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PEPEEKEO PLANTATION DAYS REUNION which he would harvest to provide food for their family. Marian remembered that there were lots of white ginger plants and Mitsuge would bring her the flowers when they were in bloom. Pepeekeo was a very walkable place, you really had no choice, only a few could afford cars, but just because Marian walked wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
One walk that she made often
was her route to Pepeekeo School from Kaupakauea Camp.
Barefoot, Marian
walked on the railroad track until she reached the Plantation Garage. Coming from
Kaupakauea
Camp,
she
also
remembers often passing a beautiful pond by the river called Pake Pond. Next to it was a house where a Chinese man
Aerial view of Pepeekeo Plantation Town
sat outside smoking Opium. Everyone called him the Pake man.
Growing Up In Kaupakauea Story as told by Marian Nagakane Kaneko
Marian remembers fondly her trip to experience snow for the first time on
R in Kaupakauea
eminiscing about her times growing up
or lime in the outhouse but Marian would
Mauna Kea. Mr. Ishigo picked her, Ace
Camp, Marian Nagakani
be responsible for cleaning it on a weekly
Nago, Saichi Takushi, and Donald Abe up
Kaneki grew up with a large family of nine
basis.
Every Saturday Marian would
and they spent the morning playing in
consisting of two brothers and six sisters.
clean it and although Marian did much to
snow for the first time, it was amazing,
Kaupakauea Camp had eight houses, two
help out despite her young age, everyone
like a massive ice shave just waiting for
boarding houses, an out house, bath house
chipped in to make sure Pepeekeo was a
syrup! We didn’t have much, but nature,
and a two-car garage. Being the youngest
great place to live. Marian’s dad took care
family and friends made it a great place
child and only one born at Pepeekeo Hospital
of the bathhouse using cane trash to heat
to be.
she helped her mother sort and mark the
up the water every day.
working clothes for the two boarding houses. Each boarding house accommodated eight
But life didn’t always evolve around work,
people and an outhouse. The boarding
Mitsuge, Marian’s older brother, made a
houses were an important part of the
swimming hole for her out of rocks at a
community which housed the single men
stream on the Honomu side of the railroad
that worked at the mill. Every so often the
track. There, he taught her to dog paddle.
Board of Health would come and throw tye
He even made a small watercress farm
One of the many Pepeekeo Boarding Houses that held single men that worked at the mill.
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You know you are from Pepeekeo if . . .
Celebrating Culture in Pepeekeo By Irene Pacol, Carol Acoba part of growing up in Pepeekeo, in our A culturally diverse community, was learning
Mochi pounding was done by Japanese
about and experiencing the various cultural
wouldn’t know what Mochi really should
celebrations that each brought with them.
taste like unless you had one after being
Here are a few of the celebrations we
prepared the traditional way.
families during the end of the year. One
celebrated.
Contributed by friends and family of the Board of Directors •
“Lorita” was called “Loretta” • • •
Rizal Day in honor of Jose Rizal, the martyr
paper umbrella fails you when
with Filipino folk dancing, music, and skits.
you walk to school.
Mothers, fathers and sons and daughters
•
participated by dressing in various formal the 50’s and 60’s just before New Year’s was great. I finally learned some Filipino folk dances. One of them was the Tinikling (Bamboo Dance). We went to the Filipino clubhouse to practice on weekends before the celebration. The best part was going to the bamboo forest when necessary to gather some thick bamboo sticks which needed to be primed by the men before the dance. The mosquitoes were “huge” and you could see the hoard of mosquitoes...like a large wisp of dark smoke! We called them...”the B52s” because they look like airplane bombers! I got to wear the traditional dress/gown for each dance we learned and was so proud to say that I could dance the Filipino bamboo dance.
You dry off in front of the huge oven in the cafeteria after your
of the Phillippines every December 30th
ethnic costumes to match the dances. In
You know who Mrs. Yamada & Mrs. Agnes Low are.
