Aloha and Happy New Year from Garrick Dung!

Hi all and Happy New Year!
Got this email from Garrick Dung a couple of days ago and wanted to share.

"Hi Marilyn,

Happy New Year!  Hope you are well at the start of this new year.  I have been meaning to send you some photos of a recent trip I made that reminded me of Maryknoll and blasts from the past.  Maybe you could post them to our Class of '66 blog for any of our classmates who may be interested in seeing these.

Last summer I had the opportunity to visit the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.  Even though my wife, Lela, has family in the Denver area and we visit them often, I have not been back to Colorado Springs until last July.  My stop at the Academy brought back so many memories of the two trips there in the Summers of 1964 and 1965 for the annual CAP Drill Team Competition.  The highlights were the Chapel building and the parade grounds.  Both are still outstanding.  Seeing these sights again brought back a closeness to all of the guys who were fortunate as I was to be there those two summers.

Have a great 2020! Hope to see more of our classmates in the new year.

Aloha,

Garrick Dung"

And pictures, too!!

A Blast from our Very Early Past!

With thanks to Sandra Lum Young, here are class pix from kindergarten through eighth grade, with the exception of third grade, when we all took individual pictures.

Enjoy!!

Kindergarten




First Grade




Second Grade




Fourth Grade




Fifth Grade




Sixth Grade




Seventh Grade




Eighth Grade

Happy Birthday, Marie Wong Wagner!

Celebrating Marie Wong Wagner’s birthday (September): Charlene Leong Santee, Nicky Agpalo, Marie’s sister Betty Kudo, Mary Jo Leineweber Culvyhouse, Pattie Wong Heatherly, Marie Wong Wagner,  Sandra Young, Linda Wong Kealoha, Suzanne Furuya Matsuda, and Sylvia Ching Ching.

Celebrating Tessie Villarama Adams' Visit to Honolulu!

Recent get-together at Sandy Lum Young’s place, catching up with Tessie Villarama Adams. From left to right: Nicky Agpalo, Wendell and Anne Konn, Mary Jo Leineweber Culvyhouse, Sandra Young, Marie Wong Wagner, Tessie Villarama Adams, John Adams, Suzanne Furuya Matsuda, Charlene Leong Santee, Pattie Wong Heatherly, and Frank O'calvey.

Another Blast from the Past - with Thanks to Malcolm Chang

From Malcolm's Facebook post:

"I was requested by someone that I was in the third through the sixth grades with to send her class photos of those years. Last time I saw her was when we were in the sixth grade together at Manoa Elementary School. While looking for those photos, I came across this "gem" that I thought I would post on this site. Enjoy the laughs folks....we haven't aged that much, have we ???"

Editor's Note:  I can name just about everyone in the 50+-years-old picture below - but I can't remember what I had for dinner last night.  Enjoy!!

Roy Shults: More Thoughts on Grandfatherhood and Some Other Stuff

Great reports and pictures!  Yes, I am enjoying my grandfather status far too much, maybe because the only other baby I ever helped raise was my brother, born the summer before our freshman year. My parents being, well, my parents, I had to take care of him a lot while juggling all we had to do as freshmen at Maryknoll. As a retiree, taking care of my grandson is a breeze in comparison.

And Brian [Spitzer], there was at least one other military brat at the reunion--ME! A Navy brat though, not Air Force. I'd love to reconnect with Susie Gerwig, too. Our years at Maryknoll didn't overlap, but by the small world phenomenon, we were classmates at Aliamanu Intermediate, as it was then called, for 7th and 8th grade.

I feel as Yuki does about Hawai'i, despite my minimal Polynesian ancestry and not living there. I have felt a powerful bond with Hawai'i and its people since I first stepped foot there in 1960, and that remains. I hope I live long enough to take my grandson there one day. With all that non-Hawai'ian humans have done to try to destroy it and the kanaka maoli, it persists as, to me, the most beautiful place on earth.

As Mr. Spock was wont to say, I say to all of you, "Live long and prosper."

With much aloha,

Roy Shults

Yuklin Aluli: Thoughts on Living in Hawai'i

I am always grateful to live Hawaii.  We have the tradewinds, occasional hurricanes and tsunamis, now the ongoing volcanic vog, 10 million tourists a year and the American military industrial complex, but it is always a blessing to come home.

Yuki