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Supporting the faculty vision

When he joined the faculty at UH’s Windward campus in 1987, Joe Ciotti

was asked what facility he’d like to help plan. He answered without hesita-

tion—a planetarium has been his dream since he first visited New York’s

Hayden Planetarium at age 16. It is a vision he nurtured through UH

graduate school, NASA training as a Teacher in Space classmate of Christa

McAuliffe and selection as Hawai‘i’s Carnegie Professor of the Year. In

October, his dream came true with the opening of Hokulani Imaginarium,

a remarkable theater that will take students of all ages and visiting commu-

nity members on explorations out to the

stars and into human cells.

This is what I mean when I say that I

have never been failed by a faculty that

has been validated and empowered.

Inspiration and perseverance like Joe’s is

what will make this system great. It is

what makes our university campuses a

resource for the communities in which we

live. It is why, when the state needed a

short-term economic infusion, lawmakers recognized the long-term benefit

of investing in UH. The projects they funded—establishment of a new

medical school and biomedical research complex in Kaka‘ako, planning for

the UH West O‘ahu campus in downtown Kapolei and improvements to

campuses on every island—all are part of UH’s long-standing master plan

and fulfillment of our faculty’s vision.

These projects do not depend on state taxpayers alone. For the medical

school, our use of $150 million from the state’s $1.2 billion tobacco fund

is contingent on raising a matching sum from private sources. We will se-

cure private support for other UH initiatives as well. Governor, legislators,

regents, administrators, unions, alumni, citizens—we are all responsible for

this university and what it should and will be. Together, we will empower

remarkable UH faculty members like Joe Ciotti and share not just in their

dreams, but also in making them come true.

With warm aloha,

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FEATURES

Lost World .........................................8A Kaua‘i sinkhole provides information about former human, animal and plant inhabitants

Courage............................................11UH professors brave criticism and challenge the status quo to help others

Road Remedies (cover) .....................13Engineers use technology to tweak traffic flow

Mushroom Man...............................17A professor’s passion for fungi could plant the seeds for a new island industry

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Alumni News ...................................20Class notes and profiles

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Pests are in hot water with scientists

AUH-developed hot water treatment designed todisinfect plants for export may also help control the

spread of Caribbeantree frogs on the BigIsland. Agricultureresearchers ArnoldHara, from UHManoa, and MarcelTsang, UH Hilo, havedemonstrated that cutflowers, foliage andeven whole potted plantscan be soaked in hot, thencooler water for specifiedtimes without sustain-ing damage. Thetechnique kills scales,nematodes and other insect pests that would preventsales in off-island markets. Working with state forestryand wildlife officials, they have demonstrated that theprocess also rids potted plants of the frogs. That allowsreforestation efforts to proceed without risk of spreadingthe non-native frogs, which annoy human residents withnoisy chirping and could pose a threat to native species.

Cross golf with lawn bowling…

To develop a Hawaiian take on a traditional game, fiveUH staffers thought outside the box, literally. Bocce

ball is played on a rectangular packed clay court withraised edges. The patent-pending Hawaiian Rules version(H.R. Bocce) allows play on any size or shape lawn oreven miniature fairways complete with sand traps andwater features. Developers from the College of TropicalAgriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) conceived thegame as a secondary use of the rolling patch of grassused for UH turf man-agement classes.

“Our idea was toincorporate golfelements in an activitythat could be playednear resort concessionsor around clubhouses,”says Joe DeFrank.“There’s a lot of turfgrass in Hawaiian land-scapes with nothing hap-pening on it. With H.R.Bocce, a relatively small

area can provide a great deal of fun.” Players roll or tosssoftball-sized two-pound balls toward a target ball,gaining points by getting the closest. Landscaping—slopes, ornamental plants, even trees—add to the chal-lenge. The developers envision licensed courts used forteam building exercises, keiki activities and charitableevents. “We call it our field of dreams,” says DeFrank,who grew up playing bocce ball with his father in NewJersey. It’s fulfilled one of his dreams. With the home-turf advantage, he finally beat his dad at the game. Formore information, call 808 956-5698 or [email protected].

Who will be an entrepreneur?

Chance and opportunity may be more important thanpersonality or drive in predicting who will become

an entrepreneur. Five years after UH Hilo Professor ofManagement Emmeline de Pillis surveyed individuals tofind out how likely they were to start a business, studentAudrey Idomoto revisited the participants. Those whohad started businesses had originally rated themselves asvery unlikely to do so. Further, she found no significantpersonality differences between them and the non-en-trepreneurs.

The master mime speaks at UH

UH awarded French mimeMarcel Marceau the Doctor of

Human Letters in November forhis lifetime of work in the arts.Regent and Honorary Consul toFrance Patricia Lee, right, assistedin the hooding ceremony.Observing that “art can beexplained only when you see it,”the still agile Marceau demon-strated some of the 42 positionsfor the “conventions of character” that comprise thealphabet of the ancient art form he revived.

Cholesterol less of a worry for elderly

Very low cholesterol may not be such a good thingfor people over age 70. In a study of 3,500

Japanese-American men age 71–93, UH researchersfound that the men with the lowest cholesterol had thehighest mortality rates. High blood cholesterol remains ahealth risk for people under 65 years of age, however,stresses Professor of Medicine Irwin Schatz, who con-ducted the study with colleagues at the Honolulu HeartProgram, a long-term project funded by the NationalInstitutes of Health at the Kuakini Medical Center.

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Study disputes link between TV watch-ing and violent behavior

Television violence had little connection with aggres-sive behavior in a study conducted by UH Hilo

Assistant Professor of Sociology Thom Curtis. Using the1976 National Survey of Children and two follow-up sur-veys, Curtis analyzed the quantity and content of TVwatching by 1,126 children at ages 6–11 and their behav-ior as teens and adults. There was little or no relationshipbetween TV viewing and later violence toward people orproperty. However, there was a strong relationship be-tween witnessing or being the victim of family violenceas a child and acting violently as a teen or adult. For moreinformation, see Curtis’s article, beginning on page 9 ofthe National Council on Family Relations’ Family Focuspublication at www.ncfr.com/pdf/Focus_M20011.pdf.

Rewriting the water rules

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) haslong measured the presence of certain bacteria to

test for sewage contamination of water. But UHresearchers have demonstrated that the indicator bacte-ria—fecal coliform, E. coli, enterococci—live in O‘ahusoils and can wash into waterways even when no sewageis present. Water Resources Research Center scientistsfinally convinced EPA to hold a workshop in Honolulu toreview the data. Participating experts from around theworld agreed that EPA water quality standards aren’treliable here. UH researchers are testing whether thesame holds true on Kaua‘i and Hawai‘i while EPA officialsreconsider tropical water quality standards.

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Daniel Suthers

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HONORED Manoa Professor RogerFujioka, American Water WorksAssociation’s George Warren FullerAward; Hilo Professor of ManagementHank Hennessey, Society for HumanResources Management ResearchAward; Manoa Professor of NursingJillian Inouye with the Anna M.Shannon Mentorship Award from theWestern Institute of Nursing; KTUHRadio General Manager Lori Ann Saekiwith a Scripps Howard FoundationMost Valuable Staffer award; ManoaAssociate Professor Nancy Smith,National Organization of NursePractitioner Faculties’ OutstandingNurse Practitioner Educator award;Manoa Assistant Professor ofInformation and Computer ScienceDaniel Suthers, National ScienceFoundation CAREER award; ManoaAssistant Professor of SociologyGuobin Yang, the Outstanding RecentContribution award from the AmericanSociology Association’s Sociology ofEmotion Section.

ELECTED Professor of Law Ron Brownto the International Society for LaborLaw and Social Security executiveboard; Director of Distributed Learningand User Services Hae Okimoto to theAmerican Association for HigherEducation board of directors.

SELECTED Manoa Professor ChennatGopalakrishnan to the editorial boardof International Journal of WaterResources Development; Manoa plan-etary astronomer Karen Meech to theAstronomical Society of the PacificBoard of Directors; Manoa Professor ofEnglish Cristina Bacchilega for aGuggenheim Fellowship.

APPOINTED Margaret Haig, dean ofthe UH Hilo College of ContinuingEducation and Community Service;Ramsey Pedersen and Mark Silliman tobe provosts of Honolulu CC andLeeward CC, respectively; WilliamStormont, director of Mauna Kea man-agement with responsibility for theMauna Kea Science Reserve; AlanTeramura, director of the Harold A.Lyon Arboretum.

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This canoe makes the mold

Marine Education and Training Center students atHonolulu CC have created a 52-foot mold for mak-

ing double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoes. UH Hilo’sHawaiian Language College commissioned the mold tobuild Hokualaka‘i, a voyaging canoe. The PolynesianVoyaging Society and Friends of the Hokule‘a andHawai‘iloa assisted with design and resources. Themold—the first for a canoe this size—will be available toother educational, cultural and community groups. Whilethe construction technique isn’t traditional, UHH’s ChadBaybayan says use of aresin/fiberglass skinover a foam core pre-serves the native forestwhile providing a canoethat is more durable,less expensive and eas-ier to maintain.

Honolulu CC InstructorRobert Perkins withmold for canoe hull

Regents’ Medal Recipients for 2001

Excellence in TeachingDana Bekeart, professor of philosophy, Kaua‘i CC

Kent (Kim) Bridges, associate professor of botany,Manoa

A. Didrick Castberg, professor of political science,Hilo

Harry Davis, associate professor in naturalscience/chemistry, Kapi‘olani CC

Rowena Fong, associateprofessor of social work,Manoa

E. Dean Garrett, profes-sor of English, LeewardCC, and coordinator ofthe Wai‘anae educationcenter

David Hanlon, professorof history, Manoa

John Hardman, profes-sor of pathology, Manoa

Mikahala Helm, assistantprofessor in counselingand guidance/studentservices, Maui CC

Chris Iijima, assistantprofessor of law anddirector of pre-admis-sions program, Manoa

Wei-Ling Landers, in-structor of mathematics,Windward CC

Carolyn Lee, instructor inspeech, Hawai‘i CC

Karen Umemoto, assistant professor of urban andregional planning, Manoa

Robert Vericker, assistant professor in administra-tion of justice, Honolulu CC

Excellence in Research Full Professor Level

Nina Etkin, professor of anthropology, Manoa

Michael Landry, professor of oceanography,Manoa

Associate Professor Level

Maqsudul Alam, associate professor of microbiol-ogy, Manoa

Head UH baseball coach for31 years, Les Murakami,received the 2001 WillardWilson Award for service tothe university. Before step-ping down last year, hiscareer encompassed sixconference titles, a second-place College World Seriesfinish, 16 all-Americanbaseball players and induc-tion into the AmericanBaseball Coaches Hall ofFame. Rainbow Stadium,the award-winning facilityhis teams’ success helpedbuild, will bear his name.

Fish-eye view—Hawai‘i Sea Grant researchers successfullyused giant sea cages to grow thousands of moi, favoredfish of traditional Hawaiian fishpond aquaculture. The 50-by 80-foot conical sea cage is made of steel and NASA-developed mesh designed to withstand 25-foot waves. Itwas moored 40 feet below the surface two miles off the‘Ewa O‘ahu shore. Researchers predict open-ocean maricul-ture could become a $100-million-a-year industry.

UH tackles disaster management

Even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack focused atten-tion on rescue and recovery, UH programs and profes-

sors were addressing disaster management.✱ A new, graduate certificate program offered by the

Manoa College of Social Sciences takes a multi-discipli-nary approach. Faculty from UH and other agenciestrain students to play a professional role in disastermanagement, humanitarian assistance and interna-tional peacekeeping. Topics include contextual issues aswell as psycho-social responses and logistics. CallAnthony Marsella, 808 956-6701 or Ann Sakaguchi, 808 956-3265 or e-mail [email protected].

✱ Maui CC will provide disaster management trainingopportunities in cooperation with the Maui HighPerformance Computing Center, Pacific Disaster Centerand other institutions. Internet courses will lead to anassociate degree. Contact Robert Converse at808 984-3447 or [email protected].

✱ Gary Helfand and Ross Prizzia, of the UH West O‘ahupublic administration faculty, discuss emergency pre-paredness and disaster management in Hawai‘i in theSummer 2001 issue of Disaster Preparedness andManagement: An International Journal. Their articledescribes interagency coordination at the federal, state,county and community level to improve disaster andemergency response capability.

RANKED UH as 15th in the world on an Education

Guardian list of 41 top physical science research institu-

tions, just behind Yale and ahead of Stanford; UH as hav-

ing the best Indian philosophy program and the

third-best Chinese philosophy program in the English-

speaking world by Blackwell Publishers.

