Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's last will and testament signed on October 31,
1883 directed the formation of "...two schools, each for boarding and day
scholars, one for boys and one for girls, to be known as, and called the
Kamehameha Schools. To learn more of the life of Princess Bernice Pauahi
Bishop, click on the photo above.
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Explorations in Utah 2003
Mark your calendars: July 12, 2003. This is an advanced notice to tell you that the Intermountain Region will sponsor "Explorations in Utah 2003" on Saturday, July 12, 2003, at the Granite High School facility, Salt Lake City. A full description of our program for 2003 will be available on May 15. Application forms will also be available then.
For the youth, we will offer music, hula, crafts, games and free temporary tattoo'ing. We are still structuring our program for the adults. Lunch will be included.
We are planning to begin our program at 9:00am and end around 5:00pm. There will be a small registration fee to help us offset costs for program materials. If families are unable to afford the registration fee, a small number of grants will be available.
Mark your calendars and stand by for more information.
Ron Yasukawa, President
KSAA Intermountain Region
Scholarships for Explorations 2003
Four (4) scholarships (up to $350.00 each) will be granted to children who have been accepted into the Kamehameha Schools Explorations Program for 2003. Preference will be given to children of Kamehameha Schools alumni residing within the Intermountain Region (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY). If more than four applications are received, four will be randomly selected. Recipients will be notified via telephone. Checks will be mailed during the week of May 19.
Click HERE for Application Form. Printable HTML format.
Summer Program for Utah High School Students
The University of Utah is organizing a new pre-engineering summer program for high school students called Hi-TECH (Teaching Engineering Concepts in High School). This program is designed specifically to encourage ethnic minority students to explore the career options available to them in engineering.
Hi-TECH is for students entering 10th, 11th and 12th grades in the fall, and will give them exposure to a variety of engineering and computer science careers with hands-on, interactive activities. To help support their education, participants will have the opportunity to earn scholarships to the University of Utah to study engineering.
Hi-TECH will be held June 18, 19 & 20, 2003. The deadline for submitting a nomination application is Friday, May 9.
The cost for this program is $30.00 for all three days (including lunch). However, if families are unable to afford this, scholarships are available from the School of Engineering. Transportation can also be arranged, if necessary.
If you are interested, please contact me as quickly as possible and I will get you a nomination application packet.
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
INTERMOUNTAIN REGION
July 2002
KSAA Intermountain Sub-Regions
Aloha alumni in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada! Did you know that you are now proud members of your own KSAA Intermountain Sub-Region? And once you achieve the criteria for full Region status, your Sub-Region president can petition the KSAA Board of Presidents for recognition as a full-fledged Region. Your new Sub-Region Presidents are:
Arizona: Michelle Fiaui (Kekuewa), Class of '90
1540 E. San Remo Ave.
Gilbert, AZ 85234
(480) 668-7203 mailto:[email protected]
Colorado: Toni Kaui, Class of '89
20 S. Cody St.
Lakewood, CO 80226
(303) 238-5517 mailto:[email protected]
Nevada: Margaret Stanley (Eborn), Class of '76
5581 Judith Resnik Court
Las Vegas, NV 89103
(702) 871-4014 mailto:[email protected]
Please contact your Sub-Region president and get involved with your Sub-Region activities.
INTERMOUNTAIN REGION NEWS
We obtained non-profit tax-exempt status for the Intermountain Region in the states of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. The latter three states filed as Sub-Regions.
We hosted the Kamehameha Schools Strategic Planning Team, Charlene Hoe and Judy Layfield, in Hawaiian community townhall meetings in Las Vegas (Apr. 18), Salt Lake City (Apr. 20), and Denver (Apr. 22).
The Arizona Sub-Region sponsored a KSAA information booth during the 8th Annual Aloha Festival on Mar. 16 & 17. Each year the festival's "Kokua Award" is presented to an individual who continues to make significant contributions to the Polynesian/Micronesian community within the Greater Phoenix area. This year's award went to Benny Stillman, Class of '59.
