Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 1, 1 January 1989 — Kaulukukui and Burgess Named to Head OHA Board [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kaulukukui and Burgess Named to Head OHA Board

Two veteran Trustees have been selected to fill the top leadership positions on the OHA Board of Trustees for the next two years. On November 29, 1988, the first Board meeting foIlowing certification of the November 8 election, the Trustees named Thomas K. Kaulukukui, Sr. as Chairman of the Board and Rodney K. Burgess, III as Vice-Chairman. Both are Trustees-at-Large and both men have served on the Board since the first OHA election in 1980. In 1986, Kaulukukui held the positions of both Vice-Chairman and interim Chairman of the agency.

A retired U.S. marshal, Chairman Kaulukukuiis widely known for his ability as an athlete and eoaeh. According to a February 18, 1986 story in the Honolulu Advertiser, "Tommy Kaulukukui is considered the greatest athlete ever to graduate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In his four years (1933-37), Kaulukukui earned 15 letters— four eaeh in football, basketball and baseball, and three in track. That still stands as a record. He became the first Rainbow football player to gain All-America honors from the All-America Board of Football in 1935.

"Unele Tommy" is a former U.H. head football eoaeh, founded the Pop Warner Football League in Hawai'i, was a Babe Ruth Baseball League Commissioner, Little League advisor, Area Athletic Director of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Second Vice-President of the Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame. As an OHA Trustee, Chairman Kaulukukui conceived the idea of "Ho'olako, 1987," the Year of the Hawaiian and served as president of that organization. OHA's new Vice Chairman Rod Burgess was educated at the Kamehameha Schools, U.S. Naval Academy and University of Hawai'i. A businessman and realtor, Burgess is President of Rod Burgess Realty, ine. and Burgess Development Company. A Maui resident, he also is consultant to Native Hawaiian Oeean Activities, ine. in Lahaina. He is a charter member of the Hawaiian Businessmen's Association. Trustee Burgess was a member of the FederalState Task Force on the Hawaiian Homes Com-

mission Act and the Lieutenant Governor's Task Force on Housing, and is a member of the Elks Lodge. This is the second time Burgess is serving as OHA Vice-Chair. He was last vice-chair from 1982 to 1983. He is chair of OHA's Ad Hoe Committee on Ceded Lands whieh currently is negotiating with a similar committee from the Governor's office in an attempt to resolve the controversy surrounding OHA's entitlements. Burgess, as Ad Hoe Committee Chair, spearheaded the recent referendum on whether to establish a single beneficiary class for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Thomas Kaulukukui, Sr.

Rod Burgess