KS IN THE NEWS
PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR Kamehameha Secondary School Principal Tony Ramos ’58 has been selected Hawaiÿi’s Met Life/National Association of Secondary School Principals State Principal of the Year for 2001-2002. He has also qualified for National Principal of the Year, with the winner of that award to be announced Tony Ramos in October. “What I feel good about is my colleagues, and a lot of them are public school principals, who recommended and selected me for this position,” Ramos said. He is the first principal of a private Hawaiÿi high school to win the award. BEST-EVER SHOWING FOR KS CHEERLEADERS Coach Dolly Wong ’78 led the KS Varsity Cheer Team to a fourth-place finish at the National High School Cheerleading Championships held at Walt Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Fla., in February. The National Cheerleading Championships included more than 5,600 cheerleaders representing 48 states competing in various divisions. Kamehameha’s fourth-place finish is the highest ever for a Hawaiÿi high school.
KSS COUNSELOR HONORED Kamehameha Schools-Oÿahu College Counselor Herb Wilson ’61 was presented with the 2001 University of Miami’s Excellence in Counseling Award. Nikki Chun ’99, who is attending UM, nominated Wilson for the honor. “Mr. Wilson always had time for us as individual students,” Chun said. WEBSITE HIT HARD The KS Website hosted 43,000 hits – from around the world – during the live Webcast of the 2001 Kamehameha Schools Song Contest in March. “Twenty-thousand hits were recorded in one 30-minute period during Song Contest,” said KS Web Development Specialist ÿAukai Reynolds. Viewers came from Colorado, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, Montana, Oregon, Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Singapore and Greece among others. The KS Website is at www.ksbe.edu. RESEARCHER CENTER SALUTES KS STUDENTS Marisa Joy Kellet ’01 and sophomore Kiani Arkus were presented with Senior Research Awards by the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiÿi in May. Kellet took first place with her project titled Effect of Extracts of Artocarpus altilis Bark on Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Cells. Arkus tied for second with her project, Hala and Hela: The Inhibitory Effects of the Pandanus odoratissimus on the Growth of Human Cervical Cancer Cells.
Members of the KS Varsity Cheer Team – back row, from left, Lis Abalos, Crystal Miyamoto, Ashley Manzano, Giselle Kim, Michele Kim, Danny Kauwalu-Key, Roelle Ho‘ohuli. Front row, from left, Summer Maunakea, Theona Kapoi, Emi Manuia, Shawna Lee. Kiani Arkus, left, is joined by Dr. Robert Cooney of The Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i and Marisa Joy Kellet.
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