The Filipino community would celebrate
Christmas
for school lunch! •
Christmas performances were held yearly at the Filipino clubhouse and Pepeekeo
You couldn’t wait to have Corn Chowder and Shortbread Cookies
Rizal Day at the Gym
You can name the last three postmasters.
•
You stick your head out the
Gym. As a part of the festivities, the Catholic
window or step out on your porch
Church would hold bazaars at the park and
and yell or whistle to call your
lots of homemade goodies were available for us to enjoy. Christmas was also celebrated in school.
neighbor. •
You went to (CDC) Catholic
Each grade class performed
Religious Education but thought
with the intermediate students doing the
going to the Japanese Language
Nativity Story. The same costumes were worn by students every Christmas unless a
School looked like more fun. •
You
went
to
the
Japanese
new outfit needed to be made. At the end
Language School and thought
of the Christmas Program each student had
going
a small brown paper bag with a red apple,
Religious Education) looked like
some Christmas candy & nuts. To this day
more fun.
I can remember the aroma of the apple &
•
nuts in the brown paper bag.
to
the
CDC
(Catholic
You loved getting umpan, creme puff, coconut pie, jelly roll or long johns from Ishigo Bakery.
Bon Dance Japanese
Rain on a corrugated roof makes you sleep in an instant.
Rizal Day
The
Mavis” was called “Mah-vis” and
community
•
would
Pond’, ‘Pake Pond’, ‘Round Pond’
celebrate their Bon festival yearly with
‘Ghost Pond’, or Blue Pond.
dance, lanterns, food at the Japanese Club
•
house. Everyone could attend. The Japanese
The bell next to the service station started ringing meant that
celebrated Bon Dance which they held for
something important or exciting
awhile next to the Japanese clubhouse &
was happening.
Japanese camp. I had a traditional Japanese
•
kimono when I was 7 years old because
You know what happens if you run around the lumber yard three
where I lived in the camp we had many
times at midnight.
Japanese families around us & my neighbor was a gifted seamstress. The Traditional
You swam in ‘Moro Pond’, ‘Lilikoi
A Christmas Story at Pepeekeo School
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1939 Pepeekeo Sugar Company Baseball Team: (front left to right) Unknown, Phillip Spalding, Ekichi Asato, Kenji Sakai, Allister Stewart, (back) Shintaro “Rocky” Higa, Iwao Nagai, Chester Asato, Kaoru Nekoba, Larry Niide, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Robert Ota, Charley Okata, Unknown, Unknown
Baseball Memories Contributors: Saburo “Choppy” Hasegawa and Sadako (Akiyama) Okata when Choppy was 8 years Ioldn 1924 he remembers Pepeekeo had a
Kenichi Sakai. When there weren’t
formed. The Showa Team was made up of
enough players from Pepeekeo players
primarily Japanese players from Pepeekeo
baseball team called the Yamato Team
were recruited and given a job in the
and they played Maukaloa-Kawainui,
made up mostly of Japanese. At that
plantation during the baseball season.
Andrade, and the Wanderers teams. An
time there was no baseball field in
Choppy remembers a player by the name
umpire came from Honomu. Pepeekeo
Pepeekeo so the players joined the
of Felix and another was Cayetano who
became a baseball town and many people
Honomu Home League and played
was a good hitter. Baseball was a big
showed up to watch the games. Choppy
the Chinese-Hawaiian, Japanese and
thing back then.
remembers the players of this new team. Catcher: Masayuki Morimoto, pitcher:
Portuguese teams. They were all good teams. He remembers riding a GMC
Finally a field was built in the pasture
Tom Nide and Naoto Murakawa, 1st base:
truck to Honomu which cost 5 cents
land by the lighthouse. Charlie Taylor,
Choppy Hasegawa, 2nd base: Katsumi
but if you chased the ball the ride was
the plantation chemist, laid out the field.
