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Attorney named HSBA president

Local attorney Douglas A. Crosier, partner in the firm of Rush Moore Craven Sutton Morry & Beh, has been elected president of the 6,700-member Hawai'i State bar Association.

Crosier, longtime advocate of improving the judicial evaluation process, is working to establish the first HSBA judicial evaluation program. He also serves as a director on the state Supreme Court's Disciplinary Board.

$70,000 fund to help students

Alumni of the now closed Makiki Japanese Language School, many of them World War II heroes, were the inspiration for a scholarship fund for UH students of Japanese language or culture. The $70,000 gift to the University of Hawaii Foundation by the Military Intelligence Service Veterans of Hawai'i established "The Military Intelligence Service Veterans of Hawaii/Makiki Japanese Language School endowed Scholarship Fund."