Richard was inducted into the Junior Achievement Hawaii Business Hall of Fame a couple weeks ago, and Penny Mau took some lovely photos at the Waikiki ceremony.
Penny (now a school principal on O‘ahu) and her husband Ron (a well-known entomologist with an illustrious career at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at UH Manoa) were neighbors and good friends of ours back in the early 70s, when we lived in apartments overlooking Hilo High School.
We’ve stayed friends all these years, and I invited them to be with us at our table at the awards ceremony. Ron was in China, on assignment, and couldn’t make it, but Penny came with her brother Terrance. Tracy and Kimo were also at our table, as were Dan Cabrera and Edna Bartolome. Dan was Best Man at our wedding; we attended UH together in the late 60s.