Okata, short stop: Iwao Nagai, 3rd base:
free. In 1925 the Yamato team won
Being a strong hitter he laid the field so
Chester Asato, left field: Isami Nakano,
the championship. With the silver
a homerun was 200 yards and this was
centerfield: Kazuto Nishioka from
cup in hand they rode the GMC truck
marked by a low hedge. The hedge did
Andrade, right field: “Primo” Heya. By the
throughout Pepeekeo village and
not last long because only Taylor could hit
1930’s the Showa team became so strong
ended up at Mr. Webster’s (plantation
the ball that far. The many coconut trees
two teams, A and B, were formed.
manager) house to show him the cup
which provided shade for the fans were
and blow the truck horn.
planted when the field was laid. By 1935
According to Sadako Okata, after
the gym was built and that’s when that
championships were won the community
Later another league was organized
area became the center of activity for the
would celebrate with a chicken hekka
and games were played at the
village. There was also a movie theatre
dinner. People would contribute chickens
Pepeekeo School grounds. Besides the
which many years later became a Catholic
and bring their hichirin (portable charcoal
Pepeekeo team, there were Maukaloa-
church.
grills) to the Japanese club house. It would get very warm with all the hichirins
Kawainui, and Andrade teams. The Andrade team was managed by
After the field was built a new league was
cooking the hekka in cast iron skillets but it was “good fun”.
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Pepeekeo: Those Were The Days By Karleen Chinen Reprinted from The Hawaii Herald - April 5, 1985 Vol. 6, No. 7
Good memories . . . lots of hardship . . .
but good memories. I think if you can look
back in time and say, ‘Those were real hard times,’ but if you can say in the same breath, ‘They were good times’ . . . that I wouldn’t mind bringing up my kids in that kind of environment, because it made you such a solid person. . . “. There is genuine love in Eishin “Ace” Nago’s voice and a sparkle in his eyes as he recalls his years growing up in the sugar plantation community of Pepeekeo on the Big Island’s Hamakua coast. Although here in body, he is, for just a fleeting moment, back in Pepeekeo, running hadashi (barefoot) through the narrow lanes covered with crushed coral. All around him, tall cane leaves rustle as a cool breeze blows over the fields. Nago smiles. “We grew up without shoes. Today, I take off my shoes, I cannot walk on the small pebbles outside. Those days we used to run on lava rocks,” he boasts. Nago was one of about 250 “Pepeekeo children” who came together at the Pagoda International Ballroom on St. Patrick’s Day to remember the old days at Pepeekeo. The mood was festive, as karaoke music rang through the room along with the buzz of chatter from hundreds of long-lost
Photo courtesy of Tetsuo Takushi
acquaintances. Two men greeted each
bought the plantation and changed
other at the door—one swung his arm
its name to Pepeekeo. The plantation
around his buddy’s neck, his buddy threw
changed hands again 15 years later
his arm around his friend’s back. A few feet
when. Alexander Young, manager of
away, two women broke into big smiles and
Honolulu Iron Works, purchased it and
hugged each other. The sight warmed one’s
incorpo¬rated it as Pepeekeo. Sugar
heart. For them, as for many others in the
Company. Another 15 years passed
room, it’d been decades since they last saw
before Young sold the 3,000-plus-acre
each other.
plantation to C. Brewer and Company. Alexander Young used the money from
The reunion was the third gathering of
the sale to build what was at one time
former Pepeekeo residents. Nago’s been
a Honolulu landmark, the Alexander
to all of them. “It just dawned on me that
Young Hotel.
everybody felt the way I did. They felt so close during those days that they wanted
Pepeekeo consisted of four camps—
to get back together . . . These reunions are
Mill Camp, Andrade Camp, Kawainui
good for the soul and the mind,” he says.
Homestead, and Mauka Loa Camp.
“They take you back to reality.”
