Punahou School Alumni
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Punahou School Alumni is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School.
[edit] Olympic Athletes and Other World Champions
[edit] Athletics (Track and Field)
- coach Duncan Macdonald — 1976
- '72 Henry Marsh (BYU) — 1976, 1980 US boycott, 1984, 1988
[edit] Beach Volleyball
- '90 Kevin Wong (Berkeley) — 2000
- '91 Stein Metzger (UCLA) — 2004
[edit] Diving
- '69 Keala (Rachel) O'Sullivan (UH) — 1968 bronze medalist
[edit] Dressage (Equestrian)
- '72 Sandy Pflueger — 1984
[edit] Field Hockey
- '36 James Jongeneel — 1956
[edit] Kayaking
- '92 Kathy Colin (UH) — 2000, 2004
- '97 Andrew Bussey (Irvine) — 2004
[edit] Sailing
- '66 David Rockwell McFaull (Cornell) — 1976 silver medalist
- '72* Michael John Rothwell — 1976 silver medalist
[edit] Swimming
- '25 Warren Paoa Kealoha — 1920 gold medalist, 1924 gold medalist
- '24* Mariechen Wehselau Jackson — 1924 gold and silver medalist
- '27 Buster Crabbe (USC) — 1928 bronze medalist, 1932 gold medalist
- Lillian "Pokey" Watson Richardson 1964 gold medalist, 1968 gold medalist,trustee's wife
- '67 Brent Thales Berk (Stanford) — 1968
- '76 Chris Woo (Indiana) — 1976 gold medalist
[edit] Volleyball
- coach Sharon Peterson — 1964, 1968
- '66 Miki Briggs McFadden (USC) — 1968
- '69 Dodge Parker (Long Beach) — 1968
- teacher Barbara Perry — 1968
- '92 Mike Lambert (Stanford) — 1996, 2000
- '98 Lindsay Berg (Minnesota) 2004
[edit] Water polo
- '84 Christopher Duplanty (Irvine) — silver medalist 1988, silver medalist 1992, 1996, 2000
- '97 Sean Kern (UCLA) — 2000
- '98 Brandon Brooks (UCLA) — 2004
[edit] Other World Champion Athletes
- '47 Richard Fitch Cleveland (Ohio State) — four-time world record holder, International Swimming Hall of Fame
- '65 Fred Hemmings, Jr. — 1968 world surfing champion, Hawaii state senator, Republican minority leader
- '99 Elisa Au (UH) — 3-time World Karate Federation World Champion, Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, 2005 best amateur athlete Sullivan Award finalist
[edit] Professional Athletes and Coaches
[edit] Football
- '27 Henry Thomas "Hank" Hughes (Oregon State) — original Washington Redskins (Boston Braves) football player 1931-32 (10 games)
- '48 Herman Clark (Oregon State) — Chicago Bears offensive lineman 1952-57 (52 games), twice All-Pro
- '48 Jim Clark (American football player) (Oregon State) — Washington Redskins offensive lineman 1952-53 (20 games) and Hawaii state senator
- '49 Charley Ane, Jr. (USC) — Detroit Lions offensive lineman 1953-59 (83 games), team captain for two NFL championships and two-time Pro Bowl selection
- '59* Ray Schoenke (Southern Methodist) — Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins offensive lineman 1963-75 (145 games), unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor, 1998, founding president of American Hunters and Shooters Association
- '64 Norm Chow (Utah) — Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator
- '71 Arnold Morgado, Jr. (UH) — Kansas City Chiefs running back 1977-80 (52 games), city councilman
- '71 Charles "Kale" Ane III (Michigan State) — offensive lineman for Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers, 1975-1981 (105 games)
- '74 Mosi Tatupu (USC) — New England Patriots running back 1978-91 (199 games), one Super Bowl, one Pro Bowl, college football Mosi Tatupu Award, father of Lofa Tatupu
- '78 Mark Tuinei (UH) — Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman 1983-97 (195 games), two Pro Bowls and three Super Bowls
[edit] Baseball
- '81 Joey Meyer (baseball player), Jr. (UH) — Milwaukee Brewers first baseman 1988-89 (156 games)
- '97 Justin Wayne (Stanford) — Florida Marlins pitcher 2002-04 (26 games)
[edit] Volleyball
- '69 Linda Fernandez (UH) — All-Pro 1976-79 for LA Stars, SB Spikers, and Seattle Smashers of International Volleyball Association; Superstars winner 1979 and 1980
- '98 Lindsay Berg (Minnesota) — Minnesota Chill
[edit] Golf
- '67 Penelope Gebauer (Boise State) — 9-time LPGA top-10 finisher, founder of Women's Golf School
- '97 Parker McLachlin (UCLA) — #156 on 2007 PGA tour (as rookie)
- '98 Bridget Dwyer (UCLA) — #9 on LPGA Futures Tour, #2 on The Big Break VI
- '07 Michelle Wie (Stanford) — #254 on 2007 PGA tour; 4-time LPGA majors top-3 finisher
[edit] Leading Medical Doctors
[edit] Professional Society and Government Leaders
- '27 Rodney T. West (Northwestern) — Naval Reserve MD at Attack on Pearl Harbor and founding president of American College of Physician Executives
- '29* Edwin D. Kilbourne, Jr. (UH) — founding chair of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, influenza pandemic expert at New York Medical College, Washington Post's "We don't have enough if a pandemic happened tomorrow."
