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WHAT'S UP

• Call for 2008 ULSAA Dues Payment:
  Aloha, Grads and Friends, this is a call for 2008 ULSAA dues payments. Dues are $10 per year for state-resident grads, $1 per year for out-of-state resident grads, and $1 per year for non-graduate "friends" regardless of residency. Dues payment is strictly voluntary.

  Here's a list of proposals we've funded so far in the 2007 - 2008 academic year:

  http://www.hawaii.edu/labschool/ulsaamembership08duespaid.html

  Here's a link to the membership form in MS Word format:
  http://www.hawaii.edu/labschool/ulsaamembershipform08.doc

  A huge MAHALO to all our prize, our Hole-in-One, and our Hole Sponsors at the July 3rd golf tournament:

  Ameron Hawaii

  Bill Chee '62 and Prudential Locations LLC

  Steve Chow and Richard's Ltd.

  The Class of 1970: JoAnn Akamine, Donna Chang, Steven Chee, Carlton Chun, Leila Chun, Colleen Elfalan, Cheryl Hetherington, Chris Kanazawa, Sidney Kanazawa, Kendyl Ko, Neal Palafox, Wayne Tong, LiAnn Wada & Paul Yamamura

  The Class of 1975: Diane Chong, Tina Fong, Deirdre Fujita, Clinton Inouye, Debra Loo, Sandra Misajon, Clyde Miyoshi, Alton Okinaka, Carol Ogata, Lisa Salinero, Resi Suehiro, Jan Sullivan, Laurie Yamamoto & Lynn Yamashita

  The Class of 1992

  Dr. Delores M. Curtis

  Denis Kam '53

  The Limtiaco Consulting Group: John Katahira '88, Dean Nakano '72, Ron Iwamoto

  Guy Mello '89 and King Windward Nissan

  Yamamoto & Nishimura D.D.S. Inc.: Robin Nishimura '81, Albert Yamamoto, Darren Nakamatsu

• Kokua in Kind: You can help ULSAA by donating your car to the cause:
  I donated my car to ULSAA last year through Kokua in Kind on Paiea St, out by the airport. This is actually the fourth car in a row my family has donated there. It's a very easy process. Happily, this brought in over $2000 for our alumni association endowment fund. Yes, I could have made more had I sold the car myself, and I certainly could have traded it in against a new car. But I wanted to do it this way. And it was nice to get the tax deduction. If you ever decide you want to donate your car (or your truck, motorcycle, moped, sailboat, or jet ski, believe it or not) to ULSAA, just designate the University Lab School Alumni Association. Here's a link to the Kokua in Kind home page:
  http://www.kokuainkind.com/

• Danielle Robins Kaalele '91, along with her husband Keoki, have gradually taken over the management of Danielle's dad's busniess: Bob's Building Services Inc. Danielle says, "It's been a long ride, but I love it!" They handle both new home construction and renovation, and they are bonded and insured, and even do custom homes through Honsador Lumber. If you'd like to get in touch with Danielle, please call her at 808.259.9410.

• Lisa Adams '91 has her own Los Angeles area design business, spinning off the closet division from her husband's kitchen/bath design firm, Troy Adams Design. You can view her company's website here: www.laclosetdesign.com
  
  Read the 02/22/08 Star-Bulletin article by Erika Engle: http://starbulletin.com/2008/02/22/business/engle.html

• Sean O'Harrow '86 has escaped the UK and moved back to the US. He is now serving as Executive Director of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport IA. Welcome home, Sean.
  By the way, Sean, I just now thought about this ("just now" meaning 02/24/08):

  You are in I-o-way . . .

  If you ever get to mythical "River City," please send me a photo of you in front of one of those small town "Welcome to River City" type signs. Oh, and be on the lookout for 76 trombones and stampeding marching bands. Constant vigilance, Sean. Constant vigilance : )

• Casey Awai '86 operates her own interior design and art gallery in Waimanalo. It's called Koa Blade Design & Gallery, and you can see some of what she has to offer here: http://koabladedesign.org . Casey is very interested in showing the art of other Junior Bows, so please get in touch with her if you have Hawaiian-style work that might fit in with the look and feel of her gallery.

• Cindy Rees-Ouchi '72 works at Island Realtors as a senior partner. You can reach Cindy at 808.687.8012.

