Published by the Outrigger Canoe Club for Members and Guests at ·Home and Abroad by Brant Ackerman President's Goals and Objectives for 1997
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Published by the Outrigger Canoe Club for Members and Guests at ·Home and Abroad By Brant Ackerman President's Goals and Objectives for 1997 s we start a new term, your As our facility has reached the menus in food and beverage opera Board of Directors is already 30-year mark, (has it been that tions, as well as an increasing A off and running with a fu ll long?) we are currently conducting demand by both genders and age agenda of items to accomplish. Our professional surveys to determine groups for larger Fitness Center first order of business was to what surprises may be "lurking facilit ies. re tructure the Executive inside our walls" so that we can put A Logo Shop Adhoc mer Committee. It will be made up of contingencies in place to plan for chandising committee has just been members of both the Board and those eventualities. These will he formed to evaluate all products, Management. countered with an aggressive main vendors, and pricing to meet both Its primary purpose will be tenance program member and guest expectations. planning for the complex chal As recent federal legislation Your activities committees are lenges that we face in the future as has just been enacted with regard busy at work on not only planning well as monitoring the activities of to non-profit organizations, we are coordinated fun-fi lled events but both management and committees reviewing the employee benefit also a forma l membership roster. past is currently sitting in boxes, to insure completion of our goals program and investigating the feasi An annual master calendar has just basements, and attics. and objectives. bility of implementing a 401(K) been completed so that we can Our goal is to scan this infor We have just fin ished our plan. maximize the potential activities mation (including color pictures ) yea r-end review with our auditors Your Long Range Planning and function opportunities for our into a common database so that it and I am happy to report that com Committee is interpreting the membership. can be archived for the future pared to other clubs across the results of the Club survey and Probably the most important before it gets lost fore ver. country, we are in good financia l incorporating it into our LRP. As goal that we are undertak ing this Stay tuned to your Outrigger shape. As waiting lists for clubs demographics continue to change, year is a master plan to get as much magazine as all committees will be continue to diminish, the challenge so do our members' expectations. of the history of the Outrigger stepping up their efforts to increase for seeking new members will be Such things as fitness and Canoe Club consolidated onto an communications to all of the OCC striking a balance between quality health are changing members' in-house computer system as we fam ily! lil and affordability. tastes and desires for different can. Our historically significant f' A G E 2 0 U T ll G G E ll Get Ready For A Blast From The Past Club Day Fair, Wednesday, June 11 o you remember those fabu everyone. Beach games for keiki working, ger rhe day off, gather the Club Day is back in a big way. lous Club Days of years past and adults ro resr your kill; run kids and get down ro the Club on o plan to be there and come cheer Dwhere members of all ages down the beach tied ro your part Wednesda y, June II, Kamehameha u on. 0 joined together ro play games at rhe ner's ank le while balancing nn egg Day for rhe Club Day Fair. beach? on a spoon in your mourh. Poi car I remember broom-paddling ing conr ests, nerf softba ll games, canoe races to rhe wind sock and and paddling races. There' so back, and playing volleyball on rhc much za ninc · planned we wouldn't and courts for rhc fir r ri me. We dare tell you now! had ream and relay race where Then nfter an exhausting day everyone participated and had a of fun in rhc sun, we'll have a teak fabulous rime. These were memo Fry and recogni:e winner of many rable da ys for the whole fam il y. of rhe events wi rh trophic and Well Club Day is back. This pri:cs. Live musical entertainment year, we have renamed it rhe Club and good cheer will grace rhe Day Fair to empha i:c the event for Terrace inro rhc evening. the whole fami ly, not ju