Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 6, 1 June 1988 — Three Winners Have Been Kamehameha Graduates [ARTICLE]

Three Winners Have Been Kamehameha Graduates

UH Manoa Journalism Senior GetsBowman Award

Pearl Leialoha Page, a 1976 graduate of Kamehameha Schools, has received a $1,500 award as recipient of the Pierre L. Bowman Memorial Scholarship for 1988. Mrs. Page, a senior majoring in journalism at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, plans a career in television newsbroadcasting. This summer she hopes to do a news research project or possibly an internship with KHPR, Hawaii Public Radio. Page says she chose journalism as a career because she likes to talk to people and find out what is going on. She is the former Pearl L. Epstein, daughter of Jack A. and the late Frances Ka'iulani Kaina Epstein. She has two young daughters. Page is associate copy editor and contributing writer for the Ka Leo O Hawaii campus paper and has written on Hawaiian issues and the UH Hawaiian Studies Center. In summer 1987 she was the Honolulu Press Club intern at KGMB-TV, where she wrote stories and prepared segments for the news programs. She has also maintained a strong interest in singing, drama and acting since her high school days. She says her theater involvement helps her feel more at ease when in the spotlight and dealing with other people, and that acting helps her visualize scenes for television more readily. She was an ensemble player in the Rogers and Hart musical, "The Boys from Syracuse," and in March, 1987, she was an actress in a drug prevention video, "Talk Story," produced jointly by Leeward Community College and the Waianae Rap Center. The Pierre L. Bowman Memorial Scholarship award was established in 1986 in memory of the

long-time Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter. It is awarded to journalism students who have demonstrated journalism talent, an interest in culture and arts, and a good academic record. Preference is given to part-Hawaiian and Hawaiian students. The scholarship is meant to be applied to participation in the Nahonal Student Exchange Program. Pierre L. Bowman was a 1962 graduate of Kamehameha Schools. He wrote for the Star-Bulletin from 1971 to 1979, moved to the Honolulu Advertiser for a few years, returning to work for the StarBulletin from 1981 until his death in September 1986. He is best known for his love of culture and arts whieh he expressed with wit and humor through his interviews, feature articles, theater reviews and news stories. In his last months, he wrote a nostalgic series of columns about growing up in Hawaii, and poignant articles on his bout with cancer. Bowman attended the University of Minnesota school of journalism and graduated in December, 1968. He met his wife Leeann, a Minnesota native there. She graduated from the journalism school in 1969 and now does publicity and publications for Punahou School. Mrs. Bowman says he found the experience of going away was beneficial to his career, and felt strongly he wanted to help part-Hawaiians in journalism through a scho!arship. The bulk of the $33,000 endowment for the annual scholarship was raised by a benefit performance in 1986 of the production "A Little Night Magic." It featured loeal entertainers and celebrities. The rest of the funds eome from private donations. The Bowman

scholarship is the only endowed scholarship administered by the UH Department of Journalism. The first two awards in 1987 were coincidentally given to Kamehameha Schools graduates: Kimberly Souza, class of 1984, attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on exchange this year and returns to UH this fall; Dana Alama, class of 1983, graduated from the UH journalism program in 1987. She was formerly with KHET's "Capitol Spotlight" program.