Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 26, Number 11, 1 November 2009 — Mahalo, all around [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mahalo, all around

The Native Hawaiian organizations I am most thankful for are the: • Kamehameha Schools for having i educated my late father, Curtis Kekoa, 1 Class of 1940, an orphan who became a U.S. Air Force eolonel and lawyer.

Others in our familial Warriors tradition include husband /

Edmund and myself, both '64; our children, Lehua Kadooka '87 and Edmund Honu Enomoto '88; brothers Curtis i

Kekoa Jr. '67 and Kevin Kekoa '77; nephews Clement Enomoto '92, Spencer Enomoto '96 and Kody Kekoa '10; and nieces Tanya Enomoto '02 and Kiana Kekoa '12. • Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for

having given to me, built and financed our home

it Waiohuli homestead in Upcountry Maui. As . son Honu says, our hale is a "sweet" pu'u honua.

• Nā Hanona Kūlike 'O Pi'ilani hālau, led by nā kumu hula Kapono'ai Molitau and Sissy Lake-Farm, for six years of transforma- - tive nana oli. nana hula kununa and annual

traditional rituals at Pu'ukohola heiau all of whieh continues to enrich.

• Kamali'i Ine. dba Hawaiian Canoe Club for another amazing state championship season, I recreational paddling twice a iweek and ha'aheo as the club approaches its 50th anniversary in 2010. The club provides healthful exercise in a cultural ■i context of athletic competition, / amidst a lei of friends. Kekoa Catherine Enomoto i Kula, Maui

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