Region:  United States
City:  Honolulu
Country:  United States

 

The current head of the chapter is:

Dr. Carl Hefner
(ICC 79-84, ASDP 97)
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii — Kapiolani Community College
Arts and Science Division
4303 Diamond Head Road
Honolulu, HI 96816
Phone: 808-734-9715
Fax: 808-734-9151
E-mail: hefner@hawaii.edu

 

• To support the mission of the East-West Center
• To increase active membership in the Chapter
• To support the Center through networking and fundraising activities

The EWCA-HI has aimed to achieve its goals through various activities:

• Hosting an Annual Membership Meeting and Social is held usually each Fall, where the chapter's Outstanding Service Award, with a monetary gift, is presented to an EWCA-HI alumnus who has served the Center and the Association above and beyond. In 1999, this event was held at the Hawaiian Regent Hotel, the venue of the up-coming EWC/EWCA 2000 International Conference, July 4-8, 2000.

• Creating the Professional Linkage Program (ProLink), which provides EWC participants, an opportunity to "shadow" relevant Center alumni in order to get first-hand experience of the everyday work environment and work culture. Each semester the ProLink Committee, made up of both alumni and participants, host a social for alumni and participants to meet "their match."

• Hosting current EWC participants on various socials and field trips to encourage alumni and participants to interact; cultivate current participants (future alumni); and offer the participants a chance to see more of Hawaii than the University campus. Past excursions have included a tour of Waimea Valley, a drum Pacific Drum Festival, and sponsorship to attend the annual meeting/social.

Each year at its Annual Meeting, the EWCA Hawaii Chapter presents the Outstanding Service Award to an EWC Associate who has provided outstanding service to the East-West Center, the East-West Center Association, and/or to the local community. 
 

Awardees

2007 - David P. McCauley, Director, Damon Key Bocken Leong Kupchak

2006 - Greg Trifonovitch, Former Research Associate, East-West Center

2005 - Ricardo Trimillos, Chair, Asian Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa

2004 - Daniel Berman, Special Representative for South Asia, East-West Center

2002 - Loretta Pang, Professor, Kapiolani Community College and former Secretary/Treasurer of the EWCA Executive Board

2001 - Tin Myaing Thein, Executive Director of the Pacific Gateway Center

2000 - Jeanette “Benji” Bennington, Former Curator of the East-West Center Exhibition Series

1999 - Larry Foster, Dean, William Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii and former President, EWCA Hawaii Chapter

1998 - Puongpun Sananikone, President of Pacific Management Resources and former President, EWCA Executive Board

1997 - Lyn Flanigan, Vice President of Hawaiian Airlines and Member, EWC Board of Governors

1996 - Chhany Sak-Humphry, Lecturer, Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages, University of Hawaii and Community Volunteer

1995 - Puanani Burgess, Executive Director, Wai’anae Coast Community Alternative Development Corporation

1994 - Lynn Martin, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

1993 - Rose Nakamura, Former EWC Program Officer and Outstanding Community Volunteer

1992 - Cleo Kobayashi, Volunteer Extraordinaire and Co-chair, EWCA 2000 Conference

1991 - Vicki Shambaugh, Director of Research and Development, Pacific Health Research Institute and former President, EWCA Executive Board

1990 - Marion Saunders, Civil Rights Champion and former EWC Program Officer

1989 - Amy Agbayani, Director of Student Equity, Excellence & Diversity,University of Hawaii and President, EWCA Executive Board