Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1989 — Gladys Brandt scholarship dinner raises $75,000 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gladys Brandt scholarship dinner raises $75,000

Leading Hawai'i corporations and prominent individuals have joined in to launeh a new scholarship fund for college-bound Hawaiian students. The Gladys A. Brandt scholarship fund is named in honor of the well-known Hawaiian educator who is now chair the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents. More than 420 guests attended a $100 a heae! gala dinner Aug. 20 at the Royal Hawaiian HoteL Monarch Room that raised $75,000 for the fund. lt will hnanee grants to students of Hawaiian ancestry who are seeking a college degree in the University of Hawai'i system. Graduate and undergraduate awards will be made onee a year, with preference to education majors. Co-chairs of the dinner were Miehael Chun, president of Kamehameha Schools and Ruth Ono, vice-president of Queen's Medical Center and a fellow UH regent. Dr Chun presented Brandt the gift, an oversized eheek, for $75,000 to the scholarship fund. Major Hawai'i corporations or individuals paid $5,000 and $1,000 a table as patrons and benefactors. Patrons included Alexander and Baldwin, Bank of Hawaii, Grace B. Guslander, Hemmeter Corp., Kamehameha Schools, PRI ine., Royal Hawaiian Shopping Ctr., Abigail Kawananakoa, and Edward Kawananakoa. Benefactors included Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Brown, the family of Mrs. Brandt, Edsung Food, First Hawaiian Bank, Foodland, Hawaiian Electric Co., the Danny Kaleikini Foundation, lntemational Savings & Loan, Poomaikelani Kawananakoa, Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i, Alieia King, Queen's Medical Center, and Mr. and Mrs. Myron B. Thompson.

Guests included the prominent and influential in Hawai'i; Gov. and Mrs. John Waihee, Sen. and Mrs. Daniel Inouye, state legislators, educators, Bishop Estate trustees William Richardson and Matsuo Takabuki, members of the University of Hawai'i Foundation and UH board of regents. The evening's program included a toast to Brandt offered by Dr. Albert J. Simone, UH president. There were also tributes to her from Senator Inouye, Governor Waihee, and by Bishop Estate trustee William S. Richardson, on behalf of the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate. Brandt is a former principal of the Kamehameha School for Girls. H. Howard Stephenson, president and chief executive officer of Bank of Hawaii also honored Brandt's achievements on behalf of the University of Hawai'i. Stephenson is in-coming vice chairman of the UH board of regents. The evening's festivity also celebrated Mrs. Brandt's 83rd birthday anniversary. A showpiece three-tier haupia birthday eake decorated with real ilima and maile was lit with candles and wheeled onto stage, as the audience joined in singing "Happy Birthday" to the guest of honor. Contributions to the Gladys A. Brandt Scholarship may be sent to the Kamehameha Schools Post High Scholarship and Counseling Program, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817. The scholarship fund will be administered by the Kamehameha Schools Post High Scholarship and Counseling Program, headed by Dexter Soares. He said details of how the scholarship will be administered are still being worked on, so applications are not yet being accepted.

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