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Posted on: Friday, August 17, 2007

Salutes

Advertiser Staff

  • The Junior League of Honolulu Inc. recently honored longtime member Lila Johnson with the Laura N. Dowsett Award. JLH is a membership organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

    "Lila Johnson is so worthy of this honor, especially since her voluntarism seems to have no end in sight," said Wendie McAllaster, 2006-07 JLH president. "Her service to this community has had a major impact and makes all of the Junior League proud of her legacy."

  • The National Audubon Society has awarded Diana King the 2007 Callison Award for an Audubon Professional, for her sound leadership of Waimea Valley Audubon Center. The 150-acre site contains botanical collections, significant historical/cultural sites, and rare and endangered native plants and animals. It serves 500 visitors a day.

  • A number of Hawai'i Pacific University students and faculty have received awards:

    Dean of graduate advising Deborah Nakashima has been awarded an Academic Advising Summer Institute Scholarship sponsored by the National Academic Advising Association.

    Christina Doane, a 2004 graduate of HPU's executive MBA program, has been elected a trustee of the university.

    Cadet David Song, who earned a master of arts from HPU in diplomacy and military studies, has been commissioned a second lieutenant by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

    Eleven HPU associates have been named Fulbright scholars. They are: Dr. Grace Chen (political science); Dr. Carlos Juarez (international studies); Dr. Ed Klein (English as a second language); assistant professor Sally LaLuzerne-Oi (English as a second language); Dr. Leilani Madison (English); Dr. Shaun Moss (biology); Dr. Niti Villinger (management); Dr. Art Whatley (management); Dr. James Whitfield (communication); professor Catherine Sajna (English as a second language); and Charles Sasaki, assistant vice president for student affairs.

    The United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has accepted a research paper written by HPU associate international admissions director Gui Albieri and travel industry management professor Dr. Jerry Agrusa.

    Hazel Downing, Hawai'i Pacific University assistant professor of nursing, has been awarded the university's 2007 Trustee's Award for Teaching Excellence. Her students say she is a mentor who instills within them confidence and inspires a love of the field of nursing.

  • KITV President and General Manager Michael Rosenberg has been re-elected as national vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

  • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has selected Hawai'i alumnus Andrew Lee as a recipient of the George B. Morgan '20 Award in recognition for his work with the MIT Educational Council in Hawai'i.

    Lee received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1980. An ordained Presbyterian minister serving at The City Church of Honolulu, Lee is also a management consultant for public companies, private equity interests and nonprofit organizations.

  • Joe Rice, president of Mid-Pacific Institute, has been selected as a 2008 Klingenstein Visiting Fellow at Columbia University. Rice will join 20 other heads of schools from across the nation who will study together during the January 2008 session.

    The Klingenstein Center is a top graduate school of study, research and leadership development in independent school education.
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