t our ath Haven't you been wondering letes. This Kamchamcha Day we when the Club would fin ally plan will ho r Club Day Fair with more an unforgettable event for the fe rive and wacky events rhan you whole fami ly? Well , wonder no can shake a paddle ar. more. Please don't mi rhe e\·enr; There will be something for it's a srare holiday. But if you're Guest Chef Night June 18 Features Eddie Fernandez e arc delighted to The price per per on is ~36 announce that Chef plus tax and service charge. The WI nstrucror Eddie Hau Terrace will offe r the regular Fernandez of the Culinary Arts full menu. Program at Kapi'olani Community The Guest Sommelier for rhe College, will be our Guest Chef on evening will be Em ily Field of Wcdne lay, June I in the Main Grand Cru Wine Merchants. Dining Room. Emily is married to Richard Field Chef Eddie, a Kauai boy, starr of R. Field Wine Company and ed his cul inary career a a Prep wa prcviou ly a Sommelier at the Cook in 1970 wirh Nick's Pacific Club. Emily will be on Fishmarket Restaurant where he hand ro assist our Sommelier, worked hi way up to Executive Richard juanrilla, with rhe fea Chef. He later was the Executive tured wines of the evening. These Chef at the Black Orchid wi nes arc priced cparately. Restaurant before accepting his cur Dinner seatings begin ar 6 rent position of head ing up the p.m. tl nd reservations can be made much respected culinary program ar at the Main Dining Room. We are very excited to host Guest Kapi'olani Community College. Appeli~er Chef Eddie i excited about Kadaif \XIra fJped Shrimp and )umbo Scallop Chef Eddie Fernandez at the teaching "hi kid " rhe fi ner points on Vanilla Seemed Onions lt'i!lt Coconu1 Vinaigrelle Outrigger Canoe Club on June 18. of cooking and i' imprc eel with Space i limited o make your rhc local mlenr here in rhe I land . Emree re er.•arion early in order to rake He is a firm believer in u ing the Rum and PepfJCr Paimed Salmon and Mochi Cnmclt PofJcom advanmgc of rhi wonderful oppor freshest ingred ients, reaching hi Crus! Loin of Pork wi!lt Mango Clwrdonna)' Sauce, Lobs1er tunity. I) students rhe proper techn ique and Risollo, and SfJring Vegcwbles nor cutting corner . Chef Eddie, with the a sisrancc of his students, Des sen created the fo llowing menu for his Macadamia Nw Tone, Lilikoi Curd Torte and Sweet Poww evening at the Outrigger Canoe Cheesecake Dri zzled with Assorted Island FntiL Coulis Club. 0 lJ T It G G E I( P AG E- 3 The Outrigger Kama'aina Hui As Remembered by only. of our meetings wa · addressed by Erne ·t 1-l."Tommy" Thomas, "Further, any regular member Bill Mullahey, the Club Vice Hui Past President of the !-lui in good standing at the President who outl ined the plans At some time in the late time, who is elected to the Board of for the renovation of the Club's 1930's or early 1940's some of the Directors of the Outrigger Canoe bar area. \XI hen l presided at the leaders of the Outrigger Canoe Club wi ll be automatically made an meeting I 1 reserved the nece ary Club decided to form a "Club with Honorary Member of the !-lui while decorum by getting a very large in the Club" which they named the an officer of the Outrigger Canoe serving spoon from the Chef and "Kama'aina Hui". Club. At the termination of his using it as a gavel. There had been a loosely DirectOrship, he may again become At ome meetings we dis organized group called the a regular member of the Hui, if cussed upcoming Club elections "Kama'aina Beachcomber !-lui" on approved by the Advisory Board." and I might add there were elec Waikiki Beach during the 1930's, Obviously, the name tions in which !-lui members were according to Ronald Q. "R.Q" "Kama'aina !-lui" didn't limit the placed in nomination by Hui "sug Smi th, who was President of the members hip to the generally used gestion", and these !-lui members Outrigger Canoe Club in 1932-33. term "Kama'aina" because ! was were supported strongly by the l-!ui From my discussions with invited to become a member within in the elections. R.Q., l don't believe the founders a very shorr time after I joined the Sometimes they won-and of the new Hui con idered it to be OCC in Ma y, 1943. sometime they lost. I know that a continuation of the old Then, I believe it was in to be a fact-I was nominated Beachcombers Hui ince the new 1944, I became the Secretary of the three times for Club Director Kama'aina Hui was limited to !-lui.