Awards
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Five honored for leadership
The Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs will present leadership awards to the following people:
- Mitch D'Olier, former president and chief executive of Victoria Ward Ltd.
- Randolph Moore, mathematics and motivational class teacher at Central Middle School and former CEO of Kaneohe Ranch.
- Ah Quon McElrath, labor leader and advocate in many social causes, such as poverty and healthcare issues.
- Kelvin Taketa, formerly of The Nature Conservancy, now the head of Hawaii Community Foundation.
- Chris Lee, former president of production for TriStars Pictures and Columbia Pictures, and chairman of the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai'i.
UH official adds chairman duties
University of Hawai'i chief information officer David Lassner has been elected chairman of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications.
Lassner has been an active leader in WCET since its inception and was recognized with the Richard W. Jonsen award for Service to the Educational Telecommunications Community in 2000.
As UH's chief information officer, Lassner has been responsible for designing, implementing and directing a new integrated organization to support academic computing, administrative computing, distributed learning technologies and voice, date and video telecommunications.
He is a member of the university's Cooperating Graduate Faculty and has taught, both in person and online, in UH-Manoa's Department of Information & Computer Science, College of Business Administration, School of Communication and College of Education.
Executive group names officers
The Aloha Society of Association Executives has announced its officers and directors for 2004. They are: president Cynthia Hayakawa of NAIFA Hawaii; vice president and president-elect Kathy Castillo of the Hawaii Society of CPAs; secretary Barbara Kono of the Hawaii Wall & Ceiling Industry Association; treasurer Edward Thompson of Legislative Information Services of Hawaii; and immediate past president Mark Beede of the Hawaii Pacific Tennis Foundation.
Winner's poems to be published
Michael Shapiro of Honolulu has been named the recipient of the James Vaughan Award for Poetry at Hawai'i Pacific University for his group of poems entitled "After Us," Empire of Light" and "Epilog." He will receive $500 and be recognized at HPU's seventh annual Ko'olau Writing Workshop.
"These poems are outstanding because of their imagination and form, their unusual subject matter and the way they seem to be related to each other," said poetry judge Patrice Wilson.
Shapiro's winning poems will be published in volume 18 of HPU's literary magazine, "Hawai'i Pacific Review," scheduled to be released this summer.