RECEIVED Renewal of the Native Hawaiian

Leadership Project scholarship program with $4.4 mil-

lion in funding from the U.S. Department of Education; A

$675,000 NASA grant to develop educational opportu-

nities in astronomy in kindergarten through college.

HOSTED Japan’s Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako

for the 50th anniversary in Hawai‘i of the Urasenke

school of tea ceremony,

marked by a $1 million gift

from Grand Tea Master Sen

Soshitsu XV; An international

conservation biology

symposium at UH Hilo

attended by 1,200 scientists

from 40 countries; The first

Trans-Pacific Conference

on Business and Economics involving UH Hilo and a con-

sortia of Taiwan universities.

PUBLISHED A special issue of Asian Perspectives on

archaeology in Burma, co-edited by UHM faculty mem-

bers Miriam Stark and Michael Aung-Thwin; Hawai‘i’s

Russian Adventure: New Look at Old History, by UHH

Professor Peter Richard Mills; The Philippines: Story of a

Nation, a high school and college workbook, by Manoa

alum Grace Mateo and the Center for Southeast Asian

Studies; Public Administration: Cases in Managerial

Role-Playing, a textbook by UHH Associate Professor of

Political Science Bob Watson; A Trauma Artist: Tim

O’Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam, by Manoa

Associate Professor of English Mark Heberle.

DONATED $1 million from Walter and Diane Dods to

fund scholarships with preference for children of immi-

grants; A $2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds

Foundation to develop a curriculum in geriatrics for all

medical students and residents.

OPENED The Imaginarium multi-media facility at

Windward CC; Grades K–6 at Nawahıokalani‘opu‘u


R E P O R T S

SIGNED A contract worth up to $181 million over 10

years to manage the Maui Supercomputing Center for

the Air Force Research Laboratory; Lease agreements

for development of the Faulkes Telescope at the summit

of Haleakala on Maui for education and outreach and

with the Hawai‘i Health Systems Corporation to operate

Le‘ahi Hospital complex.

ESTABLISHED A Manoa PhD in music program

approved by the National Association of Schools of Music

with emphasis in composition, music education or ethno-

musicology; A certificate in healthcare administration

offered in conjunction

with UH West O‘ahu’s

bachelor in public admin-

istration degree; The

Hawai‘i Music Institute,

offering non-credit cours-

es in various aspects of

the music business, at

Windward CC; A student

travel prize for philoso-

phy undergraduates by UHM Professor Roger Ames in

memory of a colleague.

ONLINE A School of Travel Industry Management dis-

tance learning graduate certificate for travel industry

managers.

IN RESIDENCE Author Scott C. S. Stone to consult

about writing with students, faculty and community

members at UH Hilo.

RECENT UH DISCOVERIESCloned mice aren’t perfect copies of the original,

with abnormalities that may result from faulty DNA

methylation, a non-genetic modification of one of the

four building blocks of genetic material, according to

researchers led by Professor Ryuzo Yanagimachi. (Genesis,

Vol. 30, Issue 2, and Science, July 5, 2001)

Like toothpaste pressed from the tube, some islands form

when a dense layer of oceanic crust and mantle slides

over a thinner continental layer, forcing the under layer

to thin and ooze through cracks in the heavier crust

according to a new theory developed by Hawai‘i

Institute of Geophysics and Planetology researchers.

(Nature, June 21, 2001)

School, a component

of the UH Hilo Ka Haka

‘Ula O Ke‘elikolani

College of Hawaiian

Language.

HONORED Manoa

Professor of English Mary-Elisabeth Tobin’s 1999 book

Picturing Imperial Power with a Historians of British Art

best book award; The television documentary The

Japanese American Saga, co-produced by the Smithsonian

Institution in association with UH West O‘ahu’s Center for

Labor Education and Research, with the United

States–Japan Foundation Cornerstone Prize.

ACCREDITED Manoa’s bachelor’s and master’s degree

nursing programs by the Commission on Collegiate

Nursing Education and National League of Nursing

Accrediting Commission; The College of Tropical

Agriculture and Human Resources’ undergraduate

Didactic Program in Dietetics, cited as one of the best in

the nation, by the American Dietetic Association; The

School of Architecture by the National Architectural

Accrediting Board; The College of Education by the

National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher

Education.

BOOSTED UH Manoa student-run radio station KTUH’s

signal with a new 3,000-watt radio tower.

SCHEDULED An international think tank on sustain-

able tourism to be hosted by the School of Travel Industry

Management in spring 2002.

WON The Intercollegiate Sailing Association North

American Women’s National Championship by the UH

Wahine sailing team.

Japanese royals at Coconut Island

Photo: Mikki O’Phelan

Meteorologist Shang Ping Xie has demonstrated that

surface winds react to sea surface temperature vari-

ations as small as a few tenths of a degree, indicating

that climate sensitivity is much higher than originally

thought. (Science, June 15, 2001)

Hawai‘i’s black coral fishery has been sustainable for the

past 40 years, oceanographer Richard Grigg reports, but

more stringent regulation may be needed as techno-

logical advances increase the potential harvest. (Pacific

Science, July 2001)

An international team, including several members of the

High Energy Physics Group, observed differences in the

behavior of matter and antimatter created in Japan’s

KEKB particle accelerator, showing

with near certainty that the uni-

verse is not symmetric. (Lepton

Photo 01 International Physics

Conference, July 23, 2001)

Oceanographers found that the

deep sea is teeming with organisms

that produce natural fertilizers,

including a previously unknown

group of bacteria that convert

atmospheric nitrogen to a form

that can be used by other organisms. (Nature, Aug. 9,

2001)

Detailed observation of helium cobwebs between galax-

ies and stars observed by NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectro-

scopic Explorer satellite bolster theories about the archi-

tecture of the early expanding universe according to

a team that included Astronomers Antoinette Songaila

Cowie and Lennox Cowie. (Science, Aug. 10, 2001)

Nitrogen-fixingmicrorganism

Photo: Dennis Oda

Windward’s imaginarium dome

Winning Wahine sailors

Shamisen lessons


Everywhere David Burneyexplored in his quest tocontinue the paleontologywork of Smithsonian scien-

tists on Kaua‘i, the residents toldhim the same thing—he needed totalk to Pila. “It was clear I wasn’tgoing to work on this island withouthis OK,” the Fordham Universityprofessor recalls with a grin.

Pila is the nickname of Kaua‘iCC Emeritus Professor WilliamKikuchi, who has done archaeologi-cal research on the Garden Islandsince 1958. The two scientistsformed a warm friendship and pro-ductive partnership. “We both lovethe field, we love what we do and welove playing in the mud,” Kikuchijests. “We don’t do it for the moneyor the fame…although a little famewould be nice.” Fame of a sort ar-rived last fall—in a segment on theNova television series on evolution

and an article printed in EcologicalMonographs.

Beyond the golf course at Po‘ipu,just off the horse trail, beneath waterand layers of clay and sand inside anancient sinkhole called Makauwahi,the pair have discovered plant andanimal fossils that are changing whatis known about prehistory Kaua‘i.“This is the Olduvai Gorge or La BreaTar Pits of Hawai‘i,” exclaims Burney.“We keep finding things. We coulddig here forever.” Findings includeunexpected plants, land crabs andflightless birds that grazed like goats(see box). “It really was wild, almostbeyond imagining,” says Burney.“This is Kaua‘i’s real lost world.”

Several hundred thousand yearsago, fluctuating sea levels depositedground up coral on the south shoreof Kaua‘i. The sand recrystalized in adune field. Fresh water flowing be-tween the dunes and the underlyinglava hollowed out one of Hawai‘i’sfew limestone caves. Sea levels roseagain, flooding the cave with seawater about 7,000 years ago. Parts ofthe cave roof collapsed, cutting offthe sea, and by the 13th century thesinkhole had become a freshwater

Discovering Kaua‘i’s Real ‘Lost World’by Cheryl Ernst

The site is unusual because itprovides both a well-preserved andcontinuous record, like the pages ofa diary. The clay that discouragedearlier pot hunters and fossil seekersdidn’t deter Burney. He used a cor-ing technique to sample various sec-tions of the cave and sinkhole floors.

Results were tantalizing, but it takeshard labor and heavy duty waterpumps to reach the paleontologicalgold that lies below the naturalwater table.

“Pila got his anthropology groupinvolved. Right from the beginning,Kaua‘i Community College gave usthe momentum to get going,”Burney says. Students, alumni,school groups and community mem-bers help shovel clay, shift rocks andsift muck in search of artifacts andfossils that can range from a 16th ofan inch to a foot in length. One reg-ular is Kikuchi’s wife Dolly. “I wasnever very interested in birds. Now Ican find the toe bone of an extinctowl and know what it is,” she says.

Another volunteer is MargeFerguson, an accountant whose in-terest in archaeology led her toKikuchi’s class in 1998. She went tothe Makauwahi dig, got hooked andwound up involved in Na MalamaMaha‘ulepu, which raises funds andpromotes efforts to preserve the areathat includes the cave. The effortrequires diplomacy. The researcherswork with the island’s burial councilto ensure that human remainsknown to be in remote recesses ofthe cave remain undisturbed. Theyalso coordinate their activities withGrove Farm, which holds title to the

sinkhole and surrounding land.Certain that the effort is worth-

while, Burney has convinced theNational Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration, Smithsonian Institu-tion, National Science Foundationand National Geographic Society toprovide funding over the past nineyears. Now 30 feet down in the cen-ter of the sinkhole and having exam-ined 300 cubic yards of earth, he’sobtained thousands of specimensdating as far back as 10,000 years. Heestimates scientists could work thesite for another 100 years or more.

Burney’s wants to understand thepast. By the end of the Polynesianperiod, nearly all the birds were gonefrom the lowlands, snails were disap-pearing and the land crabs hadsteadily diminishing claws. Was itthe effect of over-exploitation andHawaiians’ introduction of dogs,pigs, rats and burn agriculture tech-

niques that turned forests into grass-lands? How did the arrival of theEuropeans with so many non-nativeplants and animals influence theextinction of most remaining nativespecies? “I want to reconstruct thelandscape, looking at bones, pollen,seeds and artifacts. At Maha‘ulepu,you have it all together in one site,”he says.

But Burney also considers himselfa futurist—someone who would“like to see society get safely past thepresent.” To that end, his work couldbolster restoration efforts.Demonstrating that species such asthe Laysan duck and ‘Io, orHawaiian hawk, existed on Kaua‘isuggests that reintroduction from theLaysan Islands and Island of Hawai‘i,respectively, might be appropriate.Discovery that the kou tree arrived inHawai‘i even before the Polynesianssupports it as a viable indigenous

lake and natural fish pond. Sedimentgradually turned the lake into aswamp, creating a 15-foot layer ofpeat-like material full of shells andbones. A tsunami deposited a layer ofrock, sand and Polynesian artifactsabout 350 to 400 years ago. Sand

from over-grazed dunes blew in dur-ing the era of European contact.Finally, erosion from the draining ofa nearby pond during the 1950stopped it all with a 6-foot layer ofclay, sealing off what Burney calls a“poor man’s time machine.”

Discoveries at Makauwahi

Fossil remains of 40–50 types of birds, most extinct

or near extinction, have been identified at the

sinkhole. Some have augmented finds by famed

Smithsonian ornithologists Storrs Olson and Helen

James on nearby but less well-preserved dunes. Others

represent new species. Among the finds—

❂ The endangered Laysan duck

❂ A flightless, Kaua‘i goose

❂ The turtle-jawed moa-nalo bird

❂ A long-legged owl that probably fed on other birds

❂ A little duck with tiny eyes, a flat skull and tiny

wings that probably fed on forest insects at night

❂ A new species of bat

❂ Seed pods and pollen from kanaloa, whose two

known surviving plants cling to Kaho‘olawe cliffs

❂ Canoe fragments and pipipi picks

Kaua‘i CC’s Pila Kikuchi hopes to pre-serve island artifacts

The rich site has

yielded 10,000-

year-old specimens

With help from Kaua‘i CC, visiting scientist David Burneyhas unearthed important plant and animal finds below thewater table in an ancient cave

Laysan duck

Turtle-jawed moa-nalo

Bird-catching owl

The researchers

hope to recreate

past landscapes

Drawings by Julian Hume

them—are being overlooked in thecourts’ fervor to outlaw race con-sciousness.

“The majority of the justices saythat to analyze historical and currentracial differences can actually dam-age the nation’s interest in racialharmony,” he says. “The court ismistaken. We are seeing more, notless, interracial tension acrossAmerica.” The anger it generatesexists in areas like housing, educa-tion, business and law. Because thecourts turn a blind eye, old woundsremain open.

