Hawaii
That ring thing --
they always come aroundIT WAS 17 years ago that Chester Chinn lost his nearly new West Point ring while diving off Makua. Just last month, Scott Pakele found the ring and learned Chinn, a 1984 West Point grad, is now an active Army Lt. Col. stationed at the Pentagon. Turns out the ring had traveled four miles from where it was lost. Scott's father decided that finding Lt. Col. Chinn was just the challenge for the KSSK "posse," so he called Larry Price who got on the case. He found that West Point has a Web site and office specifically set up to find these rings which are lost or stolen. With Price's help, the ring is en route to its owner in Washington. Oh, want a final twist? Turns out that Price and Chester Chinn's father, Clarence, were classmates at Roosevelt ...
DROPPING by Matteo's to see old friend Russell Druce was Tyrone, the Marquis of Waterford. When I was in Ireland in October I visited with Lord Waterford at his estate (read "castle") and had lunch with him and Lady Carolline. He's been enjoying his annual sojourn to Hawaii to soak up the sun which so rarely rises over Waterford ...
Up at the Villa
YOU may not own a huge estate, but the late Walter Dillingham did on the side of Diamond Head and it's currently used as the campus of La Pietra. And the Florentine mansion will be the appropriate site of this year's "Hoopla" gathering, the title of which is "An Italian Evening -- Up at the Villa." There are some grand packages up for bids in a silent auction: a 14-day Mediterranean cruise on Seabourn, four days at Bob Burn's luxurious Villa Fetrenelli (former summer of home of Benito Mussolini) and a week-long holiday in Fiji for four at the "Villa Tabua" on Denarau Island. For more info or reservations call 922-2744 ...ONE of the best and most beautiful of singers in Hawaii, Rocky Brown, e-mails from New York City where she and hubby DeShannon Higa are now living. She says they're doing well "considering the terrorist threats we face everyday here in New York." She adds, "One thing, though, is that the cops are visibly everywhere." I hope she doesn't give up her singing -- that would be a gigantic waste ...
IT was a cinematic moment at Maui's Manana Garage the other night. Joanne Weber and husband John were dining with their cousins, restaurant co-owners Steve and Cleves Weber. Joanne ordered the ultra-rich Dulce De Leche Chocolate Cake and after the first bite said, "Oh, my god." As she luxuriated through it, all were reminded of the famous scene in the film, "When Harry Met Sally," only at Manana Garage no one asked to "have what she's having." ...
Won't you 'Beehive'
THE man charged with creating, and with the crew at Paul Brown's, cultivating the beehive hairdos on the ladies in Manoa Valley Theatre's "Beehive" is taking his entire crew to see the show tomorrow night. A theater spokesman admits to a bit of an ulterior motive. "You know, 'telephone, telegraph, tell a hairdresser.'" They're hoping the stylists will be talking up the show and the '60s hairdos though the run ...
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