Team Nominated for Gov's Award

Manoa library fiscal staffers Goya, Kageura, Nishioka and Tanaka.

A high standard of service at all times and "Herculean efforts" during recovery from the October campus flood has earned the Manoa Library Services fiscal team UH's nomination for the Team Excellence Award of Merit in the 2005 Governor's Awards for Distinguished State Service. Team members Nora Goya, Jane Kageura, Audrey Nishioka and Faith Tanaka were recognized by the Board of Regents July 19.

Not present was their fellow team member, Fiscal Officer John Awakuni, who is also nominated in the Employee of the Year category. Awakuni's "genuine caring attitude, meticulous attention to detail, tireless dedication and sheer perseverance make him one of the true heroes of the university," commented President David McClain. Awakuni earlier received the Manoa Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service.

Board of Regents Elects Officers

During their July meeting, regents elected Kitty Lagareta, right, chair and Alvin Tanaka vice chair for 2005-06.

Miyose

Hilo Names Employee of the Quarter

Eighteen-year campus veteran Dean Miyose is Hilo's Administrative Affairs Employee of the Quarter. The groundskeeper working supervisor is recognized for his leadership. Read the news release.

Achievements and Activities

It's a return engagement for Maui faculty Vinnie Linares, Alfred Wolf and Ginny Morgan. The members of Early Music Maui were invited to return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Aug. 6-13. This year, their performance includes Mozart in the Morning and Celtic Songs.

Emme's Island Moments features the Hawai‘i Student Film Festival and Platinum Award film Kamea at 9 p.m. July 28 on KHON TV. UH Academy for Creative Media faculty member Anne Misawa was cinematographer on the 25-minute student-produced independent film shot in Hawai‘i.

The first Big Island Short Film Festival July 23 screened the work of students in Tristine Rainier's Hilo summer course on screenwriting. The family-friendly shorts ranged from family conflict in World War II era Hawai‘i to a music video about a coqui frog's bad vacation. Judges for the festival included Hilo faculty members Jackie Pualani Johnson, drama, and Michael Marshall, art.

In Memory

Shen

Haigo T. H. Shen, the noted Chinese architect who served as an adjunct professor in Manoa's School of Architecture, will be remembered during services at the Valley of the Temple on O‘ahu July 26. Visitation is at 9 a.m., followed by services at 10 and burial at 11. Shen died June 18 in his native Shanghai, where he had recently participated in the UH-sponsored Sixth International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture.

Shen's large Taiwan firm served as a UH ArchD program practicum site, and he and his wife endowed the Haigo and Irene Shen Architecture Gallery at the school. An East-West Center Distinguished Alumnus, he co-chaired the East-West Center Foundation Board of Directors. Read the news release.

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SCOOPS

Kapi‘olani students Chris Tachibana and Erika Kataoka have received JASSO scholarships to study in Japan on student exchange programs during 2005-06. Information on the scholarship is available at the Honda International Center, 808 734-9824.

The July issue of Honolulu Magazine lists former Board of Regents Chair Patricia Lee as one of 14 "Best Lawyers in Hawai‘i" in the area of trusts and estates.

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