“Racial discrimination isn’t moti-vated purely by racial dislike, butmore by self-interest and past ac-tions,” Yamamoto explains. “Wehave to find out what justice griev-ances lie beneath the surface of theimmediate conflict and set abouthealing the wounds.”

To do that, Yamamoto proposesa four-point framework of racialconciliation—recognition, responsi-bility, reconstruction and repara-tions. “It’s not a magic formula. It’s amethod and a language for askingquestions and moving the processforward. People have to learn how todo this. It’s going to take some disci-plined and serious work.” The

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ocial Justice: Eric Yamamoto cre-ates a framework for conciliation

Anger and confusion about racehas been called America’s numberone problem. UH law professor EricYamamoto thinks so. He’s seensome Americans retaliate againstfellow citizens of Arabic heritage intheir anger over the September ter-rorist attack on the United States.He fears that strict national securitymeasures could trample on civilliberties. He knows it’s happenedbefore—to Japanese Americans dur-ing World War II.

For 15 months during the early’80s, Yamamoto volunteered on thelegal team attempting to overturnthe wartime internment convictionof Fred Korematsu. The team suc-ceeded, and that decision along witha 1987 case swept out the legalfoundation of the WWII SupremeCourt decision that justified intern-ment as military necessity. As a re-sult, Congress passed the 1988 CivilLiberties Act, which called for apresidential apology and reparationsfor Japanese Americans who hadbeen interned. Yamamoto receivedthe Korematsu Civil Rights Awardfor his efforts. The lesson: “We mustnot scapegoat other people. BothU.S. citizens and our courts need tobe vigilant about protecting civilliberties while addressing genuinethreats to national security.”

Yamamoto addresses that topicin his books, Race, Rights andReparation: Law and the Japanese-American Internment and InterracialJustice: Conflict and Reconciliation inPost-Civil Rights America. The latter,named one of the top 10 books onhuman rights, social justice and civilrights published in North America,deals with interracial discrimina-tion—one group using social, eco-nomic or political structures to sub-ordinate another. The wounds suchdiscrimination inflicts—interracialjustice grievances, Yamamoto calls

Two UH professors challenge the status quo to help

individuals and right entrenched wrongs

forestry crop. Evidence that the fra-grant Zanthoxylum tree now foundin Koke‘e once grew at lower eleva-tions expands the range where reintroduction is feasible.

Speaking to volunteers and com-munity leaders on Kaua‘i earlier thisyear, Burney concluded with aninvitation: “Pitch in with us to en-sure that these resources will alwaysbe here for the people of Hawai‘i.”

For information on the sinkholeproject, group tours or volunteeropportunities, contact Kaua‘i CC’sShirley Tani at 808 245-8377 [email protected].

Cheryl Ernst is creative services director andMalamalama editor

After helping win reparations forJapanese Americans interned duringWorld War II, Eric Yamamoto hasturned his attention to racial reconcil-iation

Talking about racial

justice can only make

our country stronger

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Iron nails,goat teeth

Hawaiianartifacts

Bird bones,land crabsand snailshells

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A Kaua‘i DiaryLayers of earth in the Makauwahisinkhole digs record life on theislands for the past 10,000 years

Vegetation

Clay

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by Jennifer Crites

Preserving the past on the island

Abrush with prostate cancer last year got William “Pila”

Kikuchi thinking about his own mortality and the future of

the archaeological data produced by surveys and excavations

on Kaua‘i. Both materials and documentation should be preserved

for future education and research on the island where they were

found or made, Kikuchi concluded. With the support of Kaua‘i CC,

Kikuchi proposed raising funds to build an archaeological archival

storage center to be available to researchers, integrated into cultural

and scientific courses and used for public exhibits. The project advi-

sory board includes paleoecologist David Burney, who is conducting

research at 12 Kaua‘i sites; veteran Bishop Museum archaeologist

Yoshihiko Sinoto; Hallett Hammatt and William Folk of Cultural

Surveys Hawai‘i; and Martha Yent from the state parks department’s

Historical Sites Division. For more information on the project, contact

Shirley Tani at 808 245-8377 or [email protected].

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series and contributing to theAmerican Medical Association’shandbook on sexual problems.

A few years ago, Diamond’s in-vestigation of what he calls the“John/Joan case” thrust him into thelimelight. The 1960s case involved a7-month-old twin whose penis wasseverely burned by the electrocauteryinstrument used during circumci-sion. The boy’s parents contactedpsychologist John Money, a leader inthe field of gender identity at JohnsHopkins University, who counseledthem to raise their son as a girl.Money believed a child’s sexual iden-tity is determined by the appearanceof the genitals and the child’s up-bringing. “It’s the nature/nurturedebate,” says Diamond. “Nurtureadvocates believe that if you’re raised(figuratively) in a blue room youbecome a boy and in a pink room, agirl. The only problem is, that the-ory doesn’t work.”

The child underwent surgery toremove his testes and fashion femalegenitals. His parents were instructedto raise him unambiguously as a girl.In journal articles and a book,Money described behavior “so nor-mally that of an active little girl andso clearly different by contrast fromthe boyish ways of her twin

brother.” Time magazine reportedthe experiment “has apparently suc-ceeded.” Skeptical, Diamond calledfor evidence in various publications.

The medical establishment em-braced Money’s conclusions. Surgicalreassignment of sex for a variety ofreasons, including cases where thepenis was considered too small (lessthan 2.5 centimeters), became stan-dard medical practice. Diamond keptdigging. In 1994 he contacted BritishColumbia psychiatrist Keith


Tweaking Traffic with Technologyby Neal Iwamoto

In his 21 years as an O‘ahu taxi driver,

John Parker has endured his share

of traffic jams. Particularly frustrat-

ing has been transporting passengers

who need to be at the airport 10 min-

utes ago. But that was before Parker

discovered a cooperative government

Web site that lets him navigate

O‘ahu’s crowded roadways. With a

Sony laptop in his 1987 Chevrolet

Caprice station wagon, Parker uses his

wireless internet connection to access

a traffic camera site that allows him to

view real-time traffic conditions on all

of O‘ahu’s major roadways.

“If there is a jam I can see it ahead

of time and not blindly go onto the

freeway and become part of the

problem,” Parker says. “I can view the

alternatives and choose the route that

ultimately makes a difference for a

person who has got to catch a flight.”

The site has helped thousands of

island drivers like Parker since it was

developed more that five years ago

by UH Professor of Civil Engineering

C. S. Papacostas. It’s one of the ways

that UH Manoa professors are using

today’s technology in the battle for

better traffic flow.

Traffic on Hawai‘i roadways began

a century ago when the first car was

brought to the islands by Henry

Baldwin in 1899. Fifteen years later,

the first comprehensive traffic ordi-

nance was passed by the territorial

Legislature.

“Congestion has been around for

a long while and will continue to be

around,” Papacostas asserts. His goal

is to stop it from getting much worse.

His Web site doesn’t provide a cure-all

to traffic problems—it won’t clear

gridlock caused by a multiple-car acci-

dent or watermain break—but it does

give people, at the very least, the

power of information.

“Psychologically, people believe

that they are gaining control,”

Papacostas notes. “If people know

that they will be heading into traffic

they’ll take it easier than if they were

surprised.”

The City and County of Honolulu

put up cameras six years ago to iden-

tify traffic incidents and to monitor

signals. It was Papacostas who sug-

gested giving the information directly

to the public. Since he launched his

site in 1996, the number of cameras

has grown from 8 to nearly 100. The

site receives about a quarter-million

hits per week, although a fair share

comes from visitors abroad trying to

get a glimpse of the “tropical par-

adise.” Papacostas has also cre-

ated a similar site for the H-3

freeway.

The U.S. Postal Service

and commercial bus

companies have relied

on the site to keep

things running on sched-

ule. Downtown workers log on to

help plan their commute home.

Visitors also monitor weather condi-

tions; the site is a handy tool for mo-

courts should encourage discussionsabout racial justice grievances, butthe law itself is too narrow, so mostof the process must take place out-side a legal context, he says.

Surprising words from a lawyer,but Yamamoto didn’t plan to enterlaw when he majored in humanisticstudies in UH’s experimental ’70sNew College. The turbulent times—Vietnam war protests, the break-down of communities, stirrings ofthe Native Hawaiian movement—and discussions with his father, aUH professor who taught race rela-tions, profoundly influenced thethoughtful young man immersed inNietzsche and Zen Buddhism. Hedecided to study law at Berkeley’sBoalt Hall to “shape how communi-ties would be.” After the Korematsucase, Yamamoto joined a Hawai‘ilaw firm. He also served on theboards of the Legal Aid Society ofHawai‘i and the Native HawaiianLegal Corporation and was counselto Alu Like and the Women’s HealthCenter. In 1985, he joined the UHlaw school faculty. He’s assistedNative Hawaiian Homelands trustbeneficiaries, sovereignty activistsand the Spark M. MatsunagaInstitute for Peace. He’s received theUH Presidential Citation forExcellence in Teaching twice andbeen named Outstanding Professorof Law three times. This spring, hewill hold the Haywood Burns Chairfor Civil Rights at the CityUniversity of New York.

Yamamoto prefers to remain inthe background. “Sometimes havingless of a profile makes it easier tohelp people accomplish their goals,”he says. Still, he hopes his frameworkwill get people talking to each otherabout racial justice. “It can onlymake our country stronger,” he says.

edical Change: Milton Diamondchallenges gender reassignment

As a UH professor of anatomyand reproductive biology, MiltonDiamond teaches neuroanatomyand sexology. But his internationalnotoriety resulted from what he calls

Like spot surgery,

small adjustments

can give consider-

able benefit

a simple search for evidence.“Some people think there has to

be something strange about me tostudy sex,” says Diamond, who di-rects the medical school’s PacificCenter for Sex and Society and lec-tures worldwide. “Personally, I won-der why more people aren’t studyingsex. It’s so intrinsic to so many as-pects of our lives.”

A graduate of Bronx HighSchool of Science and collegeROTC, Diamond pursued anatomy,endocrinology and experimentalpsychology at the University ofKansas. In 1967 colleagues askedhim to help start UH’s John A.Burns School of Medicine.Diamond and his wife thought theislands would be a good place toraise their four daughters. He foundit a good place to work—writingseveral books, developing PBS’saward-winning “Human Sexuality”

UH road remedies offer drivers some relief

Milton Diamond’s stand on infant sexreassignment changed medical prac-tice and brought continuing interna-tional attention to his studies of sexand gender

I expected them to throw

rocks at me—I told them

what they’d been doing for

40 years was wrong

—Milton Diamond

Above: Quiet road warriors in thetraffic battle, UH civil engineers PanosPrevedouros, left, and C. S.Papacostas work to keep congestionfrom getting worseContinued on page 16

14 Malamalama

Simulation programs predict the effectiveness of road changes. Automated counters extract accurate data from traffic cameras. Automated signage shows an express bus’ progress. Web sites show current traffic conditions and track TheBus.

torcycle enthusiasts who want to rev

up their bikes for a weekend ride.

Papacostas maintains a traffic

information page on the Web,

http://trafficam.hawaii.edu, which

links to the city’s cameras and traffic

cams operated by the state

Department of Transportation (DOT)

along H-3. His latest project is another

Web site that tells city bus patrons

when their ride is coming. Via a

Global Positioning System and

modem, his new site, http://cityex-

press.hawaii.edu, tracks the city bus

throughout its entire route. His

Transit AVL (automatic vehicle loca-

tion) system is being tested with the

Route B city express bus that runs

between Middle Street and Waikıkı.

Colleague Panos Prevedouros also

uses traffic cams and the latest com-

puter technology in a search for ways

to alleviate traffic, particularly on H-1.

The associate professor of civil engi-

neering enters hours of footage from

traffic cams along the freeway into

Autoscope, a vision device that mea-

sures the volume and speed of cars.

Gone are the days of manually count-

ing cars in the field. With Autoscope,

Prevedouros and his researchers can

accurately identify the bottlenecks on

H-1 during peak traffic hours.

Prevedouros then transfers the

data into a computer simulation pro-

gram. “We can look at all types of

solutions—cheap solutions, expensive

solutions—without going out and

building anything at all,” Prevedouros

says. “We can see it all from the com-

puter played in real time.”

He likens his work to spot surgery,

“adding a short lane here or an auxil-

iary stretch there. These are small

treatments but they have the poten-

tial to give considerable benefit.”

For the last five years, Prevedouros

has been studying freeway traffic

flow between Koko Head Avenue and

Middle Street under a DOT contract.

His simulations analyze the potential

effects of ramp closures, identifying

which closures yield benefits to free-

way flow without being detrimental

to the flow on adjacent streets.

