Hawaii
By Dave Donnelly
Friday, September 6, 1996
Beamer message
about massage
THANKS to the computer age being upon us, folks with isle ties all over the world can keep track of what's happening here through the Star-Bulletin's Online edition. Wednesday I mentioned Mark Keil, son of UH Professor Klaus Keil, playing in the men's doubles of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York. Yesterday brought e-mail from former isle resident Milton Beamer III, a massage therapist at the Open, who read about Keil in the column. Beamer, who is studying for his master's in physical therapy, reports he worked on Mark, whom he described as "a terrific young man" and who told him about his dad's place in Poipu. Beamer is the nephew of entertainer Mahi Beamer and cousin of Keola and Kapono Beamer ...
SPEAKING of the computer age, Maui State Senate candidate Ian Chan Hodges almost met with disaster his first time out of the box in elective politics. He'd been working on voter lists on his lap-top computer when he set it down in a Wailuku health food store and when he returned, it was gone. He and wife Shay scoured the area for it, but to no avail. They filed a police report and called their insurance company, resigned that the computer and, more importantly, the files vital to his campaign were lost. The next morning Hodges got a call from a man saying he'd found the computer, but there was no identification with it and he had to find someone who knew how to turn it on to piece together to whom it belonged. Hodges is happy, now that his laptop and files are back, but he might well carve his name and number on the machine for future reference ...
Jim Leahey
SOCCER maven Jack Sullivan is providing color - such as it is - for UH women's soccer matches, which Jim Leahey calls turnover-by-turnover. Sullivan, who flew all the way to Athens (Georgia, not Greece) to see the U.S. women's soccer finals, admits that not even that game was sold out. And as for Leahey, he deadpans that it was nice that the audience was introduced to the players at the UH's latest match ...
Hey, Bobo!
NOT to be confused with "Hey, boo boo!" but Hawaii's great gift to fisticuffs, Bobo Olson, popped into town to visit old friends this week. Yesterday he was having breakfast with good friend Leroy Holley and his daughter Gailene, whom Bobo taught to swim many moons ago. Bobo was on the receiving end of a knockout from the great Sugar Ray Robinson in Chicago in 1955. My first interview was when, as a young Navy journalism school student, I was dispatched to the then Stevens Hotel to interview Sugar Ray the morning after the knockout. Olson calls Robinson "the greatest of them all," having lost three times to the man often called "pound for pound the best fighter who ever lived." But Olson points with pride that in his second match, he took Sugar Ray the full 15 rounds, something not many did ...
Don Ho
SOME beautiful examples of woodworking will be on display at the Aloha Tower Marketplace tomorrow through Sept. 15. The juried show is sponsored by the Hawaii Forest Industry Association and the handsome poster promoting the show pictures seven great examples of Hawaiian woodworking. The poster centerpiece is Robert Holden's rocking horse made with 11 locally grown woods. It's an exquisite piece which was first mentioned here back in February ... Among those in attendance at this morning's memorial service for late restaurateur Spence Weaver: Rev. Abraham Akaka, Msgr. Charles Kekumano and Don Ho performing "I'll Remember You" as Spence's ashes were scattered at sea ...
Dog days are here
THE Blaisdell Exhibition Hall will be awash, so to speak, in dogs this weekend as the Hawaiian Kennel Club presents its 109th and 110th annual all-breed dog shows tomorrow and Sunday. A total of 543 dogs representing 83 breeds will be judged tomorrow and 554 canines representing 84 breeds on Sunday. The Kennel Club invites: "Bring the entire family," adding "except your pets" ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. His columns run Monday through Friday. Contact Dave by e-mail at donnelly@kestrok.com.
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