Please join us for lunch at 12n at the Plaza Club on Fri, March 1, and meet our speaker, Alex Teece of DreamHouse. Please show your support and save the date!
His BIO is attached:
Alex Teece is co-founder and founding school leader of DreamHouse 'Ewa Beach, a leadership-focused Public Charter School opening this August. Alex came to Hawaii in 2008 through Teach For America and taught at Ilima Intermediate in 'Ewa Beach while earning a Masters Degree in Education from UH Mānoa. He then went on to get an MBA in finance and corporate accounting, worked on Wall Street for a summer, spent a semester abroad in Hong Kong studying international business, and eventually returned to Hawaii to get back into education and non-profit work. In 2012, a group of Teach For America teachers and community members got together and formed the idea to start DreamHouse. Since then, Alex has worked part-time, and eventually full-time on building this charter school. In 2015, Alex received a full scholarship to study school leadership and educational policy at Harvard University, and returned back to Hawai'i once again to begin DreamHouse. Aside from starting this school, he serves as acting Executive Director for DreamHouse's non-profit, is a full-time doctoral student at UH Mānoa studying educational leadership, and is getting married this June.
We have an amazing line up of community service events and we need your help to make it a success!
Kalihi Uka Elementary School 3rd grade students will be receiving their dictionaries from the Rotary Dictionary Project on March 8 and we need volunteers to help present these dictionaries to the children. Come to promote literacy in our local schools and inspire students to seek knowledge!
Kalihi Uka Elementary School Dictionary Distribution
Fern Elementary School needs volunteers to assist with their upcoming beautification project on Saturday, March 30, 2019. The campus needs external improvements done including moving rocks and basic gardening around the campus. Please come down and lend a hand to make Fern Elementary a wonderful place for students to learn, grow, and play!
Fern Elementary School Beautification
Saturday, March 30, 2019
9:00am-11:00am
Fern Elementary School
1121 Middle St, Honolulu, HI 96819
Deadline: March 18, 2019
Please come wearing comfortable clothing and covered shoes!
Spring time is around the corner and we will be decorating the Ronald McDonald Judd Hillside House to spruce up the facility and welcome in a cheerful season for the families residing there while their children receive treatment. Volunteers will be making simple DIY crafts and putting up these decorations in the common areas of the house OR putting together care baskets for each family living at the Ronald McDonald House filled with travel necessities and on the go snacks. Please wear comfortable clothing and get ready to tap into your inner interior decorator!
HRYF/WHRCF Scholarship Committee Members Stan Wong, Matt Wong, Jeff Pang, Richard Ing and Nalani Blaisdell (absent) completed the interviews of the scholarship applicant finalist on Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
Finalist (from left to right): Chloe Vernadin Sabandal, JR Villa, Dominic Arzdon and Janna Aguinaldo.
Please join us at our club's prestigious Mary Kawena Pukui Award Luncheon on March 15th:11:30 AM - 1:30 PM at the Plaza Club honoring Hardy Spoehr. The cost for our club members is $23 for an upgraded buffet lunch, and $40 for guests. Spouses and guests are welcome. Let me know if you have any questions. President Stan Wong is looking forward for great support from our membership for this event. Mahalo!
HARDY SPOEHR
Hardy Spoehr grew up on O‘ahu, spending much of his time around Bishop Museum. He graduated from Punahou School and received degrees from Wesleyan University and University of Hawai‘i. He has additional certificates in management, ornithology and historic preservation.
As an adult, Hardy has lived in Hawai‘i and Rarotonga (Cook Islands) working as a teacher and an administrator in agencies such as The Nature Conservancy, ALU LIKE, Hawai‘i County Parks and Recreation, Department of Hawaiian Homelands, and the congressional Kaho‘olawe Island Conveyance Commission from 1990-1993.
Hardy is the executive director of Papa Ola Lōkahi, the Native Hawaiian board of health, founded in 1988 and authorized by the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act. His staff won’t let him retire.
Hardy has been awarded the Meritorious Service Award from the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, and the Kako‘o o Kalaniana‘ole Award from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, at which time he was gifted the name Ka-malu-mālama-o-ka-ho‘ola, the caring peace that brings well-being.
In his spare time, Hardy paddles with Anuenue Canoe Club, referees ILH football, blows the bagpipes in the Celtic (KEL-tik) Pipes and Drum Band, is a philanthropist, and, with wife Joyce, dotes on his six grandchildren.
HAWAIIAN HEALTH
Hardy Spoehr will describe the health status of Native Hawaiians, its historical context, and the many efforts to improve the health of our people through policy, programs, direct services, research, data & information, health education and prevention, workforce development and outreach.
Glen Suzuki met with Makati West sister club members, PP Jan Tambunting (on the right) and PE Enrico Tensuan (on the left). Glen met with them to discuss possible projects that we can participate in to strengthen our sister club relationship. Had lunch at Manila Golf and Country Club which is the premiere private golf course in the Philippines.
It is great pleasure to inform you that the Celebration Dinner for the 45h Anniversary of our Club will be held on the 7th of October, 2019 in Nagoya, Japan. We would like to invite you, your Anns, members of your Club and their Anns to honor this occasion. We also would like to invite you, your Anns, and all visitors from your Club to Welcome Dinner for our foreign visitors on the 6th of October, 2019. 1) Welcome Dinner on the 6th of October, 2019 (Sun) at Hotel Castle Plaza; 2) The 45th Anniversary Ceremony on the 6th of October, 2019 (Mon) at Hotel Castle Plaza. We are presently making plans for our 45th Anniversary activities and the details of the schedule will be informed to you in due course. We look forward to seeing you again in Nagoya, Japan this October.
Yours in Rotary,
Hidekazu Yamakita Masanori Inaguma President (2018-2019)
President (2019-2020) Kazunori Kurita Chairman of the Anniversary Committee