October 23rd, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015!
A Grand Event Enjoyed by Everyone!
Unanimously acclaimed as a Fantastic Success!
Program was kept short & simple, allowing maximum time for mingling & re-connecting. An intimate gathering of almost 100 Friends! Everyone had fun and enjoyed it immensely, so much so that there have been numerous calls for a 45th Reunion (2020) before the 50th.
“It’s getting later than we think!”
A Big Mahalo to Mark Tachibana for buying Lei’s for the entire Planning Committee.
The event broke-up at about 11:30, but in th true “Never say Die” tradition there were many post-event gatherings, including dancing @ Rumours and several private get-togethers. A very late bed time for many!
October 23rd, 2015
There are several KHS ’75 classmates that either married or became a pair after graduation. Can you name them? Please add the the below list of couples I am aware of:
Maile Davenport & Gary Lum
Michael Cheng & Cheryl Park
Burt Nishimura & Audrey Takamune
Michael Masuda & Susan Hugo
Wesley Goo & Kathy Kahn
Bradley Choi & Christine Watanabe (as of 2008)
Aloha,
Brian Yanagi
July 16th, 2008
Let me first acknowledge Guy Muraoka for his outstanding effort in creating and maintaining our awesome KHS ’75 web site and keeping us informed on class activities. This blog is a great way to communicate.
I want to take a moment to remember our classmate and my close friend, Mark Lee, who attended Niu Valley Intermediate and lived in Aina Haina.
Mark was a brilliant artist, musician, and writer. He wore his hair down to his shoulders, and was as kind, gentle person. Mark and I were Debate Club partners and took second place in statewide competition. Mark dated classmate, Consulina Wong. Mark attended the Ivy League School, Brown University in Rhode Island for one year, before returning to Hawaii.
During his year at Brown, he became extremely depressed. For those of us who attended university on the mainland at age 18, it was a time of growing up, isolation, home sickness, and sometimes experiencing bone chilling and depressing winters. His loving family was supportive and welcomed him to return to Hawaii. Mark returned to Hawaii and was diagnosed in a manic – depressive state and was placed on lithium medication.
My last contact with Mark was when I returned home from the US Naval Academy during Christmas vacation 1976. I visited him in the hospital with Consulina and his older sister Liz. We laughed and sang songs together. However, I didn’t grasp the full gravity of the depth of his depression, nor what was about to happen.
In February 1977, Mark committed suicide at his home. He was later buried in Hawaiian Memorial Park in Kaneohe.
Many decades have since past. But I still miss my dear beloved friend, Mark Lee. God rest his soul.
Aloha,
Brian Yanagi, President
Kalani HS Class of 1975
June 9th, 2008
One of my favorite activities in high school was eating lunch. I may have been one of the few who enjoyed lunch time in the cafeteria. Hamburger pizza with lots of cheese, turkey corn scallop, the cookies, fresh rolls, Spanish rice with lots of cheese, and meat balls. One day I was still hungry after eating my few meatballs when I noticed that my friends had barely touched theirs. Since they were going to toss them, they gladly let me take them and I had a feast. I wish I remembered how many I ate that day. (That could explain why I got “fluffy” in my 40s — food was just so “full filling” for me.)
A few years ago Cheryl and I were talking about high school when she said something like, “Remember the ‘A’ burger?” I don’t think I had ever eaten one since I enjoyed lunch so much and I had forgotten all about it. Other high school foodie memories include the long gone Jolly Rogers and their 69 cent tacos and strawberry slushes after the basketball games, eating whatever was being sold for fundraisers (kakimochi for example) in Miss Fukuda’s Asian Studies class, and jumping into Vernette’s green Buick with the gang and heading to Rainbow Drive-In in Kapahulu. What would life be for teenagers if there wasn’t food to live for … What do you remember about lunch or any food activities at Kalani?