Maka O Pepeekeo

REUNION EDITION, FINAL

JULY 10, 2010

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,

Continued on the next page . . .

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”

Continued on the next page . . .

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

Continued on the next page . . .

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