Posted on: Monday, February 11, 2008
Salutes
Advertiser Staff
Seiji Naya, emeritus professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Department of Economics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. Naya is a distinguished visiting senior fellow at the East-West Center, former director of the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and former chief economist for the Asian Development Bank.
Dr. Dileep Bal received the 2007 AMA Foundation Award for Health Education. The award recognizes physicians who have led, developed or implemented professional and public-health education activities. Bal has long been involved in calling attention to the dangers of smoking and making strides to curb the habit among Americans.
During the recent annual conference of the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators, the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Outreach College was honored with the Best Noncredit Program award for the Kids First! Film Festival. The festival, a project of the Coalition for Quality Children's Media, is the largest traveling children's film festival in the world, providing films that are free of racial, ethnic, gender or religious bias; inappropriate content; and condescension towards children.
Kulia Na Mamo has received an award from the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Critical needs assistance, pre-employment preparation and training, along with various other assistive social services, are the primary focus of the organization.
Bob Moore, executive vice president of sales, corporate accounts for Freeman, will be inducted into the Convention Industry Council's Hall of Leaders in December. He will be among industry pioneers representing the most outstanding leaders and innovators in the meeting and convention industry.
Charlotte Peltz has been selected by AARP Hawai'i to receive the 2007 Andrus Award for Community Service. She was selected for her outstanding advocacy for pedestrian safety. She played a key role in organizing AARP's initial pedestrian safety audit of 47 busy intersections.
Hawai'i winners of the 2007 Awards for Philanthropy sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals are: Central Pacific Bank, Fine Wine Imports, H. Mitchell D'Olier, Dr. Lawrence Tseu and S. Terry Wells.
Jill Widner, former Hawai'i resident whose mother lives in Pupukea, has been awarded a 2007 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission fellowship recognizing her creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement and continuing dedication to her artistic discipline. She is a former Lana'i High School teacher, University of Hawai'i adjunct instructor and editor for the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council. Widner is working on a novel, "The Smell of Sulphur," a fictionalized account of her growing up in Indonesia as the daughter of a petroleum engineer.
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