Education briefs
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Leilehua principal a finalist for honor
Leilehua High School's Norman Minehira has been named a finalist for the High School Principal of the Year for the 2004 MetLife/National Association of Secondary School Principals.
Minehira and two other high school principal finalists will receive a $2,500 grant to help pay for educational programs or learning opportunities at their schools.
The national middle school and high school principals will be named later this month and recognized in Washington, D.C. Winners will receive an additional grant of $7,500.
Theater has class for home-schooled
Diamond Head Theatre is launching a new performing arts class for home-schooled students during its fall session of classes, becoming one of the first performing arts venues to do so.
Deena Dray, theater managing director, said they started the new classes after finding that several of their cast members are or have been home-schooled.
The class is for children ages 7 to 13. It will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays from Sept. 16 through Nov. 18. The cost is $150 per student, with a discounted rate of $135 per student for additional family members.
For more information, call 733-0277, ext. 306, or visit www.diamondheadtheatre.com.
Kaua'i teacher gets Onizuka award
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Jean M. Dobashi, a teacher at Kaua'i High School, has been granted the 2003 Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award by the National Education Association. The award is given to people who have provided leadership in resolving social problems associated with individuals of Pacific Island or Asian heritage.
Dobashi is a trainer with the NEA's Minority Leadership Training Program and Women's Leadership Training Program and regularly addresses the Pacific Regional Educational Laboratory Conference.
At her school, she launched a program to enlist adults in the community to help students having difficulty in reading skills.
Dobashi was Hawai'i's teacher of the year in 1983.
Price a professor at Chaminade
TV and radio broadcast personality Larry Price has been named professor of Human Resource Management at Chaminade University of Honolulu. Price, who earned his doctoral degree from the University of Southern California, has taught courses for the MBA program as an adjunct professor since 1985.
In 1986 he started an MBA Scholarship Fund and has donated all of his salary and money from speaking engagements.
UH Foundation has new chairman
Howard Karr has been named the new chairman of the University of Hawai'i Foundation's Board of Trustees. Karr is a noted businessman, community leader and alumnus of the university and has been an active member of the board for more than nine years. He last served as its chairman in 1997.
Karr is retired vice chairman of First Hawaiian Bank and served as chief financial officer of BancWest Corp. He also sits on the boards of various organizations, including Aloha United Way and Boy Scouts of America — Aloha Council.
