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October 2010 John (Hau'oli) was born and raised on Maui. Both his parents, were civil servants in local and state governments and he was born and raised on Maui to appreciate public service and the importance of culture and relationships in the family and community. He attended Christ the King School in Kahului and went on to graduate from St. Anthony High School in Wailuku in 1971. He earned a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1975 and his M.S.W. from the School of Social Work at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1977. John has been in professional social work practice since 1976, in various settings and methods, including child and family welfare, child protection, mental health, family court, criminal justice, domestic violence, grantsmanship, community development, employee assistance programs and gerontology. In June of 2008, John was appointed as the Executive Director of Hui No Ke Ola Pono, Inc., the Native Hawaiian Health Care Stystem for Maui.   John is a 6th Degree Ali'I in the Royal Order of Kamehameha the First and since 2007 has been the appointed Kahuna Pule O Kahekili. Since 2003, Hau'oli has written the monthly Kumunidad column in the Fil-Am Observer, a newspaper of general circulation in Maui County. John and Susan Brabeck, of St. Paul, Minnesota, married in 1977 and raised two children who attended and graduated from Seabury Hall.     John Hau`oli Tomoso has shared the information he referred to in his October 12 presentation on "Native Hawaiian Health:  A Journey of Life in Balance".  In addition, he has provided the MNHCC with a copy of his thought-provoking speech.  The MNHCC is fortunate to have members with significant expertise in their fields who are willing to be resources for our membership.  The documents are:   1. NHHCIA 2010 Reauthorization Summary 2. Etiology of Depression in Native Hawaiians by Kamana`opono Crabbe, PhD 3. Native Hawaiian Health:  A Journey of Life in Balance by John Hau`oli Tomoso, MSW

June 2010 Allan R. Landon is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Hawaii Corporation and its principal subsidiary, Bank of Hawaii.  Mr. Landon joined Bank of Hawaii in 2000 as Executive Vice President and Director of Risk Management.  He subsequently served as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President of Bank of Hawaii Corporation before becoming CEO in 2004.   Prior to joining Bank of Hawaii, he served as Chief Financial Officer of First American Corporation in Nashville, Tennessee now part of Regions Financial Corporation.  Before that he was a Partner with Ernst & Young until 1998.    Born in Iowa, Mr. Landon received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 from Iowa State University and was a Certified Public Accountant.  He has participated in management development programs at Harvard, Duke and Northwestern Universities Business Schools.   Mr. Landon has served as Chairman of the University of Hawaii, Board of Regents and the Hawaii Medical Service Association.  He also served as a director of the Foundation and Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii.  He currently is the Chairman of the Hawaii Bankers Association, Treasurer of the Hawaii Business Roundtable and a member of The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Military Affairs Council.   Mr. Landon and his wife Sue reside in Honolulu and have a daughter and son living on the U.S. mainland.  They have five grandchildren.

April 2010 Zadoc W. Brown Jr. was born in Honolulu, HI, July 1943.  He was educated at Punahou School, Choate School, and Princeton University.  He graduated in 1965 with a Bachelors Degree in English.  He has spent his career in the financial services industry.    Initially, he worked with his father at the Brown Management Company, then moved into the brokerage world with Dean Witter and E.F. Hutton and Company.  Zadoc is now with Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney as a First Vice-President Wealth Management/Financial Advisor.    He serves on various community organizations including Seabury Hall Board of Trustees, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, and The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii.  Apart from work and community service, he spends all his free time in the outdoors.    Zadoc Brown Jr. reminisced about growing up in Hawai`i and shared stories about his ancestor, John Papa I`i, a noted 19th century Hawaiian historian.  Zadoc is a descendant of John Papa I‘i who was a significant Hawaiian historian whose writings were published in Hawaiian-language newspapers in the nineteenth century. In the 1950s those writings were gathered together into a book entitled Fragments of Hawaiian History.

February 2010 Michael Naho`opi`i was named the executive director of the Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission in the Spring of 2008.   Mike took his first trip to Kaho`olawe in 1981 as a Kamehameha Schools student. He later became a member of the Protect Kaho`olawe Ohana and was the U.S. Navy's officer-in-charge of Kahoolawe during the island's conveyance to the state. After leaving the Navy, he served as senior project engineer for both the Model Unexploded Ordnance Clearance Project and the Kaho`olawe Unexploded Ordnance Project from 1997 to 2004. Prior to joining KIRC, he was project manager for The Hana Group.   After graduating from Kamehameha Schools in 1982, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis where he received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He later received an MBA from Chaminade University. Mike is certified as a Quality Manager and Quality Engineer by the American Society for Quality, and holds the designation of Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. He and his family reside in Kapahulu, on the island of O`ahu.

