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Volume No. 12, Issue No. 9 Web Site: http://www.aloha-moaa.org September 2011

(Voices of Warriors)

Chartered January 27, 2000

Na Leo O Na Koa

Newsletter of the Aloha Chapter,

An Affiliate of the Military Officers Association of America

2007 Chapter Rating

A Journey on Oahu’s Only Railroad This Decade Last Saturday morning, August 27th, sixty-nine Aloha Chapter members and guests assembled in the picnic area of the Hawaiian Railroad Society in Ewa for fellowship and an ample and delicious bento lunch picked up and distributed by Jane Kekoa, our Pro-gram Coordinator/Co-Chairman. It was augmented by individu-ally wrapped pieces of an absolutely decadent cake made by Alice Fujiwara. What a fabulous, fun picnic!

September Event Early Wednesday morning, September 21st, we will assem-ble at the Main Post Office for Hawaii just Diamond Head of their airport parking lot for a tour of the facility. We will then learn how they expedi-tiously handle all of the in-coming and outgoing mail for our whole state every day. By seeing how our mail is proc-essed, this tour will be very interesting and amazing. We will learn a lot on our tour and certainly have a greater appre-ciation for our postman.

At the conclusion of our tour we will have a $10 lunch in the Post Office Cafeteria.

Everyone must wear cov-ered shoes and no bags and cameras are permitted.

Submit your Reservation Form on page 7 ASAP.

Inside September Issue

Board of Directors Meeting 7 Bridge Report 5 Calendar 2 Chapter Leaders 8 Golf Shirts and Caps 6 Golf Report 6 Membership Application 7 Merrie Ladies 3 Reservation Form 7 Scholarship Fund 4

Eight happy people enjoying their bento picnic lunches, left to right: Esther Takenaka, Vernon Von, Hal Okita, Bob Kozuki, Howard Okada, Norm Fujiwara, Marion Von and Hal Takenaka

Jane Kekoa, our highly esteemed Pro-gram Coordinator, with “Jumbo” Joe Kuroda and

Helene and Mark Webster. Joe and Mark are leaving on a 2-week Space-A

adventure to Japan on Friday, September 2nd.

See Train Page 2

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Special recognition must be made to Jimmy Chang, who brought a vast multitude of grandchildren for our train ride.

Tom McCathy of the Hawaiian Railroad So-ciety provided this special Saturday trip and the fascinating narration during the 90-minute round-trip from Ewa to Kahe Point near Nanakuli. Along the way we went through the rapidly developing Kapolei and Ko Olina com-munities. It was quite a contrast riding on this restored sugar cane-hauling train through these modern developments, such as the just opened Disney resort.

We especially enjoyed Tom’s anecdotes about the black swans at Ko Olina Golf Course caus-

Notice This newsletter, my 69th issue of Nā Leo O Nā Koa, is published monthly by Professional Image, Mapuna-puna, as an official publication of Aloha Chapter,

MOAA, P.O. Box 19267, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96817.

Views expressed herein are not necessarily chapter policy.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Sept.. 15, 2011 10:00 AM, EXCOM Meeting, Kalihi Union (Thursday) Church, 2214 N. King Street, Honolulu

Sept. 18, 2011 1:00 PM, Bridge Bunch Party, Fahrni (Sunday) Realty Classroom, Aiea. Hosts: Bill & Trudi

Sept. 21, 2011 9:30 AM, Tour of Main Post Office, Air-(Wednesday) port, followed by lunch in P.O. Cafeteria.

Sept. 23, 2011 9:00 AM, Golf Outing, Navy/Marine (Friday) Golf Course, Pearl Harbor

Oct 1, 2011 8:00 AM-Noon, U.S. Army Appreciation (Saturday) Day, Hale Ikena, Ft. Shafter

Oct. 19, 2011 11:30 AM, Luncheon, Hickam O’Club (Wednesday) Guest Speaker: Carswell Ross, VA Ser - vice Coordinator and Counselor

Nov. 16, 2011 10:00 AM, Patriotic Songfest, VA Center (Wednesday) for Aging, Tripler Army Medical Center

Nov. 16, 2011 Noon, Annual General Membership (Wednesday) Meeting, Hale Ikena, Ft. Shafter

Dec. 9, 2011 6:00 PM, Christmas Dinner, Kalia Room, (Friday) Hale Koa Hotel, Ft. DeRussy, Waikiki

ing disputes with the golfers by emphatically de-fending errant golf balls that they believed were their eggs and the story about how some 16-inch guns salvaged from USS ARIZONA were arduously moved in early 1942 to a bluff by Kahe Point for coastal defense against a feared Japanese invasion that never occurred.

Everyone had an exciting time—especially the youngsters (that’s all of us, right?).

All Aboard and Ready to Go on our 90-minute Lee-ward Oahu trip on the Hawaiian Railway Society’s train.

