Chaminade program cultivates 20 potential leaders of tomorrow

TWENTY budding leaders of tomorrow were honored yesterday as the fourth graduating class of the Hogan Entrepreneur Program at Chaminade University.

The program is designed to prepare Chaminade's best students to leave here better equipped to start new things, whether in the business, nonprofit or government sectors.

"It is really a leadership program with sort of an entrepreneurial overlay," said Director John Webster. "Our slogan is, 'Doing business things that make social sense and doing social things that make business sense.'"

Enrollees take the program's classes instead of electives, so there is no additional cost.

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Kevin McDonald received the Hogan Entrepreneur Student of the Year Award from Ed and Lynn Hogan yesterday morning at Chaminade University's Mystical Rose Oratory.

Curriculum focuses on entrepreneurial tools, skills, real-world exposure and community service. If a student fails to complete the 25-hour community service commitment, "they don't get the certificate," he said.

Every Wednesday night, students meet with a leader from business, government or the nonprofit sector for 90 minutes, most of which is time for questions and answers.

"That is the richest thing that goes on," said Webster.

The word entrepreneur begets thoughts of business, but "more than half (the program's students) are not even business majors," Webster said.

Of the business majors, not all of them are interested in the travel and tourism industry that built the Hogan family empire, which suits patriarch and benefactor Ed Hogan just fine.

"If we want to have freedom in America, we have to have productivity. We have to produce commerce, because commerce gives jobs to people," he said.

Yesterday, Kevin McDonald of Pennsylvania was presented with the Outstanding Hogan Entrepreneur of the Year Award, for achieving the most significant results while embracing the program's underlying values.

The Outstanding Senior Award was presented to Aulii Canencia; Jenna Lucas was presented the Outstanding Junior Award; Angelique Showman won the Leadership Award for 2005/2006; and the Aloha Spirit Award was presented to Thor Tinitali.

Previous graduates of the Hogan Entrepreneur Program include Ellen Watson, who runs a mold-detection business; and Vu Duong, a former Vietnamese refugee who has established two computer-support related businesses, one in the United States and one in Vietnam, where he is also developing a fishing resort.

HOGAN ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM GRADUATES

NAME	MAJOR	HOME
Joseph Agudo	Business Administration	Guam
Leah Calixto	Business Administration	Hawaii
Aulii Canencia	Psychology	Hawaii
Maureen Caracciolo	MAPL-MPT*	Hawaii
Ryan Edgar	Criminal Justice	Pohnpei
Nicole Faborito	Business Management	Hawaii
Emmitt Ford	MAPL-MPT*	California
Adam Hoffman	Business	California
Boris Jelic	Business Administration	Montenegro
Carole Kongprachith	Accounting	France
Jenna Lucas	Psychology	Hawaii
Bryan Mathes	Communications	Virginia
Kevin McDonald	Marketing	Pennsylvania
Lauren Miyasato	Psychology	Hawaii
Christopher Powell	Business Administration	California
Angelique Showman	Forensic Science	Las Vegas
Thor Tinitali	Psychology	American Samoa
Uheina Tuihalafatai	Business	Hawaii
Zack Whiting	Business	California
Chris Zecha	Business	Malaysia

* Master of Arts in Pastoral Leadership and Master of Pastoral Theology

Source: Hogan Entrepreneur Program, Chaminade University

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