{"id":46530,"date":"2016-06-01T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T02:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=46530"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:31:50","slug":"distinguished-alumni-honored-for-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/01\/distinguished-alumni-honored-for-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished alumni honored for achievements"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e8OerBd_hgA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Alumni Association<\/a> honored their outstanding alumni on May 31 at the 2016 University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Distinguished Alumni Awards. The awards recognize alumni who have used their education to excel professionally, provide inspirational leadership to others and provide service for the benefit of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and the community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46538\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-price-l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"272\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-price-l.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-price-l-191x260.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to four honorees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/uhaa\/annual_events\/daa\/2016\/conrad_nonaka\"><strong>Conrad Nonaka<\/strong><\/a> (<abbr title=\"Associate of Science\">AS<\/abbr> &#8217;70 <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College, <abbr title=\"Bachelor of Education\">BEd<\/abbr> &#8217;78 M&#257;noa) &#8212; Director, Culinary Institute of the Pacific; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1N97ZymDRA\">video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/uhaa\/annual_events\/daa\/2016\/ernest_takafuji\"><strong>Ernest Takafuji<\/strong><\/a>, <abbr title=\"Doctor of Medicine\">MD<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"Master of Public Health\">MPH<\/abbr> (<abbr title=\"Bachelor of Arts\">BA<\/abbr> &#8217;66 M&#257;noa) &#8212; Director, Office of Biodefense Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (retired); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QxyzCnSa-NU\">video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/uhaa\/annual_events\/daa\/2016\/eric_yeaman\"><strong>Eric Yeaman<\/strong><\/a> (<abbr title=\"Bachelor of Business Administration\">BBA<\/abbr> &#8217;89 M&#257;noa) &#8212; President and Chief Operating Officer, First Hawaiian Bank; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=039jrHTHMMY\">video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/uhaa\/annual_events\/daa\/2016\/jackie_young\"><strong>Jackie Young<\/strong><\/a>, <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD<\/abbr> (<abbr title=\"Bachelor of Science\">BS<\/abbr> &#8217;69 M&#257;noa) &#8212; Chief Staff Officer, American Cancer Society <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific, Inc. (retired); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5j-fzCtVboU\">video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe 2016 University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Founders Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/uhaa\/annual_events\/daa\/2016\/larry_price\">Larry Price<\/a><\/strong> (<abbr>BS<\/abbr> &#8217;67, <abbr title=\"Master of Education\">MEd<\/abbr> &#8217;71 M&#257;noa) &#8212; Former On-Air Personality, <abbr title=\"radio station call letters\">KSSK<\/abbr> Radio; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kAZ5uCAq0vA\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Knowledge is power,&rdquo; said Price. &ldquo;You gotta just keep going. Forget about all the obstacles and the reasons for not going. Figure out a way to go and just keep going.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46595\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-daa2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-daa2016.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-daa2016-260x148.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Distinguished Alumni Award honorees, (left to right) Eric Yeaman, Jackie Young, Larry Price, Ernest Takafuji and Conrad Nonaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Yeaman, Jackie Young, Larry Price, Ernest Takafuji and Conrad Nonaka honored at the 2016 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Distinguished Alumni Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":46593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12],"tags":[90,679,63,271,9,947],"class_list":["post-46530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-video","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-alumni-association","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-daa2016-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530","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=46530"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85152,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530\/revisions\/85152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}