Waha Nui – 5/13/15

Tyler Okinishi

Iluumatrx dance crew, with many Central Oahu ties, competes May 23 for the Spotlight Dance Cup at Kaimuki High auditorium. The crew includes Kamalanimalie Manner of Hanalani and understudy Tyler Seapno of Mililani Middle School. Mililani brothers Dylan and Trent Seapno are helping on the routine with input from Kamalanimalie … Leilehua High’s Kirsten Titus and Hanalani’s Alanna Machado placed first in their categories at last month’s Hawaii Speech League Championships, Kirsten in Storytelling and Alanna in Program Reading … Tyler Okinishi (Mililani 2014) has graduated from Army basic training and airborne training at Fort Benning, Ga. … Newly appointed DOE deputy superintendent Stephen Schatz began his Hawaii administrative career in 2002 as a vice principal at Waialua High and Intermediate School. Stephen also is the twin brother of U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz … Rachel Mazzone (Mililani 2012) has graduated from Army basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. … Saint Louis School has hired that dreamy crooner, Glenn Medeiros, as its new president, starting July 1. Now a Mililani husband, father and distinguished educator working on his MBA at Chaminade, Glenn switched to teaching after his days in the ’80s and ’90s as a national singing sensation … Congratulations to Kamehameha Highway. The part leading into Haleiwa has been adopted by Monsanto; plus Wahiawa District Park has been adopted by Wahiawa Lions Club … Speaking of Lions, in the never-ending quest for good young eyes, Jack Kampfer reports that the club screened a total of 179 students at Kaala and Wahiawa elementary for vision problems recently and referred 30 of them for further exams. They had use of a super-dooper PlusOptix hand-held device that really speeds up the process, and Leilehua health academy students helped with eye charts. Next up: First Baptist Church Preschool May 20 …Wahiawa’s Kaitlyn Hawley made the winter term dean’s list at Elmira College in New York … Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., had four area smarties on its fall dean’s list: Kayla Kawamura, Kayla Kunisaki and Benjamin Rotz of Mililani; and Ei Meren Acierto of Wahiawa