Sunday, August 18, 2024

wcc 50 years ago today, august 26, 1974 threw won students eyeballs...

 

KDEN FOA (almos pau sum moa) 

jacqueline maly – had to finally drop her sci 121 intro to bio class cuz no can do cuz realize weigh over my head in her science class…how stewped, flunk bio in kailua so wat u tink, all of sudden now u kan know bio and now easy?...had 20 credit load w ocn 201, sci 124 and her sci 121 all in last sems so yup had to drop...and yup, as y tell students no take all da sci one time… 

gary stice (had his wife for alg I 10th grade and flunked and den get half credit 11th at kailua) – rode with him to coconut island from wcc and stay one of da scariest rides...he was losing his peripreal vision so could only see straight ahead and the road to coconut island is pretty winding so we bin cross center line plenny...was fishing plenty den so wen saw the papio and ulua experiment pen at coconut, brain start racing how can come night time for borrow…he would stand right next to chalkboard with his face about 3 inches from the board to write his notes on board...bestest is bin learn u know stay going get one new hawaiian island, but in kinda plenny years?...wonder how much one beach house going cost on top dat one?...sure hope stay big wit plenny beach and ulua… 

sione uluave was the math instructor with a tick tongan accent...some students would complain, but charles whitten would tell um he’s teaching math and not english...he ended being a good friend and taught for trio sss when i came back wcc...funny story is had this kid lipoi in won of my class and him and i became drinking buddies...drank like fish...anyways, he tells me that in tonga, u call ur friends “usi”...from lono, he’d yell down to sione “hey usi” and sione would smile and wave back...anyways he told me do the same so i did...wasn’t til way later sione told me usi means ass...lipoi came from a higher chief family so sione had to respect him no matter wat so as y he just wave and smile...

charles whitten was my counselor in the 70’s, boss wen came back work trio, friend and guy who married me and my wife of 39 yrs...he also stay marry aileen yim and lillian cunningham, and janice nuckols and jean shibuya and jeff hunt and plenny other wcc peoples and they still stay married so he must b good luck, eh?...even tho he was a punahou grad, we still became friends...he kept tabs on me when i started work wcc in the early 80’s and working around the uh system and recruited me foa come back foa da trio sss program cuz he knew dis program needed won local who still had some brain cells left from their younger days (and rubber cement fumes – explain latas)...so with his blessings and support we began to demolish and then rebuild trio sss into what it is today, 18 yrs later...charles still taking care us even tho he just bin go da other side of da dirt few months ago… 

neva had too much peoples work wcc in ’74…had joy burns was the registrar with big blonde hair, glasses and smoked, nancy heu was won librarian, de etta wilson was da head librarian, cheryl de mello was secretary for mel sakaguchi and interpreter of his handwriting, betty kunishige was won clerk typist, opal stoneman – bumby terbeek was business, bea kuwana another clerk typist, david palmer was in charge of media, janice nuckols was history, joan yamamoto was da bookstore manager, sandy toporcer was fin aid officer and later married mel sakaguchi and den became chancellor for haw cc, robert de loach was anthro, helen hew len was business and was da hips in opening scene for hawaii 5-0 every week, dave dennison was anthro, midge mossman was counselor and hawaiian studies, peter guay was reading, gloria moore was music, and some other instructors and lecturers dat neva know too much... 

leroy king was provost and mel sakaguchi dean for educational services, keiji kukino director of admin services and he was major player for da bon dances trio sss helped sponsor on da beach at wcc 2012 and 2014 as he loaned wcc the yagura (tower in the center where the musicians play)...he also starred in a few local tv commercials, one for crossing at a stop light and once for an insurance company...no was assistant deans or directors, just dem tree was da whole admin pretty much… 

kden pau…tu b continued anada time bumbai… 

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1 comment:

  1. The other side of the dirt…hahahah this is awesome!

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