Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 7, 1 Iulai 1990 — Miss Hawaii-California visits isles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Miss Hawaii-California visits isles

Miss Hawai'i of California Queen Luana Kapualani Alvarez and first runner-up Princess Hulalikai Medina-Kauwe were recent visitors to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Ms. Alvarez and Ms. Medina-Kauwe were accompanied on their visit by Bobbie Chun, editor of the Voice of Hawai'i Hawaiian newspaper of California, and his wife, Miriam. Voice of Hawai'i is the main sponsor of the pageant, held annually in October.

Ms. Alvarez, daughter of Juan and Leikula Alvarez of San Diego, was born on Maui and raised in San Diego. The family are members of the Hui Hawai'i of San Diego, an Hawaiian cultural club. She studied hula with her mother who was a student of Sam Naeole and Edith McKenzie. She works as a nanny and hopes to return to school to work with children.

Ms. Medina-Kauwe is the daughter of Ann and Manny Medina-Kauwe of Los Angeles. She is a graduate student at UCLA studying molecular biology. She is a member of Hula Halau O Kainoa, kumu hula Luana Mooney (a former Miss Hawai'i California.) While in Hawaii they visited Governor John Waihee, Lt. Governor Ben Cayetano, Mayor Frank Fasi, and Hawaiian product businesses and attended the Punano Leo O Honolulu concert. Ms. Alvarez noted that she would like to see Hawaiian Ianguage instruction offered to young children in southern California, as there are many

families with young children who want to keep Hawaiian culture alive. Her responsibilities as Miss Hawai'i California

are: to generate interest in Hawaiian culture, to show there is a Hawaiian community in California and to share the Hawaiian Aloha spirit.

Visiting OHA in June were (left to right): Bobbie Chun, with T rustee Moanikeala Akaka and Chairman Kaulukukui, princess Hulalikai

Medina-Kauwe, and queen Luana Alvarez. OHA administrator Richard Paglinawan and deputy administrator Stan Lum are at right.