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A Special Invitation from
'Imiloa Executive Director Ka'iu Kimura
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University of Hawai'i at Hilo Chancellor Donald Straney
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In celebration of Wayfinding and Navigation
you are cordially invited to the inaugural
E Paipai Ali'i
a fundraising event to raise up and support our leaders
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Aloha Attire
RSVP Required, Deadline October 1st
Seating is Limited
In honor of Mau Piailug, a new Wayfinding and Navigation Program Fund is being launched at 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, and all net proceeds from this event will go to support this fund.
Program
Registration and no host bar
5 - 6 pm
'Imiloa Atrium
Traditional Adze Tying Ceremony and Awards Presentation
'Ohana Wa'a Navigator Kalepa Baybayan, 'Imiloa Executive Director
Ka'iu Kimura, and UH Hilo Chancellor Don Straney
6 - 6:45 pm
Earl & Doris Bakken Moanahoku Hall
Reception
Heavy pupu dinner, no host bar, live entertainment by Lito Arkangel
6:45-8:30 pm
Pu'u Poliahu Lawn at 'Imiloa
Hawaiian Starlines with Kalepa Baybayan
Optional planetarium presentation
7:30 pm
'Imiloa Planetarium
Under the direction of Executive Director Ka'iu Kimura and Navigator-in-Residence Kalepa Baybayan, the fund will help to develop educational curriculum for navigation and wayfinding programs for Hawai'i's youth and our future leaders and wayfinders.
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Distinguished Service to the Voyaging Community
Captain Gordon Pi'ianai'a
Captain Gordon Keawe-a-Heulu Keli'imaika'i Pi'ianai'a is a retired U.S. Naval Reserve Officer, educator and community leader. He was born in Honolulu to a family noted for their mariners and geographers - his father Abraham was a master mariner who introduced him to the sea when he was five by taking him sailing on inter-island ships. His brother Norman, who recently retired as a senior ship's master from Matson Navigation, attended the United States Merchant Marine Academy. The Pi'ianai'a family have all participated in Hokule'a's voyages. A graduate of the Kamehameha School for Boys, Gordon received his BS in Nautical Science from the California Maritime Academy, and later conducted graduate studies in Geography at UH Manoa - joining his father Abraham and sister 'Ilima in the Department of Geography. He has a Coast Guard license to sail any U.S. flag vessel, any tonnage, on any ocean. Gordon spent 20 years sailing and voyaging on the Hokule'a, serving as first mate in her 1976 voyage from Tahiti to Hawai'i and also as Captain in the 1980 and 1985 voyages. Gordon was one of the early pioneering leaders in the formative years of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, serving both as co-chair of the Education Committee and also as a board member. He is married to Billie Pi'ianai'a, whom he raised two boys with, and they live on O'ahu. Gordon continues to work to perpetuate and revitalize the art of wayfinding and navigation through his involvement with the 'Ohana Wa'a, a consortium of Hawai'i's voyaging organizations, canoe leadership and crews.
Distinguished Service to the Astronomy and Science Community
Dr. Walter Steiger
Walter Steiger is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. During his 30-year career at Manoa, he began an astronomy program and developed a solar observatory at Makapu'u Point on O'ahu, which later was supplanted by one on Haleakala, Maui. On Haleakala he conducted studies of the airglow and zodiacal light. After an early retirement in 1980, he entered a new form of teaching from the Bishop Museum Planetarium. During this period he also served for four years on the UH Board of Regents. In 1987, looking for another new challenge, he was offered the opportunity to work on Maunakea as Site Manager for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. After retirement from CSO, he was back to his first love, teaching physics, this time at UH Hilo, as Adjunct Professor. Dr. Steiger also served as Interim Director of Maunakea Astronomy Education Center, what would later become known as 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i, from 2003-2004. Dr. Steiger helped develop the philosophy and structure of the exhibits and the planetarium. He now talks and writes about the origins of astronomy in Hawai'i and helps out CSO with its outreach program.
Learn more about the origins of astronomy in Hawai'i here.
Distinguished Service to the Educational Community
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Wil Kyselka
Wil Kyselka is a geologist by training and a retired associate professor from the University of Hawai'i Curriculum Research and Development Group.
He was a lecturer at the Bishop Museum Planetarium in Honolulu when Nainoa Thompson approached him in 1978 with a question that led to lessons in astronomy and a life-long friendship. In An Ocean in Mind (1985), Will recorded the problem-solving and learning process that Nainoa went through learning to navigate without instruments, by bringing together Western information on astronomy with the traditional navigation techniques he learned from Mau, and fashioning them into a cogent wayfinding system uniquely his own. Read more about their first meeting here.
Distinguished Leadership and Service to Hawai'i County
Mayor Billy Kenoi
Mayor Billy Kenoi was born in the village of Kalapana on Hawai'i Island. Mayor Kenoi attended Hawaii Community College and UH Hilo before receiving his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was a proud member of the UMASS Political Science Honor Society. Mayor Kenoi received his Law Degree from UH Manoa's William S. Richardson School of Law and served as a Deputy Defender in the District, Family and Felony Trial Divisions. He went on to serve as an Executive Assistant to Mayor Harry Kim from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, he was recognized by Hawai'i Business Magazine as one of "25 people who will shape Hawai'i over the next 25 years." A year later he was elected mayor of the County of Hawai'i in his first run for public office at the age of 39, making him one of the youngest mayors in the history of Hawai'i County. Mayor Kenoi is married to Takako Kenoi, his college sweetheart, and they are blessed with three children. The Kenoi Family calls the Volcano area home.
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Can't join us?
If you would like to make a charitable, tax-deductible contribution in honor of late Master Navigator Mau Piailug and in support of Wayfinding and Navigation programs at 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i, please click here.
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Wayfinding and Navigation Festival Public Events
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'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i
University of Hawai'i at Hilo
'Imiloa Membership & Fund Development Office
600 'Imiloa Place
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
(808) 969-9732
membership@imiloahawaii.org
www.imiloahawaii.org
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