Trade Winds

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• LEEANN E.P. CRABBE, director of budget and financial planning for The Kamehameha Schools the last 15 years, has been named fiscal officer overseeing financial activities for Queen Lili'uokalani Trust. The trust serves native Hawaiian orphans and children in need, through its Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Centers. The centers served more than 9,000 keiki statewide in 2001.

• PATRICK J. LEONARD, a former vice president and partner in Laird McNeil Wilson Advertising, has been named promotion manager of Honolulu Publishing Co. and its publications Spirit of Aloha, the inflight magazine of Aloha Airlines and Aloha Island Air; AlohaPass¨ SmartCredits Program, and the Drive Guides map magazine for O'ahu and the Neighbor Islands. Leonard was most recently in sales and event marketing for ClearChannel Communications of Honolulu, KGMB TV and New Planet Radio.

Also named in Honolulu Publishing Co.'s Inflight Group i including Spirit of Aloha and the AlohaPass¨ SmartCredits Program i is SHERI ST. GERMAIN, new senior account manager. She was O'ahu director of sales and account executive for This Week Publications.

• THOMAS R. SCHNEIDER, former interim administrator of Honolulu Shriners Hospital, has returned to that position on a permanent basis. He replaces Tom Brotherton, who assumed the position after Schneider's three-month stint in 1998. Brotherton has relocated to a children's hospital in southern California. Schneider has been administrator of the Shreveport Shriners Hospital for children in Louisiana since 1992, taking leave to assume the interim position in Honolulu i and has served in administrative leadership capacities at Memorial Hospital, South Bend, Ind.; and Fort Hamilton-Hughes Memorial Hospital, Hamilton, Ohio. Here, he will oversee 200 employees and an operating budget of more than $14 million. The hospital has provided free orthopedic care to more than 21,000 children from Hawai'i and the Pacific Basin since 1923.

• JOHN OGOSHI has been named business development manager for Dick Pacific Construction Co. His recent projects include the new Pacific Command Headquarters at Camp Smith, Nanakuli Elementary School and the Honolulu Advertiser's production facility in Kapolei. Replacing him in his previous position as chief estimator will be MILTON MITSUI. Ogoshi will be responsible for all business development efforts, preconstruction servicing and design-build delivery process for Hawai'i, as well as overseeing the Hawai'i estimating department.

• The Hawaii Society of Corporate Planners (HSCP), the professional organization of business owners, executives and managers, has elected MICHAEL A. CHONG, mechanical engineer at Cedric D.O. Chong & Associates, as its president for 2002-03. Other officers include, secretary, GUY AKASAKI, president/chief executive officer,Commercial Roofing & Waterproofing Hawaii Inc.; co-chairs, boardroom, JOHN ELLIS, registered principal, LPL Financial Services, and DIANE SHIGETA, director, Financial Planning & Analysis, A&B Properties Inc.; treasurer, SHIRLEY IKEHARA, Certified Financial Planner (TM) practitioner, American Express Financial Advisors; co-chairs-vice president, membership, TOMMA IRVINE, account executive, Relizon, and CONNIE KNIGHTON, general manager, Computer Training Academy; vice president, communications, VALERIE KOENIG, President, Business Plans Hawai'i; vice president, programs, BARBARA KONO, executive director, Hawai'i Wall and Ceiling Industry Association; sponsorship chair, ANNE MAPES, president, Belt Collins Hawai'i; director-Web site, PETE MARTINEZ, president, eBizHawaii.com; university relations, vice president, ARTHUR RICHARDSON, research fellow, University of Hawai'i-Pacific Asian Management Institute.

• AGNES SYKES, former leasehold conversion program specialist with the city Department of Community Services, which coordinates implementation of the city's mandatory leasehold conversion program, has joined Hawaiiana Management Co. Ltd. as management executive.

Announcements of promotions and job changes can be sent to: Trade Winds, Business Section, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802, or faxed to 525-6763. Photographs may be included, but must be identified on the back.