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Exhibit Draws State’s First Senior Senator
Sen.
Hiram and Ellyn Fong
inspect memorabilia from his UH days and political career with Bronwen
Solyom, librarian and development officer. It took three flatbed
trucks to transfer the thousand boxes of materials that Fong donated to the
UH archives. Others viewing the Hamilton Library exhibit included Fong’s
son, Hiram Jr. and his secretary, Hunny Yee, and biographer, Michaelyn Chou.
Bob
Kamins,
chief
of staff to Fong’s fellow
senator, the late Oren Long, was also on hand, as was the libary's new congressional
archivist, Jan Zastrow.
Jim Mak’s Work in Economics Highlighted
Veteran
UH economist
James Mak was
featured in the Star Bulletin’s “First Sunday” conversation
Sept. 1. Mak, a professor of economics at Manoa, has taught and wrtten about
Hawai‘i’s economy for three decades. For more, read the article.
Recent
Accomplishments
Frank
Stewart, Manoa poet, editor and professor of English, represented
the United States at the recent Asia-Pacific
Conference Workshop on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry in Manila. For more,
see the release.
Books
by Honolulu CC authors Christopher
McKinney, Rick Ziegler
and Patrick Patterson are among the Hawai‘i
Book Publishers Association’s five
nominatees for excellence in Hawaiian literature.
McKinney, a language arts instructor, wrote The Queen of Tears. Historians
Ziegler and Patterson co-authored Red Sun.
An
untitled work by Michael Marshall,
Hilo associate professor of art, has been included in the State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts inaugural exhibition at the Hawai‘i State Museum.
The work is part of the Art in Public Places Collection.
In
Memory: Professor Thomas H. Ige
Retired
economics professor and Manoa administrator Thomas
Ige died Aug. 22 in Honolulu. Born
in Waipahu, he joined the university as an associate professor in 1953. He served
as veterans advisor, acting dean of summer session, director of Asian studies,
chair of economics, acting assistant dean of the College of General Studies
and acting director of the Economic Research Center before retiring in 1980.
Private services were held. Memorial gifts may be made to the Kin Chojin Kai
Okinawan Club, c/o Nancy Gaige, 1743 Kilohi St., Honolulu, HI 96819.
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