The Colorado Sub-Region continues to sponsor the "College Homes Away from Home" program for young Kamehameha alumni attending school within the Colorado area. Toni is also continuing her plans to sponsor hula shows to raise operating and scholarship funds.
Planning for "Explorations in Utah" is in full swing. JOur event will be held July 19-21, 2002 at Camp Kostopulos, two miles east of Salt Lake City in Emigration Canyon. The theme for this event is "Behold Hawai'i." Kaipo Hale and Violet-Marie Rosehill from the Kamehameha School's Extension Education Division, will present the story of "Behold Hawai'i." For more information, contact Ron Yasukawa at (801) 451-7312.
OUR INTERMOUNTAIN WEBSITE
Have you visited our KSAA Intermountain Region website recently? If you have forgotten its address, it is at http://www.geocities.com/ksaaim . Kalani O'Sullivan '63 is our webmaster and a life member in our Region. As Kalani says, "Hele mai."
You should also visit our KSAA website at http://www.imua-kamehameha.net/ . This website is maintained by the KSAA East Coast Region. From this KSAA website, you will be able to navigate to all the KSAA Region websites (eventually). At least the Intermountain Region works.
Soon you will be able to access all KSAA websites directly from the Kamehameha Schools website at http://www.ksbe.edu/ . The KSAA Board of Presidents is working with the Kamehameha Schools to host all KSAA Region websites under the Kamehameha Schools website. Prototypes of the new KSAA Region websites should be accessible in August 2002. The advantages of hosting all KSAA Region websites under the Kamehameha Schools website are that a common Region webpage template can be used, information on Region alumni will be accessible directly from the Kamehameha Schools alumni database versus each Region maintaining their own database, and Kamehameha Schools news and activities will be more readily available.
HAVE YOU MOVED or planning to move?
Please send me your new address: KSAA Intermountain, 1351 Swinton Lane, Farmington, UT 84025
The Kamehameha Schools alumni policy has finally been revised. If you send a short email to Gerry Johansen mailto:[email protected] and Kehau Yap mailto:[email protected] with info to Leilani Fortuno mailto:[email protected] they will make the necessary updates to the official alumni database.
KSAA BOARD OF PRESIDENTS (BOP) NEWS
The Presidents from each KSAA Region meet quarterly to conduct business pertinent to the KSAA. The last meeting occurred April 26-27 in San Diego, CA; the meeting was hosted by the KSAA Southern California Region (John Kaulukukui '71, Pres.).
The primary focus of this meeting was to train the Region Presidents for launching the collaborative effort between the KSAA, the Kamehameha Schools and SMS Research on the Native Hawaiian Community Survey. The training was conducted by Daniel Naho'opi'i '84, from SMS Research, and Ramona Hao, from the Kamehameha Schools PASE office.
Two additional areas of focus by the KSAA BOP are the completion of the new KSAA Region websites under the Kamehameha Schools website and the submission of the plan to create a national alumni organization versus the regional structure which currently exists.
The next KSAA BOP meeting is scheduled for August 2-3 in Honolulu.
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE AND RENEWALS
We have a common bond. We are alumni of the Kamehameha Schools. When people ask me what I do in my spare time, I tell them I play golf, try to keep my home in working order and clean, but most of my spare time is dedicated to working as the president of my high school alumni association. I tell them about who we are and what we do and they are amazed that a high school can continue to influence the lives of its alumni after so many years.
I belong to my college alumni associations and I participate occasionally in several of their alumni activities. However, being a member of the Kamehameha Schools Alumni Association is special because it is about my heritage�my culture�and an association with my extended family who have also benefited from the opportunities gained from our high school education and experiences.
