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Posted by Kerry Wheeler on September 24, 2008 3:28 PM

Mid-Pacific Institute Alumni News

2008-2009 MPIAA Board of Directors

The Mid-Pacific Institute Alumni Association Board of Directors is an 18-member volunteer board, who represent almost 9,000 alumni. These dedicated individuals not only spend countless hours at Board meetings, but are also active members on various planning committees, volunteer at alumni-sponsored activities, and do much, much more in living the MPIAA Mission Statement:

We, the members of the Mid-Pacific Institute Alumni Association,
are commited to supporting Mid-Pacific Institute and
perpetuating lasting relationships among our alumni.

Please send your aloha to these individuals who give of their time and energy to serve you - their fellow alumni - and who continue to live by the school's motto "The Honor of My School is Mine."

President Karen (Kawano) Koles '63, Vice-President Bill Wheeler '78, Secretary Denise Liu '78, Treasurer Aisha Rahman '87, Kim Agena '95, Marci (Lieberman) Awaya '92, Dottie (Hanamaikai) Crowell '55, James Honke '58, Calvin Kuniyuki '66, Hovey Lambert '69, Kari (Okino) Leong '92, Michael Maeda '79, Galen Narimatsu '55, Kelly (Lum) Nishimura '96, Millie Okada '77, Hilary Okumura '96, Lynn (Watanabe) Woodard '86, Chester Young '61

To contact a board member, click on "Continue Reading ..." below.

Officers:

President Karen (Kawano) Koles '63 - cell: 292-3115, email: kkoles@hawaii.rr.com

Vice-President Bill Wheeler '78 - work: 973-5083, email: bwheeler@midpac.edu

Secretary Denise Liu '78 - email: deniliu@hotmail.com

Treasurer Aisha Rahman '87 - home: 595-2840, email: rahmana001@hawaii.rr.com

Directors:

Kim Agena '95

Marci (Lieberman) Awaya '92 - email: MarciAAwaya@gmail.com

Dottie (Hanamaikai) Crowell '55 - cell: 754-5977, email: crowelld003@hawaii.rr.com

James Honke '58 - home: 622-1494

Calvin Kuniyuki '66

Hovey Lambert '69

Kari (Okino) Leong '92

Michael Maeda '79

Galen Narimatsu '55 - cell: 223-7751, email: narimatsu3@aol.com

Kelly (Lum) Nishimura '96 - email: Knishimura@hawaii.rr.com

Millie Okada '77 - home: 541-9888, email: mostuffhawaii@yahoo.com

Hilary Okumura '96

Lynn (Watanabe) Woodard '86 - email: lynnreiko@gmail.com

Chester Young '61 - cell: 780-1807, email: homeguy808@yahoo.com

Posted by Kerry Wheeler on September 9, 2008 8:24 AM

Mid-Pacific Institute Alumni News

2008-2009 Alumni Class Reps Needed!

MPI Alumni Class Reps play an integral role in keeping the communication flowing between MPI and the alumni. We are in need of Class Reps for the following classes. Please consider serving your alma mater! If you are interested ... please contact Alumni Director Kerry Wheeler at alumni@midpac.edu or (808) 951-8856.

Class Reps are needed for the following classes:
    1948, 1949
    1950, 1953, 1956
    1964, 1967, 1968
    1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979
    1980, 1982, 1988, 1989
     1997
     2006, 2007

To contact your Class Rep, click on "Continue Reading ..." below.

