Paul Field - Rotary Club of Volcano
The guest speaker for August 14, 2019 meeting was Paul Field of The Volcano Rotary Club. Paul explained this year's D5000 International Service Project in Bali Indonesia.
August 7, 2019
This week's guest speaker was Joy Matsuura of Center for Tomorrow's Leaders where she is Student Leadership Facilitator for Hawaii island. She was born and raised in Hilo, a graduate of Hilo High School and has three children. She is excited to work with the Center For Tomorrow's Leaders, because of her love and passion to see Hawaii's keiki to strive and accomplish educational and life goals that will bring our 'aina to a brighter future.
Governor and member of Rotary Club of Downtown Honolulu. He
was the D5000's representative to the 2019 Council on Legislation
and keep us up to date about what's going on at Council on
Legislature and about how we need to update our by-laws. Del is
also the chair of Rotary International 2020 Convention in Hawaii.
Some major takeaways of his presentation were for rotarians to
have perfect engagement rather than perfect attendance, dues
will continually increase $1/year, and make-up meetings have
been extended to within one year.
July 24, 2019
This week's guest speaker was Keith Okamoto, Manager-Chief Engineer of the County of Hawaii Department of Water Supply. Keith is also the most recent past-President of the Hilo Rotary Club. Keith noted that he was more nervous than usual when giving this presentation due to the fact two of our club members in attendance, David DeLuz Jr. and Julie Hugo are current members of the Water Board, while Art Taniguchi, also in attendance, is a former Chairperson of the Water Board.
Dr. Nariai is the astronomer whose research fields are astronomical optics and stellar astrophysics. His carrier as the researcher started with the assistant at Tokyo Astronomical Observatory (TAO) of Univ. of Tokyo. He became the professor at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in 1989. He frequently visited Hilo since then and became the Director of the Hilo Office of the Japan National Large Telescope or JNLT project in 1992. Since then, he lived in Hilo and made coordinations for the construction of JNLT with the local government and the contractors. Also he made really good relationship with local community. He became the vice director of Subaru Telescope in 1997 and retired NAOJ in 1998. Now he enjoys his retirement life without obligation.
