Kamehameha Schools to focus on five major initiatives in 2005 by Dee Jay Beatty Mailer ’70 Chief Executive Officer
Aloha käkou!
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Diane J. Plotts
I hope the beginning of 2005 has been auspicious and hopeful for you and your families. It is incredible that we are already five years into the 21st century! Even more astonishing is that a year has already passed since I first returned to Kamehameha Schools. As I look back at the last year, I am awed by what the Kamehameha Schools ‘ohana has done to improve the well-being of Hawaiians through education. Last year, we enrolled 6,254 students in our campuses and preschool programs, and supported another 28,745 students through our community outreach efforts, including 1,400 students, most of them Hawaiian, in community-based charter schools. Another 7,700 students in preschool through college received financial aid or scholarships toward their education. Our ‘ohana stood beside us in 2004 to support our Hawaiian preference policy in court, helped repeal Chapter 38, a law that allowed condemnation of ali‘i trust leasehold lands, and helped Hawaiians to register and vote to have a say in how government affects our lives. But Kamehameha Schools has never rested on its laurels. There is so much more to do. In 2005, consistent with our strategic plan, we will focus on five major initiatives: • Expanding our educational reach even further;
Chair
Robert K. U. Kihune ’55 Vice Chair
J. Douglas Ing ‘62 Secretary/Treasurer
Constance H. Lau Nainoa Thompson CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Dee Jay Mailer ’70 VICE PRESIDENTS Kirk Belsby Endowment
Michael P. Loo Finance and Administration
Ray C. Soon Community Relations and Communications
Colleen I. Wong ’75 Legal Services
EDUCATION Julian Ako ’61 Interim Head-Educational Support Services
D. Rodney Chamberlain, Ed.D. Headmaster-Maui Campus
Michael J. Chun, Ph.D. ’61 Headmaster-Kapa¯lama Campus
Stan Fortuna Jr., Ed.D. Headmaster-Hawai‘i Campus
Charlene Hoe Interim Head-Community Outreach Education
I MUA STAFF Ed Kalama ’76 Editor
Lesley Agard ’68 Assistant Editor
Gerry Johansen ’60
• Collaborating with communities to develop capacity to serve more Hawaiian children and families;
Alumni Editor
Michael Young Photography
• Continue developing as a Hawaiian organization, integrating the values and imperatives of Hawaiian culture, including servant leadership and land stewardship, into all we do;
CONTRIBUTORS Lani Abrigana Elizabeth Freeman Ahana ’93 Lilinoe Andrews Henry Bennett Marsha Heu Bolson ’70 Sue Herring Botti ’76 Matthew Corry Randie Fong ’78 Kalani Fronda ’88 Lynn Criss Fujita Andrea Fukushima Napua Kawaa Kaaa ’88 Kerry Kamisato Rachel Lee Ulalia Woodside Helen Wong Smith Kalani Wong ’74 Thomas Yoshida
• Strengthening our endowment; and • Protecting Kamehameha’s right to serve Hawaiians through our preference policy, and standing united with our ‘ohana and the community to protect the rights of Native Hawaiians. We have set the bar high for ourselves, only because we know that’s what Princess Pauahi would have expected. Mahalo nui loa for your support of our mission, and for your tireless and devoted commitment to Pauahi’s legacy. This year offers all of us yet another opportunity to work and stand proudly together to fulfill Pauahi’s wishes. Ku¯ kilakila o Kamehameha!
I MUA DESIGN O Communications
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Vol. 2005, Issue 1 I Mua is published quarterly by the Kamehameha Schools Community Relations and Communications Group, 567 S. King St., 4th floor, Honolulu, HI 96813. I Mua exists to inform alumni, parents, students, staff and friends of Kamehameha Schools of current educational and endowment programs, to generate interest in and support for those programs, and to help alumni maintain close ties to the institution and to each other.
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On The Cover Kawailoa Plantation manager Kapu DeSilva Smith ’75 and Kamehameha land agent Jimmy Lodl join farmer Milton Agader as he displays his product in the asparagus fields of Kawailoa.