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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
It’s a long way to
a Chicago black-tie socialJUST back from the centennial celebration of the University of Chicago Law School is Michael Marks, corporate counsel at Alexander & Baldwin. He told friends here that he was the only former student recognized by name in Dean Saul Levmore's speech at the black-tie event at Chicago's Field Museum. He then had to explain that the dean actually joked that "Michael Marks should get the prize for coming the farthest to the reunion, but since he's from Hawaii, he can't win the floral centerpiece and take it home with him." ...
THE production team of "Living Your Dying" gathered at the home of Rick and Annie Bernstein to watch the TV premiere on KHET/PBS Tuesday night. The film is about the work and philosophies of the Rev. Dr. Mitsuo Aoki, who spent much of his life working with the terminally ill. After the film, Aoki revealed something that even exec producer Didi Leong and her crew, who worked on the project for 10 years, were unaware of: In the scene at the deathbed of patient Michael Thomson, Aoki asked for a sign that Thomson could hear what he was saying. It wasn't captured on camera or revealed in the film, Aoki explained, but Thomson winked at him. "Living Your Dying" will be rebroadcast on PBS Hawaii Saturday at 10 p.m. ...
Ladies at lunch
SO who did the Professional Women's Network get to speak at their monthly luncheon meeting today at the Hale Koa Hotel? Why, a man of course. He's Jim Varner, head of Dale Carnegie Training Hawaii ... No men were invited (or even qualified to attend) the meeting of the Arts with Aloha coalition, a group of women who do PR for the arts. They included Charley Aldinger (Honolulu Academy of Arts), Marie Carvalho (Contemporary Museum), Lisa Yoshihara (Hawaii State Art Museum), Anne Smoke (Hawaii Museums Association), Kym Char (Diamond Head Theatre), Aubrey Hawk (Manoa Valley Theatre and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth), Carolina Witherspoon (Hawaii Opera Theatre and Bishop Museum), Honey Becker and Lani Miyahara (Mission Houses Museum), Sharon Tasaka (UH Art Gallery) and Elissa Josephsohn (Hawaii Theatre and Ballet Hawaii) at the table. The luncheon, appropriately enough, was at Auntie Pasto's Beretania ...WHEN St. Francis student Ashley Gora won the Interscholastic League of Honolulu Singles Tennis championship, she became the first from the school to do so. And she's only a freshman ...
Jazz sings the blues
AFTER a 15-month run at Kapono's in the Aloha Tower Marketplace, the Honolulu Jazz Quartet will play its last gig there on Memorial Day from 7 to 10 p.m. The club has decided to discontinue the Monday jazz night for the time being, but John Kolivas and his group expect lots of other musicians to drop by and sit in with the quartet on Monday ... And sitting in with the oddly spelled SUGahDADDY at Anna Bannanas the other night was Nashville recording artist Deana Carter, there to wish Mat Souza a happy birthday ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com