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Council officers re-elected

The Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has announced its recently elected members and officers.

Three were re-elected: historian Eileen Tamura, professor of educational foundations at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, chairwoman; attorney Larry Myers, vice-chairman; and Alfred Castle, executive director of the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation, secretary-treasurer.

The council also elected two new members to three-year terms: Kenneth kipnis, University of Hawai'i at Manoa philosophy professor, and a specialist in medical ethics and philosophy of law; and Elisa Yadao, a free-lance communications consultant, former Polynesian Voyaging Society executive director, reporter and managing editor at KHNL News, and communications director at The Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate.

YWCA picks new directors

The YWCA of O'ahu has announced its new board of directors. Newly elected members include Ann Botticelli, vice president, Communications Pacific Inc.; Kathy Kawaguchi, assistant superintendent, state Department of Education, Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Support; Alana Kobayashi, project coordinator and partner, Kobayashi Group LLC; Dr. Virginia Pressler, vice president, Women's Health Services, Hawai'i Pacific Health, Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children; and Jean Rolles, vice president of community relations, Outrigger Hotels.

ACLU members, officers chosen

The American Civil Liberties Union has elected new board members and officers:

• Officers: president, Pamela Lichty; vice president, Patrick Taomae; secretary, Rick Schneider; treasurer, Pat Hammers; at-large, heather Conahan; and national board member representative, Mary Steiner.
• Board members: Carl Ackerman, George Atkins, Roger Fonseca, Jeffrey Hong, Pamela Lichty, Sheryl Nicholson and A. Joris Watland.
  
  
  

Veterans group honors students

The Hawai'i Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Women's Auxiliary has announced the winners in its annual Voice of Democracy Scholarship and Patriot's Pen Essay competitions.

Sheela jane Menon, a junior from Sacred Hearts Academy, won top honors in the Voice of Democracy Scholarship competition and will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete at the National Community Awards Conference in March.

Second place went to Katherine DePonte, also a student at Sacred Hearts. Nicholas Jachowski, from Maui High School, took third, and Ashton Alverez, from kahuku High School, placed fourth.

The first-place winner for the Patriot's Pen Essay contest is Taryn Tsukayama, of Sacred Hearts. Her essay will compete in nationally for the $10,000 savings bond top prize.

Kathleen Kardos, Darcus Goslin and Masako Furutani, also all from Sacred Hearts Academy, placed second, third and fourth, respectively.

Essay contest winners named

Sophie Lefcourt, a sixth-grader at Waiau Elementary School, and Stephanie Danielson, a seventh-grader at St. Michael's School, were honored recently as congressional winners in the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology's national essay contest, "Boundless Science for Bountiful Agriculture."

The students, their parents and their school principals were treated to a VIP day at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.

The groups toured the college, participated in activities that involved coqui frogs, bone density and insects. They also attended a special luncheon in their honor.

For the essay, Danielson wrote about the different types of plants being grown in space as food sources for astronauts. Lefcourt wrote about the obesity problem among children today and proposed ways that schools, lawmakers, physicians and others could help fight the problem.

Keiki group elects officers

Alan M.L. Yee, tax partner of Karns Murakami Hanashiro LLP, and Bruce T. Yoshida, partner with the law firm of Hisaka Stone goto Yoshida Cosgrove & Ching, have been elected to second terms as president and vice president, respectively, of Malama Na Keiki Foundation. The group works to support programs that help prevent child abuse and child neglect statewide.

Former foundation executive director Robin R. Johnson was elected new secretary/treasurer.