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REHAB Hospital has appointed Castle High and UH grad Jean Nakanishi to executive director of the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation, plunging her right into the middle of a $17.2 million capital campaign … Congratulations to “most valuable staffer” Pua Guard of Kahuku High, announced at the Hawaii High School Journalism awards …
Kailua’s Amy Fisk made the winter dean’s list at DePaul University in Chicago … Windward scholars earning $5,000 Hawaii Rotary Youth Foundation grants this spring are Rebecca Weible of Castle High (UH Manoa) and Kathy Yuen of Kalaheo (Princeton) … Former state Sen. Fred Hemmings is still in demand for his world surfing achievements. Fred was on a panel June 3 at UCLA’s Fowler Museum for the program “Making Waves, A History of Modern Surfing and the Clash of Cultures” …
Le Jardin Academy students have fine language skills. Murielle Rodrigue of Kailua earned the Outstanding Senior in French Award from the American Association of Teachers of French. And (out of 580 entries) Japan Airlines declared Allison Farr and Zena Simpkins Hawaii Region grand-prize winners in its World Children’s Haiku Contest for students 15 and under …
Mapuana de Silva‘s Halau Mohala Ilima will participate in the Solomon Islands’ Pacific Arts Festival in July. But before that happens, it’s raising travel funds via a concert at 5 p.m. Sunday at Mamiya Theatre in Kaimuki. It’s $30 (261-0689), but you’re in for a treat from this award-winning Kaneohe-based troupe: a hula and chant by Miss Aloha Hula Lilinoe Sterling, a one-man drama by Moses Goods, plenty of hula, and Mapuana sharing hula stories. (Plus a silent auction at 4) …
Former Kailua Intermediate science teacher Donald Young has been appointed dean of the UH College of Education, effective Aug. 1. Also a former prof, Donald has made an impact at the university in curriculum and administration, the Better Business Bureau, charter schools and much more in his nearly four-decade career, so far … Elizabeth Lee of Kailua has received her bachelor’s degree in math from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley
