Thursday, August 23

Participants Arrive

10 am – 4:30 pm                Registration (in front of Imin Center)

10 am – 4:30 pm                Hospitality Room Open (Rahman Room)

2 pm – 4 pm               Poster presenters set up displays (Wailana Room, Garden Level)

 

Friday, August 24

 

7:30 am – 4 pm               Registration (in front of Imin Center)

8 am – 4 pm               Hospitality Room Open (Rahman Room)

8 am                               Continental Breakfast (Keoni Auditorium)

 

9:00 am Opening Ceremony (Keoni Auditorium)

Hawaiian Chant

Noenoelani Zuttermeister

 

Welcomings

Roland Lagareta, Chair, EWC Board of Governors

Larry Smith, President, EWC Friends

Larry Foster, President, East-West Center Association

 

Roll Call of Delegates (by country and by institute)

 

Keynote Address Charles E. Morrison, President, EWC

 

Update on EWC

Nancy Lewis, Director, Research Program, EWC

Terry Bigalke, Director, Education Program, EWC

Ann Hartman, Seminar Program Specialist, EWC

Karen Knudsen, Director, External Affairs, EWC

 

11 am Coffee Break (Keoni Auditorium)

 

11:15 am EWC Experiences in Retrospect (Keoni Auditorium)

Moderator: Gordon Ring, Alumni Officer, EWC

Panel of alumni from 1970s

Jaswinder Brara, Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles

Chalintorn Burian, Regional Director, Institute of International Education, Bangkok

Jeanne Hamasaki, Special Assistant to President, EWC

Pamela Slutz, U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission, Kenya

Arfa Zehra, Chair Commission on Women, Pakistan

 

12:30 pm – 2 pm Lunch with EWC Students (Garden Level)

Moderator: Terry Bigalke, Director, Education Program, EWC

Mary Hammond, Dean, Education Program, EWC

Student Representatives

 

2 pm Poster Session Presentations (Wailana Room, Garden Level)

 

3 pm A Word from the Key Players of the 1970s (Keoni Auditorium)

A message from Everett Kleinjans, Former President, EWC

Fujio “Fuj” Matsuda, Former President, University of Hawai‘i

Vernor Bickley, Former Director, Culture Learning Institute

Lee-Jay Cho, Former Director, Population Institute

Sumi Makey, Former Dean, Student Affairs and Open Grants

 

4:30 pm Reception hosted by Friends of EWC (Hale Halawai)

Guests include staff, faculty and friends from the 70s

 

Evening Open

 

 

Saturday, August 25

 

8 am – 11:30 am Hospitality Room Open (Rahman Room)

Registration continues in the Hospitality Room (Rahman Room)

 

8 am Continental Breakfast (Keoni Auditorium)

 

8:30 am “Retirement 101: What You Always Wanted to Know About Retirement But Were Afraid to Ask” (Keoni Auditorium)

Moderator: Kathryn Braun, Director, Center on Aging, UH

Jack Reynolds, Management Consultant

Betty Lou Larson, Program Director, Catholic Charities

Linda Adamson, Life Styles Director, Kahala Nui Senior Living

Ron Matayoshi, Director, Practicum, UH School of Social Work

Rose Nakamura, Director, Project Dana

 

10:30 am Coffee Break (Keoni Auditorium)

 

11 am “The U.S. Role in Asia and the Pacific” (Keoni Auditorium)

Ambassador Charles Salmon

 

12 noon Luncheon with Meheroo Jussawalla, Emeritus Senior EWC Fellow, “The Dynamism of Information Technology” (Garden Level)

 

2 pm Bus Tour to Windward Oahu

 

4 pm Hawaiian Luau at St. John by the Sea Church

 

6:30 pm Return by Bus to Honolulu

 

 

Sunday, August 26

 

8 am Continental Breakfast (in front of Imin Center)

8:30 am Buses to Bishop Museum (meet in front of Imin Center)

 

9 am Tours of Bishop Museum

 

11:30 am Box lunch at Bishop Museum (Atherton Halau)

 

1 pm Buses return to EWC Afternoon and Evening Open

 

 

Monday, August 27

 

8 am Continental Breakfast (Keoni Auditorium)

 

8 am – 3 pm Hospitality Room Open (Rahman Room)

                   Registration in Hospitality Room (Rahman Room)

 

8:30 am International Relations: 1970 – 2007 (Keoni Auditorium)

Moderated by Richard Baker, Special Assistant to the President, EWC

 

Southeast Asia           Terry Bigalke, EWC Director of Education

 

South Asia              Shabbir Cheema, Program Director, Economic and

  Social Affairs, United Nations, New York

 

East Asia              Ned Shultz, Dean, School of Hawaiian, Asian and

  Pacific Studies, UH

 

Pacific                     Sitiveni Halapua, Director of Pacific Islands

  Development Program, EWC

 

10 am Coffee Break (Keoni Auditorium)

 

10:30 am “What We Can Do to Help Achieve the Center’s Mission”

EWCA Membership Meeting (Keoni Auditorium)

Larry Foster, President, East-West Center Association

Gordon Ring, Alumni Officer, EWC

 

11:30 am “Making a Difference” Luncheon featuring Student Scholarship Awardees (Garden Level)

 

1:30 pm Adjourn

 

6 pm Aloha Banquet (Garden Level)

 

7:30 pm Talent Show (Keoni Auditorium)

 

9 pm Closing