Hawaii
TIRELESS Paul Klink, CEO of Klink Inc., is in Japan, trying to bring Dave and Buster's Japan to reality while also seeking out medical treatment. Klink is the guy who brought us the ubiquitous "Live Aloha" bumper sticker. So you can imagine how his heart skipped a beat while attending an event where President George W. Bush and his entourage were also present, at the Meji-Jingu Shrine in Tokyo, where a wooden wish board was pointed out to him. Hanging on a wall just outside the main entrance, the board was inscribed, "The World Should Live Aloha." ... ‘Live Aloha’ creator elated
to see his slogan in JapanALSO in Japan performing for a jewelry convention at the Ritz-Carlton Osaka was Danny Kaleikini. This came as news to Osaka DJ Kamasami Kong. He lives in the Ritz but didn't know old pal Kaleikini was there until the manager told him the next day, "We had the Don Ho of Hawaii performing here last night." Kong was sorry he missed him since it was Danny's mom who gave his daughter, Healohanani, her name ...
MEMBERS of the Public Relations Society of America have been looking forward to today's monthly lunch and program. Slated speaker is Major Chris Hughes, USMC, who's back from Camp Rhino in Afghanistan with tales of how, as public affairs officer, he handled the press in the war zone ... There were romantic lunches all over town on Valentine's Day, but none more memorable than at La Mer where 50 intimate friends helped Christie Weaver and Warren Scoville celebrate their marriage. Among those toasting the couple were Ann Simpson, Marty Dowling, Carole Brooks and Mike Dailey ...
Chiefs
IT was on April 1, 1893, that the U.S. Navy created the CPO rank and now, as any Chief Petty Officer will tell you, they run the Navy. And to celebrate the occasion, Chiefs from around the State will be gathering at Hickam Air Force Base Officer's Club (?) for a dinner and a program featuring some venerable members of their clan. Speaking will be retired CPO John Finn of Kaneohe, the first CPO Medal of Honor winner of World War II and the last living MOH recipient of the Pearl Harbor attack. Now, at 93, he's the nation's oldest living MOH winner. Also speaking at the affair is Harold B. Estes, 87-year-old former Chief Boatswains Mate who began his Navy career on the USS California in 1935. The event will take place March 30 at 5 p.m. ...
Indians
DR. Prat Pal, world's leading expert in Indian Art, has congratulated Indru & Gulab Watumull for being the first family of Indian descent in America to have a museum art gallery named for them. The two are major supporters of the Academy of Arts' Jhamandas Watumull Gallery for Indian Art, named in honor of Gulab's father ... Indian chef Hermant Oberoi is flying in to prepare dinner at "An International Affair" at the Hilton Hawaiian Village March 15, the East-West Center Foundation's annual fund-raiser. Oberoi is exec chef at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay and frequently accompanies India's Prime Minister on trips and prepares his meals. He's prepared dinner for an impressive list including then-President Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Francois Mitterrand and Henry Kissinger, to name a few ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com