Please join us in person this Tuesday, August 27th for our Club Lunch Meeting with Guest Speaker, Kim Coco Iwamoto. Our Tech Guru has been out of town, and we cannot guarantee Zoom will be available on this day.
Mahalo, Lee
Administrator for The Rotary Club of Honolulu
AUG 27: The Rotary Club of Honolulu will receive an official visit from District Governor, Ted Faigle
AUG. 27: Hybrid Lunch Meeting with Guest Speaker
Kim Coco Iwamoto
Guest Speaker Kim Coco Iwamoto
“My Life as a Successful Transgender Person in Hawaii.”
In 2006, when Kim Coco Iwamoto was elected to the Board of Education, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to elect an openly transgender person to a statewide office; she was re-elected in 2010 with 25% more votes. Iwamoto went on to serve as a Commissioner on the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission. In 2013, the Obama White House honored her as a Champion of Change. Iwamoto is an attorney, small business owner and Co-Founder of the Chamber of Sustainable Commerce, which now has over 500 members statewide. Iwamoto lives in Kakaako with her 11-year-old daughter Rory, a proud student of Queen Kaahumanu Elementary School.
What do YOU want to get out of your Rotary Membership? Are you a new member or someone interested in learning about opportunities to engage with Rotary? Please join us for a New Member Orientation 2.0 session via Zoom to ask all the questions you have about Rotary and learn more about our teams and service projects.
Former Dean (2003-2020) UH Richardson Professor of Law
Topic: The Current US Supreme Court and the Passive Virtues
Dean Soifer received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1972. He also holds B.A. cum laude (1969) and Masters of Urban Studies (1972) degrees from Yale.
Soifer began his law teaching career at the University of Connecticut in 1973, received a Law and Humanities Fellowship at Harvard University in 1976–77, and taught at Boston University from 1979–1993. He served as Dean of Boston College Law School from 1993–1998, and continued to teach at BC until 2003, when he became Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai’i.
Soifer received Boston College’s Distinguished Senior Research Award and he was appointed as a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin’s Legal Studies Institute. His book, Law and the Company We Keep (Harvard University Press, 1995) was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu Triennial National Jesuit Book Prize in professional studies.
He has an extensive record of scholarly publications, presentations, and public service activities and he continues to teach primarily in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, legal writing, and law and humanities.
Craig Angelos was introduced as UH’s 24th Athletics Director on May 18, 2023 and officially takes over the post on June 5, 2023. Angelos comes to Manoa with nearly 30 years of senior leadership experience in intercollegiate athletics. Angelos has extensive experience overseeing student-athlete wellness and academic success, hiring head coaches, supervising men’s and women’s sports programs, fundraising, Title IX and NCAA compliance and developing facilities.
Project Vision Hawai'i is excited to announce our latest fundraising initiative in partnership with Savers: the FUNDrive campaign! This is a fantastic opportunity to declutter your home and support our mission to improve the quality of life for Hawai'i's residents. Plus, it's tax-deductible! We are collecting NOW until September 27th. Let's make this FUNDrive a success! Happy cleaning and thank you for your generosity.
19th Annual Joint Memorial Service Call to Action Last Weekend in September
Here’s an event we could sure use your help with! This will be our 82nd year honoring our Nisei WWII Veterans. And up until last year, we’ve been short on the help needed to decorate the 2000 graves at Punchbowl. With enough help this is a fun family project. Please come join us and spread the word. Thank you.
Logistics:
Saturday September 28, 2023, 8:30am at Punchbowl. Parking is free and open to the public, except for the reserved spaces on the Mall Drive.
On Saturday, look for the tables, under the tents, with buckets of flowers. Club 100 organizers will assign you to a section, hand you a map, bucket of flowers and flags and off you go, into history, in search of 100th Battalion soldiers. Volunteers are advised to bring sunscreen, a hat, and please stay hydrated. We’ll have water. And no worries, there will be plenty of folks available to help you, so just ask, if needed.
We also need help on
September 30, Monday morning, removing (2000) flags. We’ll start that process at 8:30am.
And on Sunday, September 29 there’s a 9:30am joint memorial service. The service is open to the public. It’s also televised on ‘Ōlelo.
Why September 29th?
The memorial service is held annually on the Sunday September 29 — the day in 1943 that Sgt. Shigeo “Joe” Takata of the 100th Infantry Battalion became the first Japanese American soldier killed in action in World War II. Sgt. Shigeo “Joe” Takata was hit by shrapnel and fought death long enough to point out the location of the enemy, action for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Sgt. Takata rests in eternal peace at Punchbowl.
Children and Youth Day has created lifetime memories for our keiki, ‘ōpio and families, as well as opportunities for family members to connect with one another and other families. It also serves as a wonderful community resource to educate families about services that are available in our State in a fun-filled and life changing way. Over the years, our event has grown tremendously and has now become one of the largest community celebrations in the State. We anticipate between 5,000-8,000 attendees for 2024.
Children and Youth Day In-Person event takes place on Sunday October 6, 2024 from 10am to 3pm.
with Guest SpeakerDr. Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD, FACP
DR. NAOTO T. UENO, MD, PhD, FACP
Director, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center
Dr. Ueno has a strong background in translational breast cancer research in cancer biology, immuno-oncology, and molecular therapeutics. He is one of the leaders in conducting clinical research and early-phase clinical trials related to aggressive breast cancer and has led more than 50 clinical trials. Dr. Ueno has extensive experience in conducting both targeted therapy-related and immunotherapy-related clinical trials in phase I and II settings. He expanded his research to include several protein enzymes, including Mitogen-activated protein, Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK), and C-JUN N-terminal kinase, among other protein enzymes to determine their role in breast cancer progression and their applications in the development of targeted therapy and immunotherapy. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Ueno has successfully managed projects in breast cancer biology related to triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), and the tumor microenvironment.
Dr. Ueno is passionate about developing innovative therapies for advanced breast cancer. He started his career developing gene therapy for breast cancer and prepared for an Investigational New Drug application to conduct a study of gene therapies for metastatic breast cancer. His focus has been on novel combination therapy, IBC, and TNBC. Currently, Dr. Ueno is the lead national PI on antibody-conjugate drugs-related clinical trials.
