{"id":12150,"date":"2012-11-29T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T01:27:05","slug":"honolulu-cc-honors-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/29\/honolulu-cc-honors-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> honors graduates"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sd9oMS6zs6c?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> offers quality instruction with its robust liberal arts program and their wide range of career and technical education programs, from automotive to music industry management. <\/p>\n<p>About 5,000 students are currently enrolled and thousands of others have graduated with a two-year degree or certificate since the school opened in 1920. <\/p>\n<p>A gala event, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/alumni\/honorees.php\">Celebrate! 2012!<\/a>, was held to honor five graduates who credit Honolulu Community College for their professional success, like 2002 human services graduate <strong>Charles-Alan Castillo<\/strong>, a business manager for Aloha United Way.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was just really blessed to have really good instructors who were committed and caring individuals that really made a difference in how I approached my studies and how I graduate,&rdquo; said Castillo. <\/p>\n<p>Fellow honoree <strong>Jason Oshiro<\/strong> agrees. He is a 1994 commercial arts graduate and now works as a graphic designer for the college. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The people, the teachers, the faculty, the staff are all hardworking people and they love what they do,&rdquo; said Oshiro. <\/p>\n<p>1972 graduate <strong>Jerome Albritton<\/strong> had a long career in law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had a chance to launch my career when I saw they had police science courses available at the school,&rdquo; said Albritton. &ldquo;I am immediately enrolled once I transferred here from the military.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>It was more than just the education for fellow honoree <strong>Gary MacDonald<\/strong>, a 1970 graduate in automotive mechanics. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After I did very well at <abbr>HCC<\/abbr>, I had academic confidence,&rdquo; said MacDonald. &ldquo;I had dreams when I was younger of maybe become a mechanical engineer.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>MacDonald realized those dreams and had a long and distinguished career at Boeing Aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>The fifth graduate to be honored, 1998 graduate <strong>Jonathan Wong<\/strong>, who received an associate degree in liberal arts, summed up how all of the honorees felt about the unexpected recognition. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Very few people are fortunate to be recognized in that type of role so it is definitely very humbling,&rdquo; said Wong. <\/p>\n<p>Honolulu Community College also honored First Hawaiian Bank for being the college&#8217;s outstanding partner. First Hawaiian has given $125,000 over the last nine years to establish and support the college&#8217;s automotive academy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our founder, Charles Reed Bishop, had a deep sense of obligation and commitment to education,&rdquo; said First Hawaiian Bank Vice Chairman Robert Fujioka. <\/p>\n<p>The event, that included silent auction and entertainment, was not only about the past and present, but the future as well. The money raised is being used for the college&#8217;s general scholarship endowment fund to support students who may also be honored graduates one day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu Community College held Celebrate! 2012! to honor five graduates who credit the campus for their professional success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12],"tags":[679,62,71,56],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-video","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","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=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134162,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/134162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}