- '32 Colin McCorriston (Stanford) — one of the founders of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- '32 John Iorwerth Reppun (Harvard) — one of the organizers of Physicians for Social Responsibility
- '45* William L. Morgan (Yale) — Master of the American College of Physicians, Clinical Approach to the Patient, William L. Morgan Professorship in Medicine (University of Rochester)
- '50 Richard Ikeda (Harvard) — Chief Medical Consultant to Medical Board of California
- '53 Carol Kasper (Chicago) — Emerita Professor of Medicine at USC; VP of World Federation of Hemophilia
- '56 Anne Angen Gershon (Smith) — Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia U, President of Infectious Diseases Society of America
- '65 Darwin R. Labarthe (Princeton) — Professor of Epidemiology at U Texas, Director of Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, CDC
[edit] Other Prominently Published Medical Researchers
- '36* Harrison Latta (UCLA) — Emeritus Professor of Pathology at UCLA
- '54* Cordelia Hartwell Puttkammer (Tufts) — Professor at Howard University, Working with Substance-exposed Children and My Motor Baby
- '65 W. Jonathan Lederer (Harvard) — Professor of Physiology at Maryland
- '66 Earl R. Shelton (Stanford) — Researcher at Syntex
- '73 James D. Oliver III (Naval Academy) — Major and Fellow of Nephrology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- '75 Nelson L. Michael (UCLA) — Colonel and Director of Retrovirology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
- '78 Raymond T. Chung (Harvard) — Professor of Medicine at Harvard
- '78 Martha Stricklin Heppard (Harvard) — martha.md, Acute Obstetrics
- '79 Ted R. Cummins (Swarthmore) — Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Indiana
- '79 Mahesh Mankani (Stanford) — Professor of Surgery at UCSF
- '79 Arno J. Mundt (Stanford) — Chair of Radiation Oncology at UCSD
- '79 Annabelle A. Okada (Harvard) — Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Medicine at Kyorin U (Tokyo), Practical Manual of Ocular Inflammation
- '79 Karen K. Takane (Michigan) — Research Professor of Medicine at U Pittsburgh
- '80 Daniel C. Chung (Harvard) — Professor of Medicine at Harvard
- '84 Jason T. Kimata (Carleton) — Professor of Microbiology at Baylor
[edit] Other Clinical Faculty at Top Medical Schools
- '37* M. Neil MacIntyre (Michigan) — Professor of Anatomy and Human Genetics at Case Western
- '50 Ray Maesaka (Harvard) — Director of Dentistry at Indiana, Maesaka Award (Indiana University School of Dentistry)
- '52 Wilfred Morioka (Princeton) — Professor of Surgery at UCSD
- '53 John Maesaka (Harvard) — Emeritus Director of Nephrology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Winthrop University
- '63 William R. Sexson (Air Force Academy) — Clinical Dean and Professor of Pediatrics at Emory
- '69 Clifford W. Lo (UCLA) — Fulbright Scholar, Director of Human Nutrition and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard
- '72 Nancy Morioka-Douglas (Stanford) — Chief of Family Medicine at Stanford
- '75 Michelle Minetta Braunfeld (Michigan) — Professor of Anesthesiology at UCLA
- '77 Sidney Ontai (Harvard) — Professor of Family Medicine at USC
- '79 Scott Oishi (Washington STL) — Professor of Surgery at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
- '80 Elizabeth Blair (Creighton) — Professor of Surgery at U Chicago
[edit] Other Leading Educators and Researchers
[edit] Administrators
- '28* Arthur P. Richardson (Stanford) — Provost and Dean of Medical School at Emory
- '74 Christine Hughes (Dartmouth) — VP and General Counsel of Emerson College; counsel for Harvard and U Washington
- '74 Marie Mookini (Stanford) — Director of Undergraduate admissions at Stanford and MBA Admissions at Stanford GSB
- '85 Arnold L. Longboy (Hamilton) — Director of Corporate Relations at U Chicago School of Business
[edit] Law and Business
- '31 Ronald Jamieson (Harvard) — Emeritus Lecturer of Law at U Washington
- '54 Robert M. Seto (Saint Louis U) — Emeritus Professor of Law at Regent University, federal patent and contracts judge
- '60 Evan L. Porteus (Claremont) — Endowed Professor of Business at Stanford, Foundations of stochastic inventory theory
- '61 William Ouchi (Williams) — Endowed Professor of Business at UCLA, U Chicago, and Stanford, Theory Z and Making Schools Work, Chief of Staff of LA Mayor Richard Riordan
- '70 Taimie L. Bryant (Bryn Mawr) — Professor of Law at UCLA, animal rights leader with Bob Barker funding, involved in foie gras controversy