Evelyn and Kenneth Yamada, foreground, anx-iously waiting for train (not a Bullet Train) to start

View from the train of the just opened Aulani, a Disney Resort in Ko Olina.

Quite a contrast to the former

Ewa Sugar Co. cane fields.

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A Job Well Done On Monday, August 1st., ten faithful ladies came together to work on 60 Hawaiian Guard-ian Angels for the veterans at Tripler's Center for Aging. Jane Kekoa brought up the idea of making these angels to give to our veterans on Wednesday, November 16th. The beautiful Hawaiian fabric pieces were donated by Row-ena Okita and many of the supplies (wooden heads, silver and gold pipe cleaners, tacky glue, and miniature roses for the angel's hair) were donated by Gary Furukawa. Gary is the man-ager at the Ben Franklin store in Kailua. Other ladies brought lace edging, yarn, and gold and silver cardboard to put the finishing touches on these special angels. Mahalo to Shirley Ihara who took home 27 angels and finished putting lace around the angels' skirts. Special thanks to Taffy Wells and Alice Fujiwara for providing dessert for our tuna and egg salad sandwich lunch. Sandwich makings and drinks were courtesy of Jane Kekoa and Marion Von.

Our next event will be headed by Linda Fong. Linda will show us how to make beauti-ful angels to be used as ornaments on Christ-mas trees and gift labels for packages. The event will take place on Monday, November 7th. Be prepared with your own scissors and needle for some stitching. Please bring a glue gun and/or tacky glue. The Merrie Ladies have some tacky glue left over from our Hawaiian Angel craft day, so there is no need to buy more bottles. Everything else will be provided. Details for the November event will be in our next newsletter. Marion

Right On! From a retired US Navy Chief: “Military re-tirement is not an entitlement -- it was earned! Our benefits aren't some kind of char-ity or handout!

“On the other hand, Congressional benefits like their special, free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days - now THAT'S welfare.” Mark

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Life auxiliary member Harriet Weissman was the hostess for the chapter’s August 21st party bridge session held in the Fahrni Realty Class-room. Play started at 1 pm with 2 guest substi-tutes, but with one short for the scheduled 4 tables of bridge, play was completed with avail-able players sitting in for the missing player.

It was again a relatively high scoring session with a total of 3 Slams being bid and made, one of them being a “Grand Slam”. As expected, the partners who made the “Grand Slam” ended play with the 2 highest scores — Leney Vine with 7,180 and John Kim with 6,630. The remaining top 5 scores were made by Dayle Carlson, Lois Luehring and Marion Von. The 2 small slam-making partners were: Les Ihara & Dayle Carl-son and Lois Luehring with a “dummy.”

Other participants were, in alphabetic order: Bobbi Carlson, Trudi Ernst, Shirley Ihara, Coralie Vellis, Vernon & Marion Von and Harriet Weissman and guests Mary Andre and Midge Brooks.

Aloha Chapter Party Bridge

Seated, left to right: Hostess Harriet Weissman, Lois Luehring, Leney Vine, and Marion Von.

Standing: John Kim, Dayle Carlson & Les Ihara.

The next party bridge session will be hosted by Bill & Trudi Ernst and held on Sunday, September 18th in the Fahrni Realty Classroom. Those who would like to play on that date but have not yet signed-up are asked to call Bill or Trudi by telephone at 625-2545, or email to: [email protected] no later than Wednesday, September 14th. Shirley Fabulous Flower Arrangements

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we had a total of seventeen players, with five wahine golfers and five guest golfers.

We had our usual flag officer leading our group, Kelly Lau, and joining him in the first group were Ken Munechika, and Ira Tagawa; they were followed by Vernon Von, Jack Boh-man, and Cedric Chong; in the third group were Marv Baum, Eddie Lee, and Bill Jones, guest of Marv Baum; they were followed by Ken Yamada, Akiko Noda, Alice Fujiwara, and yours truly; in the fifth group were Joe Ku-roda and his guests, Kumiko Nomura, Tomiko Kurosawa, and Motoyo Kayaka.

After tabulating all the scores and deciding the blind partners, in fourth place were the partners of Kelly Lau and Jack Bohman, in third place were Akiko Noda and Ira Tagawa; in second place losing by one stroke were Ken Yamada and Kumiko Nomura; and in first place with a low net of 154 were Motoyo Kayaka and Bill Jones. Congratulations to all the winners and a big Mahalo to all the contributors.

Now for our thought of the day: “Lead me not into temptation – I can find it by myself.”

Our next golf outing will be on Friday, Sep-tember 23, 2011, at the Navy Marine Golf Course. Sign-up notice is forthcoming.

