  {"id":150307,"date":"2021-10-22T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=150307"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:14:38","slug":"takeuchi-presidents-maintenance-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/22\/takeuchi-presidents-maintenance-award\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101noa\u2019s Jon Takeuchi recognized for maintenance excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_150326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150326\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-1.jpg\" alt=\"man\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Takeuchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> custodian <strong>Jon Takeuchi<\/strong> has been honored with the President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Buildings and Grounds Maintenance. The award is given to an employee from one of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\u2019s\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½\u2019s<\/abbr> 10 campuses who has exhibited sustained superior performance in a maintenance, landscaping, custodial or trucking position.<\/p>\n<p>Takeuchi\u2019s professional attitude is at the heart of this award. Reliable, dedicated and hardworking, he takes his responsibilities for Moore Hall seriously and is always eager to go beyond what is required of him. He is hardworking, and he brings joy to those around him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150327\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-feature-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"man\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-feature-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-feature-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-takeuchi-j-feature.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Takeuchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s what his fans have to say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Takeuchi stands head and shoulders above them all. He is efficient, industrious, effective, extremely friendly and positive, inventive, dependable, prompt and thorough.<\/li>\n<li>He seems to know exactly how each faculty member likes to have their offices treated, and he cares for those offices in an efficient and timely manner. This dedication not only helps to improve the appearance of the campus, it also promotes efficient work and removes redundancy.<\/li>\n<li>All of us are unanimous in our support for Jon and the recognition of the stellar work that he does, day in and day out.<\/li>\n<li>His pride in his work is evident in everything he does. And I have never found him without a nice word to say or a fun story to tell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His nominators said that what they feel is most noteworthy about Takeuchi is his exceptionally positive attitude.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He greets everyone with a genuine smile, and, day in and day out, he shows nothing but kindness and respect to everyone. The students, faculty and staff all adore him,&rdquo; said a nominator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa custodian Jon Takeuchi has been honored with the President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Buildings and Grounds Maintenance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142,1094,698,9,947],"class_list":["post-150307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-award","tag-presidents-maintenance-award","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150330,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150307\/revisions\/150330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}