A full-scale, two-week ramp clo-

sure was tested in the fall of 1997,

Avoiding traffic trauma

UH Professor of Psychology Leon James has testifiedbefore Congress and provided expert comment in

more than 900 national and international media reportson the cultural phenomenon called road rage. Herecently co-authored the book Road Rage andAggressive Driving: Steering Clear of Highway Warfarewith UH Associate Professor of Information ScienceDiane Nahl. In his surveys, close to 90 percent of dri-vers admit to driving with rage. Aggressive drivinghabits may be ingrained, but James says attitudes and habits can bealtered. Here are his suggestions—

✱ Leave early. The difference between regular traffic and congestedtraffic is small—about 20 percent. Leaving 6 1⁄2 minutes earlier couldmake all the difference in an average 32-minute commute.

✱ Be a supportive driver. Viewing driving as teamwork instead of acompetition makes everyone move faster.

✱ Create quality driving circles—small, informal citizen groups thatmeet regularly in congested neighborhoods.

✱ Change new driver education, as California has, to teach emotionalintelligence and how to behave as passengers, deal with hostilityand sustain a positive driving philosophy.

✱ Form CARR, Children Against Road Rage. Remind parents thatemotional reactions influence children in the back seat.

For more information, visit www.aloha.net/~dyc

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when the west-bound Lunalilo Street

on-ramp was closed for a few hours

during the morning peak period. The

closure benefited commuters, Preve-

douros found. While the state has yet

to implement any regular closures,

traffic laws were recently passed

paving the way for it in the future.

Ultimately, Prevedouros searches

for simple, efficient solutions. “Some

say traffic congestion is a self-limiting

problem,” Prevedouros says. “When

congestion gets very bad people find

a way around it. However, I believe

that once you have a freeway system

you have to learn how to operate

and manage it.”

The growing population in

Central and West O‘ahu will call for

special measures, including adding a

lane near the downtown areas, he

says. He is also concerned with cur-

rent management of roads, paying

close attention to accident conditions

when lane closures turn traffic into a

virtual standstill. “The street level of

service is quite poor for our popula-

tion size. That has a lot to do with

our management of roads.”

Prevedouros is studying the suit-

ability of installing traffic detectors

along Hawai‘i freeways, rural high-

ways and arterial streets, an effort to

improve road management funded

by DOT and the Federal Highway

Training keeps Hawai‘i movingUH students are on the road, in

the air and on the sea—learning

to operate and maintain the vehi-

cles that transport everyone,

everyday.

Several programs help keep

traffic flowing. The Leeward CC

Office of Continuing Education

and Training (OCET) certifies, eval-

uates and re-evaluates drivers for

commercial vehicles including

trucks and busses. Among the

offerings are state-mandated

evaluation and training for people

who operate commercial vehicles over 1,000 pounds. (OCET also of-

fers classes in forklift, backhoe and loader operation.)

Continued on next page

Administration. Such detectors would

provide data necessary for both long-

term planning and real-time manage-

ment of roadway traffic. Inexpensive

acoustic, infrared, magnetic, radar,

ultrasonic and video detectors can be

used to automate collection of infor-

mation, such as 15-minute averages

of volume, speed and classification of

vehicles. Prevedouros and his team

select a handful of devices for field

testing out of the more than 100

available. Based on actual perfor-

mance in Hawai‘i, they’ll identify the

most suitable and cost-effective de-

tector devices for different traffic

conditions here.

“Ultimately, our effort will help

DOT join the progressive group of

transportation departments across

the country that provide a multitude

of traffic data over the Internet,”

Prevedouros says. “These data can be

accessed by state and county engi-

neers and planners as well as private

consultants and the public at large.”

Neal Iwamoto (BA ’98 Manoa) works in UH sportsmedia relations.

Learn to build and repair boats atHonolulu CC

Technological tools merge in the effort to keep traffic flowing.


Don Hemmes distinctlyremembers when thelate Lani Stemmermantook him to a kıpuka, or

opening in the forest, along theSaddle Road on the Big Island morethan a dozen years ago. The notedHawaiian naturalist directedHemmes’s attention to small mush-rooms, telling him, “you shouldstudy these.” Hemmes took the ad-vice, and both his reputation as anauthority on Hawai‘i fungi and hisdream for a new island agriculturalindustry have, well, mushroomed.

Hemmes grew up surrounded bycornfields in Iowa. A desire to see theocean and a college professor’s sug-gestion that he seek a fellowship atUH Manoa drew him to the Hawai‘iin 1965. He earned a master’s degreein microbiology in 1967 followed bya PhD in 1970 and has taught atUH Hilo since 1973.

“As a biologist, I would see mush-rooms in the wild, but when I triedto identify them I found out thatthere were no Hawaiian mushroomsin mainland handbooks. As an edu-

Leeward also coordinates motorcycle training.

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Hawai‘i, Maui, Kaua‘i and Honolulu Community

Colleges teach the people who keep Hawai‘i’s cars

running. Automotive technology degrees and

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engine repair, electrical systems, suspension and

steering, automatic transmission, manual transmis-

sion, heating and air conditioning and brakes.

Hawai‘i CC also offers diesel mechanics.

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courses for those interested in pursuing a career as

a professional pilot,

as well as continuing

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nities and flight

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The campus also

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programs in avia-

tion maintenance

and a transfer op-

tion for a four-year degree in airway science. The

certificate prepares students to take the Federal

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tenance technicians.

A two-year Honolulu program certifies students

to build, repair and modify composite boats as

well as maintain a variety of marine electrical and

mechanical systems. The majority of the hands-on

instruction takes place at the Marine Education

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Log onto these sites for more information

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—for links to commercial aviation, aeronautic me-

chanics technology, boat maintenance and repair

and automotive mechanics technology

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www.mauicc.hawaii.edu/catalog/programs/

amt.html—for automotive technology on Maui

www.kauaicc.hawaii.edu/ocet/noncredit/

ase.htm—for automotive technology on Kaua‘i

http://web.hawcc.hawaii.edu/hawcc/

tradeindustry—for auto and diesel mechanics on

Hawai‘i.

—by Heidi Sakuma, a UH Manoa journalism and English major

The Mushroom

Manby Susan Collins

Sigmundson, in charge of John/Joan’s treatment underMoney’s direction. Sigmundson knew the sex conversionhadn’t worked. Unaware of her history, Joan had refusedto wear dresses, hated make-up and fought like a boy. Shewas banned from the girl’s restroom for standing to uri-nate. At 14, she decided to live as a male. Sigmundsonhadn’t challenged Johns Hopkins. “He thought that if itwasn’t working, it was his fault,” Diamond says.

Sigmundson put Diamond in touch with John/Joan,by then a married man struggling with psychologicalscars. In 1997 they presented their evidence in an articleon implications of sex reassignment in the Archives ofPediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. This time the medicalestablishment listened. Diamond addressed theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics. “I expected them tothrow rocks at me because I was basically telling themthat what they’d been doing for the past 40 years waswrong,” he says. Instead, 30 seconds of stunned silencegave way to applause.

“If you change someone’s gender as an infant, you’redoing something fundamental to them. As they grow upthey’re living with incongruities that don’t make anysense to them, and they have no way of dealing with theirfeelings.” Many contemplate suicide. Diamond says asmany as 200 pediatric sex reassignments were takingplace annually in theUnited States due to dam-aged or ambiguous geni-tals. About 1 child in every2,000 is born with enoughambiguity that it’s exter-nally noticeable. One inevery 100 has hidden ambiguity—XXY or other sets ofchromosomes or combinations of ovaries and testes.“Gonads produce hormones that affect the brain, and it’sour brains that tell us whether we’re male or female,” hesays. “In most cases, there’s a physical reason why indi-viduals might be unsure about their sex.”

Yet doctors must classify a child’s gender at birth.Diamond offers three guidelines—don’t do surgery basedonly on genital appearance; do follow-up studies on thesuccess of sex-reassignment; eliminate secrecy. “Yes, it’sdisturbing for someone to find out they have male chro-mosomes along with a vagina, but keeping them in thedark is disturbing, too. People could deal with the truthif told in the proper way and provided with counseling.”

Since exposing the failure of the John/Joan case,Diamond has received numerous international honorsand been interviewed on national TV. He served as presi-dent of the International Academy of Sex Research,which encompasses physicians, psychologists, sociologistsand other scientists. “You work for 40 years then you’rean overnight success,” he quips.

Jennifer Crites (AA ’90 Windward, BA ’92 UHWO) is a freelance writer inHonolulu

Don Hemmes, with field mushroomsfrom a morning’s hunt, wrote A Fieldguide to Mushrooms in Hawai‘i afterscouring the islands from seashore tomountaintops. Photos from his bookinclude Hygrocybe pakelo, left.

A Hilo professor’s

passion for fungi

could spark a new

agriculture industry

on the Big Island

Learn to fly or maintain planesat Honolulu CC

Courage continued from page 12

1 in 100 children

are born with

sexual ambiguity


upon Kalena Silva, UH Hilo profes-sor of Hawaiian studies and directorof Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikolani, theCollege of Hawaiian Language forhelp.

“We asked Kalena to come upwith proper names for the nativemushrooms,” Hemmes says. “Weshowed him pictures and told him

UH Hilo BotanicalGardens are livinglaboratories

Carved out of a once over-grown gulch along UHHilo residence halls, invit-

ing paths meander throughconifer trees in a garden estab-lished for students who hadnever seen a live pine. Plantednearby are close to a hundredspecies of cycads from as faraway as Africa, China, Northand Central America andAustralia. Some are sharp andspiky, others, soft and feathery.“They look like palms, withnames like sago or king palm,but they are in no way relatedto palms,” instructs DonHemmes. The real palms can befound in another section of thegarden, which includes a near-ly complete collection ofHawaiian loulu palms.

UH Hilo Botanical Gardensrepresent the biology profes-sor’s three decades of collect-ing and deep love of teaching.“To an educator, gardens areliving laboratories, and theseare my botany laboratories.More than 10,000 studentshave toured the gardens andlearned about the interestingplants found right on our cam-pus,” he says. A $10,000 grantfrom the James and AbigailCampbell Foundation is beingused to create gardensthroughout campus featuringHawai‘i’s native and ethnob-otanical plants. Hemmes’s goalis simple: “I want our UH HiloBotanical Gardens to be themost spectacular scientific gar-dens on the island.”

about the important features, suchas color or texture. Noelokelanicombines noe, meaning mist or fog,and lokelani, a small pink rose, torefer to this beautiful pink mush-room that grows in the rainforest.Another is pakelo, slippery like afish, because you can’t hold onto it.Lamalama is for one that glows like

cator, I thought I’d like to make afield guide for the general public. SoI took all the photos I could andwent to a mushroom conference inSan Antonio to find someone tohelp in the identifications.”

Also attending the conferencewas Dennis Desjardin, professor ofbiology and director of ThiersHerbarium at San Francisco State,the largest herbarium of mushroomswest of Mississippi. Their collabora-tion began on the spot. “We startedon the great study of mushrooms inHawai‘i. We traveled from themountaintops to the seashore onevery island. It was a lot of serendip-ity, because many mushrooms areout for just a few days, and we hadto catch them just when they wereout,” Hemmes recalls.

During seven years of NationalScience Foundation–funded identifi-cation adventures, Hemmes andDesjardin discovered that 90 percentof the mushrooms in the nativeforests are endemic, but all thespecies in the lowlands have beenintroduced. For example, guava trees,which come from South America,harbor certain introduced fungi.Other trees provide a haven formushrooms from the South Pacificand Australia. The spores, saysHemmes, most likely hitched a rideto Hawai‘i in the soil when the treeswere imported. Hallucinogenic or“magic mushrooms” probably arrivedwith cattle brought by CaptainVancouver during the 1800s.

Hemmes and Desjardin decidedto give the native species they iden-tified Hawaiian names. They called

Hawai‘i restaurants provide a potential market for locally grown gourmetmushrooms. Chefs want fresh ingredients for dishes like this salad, created by UH Associate Professor Kusuma Cooray, of Kapi‘olani CC’sCulinary Institute of the Pacific.

Shiitake Mushroom SaladServes 412 medium shiitake mushrooms 1⁄4 teaspoon olive oil1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 Maui onion, sliced into 1⁄4 inch ringssalt and black pepper to taste 2 cups fresh spinach leaves

Remove the mushroom stems. Season mushrooms with garlic, salt and pepper.Heat olive oil in sauté pan and cook the mushrooms on high heat for 2–3minutes. Remove mushrooms and cook onion rings for 1 minute. Placespinach on salad plates; arrange mushrooms and onion rings on spinach.Drizzle with dressing.

