| UH alums are CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS. In Hawai'i, Larry Johnson heads the Bank of Hawai'i and
Donald C. W. Kim heads the R. M. Towill Corp. engineering firm.
Elsewhere in the nation are Lippincott-Raven Publishers's Mary Martin
Rogers in Philadelphia, Wackenhut Corp.'s George R. Wackenhut
in Florida and The Rockefeller Group real estate services company's Richard
A. Voell in New York. Alastair Macfarlane is chief executive
officer of Lansinoh Labs in Tennessee. First Hawaiian Bank's Walter
Dods attended UH, as did Time Warner's Richard Parsons. |
Other BUSINESS LEADERS include
GTE Hawaiian Tel President Warren H. Haruki. One of 1997's distinguished
alumni, David C. Cole, is senior vice president of Virginia-based
America OnLine and president of the AOL New Enterprises Group. James
R. Perry is the president and chief operating officer of Dillingham
Construction Corp. in California. UH's leadership in hospitality and travel
 industry education is evident in the number of alumni filling prominent
positions worldwide as consultants, general managers, operations mangers,
executive chefs and marketing and catering executives. UH graduates include
ITT Sheraton Corp. Senior Vice President Richard Hartman and Andre
S. Tatibouet, founder and president of Aston Hotels & Resorts. |
| Our graduates are also COMMUNITY
LEADERS. They serve on boards of community organizations as well as provide
leadership in religious organizations (Wisconsin Episcopal Bishop William
C. Wantland and California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation Executive
Vice President David J. Harris) and in philanthropic circles (American
Express Director of Philanthropic Programs Terry Savage and Hawai'i
Community Foundation President Jane Renfro Smith). One alumnus even
carries on the work of Mahatma Gandhi: Narayan Hegde is director
general of the Bharatiya Agricultural Industry Foundation, which was founded
by Ghandi. |
CULTURAL LEADERS abound among
our graduates. Close to home, Bishop Museum's Ben Finney
helped found the Polynesian Voyaging Society and wrote the definitive history
on surfing. Hula instructor Pualani Kanahele has been declared a
national "living treasure" by the Smithsonian Institution. The
University's mission of leadership in Asian and Pacific scholarship is
carried beyond our shores by alumni like Steven D. Owyoung, the
Asian arts curator for the St. Louis Art Museum. Others involved in cultural
endeavors include Gareth J. Nelson, curator for the American Museum
of Natural History, and Fredric Lieberman, director of the American
Musical Heritage Foundation. |
| Every member of Hawai'i's
Congressional delegation is a UH alum, as is their predecessor, Hiram
Fong, the first U.S. senator of Asian-American ancestry. Many state
and county lawmakers in Hawai'i are UH alumni, as are ELECTED OFFICIALS
in local, district and national positions across the United States and
around the world. Alumni include two presidents-Kuniwo Nakamura
of Palau and Bailey Olter of the Federated States of Micronesia-as
well as National Assembly of Korea representative Woo-Taik Chung.
Graduates also include a former British Columbia deputy minister and state
legislators from Oregon to Connecticut. |
UH alums are ENTERTAINERS,
prod ucing and acting in communities around the world. Others with UH credentials
appear on stage (legendary singer Don Ho) and screen (Georgia
Engel of TV's Mary Tyler Moore Show and Coach). Some alums help nurture
new talent, serving on faculties in universities from Tokyo to New York
and on staff at the National Endowment for the Arts. |
| Other PERFORMERS include Ligaya
Stice, a former Miss Hawai'i who danced on NFL sidelines for the New
England Patriots and is now a medical student. Scholar athlete Jason
Olive is a professional model with numerous advertisements to his credit.
