Hawaii
ANYONE realize that pioneer astronaut John Glenn was in town briefly over the weekend? He arrived Saturday and left the following day for Tokyo, heading around the world. Now an exec for Royal Crown Cola, Glenn called Japan Airlines before takeoff to request a six-pack of his product be aboard the plane and on ice. (May 6, 1969) ... Nick & Nancy Rutgers (he's the scion of the founder of Rutgers University, and she's the daughter of "Mutiny on the Bounty" author James Norman Hall) coming up from their Tahiti home for the graduation of son Tony from Hawaii Prep Academy. They'll be tossing a tamaraa (a Tahitian luau) at Kona Village to celebrate and invited guests include actress Katherine Ross and her beau, cinematographer Conrad "Butch Cassidy" Hall. (May 10, 1971) ... 1969: John Glenn drops by
Hawaii to refuel with RC ColaNO MUSE is good muse, but here goes anyway, courtesy of Bob Loveless. His poetic aloha to City Hall figure Leo Pritchard: "From the Hale Leo's bugging out/Because his fiscal future seems in doubt/And what will he be doing ere he gets back?/Why, authoring Poor Pritchard's Almanac." We told you no muse was good muse. (May 10, 1973) ...
FOR years, Mrs. Abraham Akaka had accustomed herself to being identified simply as the wife of the well-known minister of Kawaiahao Church. But now she's getting used to a new designation -- "Sarah's mother" -- and "I'm very proud of the title," she told friends at the Alliance Francaise reception for its newest scholarship winners, Sarah Akaka and Melia Mendes, who enplane soon for Paris. (May 6, 1974) ...
HOT off the presses, the Filipino paper Pacific Courier, which states in a front-page story on Corregidor, "The big guns of the rock became silent on May 6, 1979, when Gen. Wainright yielded the battered island fortress." And about time, too! ... After celebrating a solid year of no drinking, no smoking and no fighting, former hard-drinking, smoking and fighting Jim Hackleman characterizes the experience as "incredibly boring." He adds, "I had more fun the year I was 7!" (May 8, 1979) ...
IN town making some personal appearances at discos, bookstores and military bases (plus Tripler) is Carolyn Bosanko, last month's Penthouse centerfold subject. The Maui resident brought along hundreds of copies of the magazine and photos to autograph. How did her parents in Seattle take her explicit layout? "My mom bought a copy of the magazine," shrugs Bosanko ... They'll be keeping their clothes on, but models filming for the Playboy Channel's new video travel magazine show have been getting a reasonable amount of sun in Kohala. The crew is staying at the Mauna Lani, which has been selected as the "ultimate honeymoon vacation spot in the world" by the cable show. It'll be seen in June and July on the Playboy Channel. (May 7, 1985) ...
THOSE who headed for home Wednesday afternoon to avoid the expected tsunami found themselves in various traffic tie-ups since everyone had the same idea. Those who waited until the tsunami failed to materialize and departed for home at, say, 5:30 p.m. had wide-open roads to travel. Commuters might file that away for future reference. (May 9, 1986) ...
BRUSH with bankers: Three bankers from competing banks have something in common other than banking. Barbera Tomber, senior VP at Bank of Hawaii, Nick Griffin, senior VP at Bank of America, and Mark Taylor, business development manager of First Hawaiian Bank, all sit on the board of directors at Manoa Valley Theatre. The other day, they all joined hands and picked up brushes and rollers and painted the theater's newly renovated backstage area. MVT will reopen its renovated facility when "Forbidden Manoa" opens on June 29. (May 11, 1994) ...
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