The following are fair questions to ask�Why should I join the KSAA Intermountain Region and pay annual or life dues when I can receive the IMUA magazine each quarter, receive the KSAA Intermountain Region newsletter, have access to the various KSAA websites, and receive emails on Hawaiiana news/events or scholarship opportunities�at no cost. What benefits are in it for me since I do not live near our Region's major cities and therefore I cannot participate in potlucks, socials, or other activities.
I truly do not have a punch-line answer for these questions. However, I can state that being an annual or life member of the KSAA Intermountain Region simply says that you can support the continuing activities of our alumni 'ohana and that you recognize it takes operating funds to keep our organization functioning. Being an annual or life member of the KSAA Intermountain Region will allow our organization to occasionally offset fixed costs, such as non-profit registration fees or facility rentals associated with our alumni activities. Being an annual or life member of the KSAA Intermountain Region will help offset the cost of each newsletter mailing. Yes, we could choose to send information to only our active members at a cost of around $34.00 per mailing, or we can continue to keep all our Region's alumni informed at a cost of around $134.00 per bulk mailing. Being an annual or life member of the KSAA Intermountain Region will allow our organization to engage in fund-raisers; the primary beneficiaries from our fund-raisers will be students who wish to continue with their higher education or to offset expenses of our keiki who wish to attend the Explorations program.
Our membership dues are $12.00 per year for alumni, $6.00 per year for associate members (non-alumni spouses and friends of Kamehameha Schools), free for active, full-time alumni students attending colleges and universities, and $200.00 for an alumni life membership.
If you have not yet joined, please consider becoming a KSAA member of the Intermountain Region. If you are a current member, please consider renewing your membership. Contact me at: mailto:[email protected]
Ron Yasukawa '63, Pelekikena
ROY HUSSEY
(1945-2003)
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Roy was a Past President, Kamehameha Schools Alumni Association -- Intermountain Region. He was one of the "founding fathers" of our organization. An active member to the end, he was involved in all facets of KSAA-IM activities. We owe him a deep debt of gratitude. He will be missed.
He was a Psychotherapist at the LDS Hospital (SLC, Utah) with his own private consultation offices. A community leader, he was deeply involved in Polynesian cultural events. On the side, Roy performed music with his "Pacific Paradise" Review.
On January 20, 2003, his wife, Diana Hussey wrote, "This is just to let you know that Roy passed away today at around noon, surrounded by all the family members. ... His passing was peaceful and in the company of his children, brother and sister in law and nieces and nephews. ... Thank you all for your prayers and faith. It helped make the end peaceful and acceptable for us. Love, Dianna"
Roy is survived by his wife Diana, two children and grandchildren.
KSAA-IM GRADUATE DIRECTORY
This is a directory of Kamehameha Schools Graduates living in the seven-state
area that comprises the KSAA Intermountain Region area of responsibility. We
have sorted them by state and then by city. The intent is to provide a quick
means to bring our graduates together...and strengthen our ohana.
For updates to these directories, please click here to email
Ronald Yasukawa
-- or click here for
Membership
information.
EVENTS PAGE WITH DIRECTORIES FOR HAWAII CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS; POLYNESIAN
BUSINESSES; & HALAUS.
The Events directory is broken down by state. Under each state heading you
will find a commercial directory of Polynesian/Hawaiian businesses in each
state, as well as listings of Hawaii Clubs & Halaus in each state. The intent
is to provide a quick means for our ohana to maintain links to their culture as
well as find a little touch of home in their communities. This service is
provided FREE as a community service.
Any Community Events or Polynesian/Hawaiian businesses that wish to added to
this page, simply send an email to
Kalani O'Sullivan
. All entries subject to the approval/disapproval of the KSAA-IM directors.
Click here to go to the Kamehameha Schools Press
for Hawaiian books for sale, click on the photos above.
Aloha Award;
Hawaii City (3.0)
We received
the Hot Lava Award
From Topher's
Castle
in Honolulu, Hawaii! (4.0)
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