Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 11, 1 November 1986 — Maui Residency Candidates [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Maui Residency Candidates

Education: Lanai and Nanaiakapono Elementary and Intermediate Schools; Waipahu High School, 1952; Maui Community College, 1979. Previous and Current Employment: Currently entertainer and free lanee writer; U.S. Army Korean War veteran; Matson Navigation Co. Honolulu Poliee Academy; Hawaiian Airlines; Screen Actors guild (appeared in "Hawaii" and "Hawaii 5-0"); assistant manager, Seaflite; disc jockey, KPOA Radio; program producer of Unele Manu's Corner, MCTV Cable 7; kupuna, Department of Education and Holy Innocents Preschool; entertainer, varbus Kaanapali Beach hotels. Community or Organizational Activities: President, Kahuna Laau Lapaau O Maui; president, Hui O Kekauliki, Helu Eba; president, Friends of Keopuolani; board member, Na Mele O Maui; president, Kihei Hawaiian School of Arts; member, West Maui Kiwanis; mayor's steering committee, Lahaina Youth Center; board member, West Maui Businessmen's Associatbn; honotary.-mem,bqr, Mau* ., chapter Lions Club; board of directors, Community Origination Cable 7; member, Napili Kai Canoe Club. PoliticaJ or Government offices held: Commissioner, Kamehameha Day parades. Why do you feel you shou!d be an OHA trustee? As a kupuna and teacher with young people, 1 know there is a great need for developing new skills for new crisis because our lifestyle is changing rapidly. Also changing is our respect for eaeh other, our children, our kupuna, our environment, our culture. We need a program to visit old folks homes and hospitals, callbg on the poor, invalid and widows. If they are Hawaiians, they deserve our love. We need to create a medical board of Hawaiian herbal medicine with Hawaiian kupuna in charge, assisted by doctors from the medical centers. Also needed is an incentive program for the arts, to create, lecture and teach. Should I be elected, I will work with OHA to promote, cultivate, preserve and protect the rights and privileges of this office for the betterment of the Hawaiian people. E ho'o mau pono, hana like kakou.

Education: High school; business and real estate. Previous and Current emp!oyment: Self-employed farmer; entrepreneur; real estate; currently retired. Community or Organizational Activities: Assisted Pae Galdeira organize "The Hawaiians." Political or Governmental offices held: Unsuccessful State House candidate, 1972; unsuccessful candidate, 1978State Constitutional Conventbn. Why do you feel you should be an OHA trustee? (1) Improve the image of OHA. (2) Evaluate and apply effective management capabilities. (3) Amend the structure of OHA's eleehon process. (4) Find ways and means to promote the betterment of the conditions of our people in the area of housing, economics and education.

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