UH Alumni Association honors 8
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i Alumni Association presented its President's Award to outgoing UH President David McClain and his wife Wendie last Thursday at its annual dinner. McClain has led the 10-campus UH system since 2004; his term ends July 31.
The association also presented its 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards to five people:
• Chiyome Fukino, a 1979 graduate of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has served as the director of the state Department of Health since 2002. During her tenure, Hawai'i became the first state to offer a statewide, school-based flu vaccination program and held its first Statewide Suicide Prevention Conference.
• James and Lois Horton both received their master's degrees in 1969 from UH and their Ph.D.s from Brandeis University. One of their many books, "Slavery and the Making of America," was the basis for a series of the same name on PBS. They continue to serve as visiting professors in the UH-Manoa American Studies Department.
• Dee Jay Mailer received her MBA from the Shidler College of Business in 1985 and a B.S. from the School of Professional Nursing at UH-Manoa in 1975. Since 2004, she has served as chief executive officer for the Kamehameha Schools. Formerly, she was chief operating officer of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and chief executive officer for Kaiser Permanente.
• Sabrina McKenna is a 1982 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law and received her BA in Japanese at UH-Manoa in 1978. She has had a distinguished career as a lawyer and jurist. She was also an assistant professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law and a former member of the Rainbow Wahine basketball team.
In addition, Daniel Lau was presented the UH Founders Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Lau is a 1941 graduate of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, where he studied business economics. With the Army in World War II, he earned the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster in December 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge. In 1952, he co-founded one of the state's largest financial services companies, Finance Factors, where he serves as chairman. He is an alumni association board member.
