Graduation 2008 - University of Hawaii at Hilo

10 Ke Kalahea
Spring Issue 7: May 6, 2008
Hilo Palace Theatre Courtesy of hilopalace.com
Friday evening, May 16 at 7:00PM
Saturday morning, May 17 at 11AM
Hilo’s Center Stage Dance Studio in association
with The Palace Theater proudly
presents the world premiere of: The Goodnight
Gecko Ballet.
This exciting new work is based on the very
popular children’s book written and illustrated
by Kaua`i resident, Ms. Gill Barnet.
Ticket prices: $12 general, $8 for children 12
and under. Call 934-7010 for information.
Sunday, May 18,2008 at 2:30PM
KANILEHUA SPRING CONCERT
The program will feature classical and
pops pieces from Renaissance madrigals
to Basin Street Blues, from Mendelssohn to
Cole Porter.
$12 general , $10 students and Seniors
(aged 65 and over).
Tickets on sale at Basically Books, CD
Wizard, Kea’au Natural Foods & Kilauea
General Store. Credit card sales available at
the Palace Theater at 934-7010.
May 20,2008 at 7:30PM
Special Film Showing - “REVOLUTION
GREEN”
A renewable documentary narrated by
Woody Harrelson featuring Willie Nelson.
A true story of biodiesel in America.
“Revolution Green is a highlight of the Maui
Film Festival line-up.” -Variety Magazine
“If you learn about Biodiesel one day in
your life, that’s a huge day… it was for me.”
-Willie Nelson
$7 General, $6 Student/Senior, $5 Palace
member.
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 7:00PM
A Benefit for Community and Family Harmony
- «ALOHA SHOW»
Variety show benefit for community and
family harmony with proceeds donated to
Turning Point for Families. Performers will
be: Renowned poet Kealoha, Big Island bands
Moe Moea, Basic Human Tones and Mixjah,
Lady D, Gloria Baraquio, Two Souls, Aerynn,
Dance Performance, Fashion Show, Comedy
and Art Show.
$15 in advance / $20 at the door ($10 children,
students and seniors in advance/ $15
at door).
Available at CD Wizard and The Palace
Theater. Call 934-7010.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
RAINBOW FILM FESTIVAL
The Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural
Foundation (HGLCF) will be presenting The
Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival at the Honolulu
Academy of Arts, again, May 22-25. This
year, for the first time, there will be a one-day
Rainbow Film Festival at the Palace Theater
in Hilo on Saturday, May 31. Two different
programs will be presented consisting of one
feature film preceded by one short film.
Please visit our website at www.hilopalace.
com during May to read about the films selected
and screening times or call the Palace
at 934-7010.
Lisa Hilina’i Lyon
Lisa Hilina’i Lyon is graduating this May
with a major in Hawaiian Studies and a minor
in Music. Lisa is from Hilo and has been a student
here at the University of Hawai`i Hilo for
six years. She has been involved with extra curricular
activities on campus and in our community.
Lisa went to Carnegie Hall with some of the
University singers in the musical theatre. She is a
nurse at Nawahiokalani’o’pula immersion school
and participated in an event where she brought
young students to the Nursing department for
career day. When asked what one thing she has
learned during her time here at UHH, she said,
“to be patient and persistent,” and after graduation
she will, “Continue to promote the use of
the beautiful Hawaiian language.”
Antoinette Caroline Wilson
Marla Teresa Nora
Marla Teresa Nora is graduating in May with
a Bachelor’s in Nursing from the University of
Hawai`i at Hilo. She has attended UHH since
Fall 2003 and has involved herself in Make A
Difference Day, senior citizen care, childcare
services and highway and beach clean-ups. After
she graduates she hopes to get a job at the Kona
Community Hospital.
The one thing she has learned here is “how
to see problems from many different points
of view.”
Christopher Finnegan
ages, from all ages. It doesn’t matter where a
person is from or were they are in life, the impact
of how they change your life, for good or bad,
is all that matters!”
Jeffrey Charles Brown
Jeffrey Charles Brown is a Sociology major
that has been at the UHH since August of 2006
and is a resident from Denver, Colorado. He is
currently involved in the HCC Hawai`i Court
Monitoring Program; and plans to take some
time off and enjoy the island before deciding on
graduate school. The one thing that he learned
while here was a “great sense of appreciation for
community, ohana, and aloha” while enjoying
Hilo as an amazing place to be.
Anna Tova Karsin
Anna Tova Karsin has been living on the Big
Island since eighth grade but has lived in both
Tahiti and New Zealand as a young child.
She is graduating this May with a B.A. in
Chemistry and B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology
from the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, which
she attended for the last 4.5 years. After graduation
she intends to go to graduate school. “I’m
taking a trip to Europe then moving to O`ahu to
study tropical medicine at UH Manoa.”
While attending UHH she has involved herself
with the campus by doing “directed studies
research and working for the HawCC-based
forest team for the last year and a half.”
Her favorite part of UHH was the small
class sizes and opportunities to be involved in
research that would normally be reserved for
graduate students at a larger school. In terms
of the one thing she’s learned while here is “the
value of a finished project!”
Her advice to freshmen, “do your homework!”
Antoinette Caroline Wilson is graduating
from Hawai`i Community College. She is
originally from Manoa Valley, O`ahu and has
attended HawCC since Fall 2003 and during
her time received an Associate’s in Liberal Arts
and certificates in Substance Abuse Counseling,
Hawaiian Lifestyles, and Human Services. She
has involved herself in HawCC Student Government,
Phi Theta Kappa, and Unukupukupu’s
fundraising vice president from 2005 to 2007.
After graduation she is going to pursue her college
degree in nursing.
The one thing she has learned while being
here is “that knowledge is like a diamond, it is
multifaceted with beautiful colors that sparkle,
that symbolize all the different areas and skills
that we learn as we progress on our path of learning
academics, service learning, social and all
levels of learning. I will always be a learner.”
Dayne Mende
Dayne Mende is a current Biology student set
to graduate this semester with a Bachelors’ of
Arts, and is an original Hilo resident who transferred
from UH Manoa two years ago, while
studying there for about five years. He plans to
attend pharmacy school or explore work in the
field of Biology after graduation; and states that
time management is the one thing he learned
from his time here for “ it really is possible to
squeeze 26 hours of work into a 25 hour day.”
Christopher Finnegan is graduating this May
with a Bachelor’s in Physics and Astronomy
from the University of Hawai`i at Hilo. He has
attended UH Hilo since Fall 2004, originally from
New Jersey. His aspirations after he gradutes is
to “get the money, graduate school and several
nobel prizes.”
He is currently part of the Goju Ryu Karate
Club and has been since 2005, tutors physics and
volunteers at the `Imiloa Astronomy Center.
The one thing he has learned while being here
is, “I like money, it’s fun. Astronomy makes my
brain hurt and physics makes it mushy. Oh, and
I love Martial Arts.”
Mona Kaualoku Livsey
Mona Kaualoku Livsey was born in Florida,
but grew up in California, Arizona and
Hawai`i and now has been in Hawai`i for the
last 30 years.
She will be graduating this May with a Bachelor’s
in Psychology having attended HawCC
from 2001 to 2003 and UHH from 2003 to present.
She has involved herself in the HawCC
Student Government, BOSP, Ke Kalahea, SAC,
the Fee Board and Human Service Club. After
she graduates, she hopes to take a few classes
in graphic arts and if she can work with more
students in a different capacity, but initially, “I
will take a break and let my brain breathe!”
The one thing she has learned since being
here is, “No matter how old you get, you are
always growing and learning. We learn at all