Club to present book on Kaneohe leaders
The Ko‘olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club is introducing its new book, "Distinguished Kama‘aina of Kane‘ohe," at a dinner Dec. 17. The event also will honor Haunani Apoliona as the club’s 2011 Distinguished Kama‘aina.
Twenty-four community leaders who have made their mark on the culture, commerce, history and heritage of the Kaneohe area are profiled in the book along with club founders. Among them: the Rev. Benjamin W. Parker, one of the first missionaries to settle in Kaneohe in 1834; landowner Harold K. L. Castle; and hula master Emily Kau‘i Zuttermeister.
Also profiled are past Distinguished Kama‘aina honorees, including Alice P. Hewett, whose involvement with youth sports has touched the lives of generations of Kaneohe residents.
Project coordinator Mahealani Cypher called the book "a labor of love" that involved hours of research.
"It brings together historical figures, both contemporary and from the past, who give us a glimpse of Kaneohe from two centuries ago to the present," she said.
The event, which will run from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Kokokahi YWCA’s Atherton Hall, includes dinner, entertainment and a silent auction benefiting the club’s scholarship fund.
Tickets are available for a minimum donation of $10. Call 235-8111 or email jonesjen@hawaii.rr.com.
HPU offering $250 for poetry entries
Hawaii Pacific University is seeking entries from poets for the annual James M. Vaughan Award, which carries a $250 cash prize and publication in the literary magazine Hawai‘i Pacific Review.
The work can be a single poem or up to three totaling no more than 100 lines. Poets must have resided in Hawaii at least a year.
Send entries and a separate page with name, address, phone number, email address, title of poems and a five-line biography to James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry, 1060 Bishop St., LB 7A, Honolulu 96813. Postmark deadline is Thursday. See www.hpu.edu/HPUNews and open the Vaughan Award item.
