to volunteers Dottie Crowell Today, “I was a naïve, back-country eighth grader in back-country eighth grader naïve, a “I was Fun times do not escape these ladies at a fundraising do not escape these ladies at a fundraising times Fun fund. (L-R) Ruby the Alumni Scholarship event for ’55. ’56, Donna Chang, Dottie Crowell Takebayashi work on the Alumni Archives Research Project. Project. Research on the Alumni Archives work in family history and her public interest Growing “Koco” alumna Tomiko school pride spurred own the MPI school yearbooks Conner to reorganize Archival access. for easy and academic records found as far as 1904 had never going back records campus a permanent home while Mid-Pacific Ha‘iku¯, Maui, who had no idea how high school high school Maui, who had no idea how Ha‘iku¯, going to a told me I was My parents be. would accepted it. high school in Honolulu, and I just - gradu to 65 by and girls grew My class of 35 boys the students not sophisticated like were ation. We so we home, from all away were but we of today, On weekends, the rules and did well. followed up the big city of Honolulu. I still keep saw we A whole and Junette. Lenora roommates, with my from up to us with class members opened world years Two Islands. and the Marshall Korea Japan, or French required: language were of foreign Spanish, German, MPI also offers Latin. Today, says and Mandarin Chinese,” Hawaiian Japanese, Mathematics subjects were But her favorite Dottie. the teachers. and English because she liked nearly 30 years, she and a committee of faculty she nearly 30 years, decisions about which students and deans made accepted. She delights in connecting be would - to one another and the school. Gradu graduates and looking her up. Her devotion always ates are up as a big pride for her school can be summed and principals teachers mahalo to her parents, higher education. to pursue her who encouraged

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still do.” Galen still do.” — encourages our readers to reach to reach our readers encourages Generations “In my senior year,” says Galen, “I was a Sena- Galen, “I was says senior year,” “In my graduates The MPI Alumni Association offers called hold our annual reunion, we July “Every Galen is a great fan of MPI Baseball, and you you and MPI Baseball, fan of is a great Galen alternates between California and Las Vegas every every California and Las Vegas alternates between ball games to fancy from event, Every other year. to be helping the students, proud us makes affairs ago. I guess helped years were we the same way the best thing about school pride is that it brings old or of how Regardless all the alumni together. - experi the Mid-Pacific all share we are, we young achieved pride in the successes we ence and take and classmates alumni with the gifts our teachers, us.” gave - find a pro or schools and volunteer out to your pride to work school to donate to. Put your gram n students for success. today’s and help prepare also ran the quarter mile for MPI Track Team. Team. Track mile for MPI the quarter also ran of fun and team- a source were School athletics History. subject was favorite But Galen’s work. for the good of the strict and it was were We tor. students out for the younger looked We students. also hooked but we discipline, and maintained needed academic tutor when they them up with a option. career the military as a good help. I saw every in the 1950s, system Because of the draft in the military. who served family had someone me for military training Dorm life at MPI prepared of giving way my was country too. Serving my gen- that the younger today me back. It worries going are don’t think about what they erations consider men don’t even back and young to give serving their country.” their to support the school, express ways many “We school pride. and demonstrate gratitude the year. throughout support community events of what it for about 80 percent pays only Tuition for one year. costs the school to educate a student funds with raising try to bridge that gap by We Sale and a golf tournament. the annual Chicken and all the events getting together, love Graduates and catch up. to share times are - at the Ho‘olaule‘a Festi and help out ‘The Pa¯‘ina,’ for student grants award We and Graduation. val which our MPI class reunion, and organize projects, will often see him in the stands. He was on the He was stands. see him in the will often but Harry Kitamura, team, under Coach baseball “because we field much, center to play didn’t get time in my players great had such

— another way the school helped another way — All Mid-Pacific alums agree that scholastics alums agree All Mid-Pacific “When I got to Mid-Pacific, I was happy to find happy I was “When I got to Mid-Pacific, freshmen transition to boarding school life. It was It was school life. to boarding transition freshmen to free kids were where home, a big change from At done. were after chores swim, fish and play Galen says regimented. was everything Mid-Pacific, structure provided the discipline and restrictions field that helped him succeed. playing and a level than the public schools level at a higher were mandatory study hall also regard left. They they as necessary for their academic achievements. of their at- is a cornerstone discipline Academic want they and a reason tachment to Mid-Pacific know students be successful. They to help today’s world them for the real prepared Mid-Pacific how learned “We faced after graduation. challenges they citizenship and leadership teamwork, academics, which helped us succeed in all our endeavors,” made here the friendships we Galen. “And says of fickle fortune.” lasted the tests have recruiting good students. I didn’t know who this this who know I didn’t students. good recruiting ques- asking touchy-feely was and he man was I must you?’ are person ‘What kind of a tions like to parents my asked OK because he done have had and a schoolteacher My dad was me. enroll Japanese to selling silverware a side business me He especially wanted families in the camps. op- have would education so that I to further my Galen. says the plantations,” portunities beyond had been se- classmates Waialua that some of my Alumni Pa’ina. Alumni participate at the 2017 ’55, Galen Narimat- (L–R) Jane (Nishizawa) Watanabe Tan ’47, Edith (Kawakami) su ’55, Emily (Hino) Fujii ’55. (Hanamaika’i) Crowell ’56, and Dorothy with able to room Galen. He was lected too,” says of them two Galen remembers being interviewed by Joe Joe by being interviewed Galen remembers sor. His pay was room and board. He also worked He also worked board. and room was His pay sor. After graduating bookstore. at the university as an officer in the UH, he began his career from in Vietnam. tours and did two United States Army he started military, the from After Galen retired Institute Alum- with the Mid-Pacific volunteering and has member, a board ni Association, became on Galen served terms as its president. five served won and, in 2015, of Counselors the MPI Board Award in Philanthropy Volunteer the prestigious Professionals, the Association of Fundraising from Aloha Chapter. to all around “He used to travel 1951. in Bakken and interviewing the public schools in Hawai‘i - alen Nari matsu also Galen Narimatsu Galen ’55 Class of President, and Past Member Board Association MPI Alumni G remembers be- remembers ing interviewed Bakken. Mr. by He is Dottie’s cousin, and grew up in Hale‘iwa and Honolulu. The sugar and

- still the main employ were pineapple plantations the ROTC from After graduating in Hawai‘i. ers in 1955, he studied Public at Mid-Pacific program at Ma¯noa of Hawai‘i at University Administration as a dormitory supervi- at Mid-Pacific and worked You know, I sent my I sent my know, You for a good edu- kids here 200 of cation, and over students are the current students’ from ‘legacy families with Mid-Pacific a lot have We graduates. of.” to be proud “

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