And within those individual camps were even smaller ones. Mill Camp
In the early 1900s, Pepeekeo was one of
was Pepeekeo’s largest. It was Eishin
several thriving sugar plantations that
Nago’s home. A child of the Depression
lined the Hamakua coast. A civil engineer
era, the first years of his life were spent
from Michigan by the name of Theophilus
in a plantation home with a dirt floor.
Metcalf started it as Kaupakuea Plantation
He was the fifth of seven children born
in the late 1850s. When Metcalf died in 1874, two Honolulu men, Afong and Achuck,
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REUNION EDITION, FINAL reunion he referred to some of the older women as “mama.” “The community pretty much took it on themselves to be the mother of every child. . . . You could be at somebody else’s house and they would take care of you like they were your mother. They would discipline you if they needed to discipline you. . . . I guess there was some kind of mutual agreement that they had during those days. . . . I guess they said, ‘If my boy is not behaving, you straighten him Hundreds of children born in Pepeekeo Hospital, which also served the communities of Honomu and Onomea.
to Kameyo and Nabe Nago, who had
English at all other than to say, ‘hello,’ or
immigrated to Hawaii from Okinawa.
things like that, learned to bake Portuguese
He recalls that the family caught rain
bread; she also learned to do adobo-style
in a tank for their daily water use, and
cooking from the Filipinos. She learned
boiled their water to get hot water for
the Puerto Rican type of cooking from
bathing and other needs. Nabe Nago
the Puerto Rican lady. . . . We learned to
dressed her children in clothes made
speak the language, or some of it, anyway.
from rice bags. “Rice bags, in those days,
We got to learn their ways. That type of
sometimes came in a flowery pattern,
community living is a lot different than
or at least with some kind of color to it,
what we live around nowadays,” he says.
so it could be used for clothes,” recalled Nago.
His feelings are echoed by Satsuyo Hasegawa, who lived in Pepeekeo until
Most of his friends know him as “Ace”
1962. She remembers Pepeekeo’s large
Nago. “Anybody that calls me `Eishin’ is
Japanese and Filipino population and
either from Pepeekeo or went to school
the smaller numbers of Portuguese and
with me at Hilo High School. Nobody
Chinese families in the community. “We
else calls me `Eishin.’
were very close . . . I guess plantation community, yeah . . . very close.”
The Nago family later moved into a new home in an area of Mill Camp where
One thing Nago remembers that Pepeekeo
the plantation management tried to
had plenty of was “mothers.” He lost his
integrate the various ethnic groups.
own mother some years back, but at the
With the exception of a wood floor and concrete steps which they didn’t have
showed you a lot of love, like your own parents did. If they have something to share with you, they’ll share it with you.” The Cambra family shared their freshly baked bread with the families in the neighborhood and the woman who lived next door often treated the Nago youngsters to blocks of frozen ice cake she made with milk and water with a dash of sugar for sweetness, since the Nagos did not own a refrigerator. The strong bond between the community makes Pepeekeo a very special place in the hearts of the people who lived there. “If you had a project which was pretty extensive, you could pretty much get the community involved without going around and saying, ‘Hey, I need your help.’ Everybody would help.” He saw that spirit of cooperation at weddings and other festive gatherings of the community. People would bring what they could; the fishermen would spend all day at sea, catching ulua and other fish for the party table. That kind of pride and spirit likely helped
in their old house, the structure was a
the Pepeekeo Sugar Company baseball
standard plantation home. Nago recalls
team capture the Brewer baseball league
that the neighborhood consisted of a
championship in 1939, and again in 1941,
Filipino man who had a Puerto Rican
‘43 and ‘44. Baseball was a favorite pastime
wife, a Chinese-Hawaiian family, two
in the old community. One of Pepeekeo’s
Filipino families, a Puerto Rican family,
“favorite sons,” former Supreme Court
a Portuguese family and a couple of
Justice Kazuhisa Abe, remembers that
Japanese families. “It amazed me to find that my mother, who didn’t speak
out right then and there.’ Besides that, they
Eishin “Ace” Nago: ” . . . hard times but good times in Pepeekeo”
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REUNION EDITION, FINAL baseball was the “only organized sports we
cannot believe how my parents were
had.” Abe, like Nago, grew up in Mill Camp.
able to sustain us kids . . . pay for our
He says each plantation had its own baseball
schooling, pay for our food and pay for
team.
our bus fare to go and come back,” he says in wonderment.
