Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 11, 1 November 1987 — Pulama Na Kupuna Day [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pulama Na Kupuna Day

Kupuna members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints display banners upon whieh have been inscribed their family geneologies for Govemor John David Waihee III. They were among those who participated in a Church-sponsored Geneological Festival Saturday, Oct. 24, on the Brigham Young University Hawaii campus at Laie. Gov. Waihee on Oct. 14 proclaimed Oct. 24 as Pulama Na Kupuna Day and also Nov. 22-28 as Family Weekin Hawaii. FormerMiss Hawaii Patricia Lei Anderson Murray,whochaired the event, is pictured at right front row.

Kupuna and others gather around Govemor John David Waihee III following his proclamation of Pulama Na Kupuna Day and Family Week in Hawaii. To the Govemor's right is Kupuna Albert Like, 87, an expert on geneology with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and reportedly the oldest living member of Hawaii's kupuna program. At right directly over the letter "p" in the banneris veteran island entertainer Aunty Genoa Keawe.