By The Way... Macy’s “More
Community” Campaign in Hawaii raised $372,432 to benefit the Aloha
United Way, American Cancer Society, The Hawaii Food Bank, the Boys &
Girls Clubs of Hawaii, Maui and the Big Island, Guam charities Catholic
Social Services and the Salvation Army – Guam Corps. • • • Hawaii Business,
the oldest regional business magazine in the U.S., promoted Jacy Youn to
Managing Editor. Youn, who joined the monthly magazine in 2000, had
previously been the Assistant Editor. • • • Long-time arts
management leader George Sinclair has been named executive director of the
Hawaii Opera Theater. In this newly created position, he will be
responsible for the day-to-day management, marketing, financial health and
planning for the 42 year old art company. • • • A former Navy ship will have a new role as
it sails the waters of the western and central Pacific. The Oscar
Elton Sette – commissioned into the NOAA research fleet – will be
working to assess and protect the region’s fisheries and living marine
resources under the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). • • • William D.
“Bill” Pratt has been named Vice President of Commercial Brokerage
& Leasing for Coldwell Banker Commercial Pacific Properties (CBC).
Pratt will be headquartered in CBC’s downtown Honolulu office and will
be responsible for new business, focusing on retail and investments, on
Oahu and on the neighbor islands. • • • A 5-month-old sea
lion recently arrived at Sea Life Park after being rescued and
rehabilitated to good health at the Friends of the Sea Lion Marine Mammal
Center in Laguna Beach, CA. The sea lion pup was transported from
California courtesy of Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays and Pacific Air Cargo
and was named Kimokeo Li’i,
“Little Timothy,” by Pleasant Hawaii Holidays employees in honor of
the President and CEO Tim Irwin. • • • Rider Hunt Levett
& Bailey, a property and construction consulting firm, announced the
appointment of Jian Zhou as Cost Manager. Zhou brings over eight years of
professional cost management experience to the position. • • • Radio station
105.9 FM, The Big Kahuna, announced the promotion of Dave Lawrence to the
title of Music Director. Lawrence has been working for the radio station
since August – he can be heard during the day between 10am and 2pm. • • • Kim T. Gould has
joined Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) as Director of
Human Resources. Gould comes to PREL from the Nature Conservancy, where
she served for eight years as Human Resources Director of the Asia/Pacific
Region. • • • The Hawaii
Publishers Association, a nonprofit organization that promotes the print
publishing industry in Hawaii, announces the election of new officers for
2003 through 2004. Jim Wilson, Publisher of the Hawaii Tribune Herald,
will serve as President, Stan Mulkey
with This Week Magazines as Vice-President and Rick Asbach with
West Hawaii Today as Secretary/Treasurer. In addition, the board members will consist
of the following: Derek Ferrar of Pacific Travelogue, Isabel Figel, of JGH
International, Dennis Francis of The Honolulu Advertiser, Carl Hebenstreit
of Trade Publishing, Jamie Kemp of Pacific Media Publishing, Don Kendall
of Oahu Publications, Larry LeDoux of HPU Kalamalama, Jim Myers of
Honolulu Publishing, Don Ojiri of Obun Hawaii Group, Pat Saka of Maui
News, Lee Schaller of Trade Publishing, Scott Schumaker of Honolulu
Magazine, and Peter Stone of Stone Publishing. • • • Vivienne Gan has
been appointed Director of Communications at Kahala Mandarin Oriental. Gan
will be responsible for all local, national and international public
relations activities including media relations, community issues and
promotional strategies for the AAA Five-Diamond property. • • • Booz Allen Hamilton, a
global management consulting firm, recently hired
Paula Imamura as Senior Consultant. Imamura, who has more than 10 years of
strategic communications experience in Hawaii’s healthcare and visitor
industry, will be based at the firm’s Honolulu office. Imamura will
provide marketing support for one of the firm’s healthcare technology
clients, and will serve as public relations liaison for the firm’s local
efforts. • • • The Hawaii
Business Roundtable has elected H. Mitchell D’Olier, president, &
chief executive officer of Kaneohe Ranch Company and the Harold K.L.
Castle Foundation, as president of the Roundtable for 2003-2004. The
Hawaii Business Roundtable is a local nonprofit organization whose members
include leaders in Hawaii’s business community. • • • Ten outstanding
high school senior hoopsters from Hawaii have been nominated for the
McDonald’s All-American Basketball Teams. The Hawaii girls selected were
Punahou’s Becky Hogue, Rachel Kane and Elyse Umeda; Kamehameha’s Megan
Ching; McKinley’s Amber Lee and Mele Mateaki of Farrington. On the
boys’ side selections included, Bobby Nash of Iolani; Jason Rivers of
St. Louis; Daniel Tautofi of Kaimuki and Maui High’s Ma‘afu Finau.
Later this month, 24 boys and 24 girls will be picked from these nominees
to • • • Pearlridge Center recently made a donation
of $39,724.10 to the Hawaiian Railway Society (HRS). This donation is the
largest ever made in the history of the HRS and will now allow the society
to construct a 50-foot by 100-foot engine car repair building. • • • Audrey Renee
Wicklund of Manoa has been tapped to join the national tour of “The Lion
King,” according to cast director Mark Brandon of Binder Casting, who
held local auditions for actors, singers and dancers at the University of
Hawaii and Ballet Hawaii in Honolulu in October 2002. • • • Starbucks Coffee
and Jamba Juice opened at the Aiea Shopping Center on January 15, 2003 and
general managers were named at both stores. Sharon Jones was appointed
general manager at Starbucks Coffee Aiea and Suzanne Livas was named
general manager at Jamba Juice Aiea. The two new stores mark the 34th
Star-bucks Coffee store and the 12th Jamba Juice store in Hawaii. |