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Holy Nativity names head of school

Dr. Robert H. Whiting has been named Head of School at Holy Nativity School after a six-month, international search.

A senior educator in Hawai'i, Whiting is currently on staff at Kamehameha Schools, where he has served as director of Learning Centers since 1975 and was special events coordinator from 1979 through 2000.

Whiting also is a trustee for the ASSETS School and is on the executive committee of the Hawai'i chapter of the American Red Cross.

He begins work at Holy Nativity on July 1.

UH association honors 7 alumni

The University of Hawai'i Alumni Association recently honored its distinguished alumni. They are:

• Naleen Naupaka Andrade, B.A. 1976, M.D. 1982, chair, Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine.
• Jack S. Fritz, B.A. 1973, J.D. 1979, speaker of the Federated States of Micronesia Congress.
• Haruyuki Kamemoto, B.S. 1944, M.S. 1947, professor emeritus, Department of Horticulture, UH-Manoa.
• Robert N. Katayama, B.A. 1950, president, Kapolei Holding Corp.
• Lydia L.W. Tsui, B.B.A. 1975, president, Panda Travel Inc.
• Edwin S.N. Wong (deceased), B.A. 1951, former chair, president and chief operating officer, Waterhouse Inc.
• Kane S. Fernandez (deceased), B.B.A. 1958, former chief executive officer, Fernandez Entertainment Inc. Received the UHAA President's Award.
  
  
  

Four science winners from Kamehameha

Four students from Kamehameha Schools won Grand Awards at the 2001 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair recently in San Jose, Calif., according to the Hawai'i Academy of Science.

Kawika Analu Mortensen, 17, won one of five second-place Grand Awards of $1,500 in the Medicine and Science category for his research project, "Happy Hearts: Microalgal Antioxidant Effects on an in vitro Model of Atherosclerosis."

Marisa Joy Kellett, 17, won one of five third-place Grand Awards of $1,000 for her project in biochemistry, "Effects of Extracts of the Artocarpus altilis Bark on Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Cells." Kellett also won a $500 award from the American Society of Pharmacognosy.

The team of Kalikolehua Hurley, 17, and Nicole Shishido, 17, took one of four fourth-place Grand Awards of $500 each for their project, "Inside Iholena: Anticancer Effects of Floral Extracts."

Teacher adviser for all the Hawai'i winners was Larry Mordan, an honors science teacher at Kamehameha Schools.

Punahou magazine gets national honor

Punahou School's literary magazine, Ka Wai Ola, has been recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Punahou was one of 39 schools to receive "highest award" status from a field of 593 school magazines nationwide. Punahou was the only school from Hawai'i to receive the highest honor.

The magazines are rated on quality of content, variety of writing, editing, proof-reading and design.