{"id":100647,"date":"2019-07-30T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=100647"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T23:25:28","slug":"in-memoriam-wesley-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/30\/in-memoriam-wesley-park\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Respected business leader and former UH<\/abbr> dean Wesley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Wesley Park (Photo credit: Scott Kubo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wesley “Wes” T. Park<\/strong>, a former University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> dean and East-West Center<\/a> vice president, passed away on July 14, 2019.<\/p>\n

Park served in various capacities with UH<\/abbr> Mānoa\u2019s College of Continuing Education, capping a seven-year career there as dean in 1982. He then served as vice president of administration for the East-West Center from 1982–1989.<\/p>\n

Park was best known in the business community as a local-style leader and turnaround expert. He served as CEO<\/abbr> of Hawaii Dental Service and published two books, Lessons Learned On A Corner In Kalihi<\/em><\/a> and Lessons Learned On Bishop Street<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quintessential Wes Park advice can be found in a Hawaii Business<\/em> 2004 article, “Local Style for Lolos: Should Lessons on Hawaii’s Complicated Cultural Landscape be an Elective Course or a Core Requirement?” Park said, “…when it comes to being a successful leader or businessperson, it all boils down to being effective at work and a good person, not an incompetent jerk.” <\/p>\n

In 2005, Walter A. Dods Jr. (then chairman of the board of First Hawaiian Bank) wrote in his introduction to Lessons Learned On A Corner In Kalihi<\/em>, “Wes has taught me a lot by example. This book teaches us all that a few well-chosen words can have power. Mahalo, Wes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wesley “Wes” T. Park<\/strong>, a former University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa dean and East-West Center vice president, passed away on July 14, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10,756,9],"class_list":["post-100647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-east-west-center","tag-in-memoriam","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100647","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=100647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100659,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100647\/revisions\/100659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}