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UH alumni honor
UH taps alums in fund-raising effort By Leila Fujimori
six; Gladys Brandt
receives lifetime
achievement award
Star-BulletinThe University of Hawaii has honored six outstanding alumni at the UH Alumni Association annual dinner.
The 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award went to Gladys A. Brandt, an educator and administrator for more than 40 years.
Insurance executive Robin K. Campaniano, engineering consultant Ronald N.S. Ho, U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, Kamehameha Schools trustee Francis A. Keala and law professor Pamela Samuelson received the 2000 UH Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award.
Brandt, who received her bachelor's degree in education in 1942, served for 17 years as the only female principal of a high school in Hawaii starting in 1942. She also served as district superintendent of Kauai's public schools and as principal of Kamehameha School for Girls.
From 1983 to 1989, Brandt sat on the UH Board of Regents, chairing the board for four years. She was also appointed as an Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee in 1998.
Campaniano, former Hawaii insurance commissioner, serves as president and chief executive officer of AIG Hawaii Insurance Co. and as chairman and CEO of 50th State Risk Management.
Ho founded Ronald N.S. Ho and Assoc. Inc., an electrical engineering consulting firm that provides services throughout the Pacific. He also established an endowment fund in support of UH electrical engineering students, is involved with UH athletics and chairs the UH Foundation's Board of Trustees.
Inouye, who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, attended UH on the G.I. Bill. He earned a law degree from George Washington University and became one of the nation's most distinguished and longest-serving senators.
He was elected in 1959 as the first congressman from the State of Hawaii, and the first Japanese American to be elected to the House and Senate. Inouye has secured millions of federal funds for the state, from which the university has benefited.
Keala, a 1953 UH graduate, served as Honolulu's police chief from 1969 to 1983. He initiated Crime Stoppers and the Neighborhood Watch program. He serves as director of St. Francis Medical Center West, president of the Hawaiian music Hall of Fame and trustee of Kamehameha Schools.
Samuelson, one of the nation's leading experts on copyright laws, has been named one of the nation's 50 most influential lawyers. She was awarded a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for her contributions to computer and cyberspace law. She served as advisor to Gov. Ben Cayetano and the state Dept. of Business, Economic Development and Tourism for the development of high-tech industries in Hawaii.
Samuelson is a professor of law at the University of California Berkeley, with appointments at the schools of law and information and management systems. She was a former visiting professor at the UH William S. Richardson School of Law.
UH seeks alumni
By Mary Adamski
to invest in
‘Campaign
for Hawaii’
Star-BulletinPeople who have been educated in the University of Hawaii system are being sought as investors in their alma mater in a campaign billed as the largest private fund-raising effort in the history of Hawaii.
UH President Kenneth Mortimer announced the $100 million goal of the university's Campaign for Hawaii last night. The one-year drive seeks to tap not just alumni but the wider community to join the "landmark public/private partnership to secure the future of the University," he said.
Nearly three-fourths of the goal has already been achieved. The University of Hawaii Foundation raised $72 million during the past three years, private gifts that endow programs and research and have doubled the number of scholarship recipients and student aid.
"This university is a great university, and somehow the people in Hawaii have not caught on yet. It is one of the best-kept secrets," said U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, a co-chairman of the campaign.
"I'm a beneficiary of the University of Hawaii," said Inouye, one of six people honored as outstanding UH alumni last night. "I get irritated and tired of hearing my friends constantly tell me, bragging that 'my son is going to a mainland school.' What's so good about that mainland school?"
Among the contributions during the "quiet phase" of the campaign have been 14 $1 million gifts.
But the campaign leaders also value the 25,000 to 30,000 gifts received in a year.
"We have a guy who is buying knee braces for football players," Mortimer said. "It costs $150. That's not a $1 million, but it's very important to a football player who's got a bad knee."
Mortimer, whose tenure as president has been marked by cutbacks forced by declining state funding, said: "Private giving increases our ability to create and manage our future and make us dynamic."
Walter Dods, First Hawaiian Bank chairman and chief executive officer, said: "This is not a donation, it is an investment in our town, in our community, an investment in our students, an investment in research, an investment in faculty."
Dods, whose bank contributed $1 million to endow a chair in the School of Business, and Pacific Century Financial Corp. (Bank of Hawaii) chairman and chief executive officer Larry Johnson, whose company gave a $1 million Hilo property, share the co-chairmen title with Inouye.
One of the "leadership donors" whose gifts were $1 million or more asked to be kept anonymous. Others, besides Bank of Hawaii and First Hawaiian Bank, are Avant! Corp., Frank Boas, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, Nadine Kahanamoku Estate, Dr. and Mrs. Alec D. Keith, Donald C.W. Kim, Ryun Nam Koong, Landmark Graphics Corp., K.J. Luke Foundation, Edwin W. Pauley Foundation and Unity House.
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