November 2009 Mufi Hannemann is the 12th mayor of the City and County of Honolulu. During his terms, Mayor Hannemann has amassed a remarkable record of achievement. He is leading the development of Oahu's first rail transit system, which is poised to break ground this year. His strong emphasis on public safety has led to Honolulu being named by the FBI as one of America's safest big cities, accreditation of both the police and fire departments, additions to the fleet of fire engines and police cars, repairs to fire houses, establishment of a Department of Emergency Management, expanded ambulance facilities, and a major overhaul of the first-responder telecommunication network.   Mayor Hannemann, who has been a long-time advocate of economic development, has been credited with playing a pivotal role in averting the closure of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard; greatly expanding public-private partnerships with business and community organizations; revitalizing Chinatown as an arts and culture district, which snagged Honolulu a national outstanding achievement award; supporting the development of the Disney resort in Ko Olina and Trump Tower in Waikiki; and advocating for the sports and film industries. He has involved the City in supporting the agricultural industry by reducing property tax rates on farm land, curbing the theft of crops, collaborating with the Hawaii Farm Bureau on soil conservation, and opening a farmers market in downtown Honolulu.   The Honolulu-born, Harvard-educated leader is an alumnus of Iolani School, where he was student body president, an all-star athlete in football and basketball, and recipient of the Headmaster's Award. He chose to attend Harvard University and graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in government, and was active in student government and lettered in varsity basketball. Following his graduation in 1976, he studied abroad as a Fulbright Scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

October 2009   Dr. John J. Cho, a Professor of Plant Pathology with the University of Hawaii. He has over 35 years of experience researching and educating about plant pathology in the University of Hawaii System. Dr. Cho was raised on the island of Oahu and is a graduate of `Iolani School. He attended Colorado State University for his 1st year of college and then returned to Hawaii to study Botany at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, he then went on to earn his Master of Science and PhD in Plant Pathology at University of California, Berkeley. After completing his PhD in 1973, he accepted a position with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Maui Research in 1974 and has been a resident of Maui ever since.     His Research emphasis in the past 5 years has been focused on completing the development of useful commercial products from his breeding research programs initiated during his tenure at UH , as well as developing pest tolerant commercial plant products suitable for commercial production in Hawaii and other parts of the world.   Dr. Cho's 2 areas of concentration in research have been tomato and taro breeding.

August 2009   Representative Mele Carroll currently serves in her third term (2-year terms) as the State House Representative for the thirteenth district of the Hawai`i State House of Representative which includes East Maui, the islands of Lana`i, Moloka`i including Kalaupapa, Kaho`olawe and Molokini.  She is a graduate of James Campbell High School and attended the Hawaii Community College and the University of Hawaii-Hilo studying Business Administration.  She currently serves as the Chair of the Hawaii Affairs Committee, Chair of the Legislative Hawaiian Caucus of the legislature, and serves as a member of the following committees: Health committee; Human Services committee; Judiciary committee; and the Consumer Protection & Commerce committee.     Mele Carroll was appointed by Governor Linda Lingle in 2005 to represent District 13 in the Hawaii State House of Representatives as the successor to Sol Kaho'ohalahala. Prior to her appointment to the state legislature, Mele served as Executive Assistant to Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa and as his Chief Legislative liason to the Hawaii State Legislature with direct responsibility regarding District 13. Mele previously served as Chief of Staff to State Senator J. Kalani English at the Hawaii State Senate for two years, in addition to serving two terms as his Chief of Staff at the Maui County Council for four years. She has also been involved in numerous community service organizations on Maui.

June 2009   Judge Richard Bissen serves as Cicuit court Judge of the Second Circuit in Maui. Previously, he was the interim director of the Department of Public Safety, the First Deputy Attorney General, the Maui County Prosecuting Attorney, a law partner in the firm Cardoza, Fukuoka and Bissen, and also clerked for retired Second Circuit Court Judge Richard Komo. He has served on numerous committees focusing on domestic violence, juvenile justice and women offenders and was a founding member of the Maui Drug Court Program. He was nominated as the Lawyer of the year in 2001 and received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Men's March Against Violence Committee in 1999. Bissen has been or is active in various community organizations on Maui including the Royal Order, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Hale Mua Hawaiian Cultural Group, Punana Leo O Maui Advisory Committee, Kamehameha Schools Maui Campus Parent Teacher Ohana, Paia Elementary School PTA, Lihikai Elementary PTA, Na Kai Ewalu Canoe Club, and President of the Maui Volleyball Club. Bissen is a graduate of the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Santa Clara, and St. Anthony High School. He is also a former United States Marine, an excellent Hawaiian entertainer, and cultural specialist.