CLASS REP

1945 Ethel (Hazama) Yamane - email: ehy@hawaii.rr.com

1946 Laura (Ota) Kitamura

Iris (Tanimoto) Spade - home: 234-1983,

email: spadej001@hawaii.rr.com

1947 George Okihiro - home: 247-5531, email okihirog001@hawaii.rr.com

1948 VACANT

1949 VACANT

1950 VACANT

1951 Amy (Tawarahara) Ushijima

Rae (Sugiyama) Watanabe - home: 847-2018

1952 Paul Yamashige - home: 526-1405, cell: PSYama1@aol.com

1953 VACANT

1954 Doug Mukai

1955 Galen Narimatsu - cell: 223-7751, email: narimatsu3@aol.com

1956 VACANT

1957 Fred Kawabata

1958 Merilyn (Sanjume) Matsumura

1959 Kam Chun Siu - home: 428-1941, email: kamchunsiu@yahoo.com

1960 Connie (Furukawa) Kurtz - email: cykurtz@hawaii.rr.com

1961 Margot (Gushi) Sarae - home: 456-3148, email: m_sarae@hotmail.com

1962 Ann (Uchiyama) Shinno

1963 Mildred (Saito) Kimura - email: mildred.kimura@gmail.com

1964 Cheryl (Tom) Parker - email: ctomparker@hotmail.com

1965 Vernon Uchida - home: 623-5593, work: 473-8000, x2477

1966 Carol (Nakamoto) Asuncion - email: carolann001@hawaii.rr.com

Steve Saito

1967 VACANT

1968 VACANT

1969 Hovey Lambert

Steve Sekiya

1970 VACANT

1971 VACANT

1972 Helen Chisum - cell: 392-2202, email: hmchisum@aol.com

1973 Pam Aratani

Aaron Yasui

1974 VACANT

1975 VACANT

1976 Tracy (Dela Cruz) Ruiter - cell: 235-9917, email: midpac76@ymail.com

1977 VACANT

1978 Denise Liu - email: deniliu@hotmail.com

1979 VACANT

1980 VACANT

1981 Dan Ihara - cell: 256-7873, email: dani@pruhi.com

Greg Matsumoto

1982 VACANT

1983 Bonny (Mundon) Moniz

1984 Donny Ma'a - cell: 330-9340, email: HammaD@Hawaii.rr.com

John Shinkawa - email: jshinkawa@gmail.com

1985 Kent Malapit - home: (503) 538-7174 email: malas.mpi85@gte.net

1986 Aaron Medina - cell: 529-6868, email: afbmedina@gmail.com

Lynn (Watanabe) Woodard - email: lynnreiko@gmail.com

1987 Aisha Rahman - home: 595-2840, email: rahmana001@hawaii.rr.com

1988 VACANT

1989 VACANT

1990 Marc Dixon - cell: 265-9000, email: dixon@hawaii.rr.com

1991 Kengo Ueno - cell: 222-4447, email: kengo.ueno@pruhawaii.com

1992 Miye Ishii

1993 Daniel Fong - cell: 255-3004, email: ddarylfong@yahoo.com

1994 Sheri (Lieberman) Azama - email: slla@hawaii.rr.com

Liane (Kimura) Chong - cell: 256-5420,

email: lianekchong@hawaii.rr.com

1995 Heidi (McMillan) Wong - email: kaumaka@gmail.com

1996 Jason Taira

1997 VACANT

1998 Brigid Ho

1999 Kristyna Nakamatsu - email: nakamatsu859@hotmail.com

2000 Shayna Lum - email: shayna.lum@gmail.com

2001 Todd Cosgrove

2002 Justin Chun

Cari Urabe

2003 Chelsey Yap email: alohachels@gmail.com

2004 Jillian Haraguchi - cell: 220-2431, email: jharaguchi79@yahoo.com

2005 Sean Aoyagi - cell: 295-7989, email: sean.aoyagi@student.chaminade.edu

2006 VACANT

2007 VACANT

2008 Billy Comstock - email: bill1821@hotmail.com

Radiant Cordero - email: rayebeeant@yahoo.com

Posted by Kerry Wheeler on September 8, 2008 8:11 AM

Mid-Pacific Institute Alumni News

2008-2009 MPI Student Programs

Aloha MPI Alumni!

One of the initiatives for the alumni this year is Student Programs. The objective is to involve alumni in ways that allow them to interact with and support current MPI students (from pre-school-12th grade). There are seven main ideas:

Provide MPI faculty members the opportunity to invite MPI alumni to speak in their classrooms on topics of interest or in areas of expertise.
Provide mentoring to MPI students involved in competitions (such as a Science Fair).
Serve as judges for MPI competitions or presentations.
Be a presenter at a career day program.
Serve as a mentor for a student interested in a particular occupation.
Provide basic foreign language (Japanese, Chinese or Spanish) lessons (15 minutes in length) to the preschool/elementary school students.
Take the MPI school history "on the road" by meeting with students and sharing aspects of the school's past with them.

If you are interested in participating in any/all of the ideas listed above, please contact the alumni office. Upon replying, please provide the following information:

Full name (include maiden if applicable)
Class year
Area you are interested in participating (classroom presenter, competition mentor, judge, career day presenster, occupation mentor, foreign language teacher, history presenter)
Area of expertise (education, banking, technology, dance, etc.)
Employer and job title (whether current or retired)

Please email your information to Alumni Director Kerry Wheeler
at alumni@midpac.edu or (808) 951-8856.

Posted by Kerry Wheeler on September 7, 2008 1:26 PM

Mid-Pacific Institute Alumni News

2008-2009 MPI Business Networking

An alumni initiative that we will be working on this year is "Business Networking."

There are two main ideas:

    Career and Professional Development:
    -   Provide recent graduates access to experienced MPI alumni for career counseling,                internships, and job opportunities
    -   Provide alumni access to recent graduates as a source of potential employees
    -   Provide all alumni an established network of successful MPI graduates
    Business Mentoring
    -   Develop a mechanism to facilitate interaction among alumni who might need a particular
        business service and vise versa
    -   Establish a semi-annual Business Networking Reception

As always, in order to make this happen, we do need the help of alumni volunteers.

If you are interested in serving on this planning committee,
please contact Alumni Director Kerry Wheeler at
alumni@midpac.edu or (808) 951-9956.

Posted by Kerry Wheeler on September 6, 2008 10:56 AM

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