For dressing, whisk2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes1 tablespoon chopped green onion 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar1 teaspoon roasted black sesame seeds 1 tablespoon lemon juice1 tablespoon chopped red bell pepper salt to taste

The deadly Amanita marmorata con-tains liver-destroying toxin. It growsunder trees imported from Australia,such as eucalyptus, bottle brush andironwood pine.

Chlorophyllum molybdites causes themost incidents of mushroom poison-ing, sending people to the emergencyroom with intense vomiting, stomachcramps, diarrhea, etc.

Candidates for most colorful natives include the pink Hygrocybe noelokelani,left, and bright yellow-orange Hygrocybe lamalama. For a deep red variety, lookfor Hygrocybe constrictospora.

Kaua‘i’s Amanita muscaria can havecaps the size of Frisbees. Other size-able fungi include Calvatia giganteapuffballs that grow larger than bas-ketballs on Mauna Kea and table-sizeconks of Ganoderma austral in Hawai‘iVolcanoes National Park.

the sun. Some were named afterPele. We’ve given Hawaiian namesto honor the Hawaiians.”

This month, the painstakingidentification work of these mush-room men willbe publishedin A FieldGuide toMushrooms inHawai‘i (TenSpeed Press).Biologists,fungal experts,students andmushroom enthusiasts alike can useit to identify the many unique fun-gal species of Hawai‘i.

Hemmes says the mushrooms ofHawai‘i vary greatly. Some can kill ormake people violently ill if ingested.Hemmes is on call statewide to iden-tify mushrooms in suspected poison-ings. He offers frequent public edu-cation talks. “Remember, we havedeadly poisonous mushrooms inHawai‘i, so consult an expert beforeexperimenting,” he emphasizes. “Ifsomeone gets sick after eating mush-rooms, bring specimens along to theemergency room for identification.”

But there are good, edible mush-rooms here, too. Some, Hemmessays, are excellent prospects for com-mercial cultivation in the diversifiedagriculture of a post-sugar era.Mushrooms hold potential in bothgourmet food and health productindustries.

“There is considerable interest ingrowing gourmet mushrooms, likeshiitake. Hawai‘i chefs want theabsolute freshest, and what comes

from the mainland is two or threedays old,” he explains. Also, extractsfrom fungi for food and healthproduct additives are potential prod-ucts for the mycopharmaceuticalsmarket. “That has great potentialbecause we have unique mushroomshere that may have antibiotic oranti-cancer properties.”

The first step is research intolocal substrate materials suitable forgrowing mushrooms commercially.The alder and oak materials favoredon the mainland aren’t available inHawai‘i. Hemmes is trying to securegrant money to identify readilyavailable alternatives. “You need twobuildings to begin production,” hecontinues. “You need a microbiologylab to culture fungi (with a largeautoclave to sterilize the media sothat you are growing only the spe-cific fungus you want) and a crop-ping building with 80 to 90 percenthumidity where you grow and har-vest the crop.” Educational modulesare also critical—both instructionalprograms to train fungi farmers andexperimental programs so studentsand researchers can study growingtechniques, conduct market surveysand provide other support for com-mercial production.

If passion breeds success, the BigIsland will soon be sprouting withcommercial mushrooms. “I couldwork the rest of my life studyingHawaiian mushrooms,” Hemmeshappily says.

Susan Collins (’99 Hilo) is a freelance writer

Island fungi

hold potential

as gourmet

foods and

sources of new

medicines

The sago cycad is not really a palm


Compiled by Alumni Editor Mona Chock(MEd ’77, BS ’74 Manoa). UH’s 10 campus-es are Manoa, Hilo, West O‘ahu, Hawai‘i,Honolulu, Kapi‘olani, Kaua‘i, Leeward,Maui and Windward.

1940sHenry Kaoru Kawasaki (BS ’44 Manoa) isa Honolulu dentist specializing in general den-tistry. He and his wife Aiko KayashimaKawasaki have four grown children, PamelaVennen, Ben Kawasaki, Deborah Hobbs andMarcy Morita.

1950sBarbara Ann Hall (BA ’58 Manoa) isretired and living in Cameron Park, Calif. Shehas two grown children, Stacy Hall Dunn(who attended UH in 1988) and Kelly Hall.

Garrett Miyamoto (BA ’57 Manoa) is self-employed and semi-retired, living in Honoluluwith his wife and two daughters. He is amember of the UHAA Army ROTC AlumniBoard of Directors.

Mitsuo Miyatake (BEd ’57 Manoa) isretired from teaching and counseling. His wifeTokimi M. Miyatake (BEd ’57 Manoa) alsoretired from elementary school teaching.

Daniel Isotoshi Takamatsu (BS ’57Manoa) serves on the board of managers forthe Kalihi Branch YMCA and Farrington Alumniand Community Foundation and is a memberof the American Society of Civil Engineers.

1960sLinda M. Delene (MBA ’68, BA ’74Manoa) is vice provost for academic planningand assessment at Western MichiganUniversity. Delene joined the WMU faculty in1977 and has been a professor of marketingand director of the Service Quality Institutesince 1990. She received the WMU AlumniAssociation’s Teaching Excellence Award and aDistinguished Faculty Award from theMichigan Association of Governing Boards.

Ed Gayagas (BEd ’62 Manoa) is retired fromthe military and lives in ‘Aiea with his wife. Heis the immediate past president of UHAAArmy ROTC Alumni Board of Directors.

Les L. Gremett (BA ’64 Manoa) is productsupport manager for S. G. I. in Mountainview,Calif. He is a former president and boardmembers of the UHAA San Francisco Bay Areachapter. He and his wife Josephine HefnerGremett have two grown sons.

Darwin Hamamoto (BS ’66 Manoa) ispresident of the Hawai‘i GovernmentEmployees Association. He is a civil engineerfor the City and County of Honolulu’sDepartment of Design and Construction.

George Held (MA ’62 Manoa) published hisfifth collection of poems, Beyond Renewal

(Cedar Hill Publications). An associate profes-sor of English at Queens College since 1967,he is a former Fulbright lecturer inCzechoslovakia and winner of the 1999 TalentHouse Press Poetry Chapbook Award. He is anexecutive board member of the South ForkNatural History Society and co-editor of TheLedge, a poetry magazine.

Jeanne W. Hiroshige (BS ’66 Manoa) hasbeen appointed human resources manager atHawaiian Host, responsible for personneladministration and risk management. She hasworked at Sports Shinko (Hawai‘i), QueenKapi‘olani Hotel, Ocean Resort Hotel Waikıkıand Diamond Head Beach Hotel and heldpositions in state government.

Ralph Iwamoto Jr. (BS ’65 Manoa)received the UHM College of TropicalAgriculture and HumanResources 2001Outstanding AlumnusAward. A native ofMoloka‘i, he hasworked with the U. S.Department ofAgriculture for the past30 years, serving atHilo, Honolulu and John F. KennedyInternational Airports and in Guam, Jamaica,Mexico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In 1993 hewas named the first regional director for theAsia and Pacific Region, responsible for plantand animal health issues in Japan, China,Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. Heis now associate director of the APHISInternational Services Branch.

Patricia Young Lee (JD ’65 Manoa) wasappointed to the UH Board of Regents. A part-ner with the law firm Goodsill AndersonQuinn and Stifel, Lee was a UHM assistantprofessor of French before attending lawschool. She is a member of the Hawai‘i BarAssociation and Honorary Consul of France inHonolulu.

Ashok K. Malhotra (PhD ’69 Manoa), a2000 East-West Center DistinguishedAlumnus, received the2001 State Universityof New YorkDistinguished TeachingProfessorship Award.He has taught philoso-phy at SUNY Oneotasince 1967. He devel-oped the college’sstudy abroad programs in India and helpedfound the Indo-International School. He is rais-ing funds for new school construction andearthquake relief in India.

Alfred Puuloa Maneki (BA ’64 Manoa) isa mathematician with the U.S. Department ofDefense in Elkridge, Md. He is a member ofUHAA National Capitol Region chapter.

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Floyd Warren McCoy (MS ’65 , BS ’62Manoa) is a UHM graduate faculty member ingeology and geosciences and the graduatecertificate program in maritime archaeologyand history. He is also a faculty member atWindward CC. His new book VolcanicHazards and Disasters in Human Antiquityincludes papers from around the world.

Ronald K. Migita (BBA ’66 Manoa) waselected president of the Aloha Council BoyScouts of America at its annual meeting. He isa lifetime resident of Hawai‘i and vice chairand chief executive officer of City Bank.

Peter Espejo Patacsil (BS ’60 Manoa) isassociate professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Guam in Mangilao. Patacsil is amember of the Research Advisory Board,American Biographical Institute. He receivedthe Ancient Order of the Chamorri in 1978from the governor of Guam and in 1998 hereceived the California State NumismaticAssociation’s First Place Literary Award. He ismarried to Julia Elizabeth Leon-GuerreroPatacsil. They have two grown children, Peterand Catherine.

Aziz Husain Poonwala (MBA ’66 Manoa)is chief executive at Axfam Technologies inPakistan. He serves as director of SaritowSpinning Mills, Ishtiag Textile Mills and the PakCabled Limited and Nyamat MultipurposeCredit Society.

Carol Pregill (BS ’68 Manoa) is executivedirector of Retail Merchant Association, dedi-cated to advancement and success of theretail industry in Hawai‘i. She was previouslypresident of Hawai‘i Fashion Association,deputy executive director of Hawai‘i PublishersAssociation and program coordinator ofHawai‘i Food Industry Association.

R. C. Saxena (MS ’66 Manoa) retired asprincipal scientist and coordinator of Finland-UNEP Neem Awareness Project at theInternational Center of Insect Physiology andEcology. Saxena retired to Haryana, India, afterworking overseas for the past 25 years in thePhilippines and Kenya.

Carol Sumii (Abe) Sullivan (MEd ’67,BEd ’66 Manoa) is state parent facilitator andParent Empowerment Initiative program coor-dinator with the Hawai‘i Department ofEducation. She is married to MichaelPatrick Sullivan (BA ’68 Manoa) and hasbeen active in community affairs as KKI presi-dent, Pi Lambda Theta treasurer, KailuaChristian Women’s Club telephone chair,Hawai‘i Kai United Church of Christ Councilsecretary and alternate to the Pi LambdaTheta Biennial Convention.

Roy K. H. Wong (BA ’67, MD ’63 Manoa)is chief of gastroenterology at Walter ReedArmy Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,and a professor of medicine and director of

Hozy RossiThe labor of writing

Rossi found writing a lonely, solitary experience. Aswith running, self-discipline was tested, the end neverseemed near and sacrifices were made. And, some days hejust didn’t feel like getting up. There were full days whenall he wrote was one sentence, other days, one page. “Younever know when it’s going to be a good day or a badday,” he adds.

The Hawai‘i transplant, who moved to San Franciscoin 1992, credits a UH professor for shaping him as awriter. At Manoa, Rossi started as a business major, plan-ning to be an accountant. It wasn’t until he took a poetryworkshop class from Professor of English JohnUnterecker that he realized his love for writing.

“It changed everything,” Rossi says aboutUnterecker’s influence. “There’s something about lan-guage that he really loved. When he talked about poetry,he just made it exciting.” Rossi took three classes fromUnterecker. He found the professor to be very approach-able, as were other instructors in the department.

“At that age, when someone encourages you at whatyou’re interested in, it’s pro-found,” recalls the 36-year-old writer. Rossi choseEnglish over business.Unterecker became his men-tor and friend.

UH degree in hand,Rossi accepted a position asa producer/writer for KHET, Hawai‘i Public Television.He later worked for the university’s Center for OralHistory before moving to San Francisco and working forvarious computer magazines. He obtained a master’s de-gree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1997,writing short stories about his experiences in Hawai‘i andSan Francisco.

Then a friend suggested setting a story in the past inan unfamiliar setting. The idea for Il Duce originated inan interview Rossi had conducted for the Center for OralHistory. Public school teacher Virginia McBride begantalking about her father by saying, “Some people wantedhim to go into music rather than dentistry.” The unex-pected comment struck a chord with Rossi. “From thatsentence I tried to write a book to explain why someonewould choose dentistry over music.”

Elements of the book are autobiographical. Rossi isnamed after an uncle who is a dentist. His dad’s family isItalian and he spent time traveling in Italy. Rossi is him-

self a musician.He is now a news producer for a

nature Web site called eNature.com.But like a runner back in training, he

is already pacing himself, writing hissecond book.

—by Jenny Tom (BA ’96 Manoa), a UH public informationofficer and master’s degree candidate in communication.

Writing a novel is like running a marathon, saysauthor Joe “Hozy” Rossi (BA ’87 Manoa),who makes his award-winning debut with

Appointment with Il Duce. “It’s slow. You need to be fo-cused on what you’re doing at the present time and notbe thinking you have 25 more miles to go, otherwiseyou’ll get depressed.”