Some prominent UH students achieved success even before completing their
degrees, like singer/actress Bette Midler and Peter Lawrence,
the Broadway production stage manager for Sunset Boulevard, who is now
collaborating on a new project with Andrew Lloyd Webber. |
A host of JOURNALISTS hold UH
degrees.  In addition to numerous reporters, camera persons, editors
and anchors locally, alums include CBS correspondent turned national public
relations executive Linda Taira, ESPN Sports Center anchor Larry
Beil and Washington Post national editor Fred Barbash. Applying
their UH training overseas are prominent Japanese newswoman Yoshiko
Sakurai and S. Tavake Fusimalohi, head of the Tonga Broadcast
Commission. |
| COMMUNICATORS abound among UH
grads. Paul D. Atkins has made award-winning documentaries for National
Geographic. Editors who communicate to specific audiences through professional
journals and other publications include Peggy L. Chinn, founder
and editor of Advances in Nursing Science, and Helen A. Guthrie,
vice president of Heinz Nutrition Science Institute, who has edited Nutrition
Today since 1987. Robert Adams, whose publications include Minority
Business Review and Economics Forum, attended UH. |
Alumni WRITERS of note include
authors of countless scholarly  works. Others produce works that
reach a more general audience -Harvey A. Miller's Field Guide to
Florida Mosses and Liverworts, Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and
the Bully Burgers and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman. |
Creative graduates also include
renowned ARTISTS. Super-realist painter Don Eddy, who exhibits regularly
in one-man shows and has works in permanent collections in the United States
and Europe, graduated from UH and famed ceramic artist Toshiko
Takaezu studied here. UH-trained DESIGNERS leave their mark on our
visual world. Architects are principals in many firms and design award-winning
projects, like Ambika P. Adhikari's World Bank in Nepal. UH-trained
graphic designers, like Karl Maruyama, also receive accolades. |
| EXPERTS trained at UH provide
leadership in a wide range of fields. The Asian Development Bank turns
for advice to senior agronomist Dimyati Nangju, and the World Bank,
to senior scientific advisor Donald Plucknett. The Caribbean Weather
Service is headed by Victor F. Morris, Jr. Among the ENGINEERS applying
expertise in Hawai'i, across the United States and around the world are
Life Cycle Engineering Chief Executive Officer James R. Fei in South
Carolina and Design Power New Zealand Ltd. senior consultant Nazrul
Islam. |
UH graduates are leading HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS. They include famed heart surgeon Richard Mamiya and
geriatric medicine pioneer  Patricia Blanchette, both affiliated
with the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine, as well as Centers for Disease
Control division director Duane J. Gubler and U.S. AID health services
deputy chief Mary Ann Anderson. Graduates fill challenging posts,
like Federal Bureau of Prisons medical director Kenneth P. Moritsugu.
And, like children's hospital chief of plastic surgery Stephen A. Schendel
at Stanford University and director of cardiology Samuel A. Wickline
at the Washington University medical school, they share their expertise
with new generations of caregivers. |
| Other prominent ACADEMICS include
university presidents Paitoon Pongsabutra (Dhurakijpundit), Anthony
H. Evans (California State UniversitySan Bernardino) and Chan
Suk Park (Kyung-Pook National). Surapone Virulrak is vice president
of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. M. Kathy Foley is provost
of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz. The many deans, directors and named
chairholders who earned degrees at UH include University of Pennsylvania
Center for East Asian Studies Director George C. Hurst, III. Among
the many prominent K12 educators in Hawai'i is Kamehameha Schools
President Michael Chun. |
Alums are ENTREPRENEURS large
and small. Finding and filling  niches in Hawai'i are Kihei Community
Preschools owner and director Janice Kaahui and Laser Age co-owner
Georgette Rosa Bacon. Orville Magoon is a winemaker in California.
William N. Melton founded VeriFone, sold it to Hewlett Packard and
started a new company, CyberCash. Fred S. L. Chan's ESS Technology
was a Forbes magazine pick for best small companies in America. |
| PUBLIC SERVANTS with UH degrees
are prominent in state and federal executive and judicial positions. Several
members of Hawai'i Governor Benjamin Cayetano's cabinet hold UH degrees,
as do alums Assistant Secretary of Defense Frederick F. Y. Pang,
diplomat Michael H. Anderson, National Institute for Environmental
Health Services senior staff fellow Li-Xin Zhang and several federal
district court judges. UH graduates also serve communities around the world.
Kwang Doo Kim is a member of the Korea monetary board. Abu Bakar
Jaaraf is deputy director general for environment in Malaysia. Isamu
Abraham is health director of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands. |
Football and all-American
baseball players are among the alumni ATHLETES who have built professional
careers on UH intercollegiate athletic experience. All American volleyball
 player Deitre Collins is now head volleyball coach at University
of Nevada Las Vegas. Ladies Professional Golf Association competitor
Cindy Flom Rarick also attended UH. Graduates have scored in non-NCAA
sports, like former world surfing champion Richard W. Grigg. Others
teach and study kinesiology, like Sangyo University Institute for Modern
Physical Education Director Kazuaki Hojo. |
| Leading alumni RESEARCHERS reflect
areas of UH excellence. Some have joined the faculty at their alma mater
and head internationally recognized University of Hawai'i labs. Others
have gained prominence elsewhere. Soon-Kwon Kim, who developed disease-resistant
maize hybrids for Asia and Africa, is a 1997 Nobel Prize nominee who calls
his efforts to increase production "seeds for peace." Research
organization DIRECTORS include Lynn Jelinski at the Cornell University
Biotechnology Research Center, Robert A. Dalrymple at the University
of Delaware's Center for Applied Coastal Research and Casimir A. Kulikowski
at the Rutgers University Laboratory of Computer Science Research. Joffre
B. Baker is the director of cardiovascular research for Genentech.
Omo A. Aromose coordinates the germplasm unit at University of Benin.
Henry Yue-Ming Pan is senior vice president for drug development
at DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. |
Featured alumni in alphabetical order.
