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film gem to DOEWHAT better gift to the school kids of Hawaii on what amounts to a "Diamond Jubilee" than a jewel of a film? It only fits that description if three 25th anniversaries add up to one, but let's say they do. Henry Neal, BHP Hawaii honcho is celebrating his refinery's 25th, Herman Aizawa, the Department of Education chief, is celebrating the 25th of the DOE-BHP business-education partnership, and Hawaii Public Broadcasting's Don Robbs is marking KHET-TV's 25th. The three have collaborated on a "Diamond Jubilee" gift to the public schools of filmmaker Sam Low's national award-winning film "The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific." This gem of a film, narrated by Palani Vaughan, features re-nowned celestial navigator Mau Pialug, who taught the art to Hokule'a navigator Nainoa Thompson, who just happens to be Sam Low's cousin. The film was reprised Sept. 13 on KHET and copies are going out to public schools this week, compliments of BHP Hawaii ...
PHOTOGRAPHIC artist Linda Ching is back from San Francisco where she exhibited at the Asian Business League awards banquet her photography from "Story of the Stone." She was honored to have been invited, but felt like a stranger in a strange land until suddenly Hawaii expatriates began appearing, as they invariably do in S.F. To name a few, the event chairman Ross Uchimura, the banquet manager Karlson Pang and keynote speaker Guy Kawasaki were all from Hawaii. But the nicest surprise came at evening when the winning bid for Ching's photographic artwork came from none other than Jan Yanehiro, well known S.F. TV journalist and Ching's fellow classmate at Farrington High School ...
AMONG the items up for bid at tonight's fund-raising auction for Donna Collins, wife of UH Rainbow footballer Sam Collins, are 60 tickets to the UH-Air Force game on Nov. 7. They became available when Bob Gladieux, the Notre Dame player who scored the sole Irish touchdown in the Michigan State-Notre Dame 10-10 tie in 1966, and who now owns a travel agency in South Bend, Ind., ended up with 60 tickets to the game he couldn't use. So he sent them to attorney Paul Cunney with a suggestion that the Notre Dame Club of Hawaii might have a use for them. Cunney immediately thought of the auction to raise funds for Donna, who has breast cancer and requires a bone marrow transplant not covered by insurance. The auction, with 120 items available for bids, gets underway at 5:30 p.m. this evening at Murphy's Bar & Grill ... Irish Air Force connection
IT looked like the Governor's Economic Council meeting at Ko Olina last week, but it was merely Hawaii Business Magazine's first annual Top 250 CEOs golf tourney. Gov. Ben Cayetano was there and in a foursome with John Reed of DFS, Larry Johnson of Bankoh and Gary Wassel of TheoDavies Euromotors. Wassel was likely the happiest exec, since no one hit a hole-in-one to win the $70,000 Jaguar XK-8 he'd parked by the eighth green, ready to give away.
WHEN Dicey & John Brinck hosted a party for past Heart Ball chairs and volunteers the other night, most people thought there was an electrical shortage when the lights started blinking. But that was not the case. Edd New, husband of 1988 Heart Ball chair Linda New, merely thought it was time to end the party so he started fading the lights as a subtle suggestion for people to move on. Quick, a chorus of "The Party's Over." ... New Heart Ball chair
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