Trade Winds

Advertiser Staff

• KIT DOBELLE, wife of University of Hawai'i President Evan Dobelle, is among three new board members of the arts advocacy organization Hawai'i Alliance for Arts Education. She is a former U.S. chief of protocol in President Jimmy Carter's administration and chief of staff for first lady Rosalynn Carter.

Other new board members include GININE CASTILLO, American Express Financial Advisor, and CHRIS PATRINOS, Hawai'i Convention Center director of audio-visual. DAVID McCLAIN, dean of the UH College of Business Administration, will chair the group's "Invest in Imagination" fund-raising campaign; Clarence Lee, president of Clarence Lee Design, is campaign honorary chair.

New board officers include: Chairman (second term) PETER APO, president of Destination Development Consultants; Chairwoman Elect GAIL MUKAIHATA HANNEMANN, Girl Scout Council of Hawai'i executive director; Treasurer MANU KA'AIMA, UH College of Business Administration accounting professor; Secretary MARCIA SAKAMOTO WONG, UH Department of Theater and Dance affiliate graduate faculty, and past chair AURORA FRUEHLING, civic leader.

• CAROL PREGILL, executive director of the Retail Merchants of Hawai'i, will serve as president of the Aloha Festivals board of directors. Among the 44 other leaders comprising this year's board of directors are MANU BOYD, MOMI CAZIMERO, STUART HO, DEBBIE NAKANELUA-RICHARDS, PETER SCHALL, HELENE "SAM" SCHENKUS and MURRAY TOWILL.

• The Honolulu Liquor Commission unanimously re-elected John P. Spierling to a fourth one-year term as chairman. Commissioners Clyde Eugenio and Chu Lan Kwock also were elected to one-year terms as co-vice chairmen.

• MARY LEE SHARP has been named director of human resources for Matson Navigation Co. She will oversee all Matson locations and subsidiary operations, including Hawai'i and Guam. From 1995 to 1999, she was director of human resources for Sheraton Hotels in Honolulu.

• KO MIYATAKI, most recently president of the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation, has been named to the newly created position of director of development for The Kamehameha Schools support organization, Ke Ali'i Pauahi Foundation.

• The Hawai'i chapter of the Public Relations Society of America has announced its board of directors for 2002: President Howard Daniel, Communications Pacific Inc. senior editor; President-elect (and accreditation chair) Donda Spiker, Kuakini Medical Center director of marketing and public relations; Secretary (and education chair/student chapter liaison) Shawn Nakamoto, UH director of public relations, external affairs & university relations; Treasurer Duke Gonzales, Shriners Hospital for Children director of public relations; and immediate past president (and alternate assembly delegate) Melissa Chang, Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties marketing director.

• Former Hawai'i Foodbank President JACK STERN has been named president and chief executive officer of Hawaiian Natural Water Co. following the Big Island company's acquisition by Nebraska-based Amcon Distributing Co.

Stern's predecessor, MARCUS BENDER, becomes vice chairman, reporting directly to AMCON Chairman and Chief Executive Officer WILLIAM F. WRIGHT, who will also serve as chairman of the board for Hawaiian Natural Water. Bender will act as director of special projects, with a focus on expansion in the Japanese market, North America food service sectors and special niche opportunities in health and fitness markets.

Wright, Stern and Bender initially will serve as directors. Stern also was general manager and director of business development for General Foods Corp., Hawai'i Region and South Pacific, for more than 20 years.

Also appointed at Hawaiian Natural Water Co. is ROGER MOREY, senior vice president of sales and marketing, overseeing those initiatives in Hawai'i and in planned North America expansion markets. He was a marketing executive with Eagle Distributors for Budweiser and other Anheuser-Busch brands, and Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Hawai'i.

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