Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 12, 1 December 1991 — Civic clubs present awards [ARTICLE]

Civic clubs present awards

1991 Ka Po'okela O Kuhio Award As An Outstanding Hawaiian Civic ClubMember For Service to the Hawaiian Civic Club Aana Cash Mitchell is the Ka Po'okela 0 Kuhio Award recipient for 1991. She is a member of the 'Ainahau O Kaleponi Hawaiian Civic Club. An active member, she travels 75 miles to monthly meetings. Aana calls Makiki and Pauoa Valley her one hanau. She is married to Chuck Mitchell and they have six children and nine mo'opuna. Aana Mitchell has served in leadership roles, volunteered to coordinate and chair many na mea Hawai'i projects. She has produced outstanding programs and performances for the Hawaiian community and the community at-large. She has created mueh interest, awareness, and appreciation for the traditions, practices, beliefs and values of Hawaiians and has given the 'opio a strong identity and understanding of "being Hawaiian." She has been recognized and

supported by the California Arts Council Traditional Folk Arts program as the recipient of the Master-Apprenticeship Folk Arts 1991 grant for her work in the traditions, practices and the values of 'oli, hula 'olapa, and musical instrumentmaking. She continues to offer her resources and personal time to the Bowers Museum and the Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Department's Pacific lslander Festival. Throughout her 30 years living in California, Aana Cash Mitchell is known for her generous kokua, kupuna ways and aloha to the California Hawaiian community as well as those in Nevada, Alaska, Utah, Colorado and Hawai'i. 1991 Kalaniana'ole Award for Outstanding Hawaiian Civic Club Member For Service to the Community at-large Richard Palmer Smart, a member of the Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club, is the 1991 recipient continued page 23

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from page 5 o( the Kalaniana'ole Award. Smart is the owner of Parker Ranch, entrusted to him by his mother, Thelma Kahiluonapuapi'ilani Smart. He especially feels an obligation to his employees who are children and grandchildren of former employees. They have been provided with homes and many other benefits including educational opportunities from the proceeds of the ranch. The contributions he has made to the Kohala communities have been unprecedented in Hawaiian history and include donations of land, endowments, structures and other assets geared to civic, cultural and humanitarian pursuits. 1991 Kako'o O Kalaniana'ole Award for Outstanding Non-Hawaiian For Service to the Hawaiian Community Ken Melrose is a planner for Waikoloa Development Co. He has coordinated Hawaiian concerns for his company, arranging for archeological surveys. Through his efforts he has assisted in the preservation and restoration of historical sites as well as public access. Melrose is active in the reinternment of remains and artifacts found in the caves and the preservation of petroglyphs and trails. He has provided information to the Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club on Hawaiian concerns regarding preservation and restoration of what is Hawaiian. He has shown a genuine respect for Hawaiian beliefs, customs and practices. Melrose is married to Maile E. Melrose and they have three children, Lilinoe, James and Jessie. 1991 Pualeilani Award for the Outstanding Hawaiian Civic Club Family The Flores 'Ohana has been selected as the 1991 Outstanding Hawaiian Civic Club Family. The matriarch is Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club's Auntie Elaine Flores with 33 years as a member. She is joined by sisters Gladys Padeken, (32 years) and L. Lagapa (25 years) both of Ko'olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club. Their brothers and their wives, Mr. and Mrs. B. Lam Ho, (38 years) and Mr. & Mrs. J. Lam Ho (48 years) also join them as members of Ko'olaupoko HCC. Aunty Elaine's sons William Akima, Sr. with his wife Lorna, and Alexander Flores, Jr. and daughter, Lynn join her as the second generation at Waimea HCC. Nephew Wallaee and his wife Sandra Akima (6 years) also rounds out the second generation. The third generation of Civic Club members are grand children William Akima, Jr., Willette Akima and Chalmers Akima and grand nephew Gary

Akima (3 years) all of Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club. This 'Ohana has participated in encouraging new membership, fund raising, revision of club constitution and by-laws, scholarship programs, representation at eouneil meetings, convention delegates, choir singing, arts and craft workshops and other club and eouneil activities. Members also participate in community activiiies such as school programs, kupuna programs, Ka'ahumanu Society, Hale 0 Na Ali'i - Keliiahonui Halau, North Kohala Hospice, Hawai'i Natural History Association and 'Imi Ola Church. 1991 Kulia I Ka Nu'u Award As An Outstanding native Hawaiian non-Civic Club Member Isabella Kauakea Aiona Abbott is awarded the 1991 Kulia 1 Ka Nu'u Award. Dr. Abbott was born in Hana, Maui, and raised in Honolulu as Isabella Aiona. Her father, Loo Yuen Aiona, eame from Canton, China, to work on the Kipahulu plantation. He married Kaili Hou of Lahaina and had six children. Dr. Abbott married Donald Putman Abbott, now deceased, and they have a daughter, Anne Kaiue Forester. lsabella Abbott is a 1937 graduate of the Kamehameha Schools. She earned a BA in Botany from the University of Hawai'i in 1941, an MS in Botany from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D from the University of California at Berley in 1950. Dr. Abbott is the first native Hawaiian to eam a scientific Ph.D. She holds the distinguished G.P. Wilder Chair of Botany (one of the seven endowed chairs at the University of Hawai'i). She is the first native Hawaiian Professor at Stanford University where she taught for 20 years and holds the longest collaborative relationship with the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (she started as an undergraduate and now sits on its board of directors). She is internationally renowned as a Hawaiian ethnobotanist, e$lucator, scholar, scientist in marine biology and throughout the Pacific as an expert in scientific and cultural aspects of plants. Dr. Abbott owes her strong interest in botany to the influence of her Hawaiian mother and grand unele, who were the first to introduce young Isabella to native plants, their uses and various planting techniques. She has authored over 100 publications, five of whieh are published books with three more in progress. "La'au Hawai'i: Traditional Hawaiian Usage of Plants" is due out this December from the Bishop Museum Press. The 1991 Prince Kuhio Outstanding Civic Club

Award was presented to 'Ainahau O Kaleponi Hawaiian Civic Club. The President's Awards for 1991 (Kukui Lama Ku) in recognition of enduring dedication and support to the principies of Hawaiian Civic Clubs went to Victor Jarrett of Las Vegas HCC, Elaine Flores of Waimea HCC, John Wilmington of Central Maui HCC, Rose Soares of Wai'anae HCC, Lukia Kong of Wai'anae HCC, Leiala Cravalho of Pearl Harbor HCC, and Lena Mendonca of Kaumuali'i HCC.