Hawaii
1969: The Elks get together
to celebrate expansionTHE Elks are having a get-together Saturday to celebrate their $80,000 expansion, including a hau terrace and sauna. Wonder if Saunater Dave McClung will be there? (Oct. 23, 1969) ... "Just think," said Kahala Hilton barbershop hairstylist Dean Shores, who is part American Indian. "My forefathers used to get killed for doing what I do." The Sebring-trained stylist added, "But the only time I scalp customers is when I present the bill" (Oct. 22, 1970) ... Judge Allen R. Hawkins is a sax fiend (no typos, please!) and picked up a new saxophone when in S.F. recently. He's forced to play it in the privacy of his bedroom, however, because his dog can't stand it. (Oct. 22, 1970) ...
UH CHANCELLOR Wytze Gorter, watching the final games of the World Series, mused, "I find it appropriate that Oakland has a stopper named Fingers. And if you know that Wytze is Dutch, you might look for a literary allusion there." (Oct. 23, 1973) ... Dick Boyd and Mickey Hummer, who is buying the downtown bar once owned by Boyd, spent the weekend playing the part of "Indian braves" while their daughters were "Indian princesses" at Camp Erdman. Needless to say, the two smuggled some joy juice into camp, and after the princesses were safely tucked away for the night, managed to set a Camp Erdman record for avoiding "lights out." (Oct. 20, 1977) ... Attorney Evan Shirley got a bang out of the fact that one of the books listed as "missing" from the Supreme Court Library was "Eye-witness Identification," by Nathan R. Sobel. No mention in the memo to lawyers from the library if anyone saw who took it. Adds Shirley, "I hope the ethics books are still on the shelf." (Oct. 20, 1977) ...
IT was kept pretty quiet while he was here, but honeymooning at the Wailea Beach Hotel last week was Jerry Grosvenor, 26, and his wife, Natalia (19), whom he calls Tally. Grosvenor's wedding made the front pages of every newspaper in London earlier in the month, largely because he's heir to the Grosvenor fortune, calculated to be in the $1 billion area.
BENIHANA owner Rocky Aoki had dinner at the Honolulu Club -- sometimes called by wags "Honolulu's 700 Club," since there are reportedly 700 single women members. Aoki, who is a founding director of the club, was having his first look at the completed structure and the cuisine prepared by food and beverage director John Alves. (Oct. 27, 1980) ...
WHEN Gov. Peter Coleman greeted the first Arrow Airways flight at Pago Pago, he thanked all concerned, "especially for the food." Arrow offers a Samoan plate on flights from Honolulu. (Oct. 21, 1982) ... Still more food items -- aren't you hungry? Hyatt Regency sous chef Jeff Moogk had never entered a food competition in his life, but the hotel needed an entry in the International Competition of the Pacific last week, and since the exec chef was tied up, Moogk was talked into whipping up a salmon mousse. You guessed it -- he won first place. By coincidence, Moogk has been named exec chef of Chicago's Park Hyatt and leaves for the Windy City next week. (Oct. 21, 1982) ... Joe Rose is still chuckling over a parcel he received from a Reno public relations agency named -- I swear -- Begg, Barter & Steele. (Oct. 21, 1982) ...
MAYOR Frank Fasi initially agreed to sign five copies of "The Price of Paradise" for UH Law School professor Randall Roth since his son, David, is a student of Roth's. Then he noticed a cartoon with him and two of his kids in it that rubbed him the wrong way and refused to sign the books, saying he doesn't mind cartoons critical of him, but he doesn't like seeing members of his family included. Roth wrote a very persuasive (and funny) letter to the mayor listing 10 reasons he should sign the books. Then he got a call saying Fasi had relented and would sign the books. He probably liked reasons No. 1, 2 and 3: "I voted for you in 1984. I voted for you in 1988. I intend to vote for you in 1992." (Oct. 27, 1992) ...
"The Week That Was" recalls events culled from Dave Donnelly's three-dot columns over the past 30 years. Donnelly continues to write his Hawaii column Tuesdays through Fridays in the Star-Bulletin.
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