Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 10, 1 October 1986 — Oahu Residency Candidates [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Oahu Residency Candidates

Education: The Kamehameha Schools, 1954; Brigham Young Uniuersity, B.S., 1963; University of Idaho, J.D., Ī976. Previous and Current Employment: Currently, an attorney in private practice; U.S. Air Force; analytical chemist, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; stockbroker, Walston and Co. Community and organizational activities: Founder and chairman, Malama Kanikapupu (Save King Kamehameha Iū's Summer Palaee); co-producer of "The 'Aina Remains," a 30-minute video; eofounder and director, Hawaii's Thousand Friends; vice president and director, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; director, Life of the Land; member, steering committee, Pauoa-Pacific Heights steering committee to stop condominium building on Pacific Heights; co-host, KCCN Ohana Radio Show; member, Alu Like ine.; treasurer and director, Pauoa Community Association.

Political or Governmental offices held: Chairman, Ad Hoe Committee for an Independent Neighborhood Commission; chairman, Initiative Committee Hawaii; delegate, Democratic Party Convention; ehaiiman, Charter Action Committee; chairman, Primary Urban Center Central, Area Planning Forum; representative, Honolulu County-District Area Organization; past chairman, past vice chairman, Nuuanu/Punchbowl Neighborhood Board No. 12; member, Democratic County Platform Committee; precinct treasurer. Why do you feel you should be ain OHA trustee? "Our people always have had a direct relationship with the land. Yes, the 'aina holds our symbols, our heritage. And only by encountering our heritage ean we plan the future wisely." (Excerpt from "The 'Aina Remains"). CLARENCE CHING is dedicated to the restoration and retention of the 'aina. CLARENCE CHING continues to be involved in the legal defense of attacks on Hawaiian land. CLARENCE CHING is thoroughly involved in safeguarding our history and restoring our heritage. (Uluhaimalama, Kaniakapuna). CLARENCE CHING is also concerened about our other important resources — water and people. CLARENCE CH1NG could do more as an OHA trustee.

R. Lunalilo Sellers (Did not respond)

Education: Damien Memonal High School; Chaminade University, degree in psychology/education. Previous and Current Employment: Vocalist/Entertainer Aloha Week court; assistant manager with major department store; employment counselor private emptoyment agency. Currently employment and training counselor, Alu Like ine., Oahu Island Center. Why do you feel you should be em OHA trustee? Working with Alu Like ine., Oahu Island Center for the past few years has brought to my attention various problem areas that the Hawaiian community is in need of seriously addressing. As a trustee I will advocate to helping with the improvement and enhancement of existing programs, also the implementation and promotion of "new" innovative programs whieh includes: Educational Programs (survival skills), access to Health Care Programs/Health Care Services and employment and job retention programs, and programs to motivate native Hawaiians toward eeonomie and social self-sufficiency as well as Hawaiian Entrepreneurship and Business Retention Programs.

Education: Waianae Elementary and Intermediate School; Robert Louis Stevenson Intermediate School; Roosevelt HighSchool, 1%5; University of Hawaii-Manoa, 1969, Bachetor of Arts, four-year scholarship from Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu; graduate level study in Pacific History and Literature; Lund University, Sweden, summer session, 1970. Previous and Current Employment: Currently legislative assistant, Rep. Kina'u Boyd Kamuali'i; administrator, Kaulana Na Pua Institute ine.; helped coordinate statewide hearings on Final Report of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission; Hawaii director, Native Hawaiians Study Commission; contributing editor of dissenting Volume II, Claims of Conscience; director, State House minority research office; research/writer, city report on "The Waianae Coast Hawaiian Cu!tural Heritage Center;" also employed as legislative liaison with United PuHie Workers; researcher with Unity House; public relations with W.S. Myers Advertising.

Community or Organizational Activities: Member, Prince Kuhio Hawaiian Civic club; member, Hawaiian Civic Political Action committee (HACPAC); OutstandingHawaiian Woman Award byAlu Like ine. in^polihe^ category; author, "The Mythological Heritage of Royal Hawaiian Women," published in the UH college of Education Journal and reprinted by the YWCA. Political or G overnmental off ices held: Delegate/Altemate, last three State Republican Conventions; board of directors, State Federation of Republican Women and Oahu League; past member, City and County of Honolulu Board of Parks and Recreation; past member, State Advisory Committee on Adult Education to the Board of Education. Why do you feel you should be an OHA trustee? When the Office of Hawaiian Affairs was first created eight years ago, Hawaiian yearnings for justice and fair treatment seemed to truly have a direction and substance. OHA, by constitutional guarantee and law, was to be the advocate and architect for Hawaiian betterment. None of that has happened. That's why I'm running for the O'ahu seat on the Board of Trustees. I know the State Constitution. I understand the law. And I'm dedicated to making the dream of justice and betterment for the Hawaiian people a living reality.

