ON CAMPUS
At campus aloha party: Natasa Subotic (BSBA ’06, MBA ’11), Kris Smith (BA ’95, MA ’97), Nathan Lawrence (BA ’10), Francis Chang (MBA ’91), Katja Silveraa (BSBA ’02, MA ’04), Brad Harrison (BA and BSBA ’85, MBA ’95), Associate Vice President of Alumni and University Relations Margi Ulveling, Debbie Durbin, Marine Biology major, Ivo Kerelski (BSBA ’02), Anastasia Markina, MBA major
A Date with History
Photo courtesy of Dr. Jon Davidann
History student David Rosehill took first prize for best paper using primary sources at the Regional Phi Alpha Theta conference at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa on March 10. His paper was about the oil situation in Alaska.
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Three HPU history department faculty members also participated in the conference: Jon Davidann, PhD, chaired a panel on the history of oil in the 20th and 21st centuries; James Corcoran, PhD, chaired a panel on American history; and Linda Lierheimer, PhD, served as a judge.
Representatives from Yamagata University in Japan visited HPU’s Alumni and University Relations department to develop international relations and discuss alumni engagement efforts.
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Margi Ulveling, associate vice president of Alumni and University Relations, retired in March after 14 years of service to HPU. After joining the University in 1998 as the Director of Development, she led many significant University fundraising and alumni engagement efforts. Ulveling helped create and develop The President’s Fund, which grew from 41 donors in the first year to 400 donors. The funds raised benefited new programs, including teacher education, health sciences and performing arts. The HPU community acknowledges Margi’s dedication and leadership.
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Mahalo and Aloha
From left to right: Tara Wilson, HPU Assistant Vice President, Annual Giving and Constituency Relations; Atsushi Takahashi, Associate Director, Enrollment Policy Division; Shinji Fukushima, Professor, Office of Enrollment Management; Norihiko Tsuji, Enrollment Management Manager; Mary Ellen McGillan, HPU Vice President, Alumni and University Relations (AUR); Nancy Chancellor, HPU Associate Director, AUR; Reiko Hata, HPU MA in Communication student; Lianne Yamamura, HPU Director of Communication, AUR
Award-winning writer Tyler McMahon gave a speech at Hawai‘i Pacific University’s 15th Annual Ko‘olau Writing Workshops on March 3. The event was held at the Hawai‘i Loa Campus in Kane‘ohe. McMahon is an assistant professor and HPU’s fiction writing specialist in the English Department. He was runner-up in the Ian McMillan Writing Contest in 2011, nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009, and authored the recent St. Martin’s Press novel
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“How the Mistakes Were Made.” McMahon was a finalist for the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for the novel “Chloroquine Dreams.” McMahon has also published more than 35 short stories, essays, reviews and interviews. His short story, “A Pocket Guide to Male Prostitution,” was shortlisted for the 2009 “Best of the West” anthology, and short story “Deeper into Sicness” was nominated for the 2009 Million Writers Award.
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Annual Ko‘olau Writing Workshops Local writers were invited to listen to McMahon speak and to take workshops in scriptwriting, fiction, poetry and non-fiction. HPU’s James Vaughan Poetry Contest winner was also awarded at the event.