Rossi spent three years laboring on the 255-pagebook, which has been well received. Set in the 1920s,Appointment with Il Duce is a light comic biography ofyoung Beppe Arpino, a boy who is mentored by thetown’s priest and introduced to the cello and dentistry.Ultimately Beppe chooses dentistry over music. In a seriesof bizarre twists and turns he finds love while examin-ing a patient’s teeth and later encounters Italy’sBenito Mussolini, thus the title.

Reviews by the Baltimore Sun, The Wall StreetJournal and the New York Times call attentionto the book’s originality and light humor. Itwas named a Barnes and Noble DiscoverGreat New Writers selection. VillageVoice selected the book as one of thetop 10 must-reads for summer 2001.

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1970sRichard B. Baldauf Jr. (PhD ’75, MEd ’70Manoa) is associate professor and director ofthe Language Center, University of Sydney. Heis also executive editor of Current Issues inLanguage Planning.

Jeanne Barrett (1971 Manoa) has beenpromoted to human resources manager at AIGHawai‘i, serving both AIG Hawai‘i and Hawai‘iInsurance Consultants.

Cathy Blackburn (BFA ’78 Manoa) is chiefmuseum designer at the Frye Art Museum inSeattle. She acknowledges the design founda-tion she received at Manoa from faculty mem-bers Ken Kingry, Jean Whiig and Bob Turnbull.Blackburn and her husband SteveBlackburn (BS ’79 Manoa) live with theirthree boys in the Seattle area.

Patricia Lanoie Blanchette (MD, MPH’79, BA ’74 Manoa) is president of the John A.Burns School of Medicine Alumni Association.She is a UH professor of medicine and headsthe geriatric medical program.

Francis V. Carlos (BA ’78 Manoa) is direc-tor of procurement and subcontracts forUnited Space Alliance in Houston, Tex. TheROTC alumnus earned his MBA at CentralMichigan University.

Christopher L. Cook (BA ’72 Manoa) ismedia manager for Pulitzer Newspapers Kaua‘i World.com, the Web site of TheGarden Island newspaper in Lıhu‘e.

Stu Glauberman (MA ’78 Manoa) hasbeen named staff vicepresident of corporatecommunications atAloha Airlines. He pre-viously served as vicepresident of the traveland tourism division atMcNeil WilsonCommunications andworked at the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin newspapers.

Angie Golis-Yamamoto (BA ’79 Manoa)is director of develop-ment at the UH’sCancer ResearchCenter, in charge ofsecuring major giftsfor cancer research.She has also been afundraiser for DamienMemorial High School,Academy of the Pacific and the AmericanHeart Association.

William F. Haning III (MD ’75 Manoa) hasbeen named associate dean for postgraduatemedical education at the John A. Burns Schoolof Medicine. He is an associate professor ofpsychiatry at the school.

David R. Hargis (MS ’71, BS ’69 Manoa)received his PhD in hydrology and waterresources from the University of Arizona in

1979 and is president and CEO of Hargis andAssociates, consultants in hydrogeology andenvironmental engineering with offices in SanDiego, Phoenix, Tucson and Dallas. A national-ly recognized expert in groundwater contami-nation, he resides in La Jolla, Calif.

Eric Hee (BS ’78 Manoa) is vice president ofEngineers Surveyors Hawai‘i.

Kevin M. Iwamoto (BBA ’77 Manoa) waselected president of the National BusinessTravel Association. He is global airline/car travelsupplier manager for Hewlett-Packard. He pre-viously held positions at several major airlinesincluding Northwest/KLM, Hawaiian Air andPan Am. Most recently he was senior travelaccount manager for the Walt DisneyCompany.

Kathleen T. (Yokote) Kano (BA ’79Manoa) is senior vicepresident of commer-cial lines–client servicesfor Atlas InsuranceAgency in Honolulu.The Wailuku nativehas 22 years experi-ence in the insuranceindustry. She and herhusband Reed Kano have two children, Davinand Kalen.

Patricia Ann Kuentz (BS ’72 Manoa) isresponsible for three medical clinics as regionalclinic manager for Health Partners inMinnesota. Kuentz is a member of the UHNursing Alumni Association.

Gary A. Kugler (MPH ’76 Manoa) workswith the North Carolina Department of Healthand Human Services Division of MedicalAssistance, Managed Care Section, as informa-tion systems manager. He and his wife EileenKugler have two sons, Jason and Jeffrey.

Roberta Wong Leung (BA ’71, BBA ’70Manoa), former TIM International, Inc. presi-dent, is chief instructor with the VocationalTraining Council, Hospitality Industry Trainingand Development Centre in Hong Kong. Shesupervises both the Pokfulam and Kowloonschools.

Teresa Haunani Makuakane-Drechsel(BA ’75 Manoa) directs the post-high schoolcounseling program for Kamehameha Schoolsin Honolulu. She is married to EmanuelJohannes Drechsel.

Floyd Matsuda (’77 BA Hilo) has beennamed vice presidentand chief technologyofficer by the NationalBoard for ProfessionalTeaching Standards. Hebrings more than 20years of informationtechnology experiencefrom GM, IBM andFirst Insurance of Hawai‘i to the independent,nonprofit organization.

Gerald Morihara (MBA ’70, BBA ’65Manoa) is chief administrative officer ofKamehameha Schools, overseeing informationtechnology, human resources, facilities man-agement and planning and records manage-ment. Formerly in the Air Force and the AirForce Reserve, Morihara began his career in

education as a UH management analyst andserved as dean of the UHM College ofContinuing Education.

Melvin S. M. Ozeki (BA ’73 Hilo) is editorand publisher of Ohana magazine. He residesin Las Vegas with wife Emily Bernice Ozeki.

Richard James Sciaroni (MA ’74 Manoa)is a partner with Long and Levitt in SanFrancisco, Calif. He is married to JacquelineClaire Finley. They have two grown children,Thomas and Christine.

Wesley R. Segawa (BS ’75 Manoa) wasnamed 2001 Engineerof the Year by theHawai‘i Society ofProfessional Engineers,Big Island Chapter, forhis achievements andcontributions to theprofession and thecommunity. He chairsthe Housing and Community DevelopmentCorporation of Hawai‘i and the Pukahi Districtof the Aloha Council Boy Scouts of America.His business, Wesley R. Segawa and Associatesis in its 20th year of business.

Beppie Shapiro (PhD ’79, MEd ’75, MA’68 Manoa) is a UHM associate professor withthe College of Education Center on DisabilityStudies.

Hong-Keun Sohn (PhD ’70, MS ’69, MBA’67 Manoa) is professor of economics atKonyang University, Nonsan, Chungnam-Do inSouth Korea. His latest book is entitled AllThings Korean (in English). The publication isbased on the past four years of column articleshe has written for The Korea Times, an Englishdaily in Seoul. The book offers analysis andpolicy suggestions related to the Korean econ-omy, culture and education since the 1996economic crisis.

Jeanette (Chikamoto) Takamura (MSW’72, BA ’69 Manoa) was appointed to theEdward R. Roybal Endowed Chair inGerontology and Public Service at CaliforniaState University, Los Angeles. As former U.S.assistant secretary for aging, Takamura over-saw the largest funding increases since 1972for Older Americans Act programs and ser-vices. She is a member of the national boardof the Older Women’s League and Center forStrategic and International Studies GlobalAging Commission.

Wendy M. Takeshita (BS ’76, Manoa) ispresident of The Queen’s Health Care Centersand a member of the UH Nursing AlumniAssociation.

Paul See Fan Tse (MBA ’78, BBA ’76Manoa) is director of Keck Seng Investments,Hong Kong. He is married to Pauline KwaiWah Chung Tse (BBA ’77 Manoa).

Trisha Lynn (Kono) Tubbs (1967–70Manoa) is director of SoftResources in Seattle.She received a bachelor’s degree from BucknellUniversity and and master’s from DrexellUniversity. Tubbs is active in LeadershipTomorrow, the Maltby Community Club, theAmerican Marketing Association and theChildren’s Hospital/Magazine Guild. She livesin Seattle with husband John Tubbs.

From a very young age, Robert Ross (PhD ’83Manoa) knew exactly what he wanted to do whenhe grew up. “There was never any question in my

mind what my career interests were from an early age,even 12 or 13,” he says. “I grew up in a rural setting,did not get involved in sports and related with keeninterest to my outside environment, especially birds.”

With binoculars in hand, Ross would venture out-side his home in Greenville, Pa., and list the various birdspecies he’d spot in the woodlands and fields nearby. Hisbible was an advanced biology book, a gift from his fa-ther in the seventh grade. “I read and fully absorbed thisbook,” Ross says. “By the time I took my first biologyclass in 10th grade, the teacher couldn’t ask a questionbut what I had my hand up with the answer, to thepoint that I believe I became an annoyance.”

Ross, now an accomplished ecologist for the U.S.Geological Survey in Pennsylvania, has done technicalresearch on species many people have never heard of,such as the saddleback wrasse fish and the hemlock

Robert RossSolving ecological riddles

woolly adelgid insect. Nonetheless, his studies on birdsand fish have led to major breakthroughs in the ecologycommunity, aiding efforts to conserve the nation’s nat-ural resources.

His proudest research accomplishment was deter-mining how saddleback wrasse fish change their genderduring the course of their normal life cycle from femaleto male. He found that sex change is influenced by thewrasses’ social environment and their assessment of theirsize relative to the majority of fish of their kind in theirhome range.

Such questions keep Ross on his toes. “I’m interestedin the natural resource problems identified by agenciessuch as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National ParkService and state environmental agencies. It provides anopportunity to match myexpertise and research interestwith the appropriate problemand conceptualize approachesor methods to solve the prob-lem, while at the same timeadvancing our knowledge ofscientific principles throughpublication of the results of the studies.”

Ross has spent eight years studying the double-crested cormorant, trying to determine the bird’s dietand ecological role in the Great Lakes. The species hasexperienced a population explosion, creating competi-tion with fish harvesters. He also studies the impact ofthe tree-killing hemlock woolly adelgid on water andland animals in the northeastern United States.

The ecologist owes his growth as a scientist in part toUH. “The University of Hawai‘i provided me with a sup-portive environment in which to acquire, polish and prac-tice my skills as a career scientist,” Ross says.

“Challenging programs, outstanding professors whoare leaders in their own fields and opportunities to teachin my graduate field were instrumental in my professionaldevelopment.” Ross was an assistant professor of zoologyat UH in 1983.

He is considering a return to teaching. “I would loveto come back to UH someday, given the appropriate cir-cumstances and opportunity. I will undoubtedly return toenjoy the beauty of Hawai‘i, if not to work there again.”

Ross offers this advice to current UH students: “Ifyou have a real love of your field and your career aspira-tions, don’t worry about the job market. You will getwhere you want to go even if it’s not with the exact time frame you had in mind.”

—by Kiele Akana-Gooch, a UH Manoa journalism major and University Relations student writer

His advice:don’t worryabout the jobmarket


Artie Wilson (BA ’74 Manoa) is a partner atPrudential Locations and president of the UHLetterwinner’s Club, an alumni organizationfor former UH Manoa athletes. He and hiswife Lissa Wilson have three daughters.

Ronald G. Wilson (MPH ’73 Manoa) ismoving from Geneva to the U.S. after morethan 35 years abroad working in internationalhealth, including 10 years on UH projects inThailand and Micronesia.

Creighton T. C. Wong (BBA ’76 Manoa)has been named regional supervisor for theLos Angeles office of Dopkins and Company,certified public accountants and consultants.Wong coordinates and reviews field examina-tions with national lenders.

Patrick K. M. Young (BS ’76 Manoa) ispresident of the Leong Doo Society of Hawai‘iand serves on the board of the ZhongshanAssociation of Hawai‘i. He is former presidentof the Buck Toy Society. Young is employed atthe state Department of Hawaiian HomeLands.

Joseph (Sai Bun) Yung (BBA ’76 Manoa)works at the Regal Hotels International inHong Kong.

1980sSharon Benoit (MPH ’84 Manoa) is presi-dent of PharmaResearch Corporation inResearch Triangle Park, N.C. The firm developstreatments for life threatening illnesses includ-ing malaria, HIV disease and hepatitis—a pur-suit in keeping with her academic focus oninternational health.

Gerald A. Brase (AA ’86 Windward, AS’84, Honolulu) is working at Edwards AFB inCalifornia as a fire department battalion chief.He supports aerospace test projects includingthe space shuttle, F-22 and next generationadvanced tactical fighters.

