Pies a-poppin’ at
AUW tip-offAN All Star group of fund-raisers had two breakfast meetings this week to kick off the Aloha United Way campaign at the new All Star Cafe in Waikiki. Emcee was UH basketball coach Riley Wallace, who announced that while this was supposed to be a "Kick-Off" breakfast, he unilaterally was changing it to a "Tip-Off" breakfast. At the first breakfast on Monday, the highlight came when the normally placid Pat Tam of the Halekulani, co-chairman of the AUW campaign, noted that IBM's Anton Kruky has had the worst performing company over the past five years (just kidding) and presented him with a pie in the face. Hilarity ensued. Then at yesterday's breakfast, AUW staffer Mary Nees similarly gifted Rick Humphreys, past head of Bank of America, for "projected worst performer for 1998" since the bank no longer operates in Hawaii. Then Kruky and Humphreys returned the favor by pushing a pie into the face of Tam's co-chair, John Reed, thanking him for the AUW acknowledgment. Reed's current pie chart shows a goal of $17 million, a 24 percent increase over last year, and he's hoping his stated goal is not just a pie in the sky projection ...
CONGRATS to Yasmeen Sulieman of Kailua, who won this year's I-94 "Brown Bags to Stardom." She's following in the footsteps of previous Brown Bag'ers Glenn Medeiros, Tia Carrere, Na Leo Pilimehana and Kapena. Yasmeen, a Punahou sophomore, gets a national recording contract valued at $18,000, a cash prize of $500 and a one-year scholarship to Hawaii Pacific University should she choose to attend school there. Yasmeen's brief bio states that she began to sing before she could talk, which sounds like a pretty good trick right there ...
Truly Julie
SHE'S normally sweet and bubbly enough to make one swear off chocolates and champagne, but Julie Marin never sounded so excited on camera as when she announced to her "Entertainment Tonight" TV audience that she'd be doing the telecast of the Miss Universe Pageant from Hawaii. Her TV partner immediately volunteered to accompany her, but some poor soul has to hold down the fort while she's sunning on the beach. Her selection comes as no surprise since the local producer of the show is Al Masini, creator of "Entertainment Tonight," as well as "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." Can Robin Leach be far behind? ...WHEN Don Ho was at the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua attending the annual "Celebration of the Arts" last weekend, he took the opportunity to sit and talk story with Benny Aquino, one of the original Aliis group that backed Ho in the old days. Aquino, like many of us a bit grayer, is now playing music at the Kapalua Bay Hotel, and he and Ho had quite a time reminiscing about what all the other Aliis are up to these days ...
All's fair in love
MOST people attend events like the Sacred Hearts Academy's "Superfair" for the food, fun and games, but you never know what you might find there. A husband or wife, even. That's what happened to UH volleyballer Kelli Cordray. It was while she was working at a pizza booth two years ago, and met Collin Walker, also a UH student, who was working another food both. The "Superfair" worked its magic and the result is that the two are planning to get married this summer. Want to take a chance on love? This year's "Superfair '98" will be held tomorrow and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the Academy's Kaimuki campus. That's otherwise known as the happy hunting ground ...
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: donnelly@kestrok.com.