{"id":43469,"date":"2016-03-02T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=43469"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:43:37","slug":"honolulu-community-college-celebrates-distinguished-alumni-at-celebrate-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/02\/honolulu-community-college-celebrates-distinguished-alumni-at-celebrate-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu Community College celebrates distinguished alumni at Celebrate! 2016"},"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_43476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43476\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43476\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/honolulu-celebrate-2016-day.jpg\" alt=\"Honorees holding their awards\" width=\"620\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/honolulu-celebrate-2016-day.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/honolulu-celebrate-2016-day-260x148.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> honored seven alumni and two community partners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The <span aria-label=\"Pomaikai\">P\u014dmaika\u02bbi<\/span> Ballrooms were filled with energy and excitement on Thursday, February 25, 2016 as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> honored outstanding community partners the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biahawaii.org\/\">Building Industry Association of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navsea.navy.mil\/Home\/Shipyards\/PHNSYIMF.aspx\">Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard<\/a> and seven distinguished alumni: <strong>Jayne Arasaki<\/strong>, <strong>Reg Baker<\/strong>, <strong>Karen Kamahele<\/strong>, <strong>Norman Loui<\/strong>, <strong>Ernie Martin<\/strong>, <strong>Kimberly Matunis<\/strong> and <strong>Jason Suapaia<\/strong> for their professional achievements and contributions to the community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/06\/honolulu-cc-honors-distinguished-alumni-and-outstanding-community-partners\/\">Learn more about the Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> distinguished alumni and outstanding community partners<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A proclamation from Governor David Ige proclaimed February 25, 2016 \u201cCelebrate! 2016 Day\u201d in the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>.\u00a0Certificates of achievement were given to each honoree from Mayor Kirk Caldwell\u2019s office and the Honolulu City Council made a special on-stage presentation to all of the honorees.<\/p>\n<p>Through the college\u2019s reverse transfer efforts Chancellor <strong>Erika Lacro<\/strong> made a special surprise presentation to honoree Reg Baker.\u00a0During his time at Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> he had accumulated sufficient\u00a0credits that qualified him to receive an associate in applied science degree in applied trades.<\/p>\n<p>The room was filled with the Hawaiian sounds of the Waim\u0101nalo Sunset Band and the evening was hosted by local entertainer, Braddah Sam.\u00a0 Proceeds from ticket sales and the silent auction benefits the Honolulu Community College General Scholarship Endowment fund.<\/p>\n<h2>Photos from the gala<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/honolulucc\/sets\/72157664949608381\/\">See more on the Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014By Billie Lueder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished alums and outstanding community partners honored by the Governor, Honolulu City Council and Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,142,62,71],"class_list":["post-43469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-award","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469","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=43469"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174231,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions\/174231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}