{"id":21411,"date":"2013-12-09T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21411"},"modified":"2021-11-09T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:39:09","slug":"james-yamaguchi-receives-presidents-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/09\/james-yamaguchi-receives-presidents-award\/","title":{"rendered":"James Yamaguchi receives president\u2019s award"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_21429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21429\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/yamaguchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/yamaguchi.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/yamaguchi-197x260.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James &ldquo;Kimo&rdquo; Yamaguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> Facilities Manager <strong>James &ldquo;Kimo&rdquo; Yamaguchi<\/strong> has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/about\/awards\/bng.php\">President&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance<\/a>. This award honors a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> employee who exhibits dedication and sustained superior performance in a maintenance, landscaping, custodial, shop or trucking position. <\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi played a central role in planning and preparing the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> campus for its transition from Pearl City to Kapolei. He met frequently with architects to discuss specific details of each building and he oversaw the installation of fixtures, equipment and furniture at the brand new campus. Yamaguchi also worked closely with the interim library director to set up the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> library building, and with very little staff. <\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi is commended for juggling a variety of duties and big projects and working long hours and on weekends. He is always focused, professional and determined and keeps his sense of humor in tact. <\/p>\n<p>Now that <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> is open and running smoothly, Yamaguchi has turned to maintenance and landscaping the new campus. His colleagues say his hard work, leadership and compassion for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> have resulted in a truly beautiful campus that inspires creativity, reflection, peace and a commitment to learning. <\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance will be presented to Yamaguchi at the monthly meeting of the Board of Regents on February 20, 2014 at <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Facilities Manager James Yamaguchi awarded the 2013 President&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142,1094,394,947,59],"class_list":["post-21411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-award","tag-presidents-maintenance-award","tag-presidents-office","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411","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=21411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151561,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411\/revisions\/151561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}