Posted on: Wednesday, August 8, 2001

Scouts honor leader of Verizon Hawai'i

Advertiser Staff

The Aloha Council of Boy Scouts of America will honor Warren H. Haruki, president of Verizon Hawai'i, with its prestigious Hawai'i's Distinguished Citizen Award 2001 on Aug. 16 with a special sponsorship dinner at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel.

The annual award is given to a Hawai'i resident whose leadership has contributed to the growth and vitality of the state.

"The honor for me was tremendous," Haruki said. "Boy Scouts personally helped me a lot as a child growing up on Kaua'i. Both my sons were Eagle Scouts."

Having also been an Eagle Scout, Haruki said he believed in the organization and what it stood for.

"Those principles I learned in scouting helped me," he said. He said he found the Boy Scout motto, "be prepared," particularly useful in his business career and his life.

Haruki also serves on the board of the Aloha Council of Boy Scouts of America, as well as the boards of First Hawaiian Bank, Pacific Guardian Life Insurance, the Hawai'i Business Roundtable and the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation.