ROTARY INTERNATIONALPresident - K.R. “Ravi” Ravindranwww.rotary.org

ROTARY DISTRICT 5000District Governor - Del GreenDistrict Governor Elect - Clint SchroederDistrict Governor Nominee - Nalani Flinnwww.rotaryD5000.org

SUNSET ROTARY CLUB OFFICERSPresident - Jim HobanPresident-elect - Marco SchlesserSecretary - Sharon EhrhornTreasurer - Jan ReischelSergeant-at-Arms - Anna FishburnPast President - Glen Bailey

SUNSET ROTARY CLUB DIRECTORSClub Service - Beth HobanVocational Service - Jane FerreiraCommunity Service - Lore WoodleyInternational Service - Paul JurcsakYouth Services, New Generations - Debbie Goforth Membership - JB (Jane) BrownPublic Relations - Mary SearsFoundation - Rich Zegar

INTERACT CLUBPunahou School

ROTARACT CLUBUniversity of Hawaii, Manoa

SISTER CLUBSRotary Club of Iasi 2000, RomaniaRotary Club of Iasi Curtea DomneascaRotary Club of Pasig, PhilippinesRotary Club of Nagoya Meinan, JapanRotary Club of Alexandria, EgyptRotary Club of Kluuvi Gloet, FinlandRotary Club of Pukekohe, New ZealandRotary Club of Miskloc-Tapolca, HungaryRotary Club of Žgornji Brnik, Slovenia

ADOPTED SCHOOLSJefferson ElementaryNoelani ElementaryHokulani Elementary

www.honolulusunsetrotary.orgClub 31173Chartered December 15, 1995P.O. Box 4684, Honolulu, HI 96812Meetings - Waikiki Yacht ClubMondays, 6:30-7:30pm (but check the webpage)Club Photographer - Bob EhrhornWebmaster - Beth HobanNewsletter - Mary Sears, msears@uhalumni.org

Jim

“We’re always glad you came!”President Jim

January 11, 2016Issue 1, Volume 9

Happy 2016! Time flies and waits for no one. The train is leaving the station so hop on board! Ok, enough already! I think you get the picture. This is the downhill run for the Rotary Year.

January 11 will be our first meeting of this 2016 year. We all look forward to this time to get together again with friends after the hectic holiday season. The Chancellor of UH Manoa, Dr Robert Bley-Vroman, will be our guest speaker at this meeting. Don’t miss it!

January 15 (Friday) 11:45-1:00pm is a special session at the Plaza Club. Our own PDG Ayman will be presenting the new Rotary membership program. This will be a joint session with Downtown, Pau Hana, Sunrise, Metro and Sunset Rotary Clubs. This fulfills the DG requirement for a joint meeting with at least three other clubs during the year. We need at least 7 people to attend. Lunch is $19.00. I will need a head count. Plan on letting me know on Monday or email if you can attend jhoban@prodigy.net . Ayman is the District 5000 Membership Chair so let’s show him our support.

On Saturday, January 16, Glen Bailey and Lore Woodley have the second part of their Women in Need Project. We need to deliver some goods and put together a shed they purchased with our funds. Let’s get there at 10 am. Anyone wishing to help in this project should email Glen Bailey baileyg001@hawaii.rr.com or Lore or see us at the meeting on Monday.

Not enough for you yet? We have a board meeting on January 18 at 5pm at WYC. All members are invited to attend, See and hear what the board has planned for the rest of the year. If you will be a new board member in 2016-2017 this is your chance to see what lies ahead. Did someone say “fundraising?” Yes, this is another of the burning topics we will discuss.

February 8 will be our second club assembly of the year. This is the time the board gets to brief the club on what has been completed and what remains to be done this Rotary Year. We have been very successful in getting funding for all our major projects so this is the time to see how well the projects have come together.

Beth and I look forward to Mondays and to seeing friends like you. This looks to be a great 2016 and we wish our best to all our “sunsetter” friends and please remember to E-mail msears@uhalumni.org with the scrambled word!

A VISIT TO KEWALO BASIN HARBOR MASTER’S OFFICE

Kewalo Basin harbor and Kakaako - viewed from the Harbor Master’s Office

Photos by Bob Ehrhorn

SAVE THESE DATES1/11 Robert Bley-Vroman, Chancellor of UH1/15 Plaza Club lunch, 11:45-1:00pm1/16 10 am - Women in Need shelter1/18 Board Meeting, 5-62/6 Serve lunch at IHS women’s shelter2/8 2nd Club assembly2/15 Darryl Vincent, CEO of U.S.VETS3/5 Serve lunch at IHS men’s shelter4/18 Tom A. Ranker, Botany professor, UH Manoa

Volunteer

JOHN EVELETH, KEWALO HARBORMASTERTELLS THEIR HISTORY, WORK AND FUTURE

JIM HOBAN SINGS THE PRAISES OF JANE FERREIRA, HARBORMASTER MANAGER AND BIRTHDAY GIRL

Volunteer

Volunteer NOW

Women in Need Home99-159 Puakala Street, Aiea

We will present items purchased with this year’s grant money, install a new storage shed for donated items, meet the residents and tour the two homes.

Bring new or gently used women’s dresses, shoes, slacks, blouses, purses or bags to give and tools (rubber hammer and screw drivers, for example).

Volunteer to Glen Bailey, baileyg001@hawaii.rr.com or 488-5162. Can’t attend? Please bring your items to donate to this Monday’s meeting.

Volunteer NOW

RSVP NOW

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Robert Bley-Vroman Our guest speaker this week is the Chancellor of the University of Hawaii and as such

is the CEO of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He provides leadership for academic units and facilitates the success of the academic enterprise. In this role, he focuses on building increased awareness of UH Mānoa as a global leading research institution that works to solve society’s problems, generates new opportunities that benefit society and serves as an economic driver for the state.

Bley-Vroman has served as dean of the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, was chair of the UH Manoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee, chair of the Department of Second Language Studies, director of the Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center and founder and first director of the National Foreign Language

Resource Center. He taught in Romania at Universitatea din Cluj (English and applied linguistics), the University of Texas at Austin (linguistics) and at the University of Michigan (English Language Institute).

Besides his many academic achievements, Bley-Vroman is a contradance caller for the Contradancers of Hawai‘i, pianist with the band Whiskey Starship, hiker, collector of old telephones and ringer of bells in the St. Andrew’s Cathedral tower. We look forward to a most informative and entertaining evening with him.

Anna Fishburn January 7

Robin H

ood January 7

Tina Yap January 15

Bubu Nevada January 27

Harry K

ubota January 30

S P O T L I G H T o n J e r r y T a n i y a m a

I joined the West Pearl Harbor Rotary Club in 1980.  Mr. Roy Takata, a banker friend invited me to join him for lunch.  Little did I know I would end up at his club's Wednesday Rotary Club meeting at the Hawaii Country Club in Kunia.  I was greeted warmly and introduced to all in attendance.  There was great fellowship and comraderie and I was asked to consider joining the club.  Within three months I was inducted and have been in the Rotary Family ever since.

Rotarians exemplify "Service Above Self" and I am passionate about our programs and interacting with the community.  Working in the financial services industry with several banks, credit unions and savings and loan associations has provided me with countless service opportunities through various community organizations.   Back in the 1980's I helped organize the Aiea Pearl City Business Association and the Friends of Hickam as well as participating with the Navy League, Newtown Estates Community Association and the Kalihi Business Association. We organized community events and planned/implemented fundraisers to create community awareness and financial support.

I became the president of the Pearlridge Rotary Club in 1985-86 and enjoyed our achievements and an active sister club relationship with the Rotary Club of Ena (Japan).  We planned home to home visits and youth exchanges.   My work experience in the financial world has given me a wealth of experience and expanded my understanding of sound fiscal management.  I enjoy the physical and fiscal investigation into existing businesses and determining their cash flows and fiscal/management strengths and weaknesses.  

I worked at OHA (Office of Hawaiian Affairs) 2011-2014 as the senior technical assistant in the Native Hawaiian Revolving Loan Fund.   I worked with several vendor technical assistance providers and oversaw all of the loan collections/asset recoveries for the fund.  I thoroughly enjoyed the work, though I was not a Native Hawaiian. Having banking and credit experience allowed me the opportunity to counsel the business and young Native Hawaiians on understanding budgets and

improving their creditworthiness. I was born and raised on Oahu and educated in

the local Catholic School system.  I once considered entering the Seminary for priesthood, but I quickly realized that God had better plans for me. In 1966 I attended St. Martin's College in Olympia/Lacey

Washington where I received my  BA degree in Business Administration.  My best memories

then included being part of the dorm judicial panel that enforced school dorm and campus rules.  I also earned a varsity letter in baseball and ended up playing third and left field. In 1971 I met Marilynn Shimomura who was obtaining her degree from the

UH Manoa. We now have a son and daughter and two grand daughters.  Our

journey is far from over as I continue to maintain good health and a very positive attitude.  

