Posted on: Monday, August 1, 2005
Trade winds
Honolulu Magazine has named A. Kam Napier as editor. Previously managing editor, Napier began working with the magazine as a freelancer, joining the staff as associate editor in 1994. He was promoted to managing editor in January 2001. He has won 14 Hawai'i Publishers Association Pa'i Awards, and 18 awards from the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. John Heckathorn, editorial director at parent company PacificBasin Communications and editor of Honolulu Magazine, resigned mid-month after 21 years with the magazine.
DEAN K. HIRATA, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Central Pacific Financial Corp., has been elected chairman of the board of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i. Outgoing chairman Colbert M. Matsumoto will continue as a board member. Hirata has served as board treasurer since 2003. Besides Hirata and Matsumoto, other JCCH board of directors include Neal Kanda, Eric Martinson, Sanford Murata, Brian Nishida, Miki Okumura, Raymond Ono, Susan Scott, Sherman Shiraishi, Yuki Lei Sugimura, Donna Tanoue, Alan Tomonari and Ronald Ushijima.
BARBARA CAMPBELL, vice president of retail leasing for Outrigger Hotels and Resorts, has been named state director of the Western Division of the International Council of Shopping Centers. Other recently elected officers include: ANNE MURATA, marketing director for The Festival Companies/Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, to state operations chairwoman; ANN KUTAKA, president of In+Form Design, to government relations committee chairwoman; and debra medeiros, vice president of Waikiki Trader Corp., to state retail chairwoman. Since 1957, ICSC has served as the trade association — offering professional education, conferences and conventions, publications, research and legislative action — for 40,000 shopping industry members in 77 countries.
CRAIG SASADA, head golf professional at Kapalua Resort's Plantation Course on Maui, has been named director of golf for the Po'ipu Bay Golf Course. Sasada has more than 20 years of experience in the golf industry as teaching professional, guest service activities supervision and junior golf program development. At Kapalua, he was involved with the Professional Golf Association Tour's season kickoff event, the Mercedes Championships. Po'ipu Bay is an 18-hole championship course on 210 oceanfront acres on Kaua'i's southern coast, adjacent to sister property, the Grand Hyatt Kaua'i Resort & Spa.
Retired federal worker and 12-year Rotary veteran MARY ANN BERRY has been elected president of the Rotary Club of Ala Moana. Other officers include president-elect nominee CLAYTON WONG; vice-president SUE ANN LEE; secretary RICH COURSON; treasurer ETHAN TOMOKIYO, and sergeants-at-arms DAVE BERRY and RICHARD KAGEHIRO. The chapter, founded in 1972, is one of 41 Rotary organizations of business and professional leaders in Hawai'i.
Immigration attorney Kahbo Dye-Chiew has been named chairperson of the local chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Dye-Chiew, a Malaysian native who entered the U.S. as a foreign student and worker before becoming a U.S. citizen in 1999, is an immigration attorney in the law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel. She has served the organization's Hawai'i chapter as secretary, and most recently, vice-chair. AILA is a national association of over 9,000 attorneys and law professors, pledged to promote justice, reasonable immigration law and policy, and the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice. The local chapter also represents Guam.
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