Hawai'i to enshrine Richardson, Tanimoto

Advertiser Staff

The late Allen B. Richardson, Rainbow Wahine team physician for 25 years, and Larry Tanimoto, a former golfer and longtime booster, will be named to the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Circle of Honor today.

A noon press conference is scheduled at Bank of Hawaii, which has sponsored the 22-year-old athletic hall of fame.

They will be formally inducted at halftime of tomorrow night's UH-Boise State men's basketball game at the Stan Sheriff Center, where their concourse plaques will join 55 previous inductees.

Richardson joined UH as an orthopedic consultant and team physician in time for Wahine volleyball's first national championship in 1979 and remained until his death last fall at age 56.

Richardson was president of Orthopedic Services of Hawai'i and chairman and director of the Orthopedic Residency Training Program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Richardson was active in international swimming, attending six Olympics and serving as sports medicine chair for the U.S. team and Federation Internationale Natacione Amateur (FINA).

Tanimoto, 58, a 1968 UH graduate, captained the golf team and represented the school in the 1967 NCAA Tournament.

He taught school on the Big Island, was a golf pro at Waikoloa Beach Golf Course, served in Hawai'i county government, was interim Big Island mayor for eight months in 1990 and served on the UH Board of Regents.

Tanimoto, who is frequently seen on the sidelines at UH football games, has been a longtime booster of athletics and is a director of Na Koa, the football booster organization.