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• Former Honolulu Advertiser reporter KRIS TANAHARA has been promoted by Stryker Weiner & Yokota Public Relations Inc. from account executive to senior account executive. Tanahara, whose accounts have included the Honolulu Festival Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, will handle local and national publicity and promotions, events planning, crisis communications and community relations. Her other accounts include The Westin Maui, Home Depot, and Pacific Basin Communications.

• Communications-Pacific Inc. has promoted JACKIE SMYTHE, who heads the marketing communications group, to vice president. Clients under her oversight include Meadow Gold Dairies Hawai'i and the Pineapple Growers Association of Hawai'i.

Comm-Pac also has hired DARA FUJIMOTO, a former KHON-TV news producer and communications specialist for The Queen's Medical Center, as senior account executive, and JENNIFER BOWERS, former marketing communications area manager at Cincinnati's King's island theme park, as new account supervisor.

• Hawaiiana Management Co. Ltd. has named CHARLA TREVENEN vice president of administration, with responsibilities for the handling of new accounts. Trevenen has been with Hawaiiana Management for 20 years. Her past responsibilities have included the Waikele Community Association and the 'Ewa by Gentry Community Association.

• Land-use planner and urban designer GRANT T. MURAKAMI has been promoted to a senior associate and planner with PBR Hawai'i. Murakami's projects have included the award-winning long-range development plan for University of Hawai'i — West O'ahu, the Maui and Big Island campuses for The Kamehameha Schools and the Kapolei Village Center Master Plan. With his promotion, he will be project manager and lead designer for campus master plans, resort/residential master plans, urban design plans, and design guidelines for private and public projects in Hawai'i. Murakami is also the president of the local chapter of the American Planning Association.

PRB Hawai'i also promoted new associate/planner TOM SCHNELL, experienced in public and private land planning, analysis, environmental planning and governmental permit processing. He was a policy analyst with the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawai'i and worked on such projects as the McCully-Mo'ili'ili Beautification Master Plan and Hawai'i Baptist Academy.

• First Hawaiian Bank has announced several promotions and appointments within the Taft Hartley department: BRADFORD L. HARRISON and WINTON D.C. YOUNG, promoted to vice presidents, and PHILIP TAN, named assistant vice president.

• Architects Hawai'i has announced several promotions: Architect WILLIAM BRIZEE, whose projects have included The Shops at Wailea (Maui) and the recent Queen's Medical Center emergency room project, was promoted to senior associate. RICHARD SULLIVAN, chief construction administrator, was promoted to associate. The architect is a 33-year veteran of property assessment, quality control, construction administration and project management. Designer JEAN-LOUIS LOVE-RIDGE, whose projects include the Turtle Bay Hotel renovation, was promoted to associate.

PATRICIA RAMIREZ was promoted to marketing manager, also responsible for public relations. She has been with the construction industry for 16 years.

• SHAWN NAKAMOTO, most recently University of Hawai'i director of public relations, has been named creative services manager for The Kamehameha Schools. Assigned to the communications division, she will oversee school publications, video-broadcast projects, advertising and public relations and communications campaigns. Nakamoto is also past director of public relations for St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawai'i, and public relations administrator for the Honolulu Board of Realtors.

• Ke Ali'i Pauahi Foundation, The Kamehameha Schools' support organization, has named JEAN LUKA financial aid and scholarship services director. Kamehameha's Financial Aid and Scholarship Services processes about 20,000 applications every year, granting assistance for about 800 pre-schoolers, 2,000 campus-based students, 500 summer school program students and 3,000 students in colleges. Luka will also be responsible for administering scholarships for an increasing number of private donors. She is a former funding coordinator for the state Department of Health, Developmental Disabilities division, and has worked at the Administration for Native Americans in Washington, D.C.

• ERIC FUJIMOTO, a financial adviser in the Ala Moana Pacific Center office of American Express, has been named to the financial planning and service company's nationwide Advanced Advisor Group — Senior Financial Advisors.

• GREGORY C. CHUN has been named vice president of corporate services for the 225,000-acre Parker Ranch on the Big Island, overseeing all administrative functions for the administrative, accounting and finance, human resources, risk management, safety and security, and strategic planning divisions. Chun is also president of 'Iulu Consulting Group, an organizational development firm headquartered in Honolulu. He is a past director of organizational development for Hawaiian Electric Co.

• LORI AIPOALANI has been named bookkeeper for Ko'olau Catering Partners, the in-house catering and events planning service for the Windward O'ahu Ko'olau Golf Club. Aipoalani will be responsible for accounting, payroll, general cashiering, and some purchasing, as well as overseeing human resources for the company.

• YASUYOSHI TAJIMA has been named executive chef for the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio hotel. He was previously with Sheraton and Marriott in Hawai'i, and with hotels in Japan and Canada.

• PHILIP JOHNSON, University of Hawai'i professor of information and computer sciences, has been named to the board of directors of LavaNet, a locally owned Internet service provider. He is also a co-founder of the local high-tech company hotU and on the board of directors of the Hawai'i Strategic Development Corp. and High Technology Development Corp.

• DARRYLL GOODMAN of Hawaiian Asset Management & Investment Corp. has been named state operations chairman for the International Council of Shopping Centers. He will be responsible for the planning of the nonprofit organization's local meetings and programs, promoting members' services, and exchange of information and ideas.

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.