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Professor
Kadohiro to Serve Health Dept
 Gov.
Linda Lingle has appointed Manoa Assistant Professor of Nursing Jane
Kadohiro as deputy director of health. Kadohiro will work with State
Health Director Chiyome Fukino (who is a graduate of UH's John A. Burns School
of Medicine) and will have overall administrative responsibilities for the Department
of Health.
A School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene faculty member since 1991, Kadohiro previously
worked as a nurse investigator for the Honolulu Heart program, diabetes educator
for Queen's Medical Center and in several positions with the Department of Health.
Spurred by her own experience with the disease, she has also conducted research
on diabetes among youth and diabetes self-management training and served as
a community planning consultant. She is president of the American Association
of Diabetes Educators.
Kadohiro holds a doctor of public health, master's in nursing, and bachelor's
in sociology, all from Manoa, and did post-doctoral research at Yale University.
She will be on leave without pay during her state appointment.
Honolulu
CC Lecturer Walt Discusses Why I Work
by Kiele Keiko Akana-Gooch
 At
first glance, Honolulu CC English lecturer Jeffery
Walt’s poem, Why I Work? hits a common nerve among working
people. It certainly struck a chord at New Millennium Writings’ national
competition, in which the poem won first place among 1,400 entries. Walt explains
his inspiration: “I was working in a coffee shop in Cambridge, Mass., called
Hollywood Espresso when I began to think of all the images around me—the
warm scones, the smell of coffee, the personalities of the folks I worked with.
I was also thinking a lot about love, so the two meshed in my mind and voila!”
2002 also earned Walt first place in the Oscar Wilde Poetry Competition, second
in University of Alaska Southeast’s Explorations competition, third in
the Davoren Hanna International Poetry Competition and the only honorable mention
award in Inkwell Magazine’s 5th Annual Poetry Competition. He has
received a residential writing scholarship from Djeressi Resident Artist Program
in Woodside, Calif., where he will spend a month this year concentrating on
writing. He has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
In addition to teaching at Honolulu CC, Walt is facilitating a poetry workshop,
Listen to the World, to be offered through Manoa’s Outreach College next
summer, and he continues to work as a full-time poet. Awakening 3:30 a.m. every
day, he spends from five hours to the entire day writing or revising his work.
“I continue to enter competitions and submit my work, and in the interim
I write, write, write. I study craft as intensely as possible, always striving
to become a better poet,” he says. He finds inspiration in what is often
monotony. “I believe that if we listen to the world around us there is
music to be had in everyday.”
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I Work
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