Nago was eight years old when he was selected the team’s batboy. He’s like a child
Depending on when they were growing
again as he talks about how honored he
up in the community, Pepeekeo’s
felt to have been made a part of the team. “In those days, being a batboy was , special . . . to be selected to be the batboy for the team.” When he was older, Nago played for the Pepeekeo AJA team. He recalls that Abe was the team’s coach the year Pepeekeo captured the Big Island championship, and he says he can’t think of many celebrations that could out-do the big victory party that followed the game. Those were happy times in Pepeekeo, but there was also the hard day-to-day living which all of the plantation children grew up in. Abe was 12 or 13 years old when he began doing hoe hana work. “When I first went to work in the canefield, I got 25-cents a day,” he recalls. When he was a few years older, he spent one summer working in the sugar mill, scraping molasses off the machines for a dollar a day.
Sam and Clara Tobara grew up in Pepeekeo - Sam in Mill Camp, Clara at Kawainui Homestead. They, along with Edwin Onouye, spearheaded the reunion planning.
children attended various schools. They all enrolled at Pepeekeo School for their elementary education. Some
When Nago was in the fourth grade he
later
assumed the responsibility for feeding
about 10 miles away; others traveled
attended
Hilo
Intermediate
the livestock, which the family rarely ate
four miles to neighboring Papaikou
because it was sold or traded to supplement
to attend Kalanianaole Intermediatd.
the family’s income. It wasn’t easy growing
But everyone’ got back together again
up then, he says. “When you’re young, you
at Hilo High School. Nago’s graduating
want to play all the time. We get up in the
class—the Class of ‘51— grad uated
morning and go and feed the pigs, feed
close to 700 students who commuted
the chickens and all the livestock. When
daily from the various plantation
we went to school, we must have smelled
communities,
awful. But in those days you don’t think
Hakalau, Honomu, Onomea, Papaikou
about it.” He, repeated a similar routine
and others south of Hilo, as well.
including
Pepeekeo,
after school, munching on a small snack and then heading out to the field to work.
In the early days the students caught a train to Hilo. It started out early
The Pepeekeo children who grew up in Nago’s days caught the bus to school. “I
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Nago was even younger when he first sank his heels in Pepeekeo’s warm fields. Although he never really worked for the plantation because he was too young, he recalls his experiences working with his father in the fields. “I can remember when I was even three or four years old . . . I used to ride my father’s mule to plow his field. And, as soon as I could grab hold of a sickle I was starting to cut grass, work out in the field.” He and his brothers often helped their father cut and bundle cane bearing Kameyo Nago’s sign. The more cane he cut, the more money he was able to earn for his large family. His wife also added to the family’s income by taking in the laundry of some of the camp’s single men.
Edwin Onouye, who helped organize the reunion, points to his picture in this photograph of the Pepeekeo baseball team. Onouye was the team’s shortstop
REUNION EDITION, FINAL in the morning, way up the coast at
Court, the state’s highest judicial body.
Paauilo and made stops along the way,
Abe served with two other nisei justices,
including one in Pepeekeo. At four in,
Jack Mizuha and Masaji Marumoto, and
the afternoon, the train left Hilo and
Justice Bernard Levinson and Chief Justice
began its return trip to Paauilo.
William Richardson.
