In attendance, 21, including Bob Thompson, guest of Mililani Hughes.
Ka’u Hospital painting went well. Nona Wilson was very happy with all the work we were able to do. Thanks to TrueValue Hardware for donating some needed paint.
RYLA Camp
There are currently 8 nominees! If you are planning on attending the camp, please let Mililani Hughes know so she can everything paid for.
Rosemary Stancampiano was inducted this morning. Charlene Meyers is raking in the Rotary Bucks for all her new members! Welcome Rosemary, we look forward to getting to know you more and putting you to work.
Frank Box is now a Paul Harris Fellow
Congratulations Frank!
Upcoming Speakers/Projects
March 20, Felicia Olivera, Fire Chief
April 26, Hilo Firestation Cleanup
Sometime in May, housing for GSE team
Vocational Speaker
Mililani Hughes did a quick fill in for a sick guest speaker. She was spellbinding! Her mother received only a 5th grade education because they moved back to Japan, hoping things would be better. Finding out they were worse in Japan, her mother’s family returned to Hawaii, working and living at the Lahainaluna Sugar Plantation, where Mililani grew up. Her father was born on Molokai and moved to Lahaina to work at Lahainaluna, and achieved an 8th grade education. He had a stroke when Mililani was 2 and the family stuggled to survive through her mother’s sewing and teaching sewing. Because of the stuggles of the family, the mother stressed the importance of her children improving there lot through education, though Mililani says she never considered that they were poor. So she learned to get out of her chores by saying she was reading!
Her father died when she was in 9th grade. Good thing she had learned to drive a year earlier. She attended Lahainaluna HS, Maui Community College, and then received her teaching degree from UH Manoa in 1971. She started teaching English at the age of 21.
In 1978, she and Don married. They met at the school both were both teaching at. Don wanted to move to the Big Island, and in 1981 two positions opened at Mt. View school, an English teacher, and a science teacher. They got the jobs and moved. Over the years Mililani was the Administrator at Pahoa school, and principal at Hilo HS. That turned out to be a very stressful job, so she left and went back to teaching at Waiakea in 1995. Five years later, she was asked to become the Administrator at a Hawaiian Immersion School (ask Mililani for the name of the school).
She has continued working there part-time and enjoys it a great deal.
Happy Dollars
David Uhlman for the speaker, workers at Ka’u Hospital and the donated paint. Jack Lockwood for the speaker, as well as Linda Jane Irwin, John Tyler, Rosemary Stancampiano, and Jerry Shimoda. Alana McKinney gave $10 for Doc who spent 47 years in Rotary! Paul Ducasse was happy for our newest Rotarian and his heated car seats (spoiled!). David Rizor announced that his daughter got a job! Frank Box gave in memory of Doc. Charlene Meyers gave for our newest Rotarian as well. Helene Buntman gave $5 for all of our smiling faces, and finally Lindsay Barclay gave a dollar and reminded us to tip the waiter!
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