Posted on: Monday, July 16, 2007
Awards
Advertiser Staff
Elvine Pineda, Damien Memorial School's top-ranked senior class member, is the school's first student to receive the Governor's Junior ROTC Award. Pineda, who holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, will attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology on scholarship. He is a three-year member of Damien's National Honor Society and a Math Bowl champion.
Jeremy Baba of Kane'ohe, a Punahou School student, has been accepted by Youth For Understanding USA as an international high school exchange student. He will travel abroad to live with a host family and participate in a cultural immersion experience on the 2007 YFU Short Term to Japan.
Christine Palermo, a third-year student at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has been selected for the top national honor of the Association of Women Psychiatrists, the Leah J. Dickstein, M.D., Award.
It is given annually to a female medical student who best exemplifies the spirit of creativity, energy and leadership of Dickstein, an eminent American psychiatrist.
Palermo is attending the annual American Psychiatric Association convention in San Diego to receive a plaque and $1,000 award and to present her work in geriatric mental health research.
The Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawai'i has announced its 2007 board of directors and officers. They are: president, Corky Bryan of Parker Ranch; vice president, John McHugh of Crop Care Hawai'i; secretary, Kapu Smith of Kamehameha Schools; and co-treasurers, Matt Smith of the Gas Company, Inc. and Stephanie Whalen of Hawai'i Agricultural Research Center.
Also serving are: Jo-Anna Nakata of J. Nakata Associates; Eleanore Chong and Alan Gottlieb, both of Ponoholo Ranch Ltd.; Andrew Hashimoto of University of Hawai'i; David Kaapu and Diane Ley, both of Hawai'i County Department of Research and Development; Melvin Matsuda of Matsuda Fukuyama Farms; Loren Mochida of Tropical Hawaiian Products; Tim O'Connell of USDA Rural Development; Dean Okimoto of Nalo Farms; Dr. Bob Osgood, agriculture consultant; Monty Richards of Kahua Ranch Ltd; and Carleton Williams of Detor & Williams.
Pacific Telecommunications Council recently honored East-West Center senior fellow emerita Meheroo Jussawalla by creating an award in her name, the Meheroo Jussawalla Research Paper Prize.
Jussawalla is internationally known for her contributions to the field of the economics of telecommunications.
Recipients of the 2007 Honor Hawai'i Historical Foundation's awards are: Charles Burrows, co-founder of environmental organization, 'Ahahui Malama I Ka Lokahi; Rep. Corinne Ching, founder of Heritage Caucus; Rep. Cindy Evans, who represents District 7 of Kona; and MacKinnon Simpson, historian and author of "A Century of Aloha."
Easter Seals Hawai'i has been awarded a three-year national accreditation for its home- and community-based services by the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International, the premier accrediting body for rehabilitation programs.
Duke's Waikiki has honored accomplished hula dancer and instructor Kau'i Brandt with its 2007 Ho'okahiko Award.
Brandt taught hula here, then moved to California in 1971 to open the Disney Polynesian Show at Disneyland. She then moved to Florida to open the Kau'i-Pono Polynesian Revue at Walt Disney World's Polynesian Resort.
She is an important figure in the perpetuation of Hawaiian culture, here and on the Mainland.
The University of Hawai'i and its Alumni Association recently announced the recipients of the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Awards. They are: Walter Kirimitsu, attorney, state judge, advocate, UH vice president for legal affairs and president of Saint Louis School; Jay Shidler, real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist who last year gave the UH Shidler School of Business a $25 million gift; and Thomas Gill, attorney and former congressman, lieutenant governor and gubernatorial candidate who advocated tirelessly for social, political, economic and environmental reform.
Hawai'i Pacific University first-year communication graduate student Brandi Boatner has been elected vice president of advocacy for the 2007-2008 Public Relations Student Society of America National Committee. The committee manages the business affairs of PRSSA. Boatner will be the official voice on diversity and ethics for the organization.
Hawai'i Women Lawyers recently presented awards to: Outstanding Woman Lawyer of the Year Award, Colleen Wong, chief legal officer of Kamehameha Schools; Outstanding Judicial Achievement Award, Judge Sabrina McKenna, Circuit Court judge; Lifetime Achievement Award, Shimeji Ryusaki Kanazawa, elder advocate; Distinguished Service Award, Carol Mon Lee, retired associate dean, University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law; President's Award, U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono.
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