Transportation had eased up a bit by
His term on the high court is remembered
the time Nago attended school. His
today in part because of a landmark water
parents put out their hard-earned
rights decision he rendered in 1973. In
money for their children’s bus fare to
the McBryde Sugar Company vs. Aylmer
and from school. “We sure had to travel
F. Robinson case, Abe held that water, like
to get our education,” summarized
the light and the air, cannot be privately
Abe, and he suspects that schools were
owned. It belongs to all of the people. “I
often established in isolated areas or
think I wrote very good opinions when I
far away from the plantation homes,
was on the Supreme Court, which, were in
making it difficult for children to get an
the best interests of the general public. My
education.
concern was, ‘what was the best interest of the general public.” He believes that his
Following his graduation from Hilo
plantation upbringing helped mold him
High School, Kazuhisa Abe went on
into the type of person he is today . . . a
to attend the University of Hawaii
very low- keyed man who speaks pidgin
in. Honolulu. He had set his sights
with his friends and who feels a true
on becoming a doctor. “But when I
camaraderie with simple folk.
came to the University of Hawaii to register, I figured, `How am I going to
Ace Nago feels the same way about himself.
get a medical education?’ My parents
He looks back on the hardships hr lived
couldn’t afford it.” He quickly changed
through in a positive light. The memories
his goals and enrolled in economics
of his parents are even more dear to him
and political science courses, with the
now that he has three children of his own.
idea of becoming a lawyer, which he
He remembers that his father, now 96
did at the University of Michigan law
years old, used to awaken at 3:30 each
school.
morning to go to work, and that he didn’t return until 8 or 8:30 at night. When Nago
When Abe returned from the Mainland
began attending intermediate school, his
with a law degree in his hand, he ran
father went to work on the graveyard
for the territorial senate and was
shift because the Pepeekeo Mill was in
elected in 1952, two years before the
operation 24-hours a day.
Democrats garnered their first major victory in Island politics. Although a
He recalls his mother telling him about
seemingly carefree child who loved
the day she gave birth to him. “She was
to play baseball and steal mangoes,
carrying pig slop on her back; feeding the
he says he knew while growing up on
pigs, and felt the labor pain . . . and had to
the plantation that an education was
go to the person who owned the camp’s
the key to getting out from under the
only car” so she could ride to Pepeekeo
plantation system.
Hospital to give birth to her son.
In 1967, Kazuhisa Abe, whose roots were planted in the fertile soil of a small
The years brought change to Pepeekeo. In
plantation community called Pepeekeo,
1946, Honomu Sugar Company was merged
was appointed to the Hawaii Supreme
with Pepeekeo Sugar. Other mergers
Former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Kazuhisa Abe is a product of Pepeekeo. He says his plantation upbringing helped him to always seek the “best interest of the general public.”
followed. Today, the name Pepeekeo Sugar Company is just a memory. C. Brewer now operates most of the sugar companies along the Hamakua coast as the Hilo Coast Processing Company. A modernized mill at Pepeekeo is its main plant. But the memories of people like Satsuyo Hasegawa, Kazuhisa Abe and Ace Nago are of the good old days. Nago has taken his three children, Garrett, Cheryl Lei and Rocky, back to Pepeekeo to see where their father grew up. The journey brought back old memories and a new perspective for Nago. “Basically, what was big when I was small became very small when I was big. . . . I was surprised to find that the roads were so narrow and the place where I was born that I thought, was so big, so huge . . . was so small that I couldn’t turn around my car.” “Pepeekeo was the-kind of lifestyle . . . childhood I would like my kids to have . . . Those days, when you say ‘friend,’ you could pretty much shake hands and seal an agreement or any kind of a deal and it pretty much was your word.”