• Scott Yamashita '76 runs his own independent real estate business. Visit his website: www.scottrealestate.com

• Here's an interesting offer from Abe Lee '66 regarding real estate pre-licensing classes he offers. Abe says:
  I recommend that anyone who wants to buy or sell a house take a real estate pre-licensing course so that they can be educated about the real estate transaction process. If anyone takes a prelicensing class from me and uses my real estate company to buy or sell real estate, I will refund them the school tuition. I cover topics such as: tenancies, real estate law, fair housing, agency, contracts, disclosures, financing, escrow, title insurance, condominiums, subdivisions, timeshare, property management, landlord tenant code, etc. The 60 hours of classes can be done in a live class or by independent study. The student does not have to take the school test if they do not intend to take the state licensing exam.

  If the students do decide to get a real estate license, they have to pass my school exam and pass the state exam. Once the students pass the state exam, they have several choices:

  1. Go on inactive status which means that they cannot participate in any real estate licensing activity and cannot get paid a commission or referral fees. I do not recommend this.

  2. Go to a referral company and get paid a referral fee of 20% commissions for every person that they refer to us that ends up in a closed transaction. The students can keep their full time jobs and make extra money. They do nothing in the transaction but they get paid for a referral.

  3. They can join a real estate company and go part time or full time and be actively engaged in the real estate business and make full commissions rather than the 20% referral fee.

  I am a strong proponent of educating the public in real estate because it is the biggest investment that they will make in their lives and they go into a transaction without any training or education. The class will help them to understand the process and make them a better consumer.

  I offer 18 continuing education classes for real estate agents. If any of the alumni would like to take the classes, they can do so at no charge if they promise to use Abe Lee Realty in their real estate transactions.

  In order to take the state exam, they have to pass my school exam. I have a 98% passing rate for my school and a 67% passing rate for the state exam when they take the exam the first time. I have many students who take the state exam several times and they finally pass. If the student becomes a referral agent, the commitment is for as long as they have their license with my referral company. They can quit the referral company anytime that they want to. If the student does not get a license and wants to attend for the education, they only need to do one transaction with me or refer one client to me and I will reimburse their tuition upon the closing of the transaction.

  The website is www.abeleeseminars.com for a complete list of classes that I offer. The free classes are based on seat availability because this is a busy year for me for real estate licensees that need to renew their licenses.

• Band Director Ira Wong has put up more than 40 videos of Lab School Band performances on YouTube, and he's going to upload more and more and more : ) You can check them out at this link:
  http://www.youtube.com/user/ulsband

• Ira Wong has also come up with a definitive chronology of Jr. Rainbow band directors from the beginning to the present:
  Jack Browne (1950-53)
  Norman Rian (1953-55)
  Millard Mundy (1955-58)
  Don Walters (1957-58)
  Floyd Uchima (1960-66)
  Calvin Cullen (1966-67)
  William Steinhort (1967-69)
  Sharon Swindle (1969-70)
  Alan Fetterman (1970-1974)
  Richard Berg (1974-76)
  Fred E. Graff (1976-1977)
  Richard Berg (1977-78)
  Kazuhiko Sunabe (1978-79)
  Alan Ing (1979-84)
  Derrick Yamane (1984-85)
  Alan Akaka (1985-86)
  Derrick Yamane (1986-1993)
  Eugene Yonamine*
  Clarence Matsumoto*
  Dustin Ebesu* (Spring 1991)
  George Nomura* (Fall 1991)
  Juan Gregorio* (Spring 1992)
  Nolan Santa-Ana (1993-94)
  Elizabeth Kaneshiro* (1992-94)
  Elizabeth Kaneshiro (1994-95)
  Ira Wong (1995-96 to present)

  * indicates part-time

  

  Neighbor Island Speech Tournament 1996. Akaka Falls . . . Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch . . .

• If you would like to come back and talk to current Lab School students about the "real world" of college and work, contact Bill Teter by email, or call him at 808.956.4925. This is not a "career day" format talk. This is more like, "Hey, I've been through what you're going through right here at the Lab School, and here's what it's been like since I graduated."

