Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1989 — Stanley Lum new deputy administrator [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Stanley Lum new deputy administrator

Stanley Lum is the new deputy administrator for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Lum eame aboard Aug. 1 from the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center/Lili'uokalani Trust, where he supervised all administrative support functions for the center. Born in Honolulu, he is a graduate of Kamehameha School, Class of 1948. He received his degree of Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, in 1952. Following a stint in the U.S. Army, from 19531955, he went to work for the Territorial Government in the Civil Service Department as a personnel technician. In 1963 he moved to the Federal Aviation Administration where he stayed until 1981, climbing the ladder from classification and wage specialist to executive officer for the Pacific-Aisa region. In 1981 Lum went to the City and County of Honolulu as deputy director of the department of auditoriums where he served during the Eileen Anderson administration. He then moved on to the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center/Lili'uokalani Trust in 1985. Lum served for 14 years with the Hawai'i Air National Guard retiring with the rank of major in 1975. He was an original member of the Royal Guards, a unit of Hawai'i Air Nahonal Guard es-

tablished in 1963. Lum has also been a trustee for the Hemophilia Foundation of Hawai'i, a member of the board of directors of the Honolulu Youth Symphony, a member of the Board of Education

for the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu and a member of the University of Hawai'i Classification Appeals Board for Administrative, Professional and Technical Employees. Concerning his new job, Lum said "I hope I will be able to make a substantial contribution to the success of I Luna A'e and specifically with the claims of the Hawaiian people to ceded lands. This, to me is the one thing that carries the promise and hope for the future for Hawaiians." Lum is married to Betty Fernandez Lum. The eouple have five children: Oriette, the oldest, works at the federal District Court and is married to Rudolph Vegas; Stanley Jr. is a poliee officer with HPD and is married to Ella Kuniehika; Elizabeth-Arlis works at Hawaiian Telephone and is married to Blaise Liu; Lila Lillinoe is a medical technologist at Kapi'olani Children and Women's Hospital; and Kimberly, the youngest, is a graduate student at UH working for a Master's degree in speech pathology. The Lum's favorite activities include spending time with granddaughters Shaunda Ann Liu and Tiffany Vegas. When their children were young, the Lums often took them for camping trips to the beach and travel ranked high as a family vacation. Today the Lums try to do the same so that the mo'opuna may learn and benefit.

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