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Soup Kitchen As told by Thelma Panem Acoba, Caroline Obra Ducosin, Judy Obra Parker a challenging time for Pepeekeo in Ithet was late 1950’s because of a sugar strike at
to sanitize, it was surprising no one burned
Kitchen, there was not much left and
themselves. For our food, we generally had
they would always complain about the
Pepeekeo plantation. To many of the children
something different each day like chopped
small portions. But there was always
growing up at the time, we were not aware
pork over cooked watercress, but we sure
something they could cook up from the
of the impacts and struggles of the time but
did have a lot of oil sardines and fern stem!
vegetable garden her father had.
we made avocado ice cakes out of avocados.
It wasn’t like the food our parents would
Since our fathers couldn’t work in the field,
make, but it took care of the hunger and
When we would get home, to save
we had to stretch what we could during the
we never necessarily went hungry because
money, we couldn’t turn on the
day for food and get our dinner with the rest
there was plenty of river Opae, Opihi, and
electricity to light up the house. We
of the camps at the Soup Kitchen. The Soup
vegetables from our gardens that everyone
would study under hurricane lamps
Kitchen was at the Japanese clubhouse close
shared.
We learned what it meant to
and cook on kerosene stoves. Even the
to the ballpark so we would play blocks, tin
“stretch” our food. If we could afford to buy
bathing water was heated by a heater
can, dodge ball or chase master on the two
it, a can of Vienna Sausage CAN really go a
using kerosene and we were restricted
young banyan trees while waiting for the
long way. Who knew?
to short baths. But even that was a luxury for us because that’s all we had
dinner bell to ring around 5pm. Judith Obra Parker remembers bringing
and all we knew.
It was a unique experience for all of us. We
food home at times for her parent because
all had a tin lunch can that was shaped like
she would work late and miss the food
But what made these times special was
a coffee bean. Then we would wait in line to
bell. But since they served whatever was
the opportunity to eat dinner with our
dip our cans into the almost boiling water
left for the second serving at the Soup
friends and other families each day. Like a large party, we would laugh,
Exploring the Nicknames of our Childhood By Artemio Sensano Jr. Edmundo - “Munding” or “Gis” Rudy Camero - “Apo Lakai” or “Roach” Alvin - “Blonde” because of his peroxide hair or “Balbino” Primitivo - “T-Bong” or “Songo” Jaime - “Teets” or “Pope” Dennis - “Latoon” or ”superman” Alex - “Culas” or per Kwai Sung “Lick I ma ke yo ear” Norman - “Sugi” Donald - “Wa-eh” or “Quack” Rudy Mangibin - “Roach” Dado - “Dado” Melvin Rodriguez - “Ma Fong” (spelling)? Melvin Takai - “Sunichi” Harold – “Harold” Lance Alan - “Kansas” Joven - “Kuroong” Leonard - “Lanky” Patrick - “Patrick” Eddie - “Lips” Teofilio - “Handsome” Shelby - “cut-cut” because of the “Cut the Christmas tree” song
reminisce, and share stories with each other. It was truly a community bonding experience that again made
Bobby Panem - “Tubby” Nelson - “Casin-sin” Artemio “pipty two peet, no inch..” Dennis DeMotta - “DeMott” Elliot Takai - “Mool” Lloyd Nekoba - “Torpedo” Dennis Nekoba - “Sus” Mel Nekoba - “Pecker” Richard Ragocos - “Cos-cos” Ernesto Camero - “Flix” Jose Querubin - “Pugigit” Kenneth Tam - “Kwai Sung” or ”Chuma” Richard Asato - “Pluey” Cornelio Albo - “Savage” Vicente Reyes Jr - “Punta” Roger - “Bucatot” Elson Cabatu - “Boon-jing” Qurino Antonio - “Lum” or “Tomboy” Andrew Quirit – “Andres” Glenn Miyaji - “Sunga” Russell Okata Fernando - Nando Patrick - Poga Pedro Jr. - Carlos Kenneth - Peanut
Pepeekeo such a great place to grow up in.
http://www.alohamondays.com/ Mahalo to AlohaMondays for catering the ono food at our reunion!
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Board of Directors and their friends and families Newsletter Designed and Compiled by Christopher Parker