  Back when I did college and career counseling, many alumni including Heidi Rian ('66), Gabe Garduque ('71), Gerald Lau ('72), John Shigemura ('72), Nate Fujita ('73), Leighton Wong ('73), Carolyn Kaichi ('74), Ray DeVilla ('85), Maia Forman ('85), Ken Tano ('85), and Cathy Wall ('86) took the time to come and talk to UHS students. The impact is enormous; you can greatly uncloud their thoughts and help them understand much more clearly what college and work are all about. There is nothing better than people who have lived the University High experience talking to students who are living it right now. The students listen very closely to UHS grads because grads have that extra credibility of having escaped from, er, I mean, uh, come from the same "family" : ) These students are a step away from breaking out, so you don't have to sugar-coat anything either. Feel free to tell them all about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful. They need to hear all of that. Please get in touch with Bill if you can give some of your time back to the family.

REUNIONS

• Class of 1978 has a reunion coming up fast:
  The Class of 1978 will have a two-part reunion on July 5th and 6th. They will be attending the annual alumni dinner on July 5th, 5:00 to 9:00 in the MPB, and they will have a grads-only lunch at Mike and Claire Muraoka's place on Sunday, July 6th, from 11:00 to 3:00. If you know any 1978 folks, please pass this info on to them and ask them to get in touch with Mike to let him know if they're coming to the Sunday lunch get-together. Even is they can't make the lunch, Mike is asking them to send him a short bio update.

• Here's info from Steve Rodgers regarding the upcoming Class of '88 reunion:
  Class of '88! for those of you that didn't receive an email already, we are having our 20th reunion this year! We are celebrating with a dinner on Thursday night July 3rd (after the alumni golf tournament) and then we'll have another event at the school at noon on Sat July 5th (before the all-school reunion later that afternoon). For more information or to RSVP, please email Steve at skrzsb at aol dot com or call 694-4335 (work number). Look forward to seeing everyone there!

• Colleen Kam Springer has a heads-up on 1966's Year of the Rat reunion. They're all turning 60 this year:
  UHS '66 classmates will celebrate their 60th birthdays at Rat Reunion 2008 on July 25 - 27. For information, contact Earle Shiroma (808-277-0733 or horitamo@pixi.com) or Abe Lee (808-216-4999 or abelee@hawaii.rr.com). Reunion info is currently being finalized and a flyer with all the details will be sent out via email and snail mail by mid-May.

• Here's a message from Randy Fujiki regarding '68's upcoming reunion: The Class of 1968 is gathering a contact list for a casual 40th reunion this year. Classmates please send your contact email or phone contact to Randy Fujiki at fujikir001@hawaii.rr.com. or 808.779.0428. If you know of any '68 grads please pass this information to them. Thanks.

• The Class of '58 has their 50th reunion coming up in September. It's a two-part celebration with dinner at the Hale Koa Hotel Laulima Room on Saturday 9/20 and lunch at Waialae Country Club on Sunday 9/21. The contact person is Peter Matsumoto: pmatsumoto@hawaii.rr.com or 808.395.5492. If you know any grads from '58, please relay this information to them. Mahalo.

• From Dave Murakami, here's info about the Class of 1959's 50th reunion in 2009:
  When: Tuesday-Thursday, September 22-24, 2009

  Location:
  Resort Quest Shores
  Waikoloa, HI (Big Island)
  Condo with 1 & 2 Bedroom Units $190.00 per night

  You are welcome to stay elsewhere. Let me know if you want hotel info.

  Contact Info: Please let us know how we can contact you: Name, address, phone, cell, email (even if you can't come).

  Info About You: Please tell us what you have done since high school, college, your career, children, grandchildren, retirement.

  Share with us: Something You've Learned About Life.

  Also please let us know of any 1959 class members you know how to contact.

  Let me know if you want a reservation at the Resort Quest Shores. Do you want info about hotels in the area?

  RSVP by 5/1/08 so we can get a head count.

  Email: David Murakami murakamid808@hawaii.rr.com or call me: (808)728-2001 cell phone

  

  ULSAA

  

  

  ULSAA logo designed by Sandy Hiraoka ('86).