Aloha,

Norm

August Golf Report

Once again, we had a slow sign-up, similar to last month with more nays than ayes. However, once Joe Kuroda signed up three of his Japanese wahine guests, things sort of picked up. The weather also cooperated, not the

usual damp weather with gusty winds, but lightly cloudy skies just enough to keep the sun from being scorching and a mild breeze rather than the usually blistery winds of Kaneohe. We had eighteen ayes until we arrived at Klip-per Golf Course, Kaneohe Marine Corps Base, Hawaii, Monday morning, August 15th, and were informed that we had a cancellation, thus

Norm Fujiwara

Note: PenFed has replaced the old Tripler Federal Credit Union and PenFed is now located at both Fort Shafter and Tripler Army Medical Center.

Last Chance to Order Aloha

Chapter Golf Shirt and/or Cap Saturday, September 17th, will be the final day that you will be able order your Aloha Chapter golf shirt. If you desire to purchase a golf shirt please place your order by including color: white or light blue, size: small to XL, and the number you wish to order. Please place your order to Norm Fujiwara by calling him at 626-4630 or order by e-mail at [email protected]. Remember this is your final opportunity to order these items.

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Aloha Chapter, MOAA, Membership Application Form Enroll me as a Regular Member: □ Each Year of Membership = $15 □ Five Years =$60. (One Year FREE!) Enroll me as a Life Member: □ Membership rates: Age 71 & older=$85; 61-70=$135; 51-60=$185; 50& under=$235 Enroll me as an Auxiliary Member: □ (i.e., spouse of a U. S. military officer, surviving spouse of a deceased officer) AUX: □ Each year of membership = $10. Life Membership = $75 _____________________________________________________ Name (Last First Middle Initial(s)) (PLEASE PRINT) DOB (MM/DD/YY) _____________________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________________ City, State Zip Spouse’s Name _____________________________________________________ Telephone Numbers (H=Home, B=Business, C=Cell) E-Mail

_____________________________ _____________________ Applicant’s Signature Recruiting Sponsor’s Name

CHECK APPLICABLE BOXES STATUS RANK SERVICE □ Active _______ □ US Army □ Reserve □ USAF □ National Guard □ US Navy □ Retired from AD □ USCG □ Retired from Resv □ USMC □ Former Officer □ USPHS □ Auxiliary (indicate □ NOAA Rank and Service of Spouse)

□ National MOAA Member: MOAA No.: ______________

Revised January 2007. All prior forms obsolete.

Board Appoints New

Chapter President for 2012 At its meeting on 2 August 2011, at the Honolulu Country Club Grille Room, the Aloha Chapter board of directors accepted Bob Kozuki’s res-ignation as president effective 31 De-cember 2011. The board then ap-pointed chapter member Curtis Lee as president effective 1 January 2012. As new president, Curt will appoint a vice-president, secretary and treasurer, as well as other chairs of the standing committees, all of whose terms will also begin on 1 January 2012.

The board reconfirmed Larry Eno-moto as Vice Chair to insure a proper transition in case the Chair is unable to perform his duties for any reason.

The board considered an issue raised by a member regarding certain provisions in Aloha Chapter bylaws allegedly adopted on 16 August 2009 as published in the March 2010 Aloha Chapter Membership Directory. The board determined, upon closer examination of what happened, that the version published was incor-rect with respect to directors’ terms of office [See Errata Note in August 2011 chapter newsletter]. The board directed that a CORRECTED COPY of the bylaws be published in the August 2011 Aloha Chapter Membership Directory. Consequently, the board concluded that the unspecified terms of office of all current directors would expire not later than 31 December 2011. A nominating committee chaired by Curt Lee, who was appointed earlier, will present a slate of candidates for election at the general membership meet-ing in November 2011 to fill seven directors’ pending vacancies. Nominees may include current direc-tors who want to be re-elected and all others who are willing to serve. Larry Enomoto

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Aloha Chapter Awards

2011 Aloha Chapter Leadership

Directors

Chairman—Allen Ono, USA

536-6043 [email protected]

President—Robert Kozuki, USA


Vice Pres.—Norman Fujiwara, USA


Treasurer—Vernon Von, USAF


Secretary—Vernon Von, USAF


Gordon Cho, USA 484-2400 [email protected]

Lawrence Enomoto, USAF 685-1521 [email protected]

Mark Webster, USNR 734-5994 [email protected]

Executive Committee & Committee Chairs

President: Robert Kozuki, USA 942-4047 [email protected]

Vice President: Norman Fujiwara, USA 626-4630 [email protected]

Community Affairs: Tom Marzec, USN 261-9430 [email protected]

Membership: Gordon Cho, USA 484-2400 [email protected]

Personal Affairs: Robert Kozuki, USA 942-4047 [email protected]

Programs: Jane Kekoa, Henry Lee & Melvin Soong

Publications/PR: Mark Webster, USNR 734-5994 [email protected]

ROTC/Veteran Affairs: Wesley Fong, USA 595-6127 [email protected]

Bridge: Shirley Ihara 239-7947 [email protected]

Fundraising: Herb Nakagawa, USAF 271-1172 [email protected]

Golf: Norman Fujiwara, USA 626-4630 [email protected]

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