12 to watch in 2002
Hamilton McCubbin

Advertiser Staff

After nearly two years on the job, McCubbin has helped steer the venerable institution toward a new future. He has done it the right way: consulting with the people he is directed to help. Once upon a time, the mammoth trust focused on polishing its investments. Today, it is looking at how it can spend those investments to help more people of Hawaiian ancestry. The newer, better Kamehameha Schools will join forces with others, like the public schools, to extend its reach. In so doing, McCubbin, 60, will have to tread what is guaranteed to be a prickly path with the unions and public schools. And he can be sure his own constituency won't be shy about letting him know if he puts a foot wrong.

The dream is great. The preparation is over. Now McCubbin's challenge really begins.