  

  Current President and Vice President

• ULSAA BUSINESS:

  Aloha to all graduates and friends. Here is the current University Laboratory School Alumni Association Board of Directors:

  Danny Alvarez '88, President, through 07/10
  Fred Birkett, current Lab School Principal
  Lanning Lee '72, Vice-President, co-founder of ULSAA, through 07/10
  Rhegan Liwanag-Luat '01, through 07/11
  Allison Mark '96, through 07/09
  Rhonda Nagao, former UHS faculty member, through 07/09
  Melvina Nakao '69, through 07/09
  Wayne Tong '70, through 07/11
  Julia West '98, through 07/11
  Thurston Wong '81, past Treasurer, through 07/09
  Scott Yamashita '76, Treasurer, co-founder of ULSAA and first President, through 07/10
  
  Honored former officers:
  Robbie Alm '69
  Jane Burke, former Principal
  Dana Takahara Dias '84
  Peter Estomago, former Principal
  Sandy Hiraoka '86
  Loretta Krause, former Principal
  Grace Kusuhara '53
  Warren Nishimoto '67
  Kawehi Sellers '92
  Krista Stanfill '98
  Nylen Takahashi '77
  Pam Toguchi '89
  Darren Yoshioka '86
  Leighton Wong '73, co-founder of ULSAA and first Treasurer

• Become a member of ULSAA! Click here for a printable membership form.

THE CLASSES

• The ten latest additions to the alumni class lists, most recent first:
  Marlene Winn '66
  Lena Takei '89
  Shannon Ronia '99
  The Class of 2008
  Christine Fukui '66
  Harold Yang '58
  Raymond Yang '60
  Vernon Yang '62
  Aason Char '91
  Michael Ah Sam '87
  

• The ten most recently updated email addresses:
  James Burghardt '86
  Dan Shin '93
  John Owens '85
  Claire Cooper '66
  Deena Thoemmes '89
  Brian Young '92
  Jocelyn Izumigawa '86
  Adina Comilla '91
  Fred Hyun '67
  Peter Lam '86
  

• Note: If a person has an email button next to his/her name, click on that button to send an email message. If a person's name is highlighted, click on the name to view his/her home page or a website bearing information about that grad. A date in parentheses (xx/xx) at the end of an entry indicates how recently the info was updated. If there is no date at the end of the entry, the info might still be excellent. It just means there is no recent contact info change. I wish I could guarantee that all contact info is current, but I can't. People do move, or take new jobs, or switch email addresses, I've found. Please keep me updated as your own contact info changes. Mahalo ( :

Honored Friends & Other Grads:

Cary Miyashiro . . . email . . . 1658 Ua Dr, Honolulu HI 96816 . . . (w) 808. 534.4347 (12/05)

If you do not have your own electronic address, I'd be happy to list your mailing address and/or phone number. Please let me know your name (including last name before marriage if changed) and your graduation year.

• This is a happy list of UHS alumni marriages--both partners being grads:
  • Cheryl and Jim Harstad (Yes, this one definitely counts. Honorary grads. If not for UHS . . . :)
  • George and Shirley Iwahiro
  • Doug Watson and Tammi Arakaki
  • Lisa Enomoto and James Sereno
  • George and Rina Kawelo
  • Carl Racuya and Anita Kunihisa
  • Erinn Graulty and Scott Kawamura
  • Dennis and Patsy Irie
  • Margo and Bill Baist
  • Lyann Kahookele and Gabe Garduque
  • Lynn Yuen and Scott Yamashita
  • Claire Oasa and Michael Muraoka
  • Eleanor Ventula and Darryl Honda
  • JoAnn Hironaga and Milton Hino
  • Junior Atisanoe and April Stevens
  • Vernon Yang and Diane Sugihara
  • Gerald Fujita and Kathy Kamo
  • Oren Chikamoto and Beryl Morimoto
  • Koki Akamine and Joanne Hamada
  • Dianne Tashima and Dennis Sugihara
  • Melvin Miyamoto and Susan Kajikawa
  • Deanna Nakamura and Gerard Sakamoto
  • Donald Hosaka and Helen Fujiki
  • David McComas and JoAnne Harper
  • Michael Crossley and Marie Pahk
  • Kimo Leong and Nani Tamara
  • Linda Davis and John Macdonald
  • Stanley Naguwa and Janice Mitsuzawa
  • Ellsworth Hew and Sandra Leong
  • Malisa Evans and Romeo Gampong (10/26/02)
  • Marisol Pabo and Ken Peters (08/21/04)

  Hey, Michael and Marie, you would not believe how many people emailed me about you--phone calls, even. You are truly well remembered by grads. Any others?

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