Liana L. Bratland (BBA ’88 Manoa) is chiefof military personnel division of 556 PersonnelServices Branch and lives in Kailua. She is anofficer on the UHAA Army ROTC Alumniboard.

Christine L. Carter (MPH ’82, PhD ’79, MS’75 Manoa) lives in Rockville, Md., where sheworks as a population geneticist for CeleraGenomics.

Peter Kun Frary (MA ’86 Manoa) is a asso-ciate professor of music at Leeward CC, wherehe teaches classical guitar, guitar ensembleand music theory. He also plays solo classicalguitar recitals throughout the state and per-forms with his wife Se Il Pak Frary as the FraryClassical Guitar Duo.

Janet L. Gerard-Anderson (BA ’80Manoa) is public affairs specialist for thenational Federal Emergency ManagementAgency in San Francisco. She and her husbandLawrence E. Anderson have three grown chil-dren, Joseph, Jon and James.

Sheree H. Higashi (BA ’85 Manoa) movedto Seattle in 2000 to work in human resourcesfor a Fortune 500 company in Seattle. She sur-vived her first winter and her first big earth-quake and hopes to pass on the Aloha spirit.

Thomas Hilgers (PhD ’80, MA ’77 Manoa),UHM professor of English, received a 2000-

2001 Fulbright scholar grant to work inThailand offering teaching with writing facultyworkshops at eight universities, includingChiang Mai and Prince of Songkla. He hastaught at Manoa since 1993 and directs theManoa Writing Program.

David Y. Ige (MBA ’85, BS ’79 Manoa) isvice president of engi-neering at NetEnter-prise, the leadingprovider of data center,hosting and networkintegration services inHawai‘i and in thePacific. A senior mem-ber of the executiveteam, Ige brings more than 20 years of experi-ence in managing technology and telecommu-nications operations. Ige is also a Hawai‘i statesenator.

Robert Kamemoto (MBA ’82 Manoa) issenior vice presidentand division managerof Central Pacific Bankwith responsibility forthe corporate bankingdivision. He joined thebank as a loan traineein 1980 and was pro-moted to vice presi-dent in 1988 and division manager in 1999.

Debbie Kelsey (BEd ’83 Manoa) is the stu-dent activities coordinator, choral director andyearbook adviser at the UH Laboratory Schoolin Honolulu. She is also music director at theUniversity Avenue Baptist Church and a mem-ber of Ka Waiola O Na Pu Kanileo chorus andthe Hawai‘i Opera Theatre. Husband ChrisKelsey received a BA in English from UH inAugust 2001. Their son Quinn will graduatethis spring with a BA in music. DaughterBlythe is working on a performance degree inmusic at an East Coast college.

David Kozuki (BBA ’89 Manoa) is seniorstrategic alliances manager of Sylantro Systemsin the San Francisco Bay Area.

Milly Edith Krause (BA ’84 Manoa) is afirst grade teacher with Chickasaw ElementarySchool in Orlando, Fla. She is married toDonald A. Krause and they have two grownsons. She is a member of the JointUHAA/EWCA Florida chapter.

Melinda Susan Maltby (BA ’85 Manoa) isa library assistant with the Hawai‘i State Librarysystem. Her mother Joyce Maltby (MFA ’85Manoa) and her sister Rebecca Maltby (BA’86 Manoa) also received UHM degrees.

Thomas Howard Nash (MA ’83 Manoa) isassociate professor of English at Fu JenCatholic University in Hsinchuang, TaipeiHsien, Taiwan.

Yumiko Okamoto (PhD ’89 Manoa) is anassociate professor at Nagoya University inJapan.

Michael F. Nauyokas (JD ’89 Manoa)received the Kapi‘olani CC 2001 Award forExcellence in Teaching. He has taught inKapi‘olani’s Legal Education Department formore than a decade. An expert in employmentand labor law, Nauyokas is an active attorney,mediator and arbitrator and publishes regularly

in journals such as the University of Hawai‘iLaw Review and the Hawai‘i Bar Journal. Hispeers have honored him with Martindale-Hubbell’s “AV” rating, the highest possible.

Trudy Senda (JD ’83 Manoa) was appointeddistrict court judge for the fifth judicial circuit(Kaua‘i).

Lorraine Pualani Shin (BBA ’83 Manoa)has been appointed Hawai‘i state director forRural Development by the U.S. Department ofAgriculture. A native Hawaiian from Hilo, Shinis president and owner of the PolynesianManagement Corporation and the PolynesianHo‘o Ponopono Corporation property man-agement firms, which specialize in commercialand residential properties. She is past presidentof the East Coalition for the Homeless and aformer commissioner for the Hawai‘i CountyBoard of Ethics.

Andrea Analani (Ambrose) Shipley(BBA ’89 Manoa ) is technology support groupmanager at United Parcel Service inSacramento, Calif. She and her husbandRobert M. Shipley IV (BBA ’88 Manoa)celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary inVancouver with their two children Andrew andStephanie before relocating to California.

Samuel Shomaker (MD ’86 Manoa) is vicedean for academic affairs at the John A. BurnsSchool of Medicine. Prior to this appointmenthe was senior associate dean at the Universityof Utah School of Medicine.

Richard Kazuhiko Takahashi (MBA ’82Manoa) is benefits manager at LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory in California. Heis married to Hitomi Maeda Takahashi.

Mark Troy (PhD ’83 Manoa) has released hisfirst electronic book, a private eye novel Pilikiais My Business, published by LTD Books. Troyand his wife are on the staff of Texas A & MUniversity. One of his stories “The MontressorHit,” published in Murderous Intent Mysterymagazine in 1999, won the Edgar Allan PoeSesquicentennial Homage Award from theShort Mystery Fiction Society. Visit his Web siteat www.tamu.edu/marshome/staff_pages/mur-der.html.

Toni Yamada Wall (BBA ’84 Manoa) isfounder and chief technology officer ofYozons, a Seattle-based e-signature serviceprovider.

Carmen Aquino Young (MPH ’80, BS ’79Manoa) is a nursing instructor at Kapi‘olani CCspecializing in gerontology.

1990sKathryne Auerback (BA ’96 Manoa) is aconsultant with Orion Marketing Group inMadison, Wis., where she moved to pursue anMA in English literature. She has two boys,

Opera singer Placido Domingo once said, “thehigh note is not the only thing.” Winning theMiss Hawai‘i crown last June was a high note for

Denby Dung, but it is definitely not the only thing. The24-year-old UH Manoa graduate exuded poise duringher victory walk as Miss Hawai‘i 2001, but she alsoknows what it’s like to be a late bloomer. She experiencedlow notes as an overweight child and teenager. Music wasinstrumental in lifting her up.

“Music helped me through a difficult period of mylife when I couldn’t express how I was feeling,” saysDung, reflecting on her awkward childhood. “Recentstudies show how music increases self-esteem,which it did for me.” The confidence she gainedby belonging to the school bandand excelling in music gave herthe courage to do things she hadnever dreamed of doing, likejoining her high school trackteam and entering beauty pageants.

Dung began serious study of music under the guid-ance of UH Professor Henry Miyamura while still a se-nior at Roosevelt High School. Miyamura confides thatDung had a slow start. “I thought of her as a very quietstudent, almost passive,” he recalls. He encouraged Dungto continue her music studies at UH Manoa, and heenjoyed watching her blossom into an accomplishedclarinetist and saxophonist.

Another UH music professor helped Dung developher pageant platform, which she calls “The Music Effect.”Because Dung is an excellent role model for young peo-ple, she can be a strong advocate for music education inour schools, says Assistant Professor of Music EducationArthur Harvey.

“As Miss Hawai‘i, I’m concentrating on getting musiccurriculum into our schools. I want to make peopleaware of how impor-tant it is,” Dung says.Additional first-handexperience helped fuelher passion about hercause. After graduatingwith a UHM bachelorof education in sec-ondary music in 2000, Dung spent many frustratingmonths searching for a job. She learned that music isconsidered an elective at most schools, an expendableextra in the curriculum.

Perseverance finally paid off; she secured two jobs.She was hired as full-time musician with the RoyalHawaiian Band and a part-time music teacher and choraldirector at Trinity Christian School in Kailua. UH pre-pared her well for her dual role, she says. “ProfessorMiyamura taught me that I had to be a good performerin order to be a good teacher. My performing helps me tobe a better teacher and teaching helps me to be a betterperformer.”

“Denby’s a fine example of a person with good char-acter, musical competence and interest in people,” saysHarvey. “She realizes music is not an end in itself, but ameans to an end, and she is keeping that balance withher work.”

Dung can cite studies documenting that music raisesSAT scores and aids in personal development. Still, sherealizes it is a challenge to convince everyone of the im-portance of music, and she’s prepared for an uphill bat-

tle. “I’m learning a lot about government and exactlyhow you get funding for things likemusic education,” she says. Given herrecord of success, count on some morehigh notes ahead.

—by Stacy Yuen Hernandez, a Honolulu freelancejournalist

Denby DungThe power of music

Performing helps her

be a better teacher;

teaching helps her be

a better performer

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one in 2nd grade and one in 10th, and recent-ly bought a home in Madison.

Allen Awaya (EdD ’95, BEd ’72 Manoa) is aprogram analyst at US CINCPAC at CampSmith after nearly 20 years of teaching Englishand social studies at Waipahu, Campbell andKahuku high schools and teaching at UH1993–2001.

Peter K. Bryant-Greenwood (MD ’97Manoa) has finished a residency in anatomicpathology and is doing a fellowship in cytol-ogy and molecular pathology at the NationalInstitutes of Health.

Edward M. Dela Cruz (AS ’96 Kapi‘olani,AA ’94 Honolulu) is a network specialist in theNorthern Marianas College InformationSystems Department. He is certified byMicrosoft, CompTIA Network and Cisco.

Taletha M. Derrington (MA ’97 Manoa) isone of only 30 fellows in Zero to Three’sLeaders of the 21st Century program, a leader-ship development initiative aimed at improvingthe lives of very young children. Derrington, aproject coordinator for Strategies for Effectiveand Efficient Keiki Find, will focus on improv-ing communication between early interventionprograms and primary care physicians.

Michelle Debra Giron Dizon-Sibal(1995 Manoa, AA ’95 Honolulu) teachesEnglish at Simon A. Sanchez High School onGuam. She is pursuing a master’s degree ineducational leadership with the University ofPortland.

Alvin Giron Dizon (BEd ’95 Manoa, AA’93 Honolulu) was voted an outstandingteacher during the Week of the ClassroomTeacher at Benavente Middle School on Guam.He has taught at Farrington High School andat Guam Community College.

Stacy Kawasaki Djou (JD ’97 Manoa) isan associate with Cades Schutte Fleming andWright law offices in Honolulu.

Ariana Eichelberger (MEd ’97 Manoa) is ajunior specialist grants manager at the UHMCollege of Education.

Joyce Gepitulan (BS ’96 Manoa) is qualitycontrol supervisor and product developmentassistant at Hawaiian Host, responsible forimproving the candy maker’s products andmonitoring the effectiveness of its quality con-trol program.

Grant Gurtiza (BS’95 Manoa) is networkmanager for IslandInsurance Company. Heis responsible for net-work and data centeroperations. He previ-ously served for fouryears with KPMC astechnical associate.

Elmer Guzman (AS ’90 Kapi‘olani) works asa sous chef for Sam Choy’s restaurants. Heworked for chef Alan Wong on the Big Islandbefore receiving one of 10 national appren-ticeships at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. Healso worked as sous chef in Emeril’s NewOrleans restaurant, where he combined Cajunand Asia/Pacific Rim cooking to create“Casian.”

John K. Kingsley (BA ’98 Manoa) receivedthe French government’s Diplome for his par-ticipation as a tank officer in the Liberation ofFrance (1944-45). He was accompanied by hiswife Diane A. Scoville-Kingsley (BA ’95Manoa) for the presentation, made at theHawai‘i state capitol. He also received theCentral Intelligence Agency unit commenda-tion for service with Air America in SoutheastAsia during the Cold War (1965-68).

Terri Kondo (JD ’93 Manoa) is a law associ-ate with Watanabe Ing and Kawashima inHonolulu.

Cecilia Chiu Yin Lau (MBA ’93, BBA ’90Manoa) is director of sales and marketing atthe Parkhill Hotel in Vancouver, BritishColumbia. She and husband Vincent Yu BunChiu have a child named Vittorio.

Vincent Glen Learned (BBA ’99 Manoa)is a property and casualty associate withMarsh U.S.A. He is a former UH presidentialscholar.

Christine Noelani Maii (MBA ’97Manoa) is marketing and project manager forAkimeka, a Honolulu software company. Maiiis president of the Japan America Institute ofManagement Science and a member of thePacific-American Foundation, Japan Exchangeand Teaching Alumni Association and Japan-America Society of Hawai‘i.

