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By Dennis Oda,Star-Bulletin
Na Pua celebrants sing the school song at ceremony's end.

Kamehameha ohana
marks anniversary
of the march that
changed trust’s history

The march helped bring
the reform of the Bishop Estate

Star-Bulletin staff

Members of the Kamehameha Schools ohana marked the third anniversary of the May 15 march that set in motion many of the recent reforms of $6 billion charitable trust.

In a ceremony at the estate's Kawaiahao Plaza headquarters yesterday afternoon, alumni, teachers, staffers and community leaders looked back at the tumultuous events that began with the march protesting the former trustees' micromanagement of the Kapalama Heights campus and culminated with the resignations of the former board of trustees last year.

By Dennis Oda,Star-Bulletin
Cindy Quinn, left, and Margery Bronster joined others
in presenting leis during a ceremony yesterday marking
the third anniversary of the Na Pua march which
changed the Bishop Estate.

"It's been a time of excitement and it's been a time of change and yet we find ourselves on the threshold of more change and more excitement," said Jan Dill, director of Na Pua a Ke Ali'i Pauahi, which organized yesterday's ceremony and initiated the protest march three years ago.

Yesterday's observance included speeches by retired Adm. Robert Kihune, chairman of the interim board and Margery Bronster, former state attorney general.

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