EVEN if golf is your game, you may not be aware of Harry Isokane, a Farrington High grad (Class of 1950) who went on to coaching greatness on the high school level in Scarsdale, N.Y. Isokane was recently honored by the State University of New York at Cortland with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. This year Isokane's Scarsdale golf team won its fifth consecutive Conference I Golf Championship. Isokane, who works out daily himself to stay in shape, will be in Hawaii this month to help his mother celebrate her 100th birthday and then spend a weekend golfing on Maui ...
Spence Weaver
HAWAII lost a true character when restaurateur Spence Weaver died last week. His name was synonymous with the beloved Queen's Surf nightclub on Waikiki's Gold Coast. To some old-timers, then-Mayor Frank Fasi's legacy will always be that he had the place torn down. Weaver was always a ladies' man, a fact attested to by long-ago Star-Bulletin columnist Zaida Male, who wrote of Spence back in the 1930s and referred to him as "The Wolf of Waikiki." That was nearly 60 years ago! Spence was 82 when he died, and the fact that he left a young widow was a surprise to no one who knew him ...
DON'T be surprised if you're standing in your supermarket line and run across a story about Jack Lord. Rumors have abounded about the physical state of the "Hawaii Five-O" star who has gone into complete seclusion, and for the past few days a reporter and photographer from the National Enquirer have been holed up - if one can use that word - in luxury at the Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hotel, just steps down the beach from Lord's apartment ... You might expect to pay a king's ransom for a dinner prepared by one of the hottest rising star chefs, Matthew Kenney, 32, chef/owner of three restaurants in midtown Manhattan including one called Matthew. But Kenney has been at the Hilton Hawaiian Village since Aug. 30 and for the next two weeks a four-course dinner he has overseen is being served at Bali-by-the-Sea for just $44. Food and Wine magazine has recognized him as one of the "Ten Best New Chefs in America." ...
THE baseball scene in Hawaii may never be the same. There's been an Eldredge or two involved in baseball in Honolulu for years, but now Boy Eldredge, former Hawaii Pacific University baseball coach, is moving to join the baseball coaching staff of Loyola Marymount in L.A. And leaving with him is his wife, former Mrs. Hawaii Val Eldredge. Friends of Val's, including Mrs. Hawaii '94 Bella Tomas, treated her to a farewell lunch at the new Chili's Grill at Waikele. Said Val, "It's a scary move but we know we're investing in Boy's and our future."