September 2008 - Lt. Governor Duke Aiona & Kimo Kahoano   Lieutenant Governor Aiona was born in Honolulu in 1955.  After graduating from St. Louis School, he went on to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.  In 1977, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.  After graduating from the University of Hawaii school of Law in 1981, Lieutenant Governor Aiona started his legal career with the City and County of Honolulu's Department of the Prosecuting Attorney.  In 1990, Lieutenant Governor Aiona was appointed to the State Judiciary.  He first served as a District Family Court judge.  In 1993, he was elevated to the Criminal Division of the First Circuit Court.  In 1996, he was appointed Administrative Judge of the newly created Hawaii Drug Court.  Serving as the first judge of the highly praised, innovative Drug Court remains as one of Lieutenant Governor Aiona's most fulfilling achievements.   The Lieutenant Governor and his wife of 26 years, Vivian, are proud parents of their four children, Makana, Ohulani, Kuli`a, and Ka`imilani.  He is also actively involved in his church, and community organizations, and as an assistant coach of the St. Louis School Varsity Basketball team.     Kimo Kahoano was born into a very modest surroundings. He is the oldest son of a total of 3 boys and three girls. Kimo has been the co-host of Hawaii Stars since the beginning, in 1993. He's an all-around good guy!   Kimo is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools and started his career as a  fire knife dancer and singer with the Al Harrington Show. He's a man of many talents. He's a radio personality, actor and singer! He's been in The Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, Hawaii 5-0,  Magnum P. I., Barnaby Jones, The Jeffersons, the IMAX film "Behold Hawaii" and most recently, Blue Crush..  Currently you can hear him at 900am KNUI radio each weekday morning from 6am-9am.

July 2008 - Oswald Stender   Oswald "Oz" Stender is a Trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and chairs OHA's Committee on Asset and Resource Management.   He was born and raised on O'ahu and is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.  Mr. Stender also served in the United States Marine Corps.   He is dedicated to Hawaiian cultural connections to the land through sustainable agriculture, ocean access and gathering rights, and is an advocate of settling Hawaiian ceded lands issues with the State.  He is a licensed real estate broker and a consultant in property management, real estate investments, and sales.  His real estate career began in 1958 at the Estate of James Campbell where he became Chief Executive Officer in 1976 and Senior Advisor to the Trustees of the Campbell Estate from 1988 through 1989.   Mr. Stender's top priority is education, and he has been working with the University of Hawai'i to provide financial support for Hawaiians through financial aid and scholarships.  He served as a trustee of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate from 1990 until his resignation in 1999.  He presently serves on a number of environmental, business, professional, and community service

MAY 2008 - Akoni Akana    Akoni Akana, Vice-President As a founding member and former Board President of the Friends of Moku'ula, Akoni Akana has worked towards the restoration of the Kalua o Kiha royal complex which includes Moku'ula island and the ponds of Mokuhinia (a natural wetland) since 1990.   A renowned and sought after Hawaiian cultural expert, kumu hula for the award winning Halau Hula o Ka'onohiokala, and former cultural director of Ka'anapali Beach Hotel's acclaimed Po'okela Program. Mr. Akana currently serves as the Native Hawaiian Cultural Advisor for Sacred Sites International, a Board member for the Hawaii Alliance Community Based Economic Development (HACBED) and is the Executive Director for the Friends of Moku'ula.   A graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Mr. Akana is a published writer, composer and music producer, garnering a nomination to Hawaii's distinguished Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. He continues to share his knowledge of Hawaiian culture and language through teaching. A former member of the State Burial Council, a group charged with the responsibility of regulating adverse impact and protecting burial sites in Hawaii, Mr. Akana continues to work with numerous organizations in both the private and public sector to advocate for native Hawaiian rights and to underscore the need for preservation of historical sites and traditions.

March 2008 - Michael J. Chun, Ph.D.   Dr. Michael J. Chun was appointed president of Kamehameha Schools in April 1988. A 1961 graduate of Kamehameha, he is the schools' tenth president and Headmaster of the Kapalama Campus.   Dr. Chun is an active participant in professional, community and business organizations. He is a director of the Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools, trustee of Hawai‘i Pacific University, board member of the Hawai‘i Medical Services Association, and director of the Metropolitan Board of the YMCA of Honolulu. Dr. Chun is also a director of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Matson Navigation Company, and Bank of Hawai‘i.   Prior to his appointment as Kamehameha Schools president, Chun was vice president of Park Engineering, a Honolulu engineering consulting firm, from 1985 to 1988. Prior to that engagement, he was Chief Engineer of the City and County of Honolulu, from 1981 to 1985. He also taught at the University of Hawai‘i from 1970 to 1981 where he directed graduate instruction and research in environmental engineering.   In 1990, he was named "Hawai‘i State Engineer of the Year" by the Hawai‘i Society of Professional Engineers. Chun‘s doctorate in environmental health engineering and bachelor‘s degree in civil engineering were granted by the University of Kansas. He holds a master‘s degree in civil engineering from the University of Hawai‘i.

January 2008 - Ramsay Taum   Ramsey Taum, noted cultural expert and Director of External Relations and Community Partnerships at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's School of Travel Industry Management.