Waha Nui – 10/1/14

Lilylynn Tran

Hawaii Kai’s Cha Thompson, Tihati Productions CEO (with many community services to her credit), will be honored by Palama Settlement (her old stomping grounds) at its Oct. 25 gala in Royal Hawaiian’s Monarch Room (848-2502) … Seen the Red Cross’s white truck? It was stolen Sept. 25 from the Diamond Head Road headquarters. Call 911 and 739-8109 …

Hawaii Kai’s Elizabeth Reilly will attend the sold-out screening of the documentary The Hawaiian Room Oct. 10 in Manhattan. The film was produced by talented Hawaii Kai filmmaker Ann Marie Kirk, and is based on a three-decade relationship forged in 1937 between Hawaiian hula troupes and the Hotel Lexington showroom …

East Oahu graduates off to a good start on college business studies are the following Longs Drugs $1,000 grant recipients: Kona’ai Keanini-White of Anuenue, Darrett Tanno of Kaimuki, Lilylynn Tran of Kaiser and Louise Lu of Kalani …

Sacred Hearts senior Zoe Sprott spent her summer in Russia, living in a dorm with her U.S. and Russian peers, and then with a host family. They also took a 13-hour train ride from Kirov to Moscow and toured the capitol city. Zoe, who called the seven-week visit “life-changing,” got there by winning a National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship in partnership with the U.S. State Department. Back home, she volunteers at Pacific Aviation Museum and with the “Star Light, Star Bright” program for keiki whose moms are in prison …

Kaimuki Middle student Kayttie Nakamura made the U.S. National Trampoline Gymnastics Team for the upcoming world championships in November … Good luck to East Oahu’s Angela Assante (La Pietra 2014), who has won a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship, among other honors, to study computer linguistics at Vassar. She had only 11 colleges to choose from … AIA Honolulu recently awarded the Hawaii Home and Remodeling Editor’s Choice Award to “Maluhia,” a Kahala residence improved by architect Geoffrey Lewis …

Kaimuki’s Matt Henry now directs development for UH College of Social Sciences, working to build philanthropic support. Matt comes from similar work at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and several California colleges … Stan Pak (Kaiser 2013) has graduated from Air National Guard basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas & & & cchang@midweek.com