Junior Achievement honors six inductees

Advertiser Staff

Six local business leaders will join the existing 43 members of the Junior Achievement Hawai'i Hall of Fame when they are inducted in ceremonies Thursday at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel.

The business laureates, who have been selected for the hall of fame since its inception in 1990, are chosen for lifelong contributions to the local business community and to Hawai'i's youth.

This year's inductees will include Jeffrey Bloom, president of Computer Training Academy/Network Resource Center and Select Staffing Services; Jon Martin and Lloyd Jones, president and chief executive officer, respectively, of Martin & MacArthur; and Kitty Lagareta, chairman and chief executive officer, Communications-Pacific Inc.

Also to be honored will be the 2002 Legacy Laureates — accorded those whose business and community accomplishments span more than one generation — this year to include the late Richard S. Miyashiro, founder of Café 100 Inc., and the late Roswell M. Towill, founder and chairman of the board emeritus, R.M. Towill Corp.

The six are also expected to be honored by separate legislative House and Senate proclamations Wednesday.

Founded in 1957, Junior Achievement of Hawai'i pairs more than 16,000 students statewide, grades kindergarten to 12th grade, with almost 500 community volunteers, to educate, and instill, the concepts of the free enterprise system, and business and economic processes.

Past inductees have included Lex Brodie, Rick Ralston, maurice Sullivan, E.E. Black, Thurston Twigg-Smith, Sen. Hiram Fong Jr., John Henry Felix, and Chinn Ho.

The Junior Achievement dinner is planned from 6 p.m. cocktails, and 7 to 9:30 p.m. dinner and program, in the hotel's Maui and Kaua'i rooms. For reservations, call 545-1777.