Here are three things that may surprise you: • In May 2015 I helped reorganize my St. Louis Class '65 (230 classmates) and through our efforts and fundraising we handed over an $80k check to the school. • Up to December 2010 I have made timely donations of blood to the Blood Bank (110 pints). In October of 2010 I lost consciousness and needed to have a pacemaker inserted.  My heart beat was between 35-40 per minute even though my heart was strong.   I persuaded the doctor to allow me to participate in the Honolulu Marathon in December 2010, one of my 26 Marathons. • Both mine and my wife’s fathers and uncles have served in the US Army. My dad was stationed in the South Pacific while my father-in-law tracked US missile launches at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Marilynn’s uncle was also part of the 442th/100th that fought in Europe. Her other uncle interrogated the captured Japanese solders for the Army. They have all passed and are buried at the National Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

To sum things up, my life has been one adventure after another. I still have more to do and lately I have taken a course at the UH Manoa to broaden my perspective on life.

Mahalo, Jerry Taniyama

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The History of Sunset RotaryYou may recall the brief review of our history presented by John Meyer and me at our 20th club Anniversary

celebration. Now that our club has outgrown the teen years, we’re inaugurating a new newsletter column chronicling our exciting club’s history. (A short "visual history" appears at http://www.honolulusunsetrotary.org, the club's website and I wish to acknowledge the occasional overlap with that content.)

I strongly encourage you all to contact me ( selswaify@gmail.com ) with inquiries or thoughts, which can be addressed in future newsletter segments. Let’s make this an interactive part of the newsletter! Today’s article focuses on how the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset and our present meeting venue came to be.

How we came to be In present day terminology, a group of migrants from the Rotary Club of Waikiki wanted to experiment with starting an evening Rotary club for the first time in Hawai`i. They faced considerable apprehension actRotar and predictions of dire failure! The nucleus of David Choate, Harold Estes, Joe Phillips, Ayman El-Dakhakhni and Charlie Weems decided to stay the course, gathered support from additional Waikiki Rotary Club members, and approached then District 5000 Governor Pete Mueller with their proposal. Pete was supportive and the Rotary Club of Honolulu sponsored the new club with Linda Coble as their representative.

The name “Rotary club of Honolulu Sunset” was adopted by 28 Charter members. On December 15, 1995, the RCHS became District 5000’s first evening club with (the late) Joe Phillips as the inaugural President.

Initial club meetings were held at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, but that location proved problematic. In 1997, with Past President Joe Phillips and President David Choate attending the Rotary International Convention in Glasgow and President-elect Ayman made the move to the club’s current meeting place at the Waikiki Yacht Club. Opinion surveys have repeatedly confirmed that this venue is one of the great (and irreplaceable) assets of our club.

Samir A. El-Swaify, Club Historian, President 2006-2007

WHILE JIM AND BETH WERE IN THE PHILIPPINES A WEEK AGO, THEY SHARED ROTARY MOMENTS WITH VIC LIM, THE  PAST PRESIDENT OF THE RC OF PASIG, OUR SISTER CLUB.   BETH AND VIC SHARED THE SAME YEAR AS PRESIDENT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CLUBS.  VIC SENDS HIS ALOHA TO OUR MEMBERS AND WELCOMES ANYONE VISITING THE PHILIPPINES TO VISIT THE RC OF PASIG.  MAHALO TO VIC AND HIS FAMILY FOR AN AFTERNOON TREAT OF "ONOLICIOUS" HALO-HALO.  HALO-HALO IS A FAVORITE FILIPINO DESSERT WITH A MIXTURE OF ICE-CREAM AND SWEETS WITH SHAVE ICE.  CALORIES ARE INVISIBLE WHILE BEING CONSUMED.

Beth

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THE SHAFTESBURY RODEO ACADEMY IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA IS AN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL OFFERING AT-RISK A B O R I G I N A L Y O U T H S EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN CATTLE-RELATED INDUSTRIES. THE PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED BY A ROTARY GLOBAL GRANT AND SEVERAL ROTARY CLUBS.

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GOOD FOOD, HOLIDAY CHEER AND CHRISTMAS JOY AT AL AND DOLORES BEDIONES HOME! FOOD BY DOLORES AND HER CHRONIES WITH ADDED POTLUCK. FANTASTIC MUSIC

BY PERCUSSIONIST RUSSELL AU, GUITARS BY AL BEDIONES AND JOEY AQUINO, VOCALS BY NICOLE LEMAS.

Amazing Asia  https://www.youtube.com/embed/b0QQspMiRdU

The magic of magichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=fumsXEuiLyk&sns=em

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We thank our corporate sponsors for their generous and ongoing support!