Previous and Current Employment: Retired, self-employed, vendor. Community or Org£inizational Activities: Treasurer, Hawaii Adult Blind Association, Society for the Visually Handicapped; chairman, board of directors, Honolulu Community Action Program; board member, Health and Community Services Council, Hawaii, Model Cities; advisory bord member, Service for the Blind; ex-officio member, Welfare Advisory Board; chairman, steering committee, Eeonomie Opportunity Council; member, Makaala ine.; member,

Hawaii State Commission on Aging; member Pauoa Community Association; Pauoa Senior Citizen's Association. Polilieal or Governmental Offices held: Chairman, StateofHawaii Advisory Council for Children and Youth; chairman, Legislative Committee of the Council. Why do you feel you should be an OH A trustee? I would like to see the strengthening of eommunieahon throughout the native Hawaiian community. I also support full emphasis of furthering the education of the Hawaiian voters.

Education: Baldwin High School, 1944. Community or Organizational Activities: President, Oahu Tenants Advisory Council; Oahu board member, Honolulu Community Action Program; organizer; policy-maker; lobbyist; negotiator. Political or Governmental offices held: Actively involved in poli tics since the late 1940s. Poli tical or Governmental offices held: Actively involved in politics since the late 1940s.

Why do you feel you should be an OHA trustee? OHA has tremendous powers to execute legislation beneficial to the Hawaiian populaee. Re-introduction of the Native Right to Sue Bill is a MUST for OHA at this upcoming legislative session. Back payments for the use of ceded lands the past 24 years by the State of Hawaii must be justified to the Hawaiians. Many well-known business individuals of no blood line have used Hawaiian lands for pastural and agricultural ventures with no payment for the use of these lands for years. Also, I believe the trusteeship with the State and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands should not be so; it should be under OHA. Who is to say who is capable of managing our lands when the state violated this trust by using our ceded land and dispensing our land to individuals of no Hawaiian b!ood. OHA trustees of the past have not aggressively organized and prioritized the needs of Hawaiians. Revenues to be received after passage of the Native Right to Sue Bill is mueh needed to implement the programs for the betterment of the Hawaiians in education, jobs, housing, health and culture. Recognition of famous Hawaiian names of individuals of OHA trustees are of no value if they cannot deliver to their constituents what is expected of them. 1 humbly ask for your vote to elect me as one of the OHA trustees. Mahalo. Aloha ke Akua.

Education: Kauluwela Hementary School; Central Intermediate School; Ewa Intermediate School; Waipahu High School, 1%4. Previous and Current Employment: Currently traffic line assigner, Hawaiian Telephone Co., U.S. Army. Community or Organizational activities: Hawaii Jaycees: 12 years; past president, Moanalua Jaycees and Hawaii International Jaycees; state athletic director, Hawaii Jaycees; estate Muscular Dystrophy Association program director, Hawaii Jaycees; eoaeh for Pop Warner, high school and semi-pro teams; involved in the Honolulu Poliee Activities League; Orange Krush Volleyball League; Daisy BB Shooters safety program.

Why do you feel you should be an OHA trustee? I believe that the seeming perpetual cycle of eeonomie repression and limited opportunities for our Hawaiian people ean make a difference through OHA. We need to develop better education programs and provide educational opportunities for our young Hawaiians. At the same time we need to build their pride in being Hawaiian through greater cultural awareness. I believe in expanding the scholarship program to include undergraduate college students and gifted high school students. We must develop a program whereby scholarship grantees ean share their abilities with the Hawaiian community after graduation. I believe, too, in expanding the kupuna program to include actual skills building in Hawaiian language and arts and also develop a weekly after school program sponsored by OHA to enable students to participate in Hawaiian crafts and language classes and establish proficiency criteria for students to graduate from apprenticeship levels to niaster levels. I bring leadership skills, problem solvingand negotiating techniques. 1 will work together with my fellow trustees to solve the problems that face OHA and the Hawaiian community. I want to continue working for Hawaii and our Hawaiian people. I feel OHA is a plaee where I ean make a difference.

Clarence F.T. Ching

Joseph F. Seīrao^^^^

Linda L. Delaney

Albert K. Sing

Pearl Kong Epstein

S.C. Tony Kalanui Soller