Posted on: Friday, September 12, 2008
Salutes
Women's Fund of Hawaii, a Hawai'i grant-making organization dedicated to women and girls, has announced the following new board members: Dr. Shay Bintliff, a Big Island emergency room physician and former head of the birth defects center at the University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine; Marivic Dar, a financial planner and manager of financial services at Prudential Financial, and former regional executive vice president and officer of AXA Advisors in the Western Region; and Kehaulani Kealoha-Scullion, a teacher and academy social studies department head at Punahou School, and formerly an adjunct professor at Chaminade University and lecturer at Kapi'olani Community College.
U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and the Japanese American Veterans Association were recipients of the Martin Luther King Keeping the Dream Alive Award at a June ceremony on Capitol Hill. The award was presented to Inouye for exemplifying King's dreams and goals of diversity and equality of all races.
Former federal transportation secretary Norman Mineta presented the JAVA award to Robert Nakamoto, president of that organization. Mineta cited JAVA's diversity in membership and activities as well as its association with veterans' organizations.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the Japanese American Citizens League's Honolulu chapter has honored Bob Bratt, Jane Kurahara and Betsy Young with its 2008 Distinguished Service Awards.
Bratt was the first director of the Office of Redress Administration after Congress passed the landmark reparations bill.
Kurahara and Young are longtime volunteers of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii's resource center who have dedicated their time and energies to preserving the Honouliuli internment camp site on O'ahu and educating the community about Hawai'i's internment story.
