Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 3, 1 March 1987 — Martin Luther King Day Culture Lecture Series at Kaumakapili Church [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Martin Luther King Day Culture Lecture Series

at Kaumakapili Church

The second and third of a three-part Hawaiian culture lecture series sponsored by the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate Extension Education Division, Continuing Education Program, are scheduled for 7 p.m. Mar. 12 and Apr. 9 at Kaumakapili Church. Admission is free. The first of the series was held Feb. 12 on "Ku Kanaka, Stand Tall: A Search for Hawaiian Values" by Dr. George Hueu Sanford Kanahele. Announcement of this series arrived too late for it to be used in the February issue. "Resurgence of the Hawaiian Lar.guage" is the scheduled Mar. 12 topic with Larry K. Kimura, Hawaiian language instructor in the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages, University of Hawaii. He has been a moving force in the community for the preservation of Hawaiian language and an accomplished composer, having written 21 songs, including "E Ku'u Moming Dew." Dr. Rubellite Kawena Johnson, associate professor of Hawaiian in the same Indo-Pacific Languages Department, is scheduled Apr. 9. Her subject matter is "Hawaiian Language and the Geometry of Arts and Crafts." She is a reknowned scholar, researcher and author in Hawaiian language, history and culture.

- wm-m -iBBiigL4 Office of Hawaiian Affairs Administrator Kamaki A. Kanahele III was among key government officials who spoke at the Jan. 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day program at Kapiolani Park. Here he is shown offering a chant.