Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 11, 1 November 1987 — Kaulukukui Honored [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kaulukukui Honored

The Council of the City and County of Honolulu recently honored Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Thomas K. (Unele Tommy) Kaulukukui Sr. for his outstanding community leadership; for being the greatest athlete ever to graduate from the University of Hawaii; and most especially for being the originator and president of Ho'olako 1987, Celebrate the Hawaiian. Additionally, a resolution introduced by Councilman John DeSoto also designated Kaulukukui as its very own "Po'okela Nui Hawai'i," (special living treasure).

The resolution pointed to his many accomplishments as a basketball, baseball and football player from Hilo High School to the Manoa campus; his years as an assistant professor of health and physical education; as a football eoaeh at Farrington and Iolani; as an insurance executive and U. S. Marshall; founder of the Pop Warner football movement; working with Babe Ruth and Little League baseball; his work with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and his golden years as an OHA Trustee and originator of the Year of the Hawaiian celebrations. The Council hails Kaulukukui as "its own very special Living Hawaiian Treasure."

Honolulu City Councllman John DeSoto sponsored a resolution honoring Offlce of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Thomas K. (Unele Tommy) Kaulukukui Sr. for hls work with Ho'olako 1987: The Year of the Hawaiian. He was also cited for other aeeomplishments. Kaulukukui is shown with his wife, Felice, and Councilman DeSoto with the resolution.