Donald N. Memer Jr. (1990–91 Manoa),a teacher at Hilo High School, was awarded afellowship from the James Madison MemorialFellowship Foundation of Washington, D.C.,to further his study of American history.

Alfred Juan Mina (BA ’96, BS ’95 Hilo) isa veterinarian with the Pet Hospital-Hilo.

Pamela Morimoto (MD ’96, BA ’91Manoa) has completed three years of residen-

cy in general surgery at Virginia MasonHospital in Seattle and a one year micro-surgery fellowship and one year burn fellow-ship, both in Texas.

Scott G. Morita (JD ’98 Manoa) is an asso-ciate with Goodsill Anderson Quinn and Stifelconcentrating in litigation. He was formerlylaw clerk to First Circuit Court Judge Kevin S.C. Chang.

Miles Hiroki Murakoshi (BBA ’99Manoa) is a computer programmer with theHawai‘i Department of the Attorney General,Child Support Enforcement Agency. He is avolunteer technician with the New HopeChurch sound team.

Dan Obuhanych (JD ’98 Manoa) is anassociate with Cades Schutte Fleming andWright law firm in Honolulu.

Jerome Peter Florentino Padua (BS’99 Manoa) is a lobby receptionist at theHalekulani Hotel in Waikıkı.

Helene Gay Parker (JD ’95 Manoa), for-merly a prosecutor with the Office of theAttorney General in Texas, is now managingpartner of Parker and Associates. She practicesfamily law, specializing in interstate and inter-national child support litigation, and estateplanning. She is also a certified mediator.

Jeff Michael Rebudal (BA ’90 Manoa) isassistant professor of dance at ConnecticutCollege who has performed and choreo-graphed widely. His New York-based contem-porary dance company, Rebudal Dance Group,premiered works in September that exploredgender issues and drew on his Filipino heritage.

Morag Rice (BA ’95 Hilo) received the2000–01 Outstanding Student in ElementaryEducation Award from UH Hilo.

Aposter boy for the prototype student-athlete, JimRoberts has demonstrated the internationalvalue a UH education brings to the table. But

who would have thought this education major wouldend up in the high-stakes world of international finance?Growing up in Oklahoma, Roberts gave little thought toattending the University of Hawai‘i. His athletic abilitydrew the university’s attention however, and the UHfootball coaching staff recruited him vigorously. For ayoung man interested in seeing what lay beyond theSooner State, college in the Pacific set the stage for a lifejourney that has taken him around the world.

A senior international finance officer for a Europeanmulti-national corporation, Roberts started his circuitouscareer path as a freshman football recruit in 1964. Afterlettering four years as a Rainbow running back, Robertsreceived his bachelor’s degree in physical education in1968 and was honored as the Outstanding Student in theCollege of Education that year. Along the way he alsogarnered NCAA Academic All-American honors, which

James H. RobertsPls FromFrom football to financier

qualified him for a graduate student scholarship.Dabbling in Honolulu commerce as an undergraduatehad piqued Roberts’ interest in business, so he enrolled inUH Manoa’s MBA program. Outside of the classroom,he supplemented his income by serving as a graduateassistant football coach under the late Dave Holmes.

After receiving his MBA in finance, Roberts jour-neyed to Sydney, Australia, to work for Citibank. Threeyears later he returned to Honolulu for a position withC. Brewer, eventually becoming that company’syoungest-ever treasurer. Impressed with his performance,C. Brewer’s parent company, IU International Corp.,made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Roberts and hiswife Julie Johnston (MEd ’70, Manoa) headed east toPhiladelphia, where he became vice president for plan-ning and operations analysis.When IU International wasacquired in a 1988 takeover,Roberts took a year off toattend Villanova University,where he did post-graduatework in advanced account-ing and taxation. He com-pleted the certified publicaccountant examination,receiving both national andCommonwealth ofPennsylvania honors for his exam results.

Roberts joined Vivendi Universal in Philadelphia, amulti-billion-dollar Paris-based environmental and com-munications group. The family, now including daughterJess, was eventually enticed to cross the Atlantic to workin France. Now fluent in French, Roberts has movedback and forth between the London and Paris officessince 1990. He currently resides in London, where heserves as chief financial officer for United Kingdom oper-ations in Vivendi’s Dalkia Group.

Robert’s success comes as no surprise to those familiarwith his formidable Midwestern work ethic and good-natured personality. Although halfway around the world,he maintains his UH ties, checking UH football scoreson the Web, keeping his alumni association membershipcurrent and corresponding with lifelong alumni friendsstill on the island (and beyond) via the Internet. “MyUH education, the MBA in particular, gave me asolid basis upon which to build my career. Iam convinced my decision to attendUH was the right one for me,”he says.

—by Greg Johnson (BA ’71 Manoa), re-search administrator for the Institute forManufacturing and SustainmentTechnologies at Pennsylvania StateUniversity

For a young man

looking beyond the

Sooner State, college

in the Pacific set the

stage for a journey

around the world

Logo expert offers advice online

William L. Haig (MA ’79 Manoa) has created a Web site to help

managers evaluate their company logo. The site is based on his

book, The Power of Logos: How to Create

Effective Company Logos, (Wiley, 1997). Fill out a

questionnaire and fax Haig the present logo. For

a small fee, he will describe the content and char-

acter for the company’s ideal logo, the rationale

for his recommendation, comments on the com-

pany name and advice on hiring a designer. Haig

is an expert in the application of credibility principles in communica-

tion to the planning and design of logos. A company is influential if

its logo symbolizes the company business (its area of expertise), looks

trustworthy (for the particular company) and is highly contemporary

in design style, he says. Haig recently retired from TheBus to concen-

trate on his Honolulu Web-based business. His interest stems from his

work as a logo program planner for graphic design legend Saul Bass.

Bass created successful marks for AT&T, United Airlines, United Way

and other firms. During his graduate work in communication at UH,

Haig used credibility persuasion principles to show that successful

logos are credibility-based. For more information, visit www.powerlo-

gos.com, e-mail [email protected] or call toll-free 866 300-3777.

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Glenn Gregory Rimando (BA ’96 Manoa)is fitness manager at 24 Hour Fitness Center inMililani. He is married to Josephine PascualCalma Rimando.

Patti Ann Riva (MSW ’94 Manoa) is theevening/weekend manager for ValenciaCommunity College in Winter Park, Fla.

Rey Rubianes (BBA ’94 Manoa) is vice pres-ident of corporate banking at City Bank inHonolulu. After graduation, he joined theBank of Hawai‘i as a credit analyst, and thenmoved to Seattle where he was the youngestassistant vice president for U.S. Bank beforereturning to Hawai‘i in 2000.

Melissa Shimabukuro (MS ’99, BS ’94Manoa) is an environmental specialist in theGeosciences Division of URS Corporation inHonolulu. She provides expertise in pollutioncontrol, water resources development andhazardous waste and wastewater manage-ment. URS is a national environmental consult-ing company with expertise in surface and airtransportation design.

Rolly Cuenco Sibal (AA ’97 Honolulu) isan intern architect with Setiadi ArchitecturalFirm on Guam. He is studying interior design.

Helene I. Masumura ShibataSokugawa (EdD ’96, MBA ’83, MEd ’69, BS’67, BBA ’66 Manoa) is assistant to the deanat the UHM School of Architecture. She ismarried to Raymond K. Sokugawa (BBA’65 Manoa).

Blyne Hiromi Suzuki (BA ’98 Manoa) isan associate member of American Institute ofArchitects and computer assisted design tech-nician with Yamasato Fujiwara Higa andAssociates in Honolulu.

Chenshan Tian (PhD ’99, MA ’94, MA ’91Manoa) coordinates external programs for theUHM Center for Chinese Studies. He receivedthe Caucus for a New Political ScienceChristian Bay Award for the best paper pre-sented at a caucus panel at the 2000 AnnualMeeting of the American Political ScienceAssociation. The winning paper is customarilypublished in the journal New Political Science.

Shuqiang Zhang (PhD ’90, MA ’85 Manoa)is an associate professor in the UHM College ofEducation, Department of Educational Psychol-ogy. He lives in Honolulu with his wife Feng Ye.

2000sJessica Donohoe (BS ’00 Manoa) is a visualmerchandiser for Ala Moana Center’s AnnTaylor store. She sets the stage for merchan-dise promotion, which includes doing windowdisplays and clothing arrangements.

Christopher Duncan (JD ’00 Manoa) is astudent at the Georgetown University LawCenter’s program in international and compar-ative law.

Gerald Dung (MA ’00 Manoa) is anaccounting clerk at Advanced Bookkeepingand Tax Service in Honolulu. He is married toTomoko Watanabe Dung.

Regan M. Iwao (JD ’00 Manoa) is an asso-ciate with Goodsill Anderson Quinn and Stifel,concentrating in litigation.

Lori Kaiser (JD ’00, BBA ’82 Manoa) hasjoined Goodsill Anderson Quinn and Stifel as

an associate concentrating in corporate lawand technology.

Kristine Kinaka (JD ’00 Manoa) is a lawassociate with Watanabe Ing and Kawashimain Honolulu.

Kamilla Ma‘i‘i (AA ’01 Kapi‘olani) washonored as the Hawai‘i centennial scholar bythe American Association of CommunityColleges and Phi Theta Kappa. The mother ofthree children is Honolulu service unit managerfor the Girl Scout Council of Hawai‘i andleader of a troop of Girl Scout cadets.

Johanna Martin (BA ’00 Hilo) received theUH Hilo 2000–01 Outstanding Student inSecondary Education Award.

Maria Nela Mendoza-Lemes (MD ’00Manoa) is a family practice resident at St.Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wis. Sheis married to Michael A. Lemes.

Elaine Mills (2000–01 Manoa, BA ’00 WestO‘ahu) is vice president of the UHWO AlumniAssociation. She did her practicum at theSalvation Army Leeward Corps writing a grantfor a Hawaiian language and multicultural pro-gram for preschoolers. Later she became thedirector for the funded program. She workspart-time with the Department of Education asa home/hospital instructor specializing in at-risk youth.

Jean Osumi (BA ’00 West O‘ahu, MA ’87,BA ’51 Manoa) has joined the UHWO AlumniAssociation board of directors. She met herhusband Mark Hansen while working atKewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory.They have twin daughters Jordan and Laura.Osumi is working on a master’s degree incounseling and guidance at UH Manoa.

Cheryl Ramos (PhD ’01 Hilo, MA ’83Manoa, BA ’81 Hilo), an instructor of psychol-ogy at UH Hilo, received the first PhD to beawarded at an UH Hilo commencement exer-cise. As a community psychologist, she willaddress community issues and organizations.Her specialty is organizational dynamics andmanagement consultation.

Will Shimabukuro (AA ’00 Kaua‘i) wasnamed the state’s 2000 Concierge of the Yearby the Hawai‘i Hotel Association.

William Keone Shultz (JD ’00 Manoa) isa law associate with Cades Schutte Flemingand Wright in Honolulu.

Dean Uehara (JD ’00 Manoa) is a law asso-ciate with Cades Schutte Fleming and Wrightin Honolulu.

Helen Zeldes (JD ’00 Manoa) has joinedthe board of Hawai‘i Women Lawyers. Sheserves as law clerk to Judge Dan Foley.

Carrying on at the Pentagon

Col. Rory Cahoon (BA ’75 Manoa) was in the Air Force section ofthe Pentagon, watching a TV reportof the attack on the World Trade

Center, recognizing that it was a carefullycalculated attack, when he heard the loudboom as another hijacked plane crashedinto the west side of the massive building.He and his colleagues evacuated unhurt.Cahoon, who has been on active dutysince 1976, was soon back at work in of-fices still reeking with smoke. As chief ofintegration for the Air Force’s $26 billionoperations and maintenance budget, hehelped craft a request for emergency supplemental funding aimed athomeland defense and a range of actions to prevent terrorist actions.

“While we coped with even longer duty days (tough work schedulesare the norm in Pentagon budget offices), we marveled at the tremen-dous efforts made outside these walls and in New York City. Seeingthe American flag unveiled over the southwest side of the Pentagonbrought confidence in our country and its people,” he reflects.

“I was lucky to grow up in Hawai‘i and be an American, enjoying free-dom even during the political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. The ter-rorist attack came as a reminder that freedom is not free; it will de-mand sacrifices wherever freedom-loving people live. Thecounterattack that began 7 October starts a long-term commitment inthis fight.

“I wish my fellow alumni and islanders the best as we face new chal-lenges and use our collective judgment to make the right political, eco-nomic, military and moral choices to impede threats to our freedom.”

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