- '70 Andrea L. Peterson (Stanford) — Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
- '72 Linda Hamilton Krieger (Stanford) — Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, Reinterpeting Disability Rights
- '74 Warren R. Loui (MIT) — Professor of Law at USC
- '82 Ian Haney-Lopez (Washington STL) — Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, The Chicano Fight for Justice and The Legal Construction of Race
[edit] Science
- *33* Daniel F. Rex (MIT) — Lieutenant Commander at ONR and NCAR, Mount Rex (Antarctica), Troposphere and Stratosphere
- '42* John Killeen (Berkeley) — Emeritus Professor of Physics at UC Davis, founding director of National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Computational Methods for Kinetic Models of Magnetically Confined Plasmas
- '42* Lawrence P. Richards (Berkeley) — Emeritus Professor of Biology at Eastern Michigan University, also Idaho State and U Arizona
- '54* Michael J. Holdaway (Yale) — Emeritus Professor of Geology at Southern Methodist University; holdawayite in List of minerals F-J (complete)
- '61 Herbert M. Austin (Grove City) — Professor of Marine Biology at William & Mary
- '64 Henry W. Lawrence, Jr. (Yale) — Professor of Geosciences at Edinboro University, City Trees
- '64 Lynn A. Sherretz (St. Olaf) — Chief Meteorologist at NOAA, Preliminary Study of Ocean Waves
- '66 J. Vann Bennett (Stanford) — Endowed Professor of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neuroscience at Duke University
- '69 John W. Newport (Reed) — Professor of Cell Biology at UCSD
- '74 Shannon Crowell Atkinson (UH) — Professor of Marine Biology at U Alaska, Director of Alaska SeaLife Center
- '74 William D. Thacker (MIT) — Professor of Physics at Saint Louis University
- '79 Laura S. L. Kong (Brown) — Director of International Tsunami Information Center
- '79 Jonathan V. Selinger (Harvard) — Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Chemical Physics at Kent State University
[edit] Logic, Philosophy, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering
- '59* Robert M. Harnish (Berkeley) — Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Arizona, twenty books, including Linguistics and Minds, Brains, Computers
- '63 Stephen R. Olson (Annapolis) — Director at Raytheon, Modeling and Simulation in Systems Engineering (see Systems Engineering references)
- '65 Lynn Sumida Joy (Harvard/Radcliffe) — Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame, book on Pierre Gassendi
- '69 John P. Richardson, Jr. (Harvard) — Professor of Philosophy at NYU, four books including Nietzsche
- '72 Bruce M. Ikenaga (MIT) — Professor of Mathematics at Case Western and Millersville University
- '72 Patricia Sullivan Kale (Berkeley) — Lawrence Livermore computer scientist, one of the many co-authors of "Finished Sequence of the Human Genome," Nature (journal)
- '72 Michael C. Loui (Yale) — IEEE Fellow, Professor of Computer Engineering at U Illinois
- '72 Phillip M. Smith (Cornell) — IEEE Fellow
- '74 John Bear (New Mexico) — SRI International computational linguist
- '82 Chau Wen Tseng (Harvard) — Professor of Computer Science at U Maryland
- '89 Herbie K. H. Lee III (Yale) — Professor of Statistics at UC Santa Cruz, Multiscale Modeling and Bayesian Nonparametrics
[edit] Social Science
- '21*(?) Paul Linebarger, a.k.a. Cordwainer Smith — Instructor in Government at Harvard, Professor of Political Science at Duke and Johns Hopkins, fifteen books of science fiction, five nonfiction works including Psychological Warfare, Bronze Star, Army Major, helped form Office of War Information, advisor to CIA and John Kennedy, buried at Arlington National Cemetery
- '23 Laura M. Thompson (Mills) — Anthropologist who taught at UNC, NC State, CCNY, CUNY, SIU, SFU, and UH; Malinowski Award and honorary LLD from Mills College, Toward a Science of Mankind and Secret of Culture, spouse of Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier (reformer)
- '43 Joyce Lebra Chapman (Minnesota) — Fulbright Scholar, Emerita Professor of History at Colorado, nine books on women and Asia
- '63 Jonathan M. Chu (Penn) — Fulbright Scholar, Professor of History at U Massachusetts Boston, Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen
- '63 Chalsa M. Loo (Berkeley) — Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz, Chinatown
- '63 Christine Hamilton Rossell (UCLA) — Endowed Professor of Political Science, Boston University, five books including School Desegregation in the 21st Century
- '65 Frederick E. Hoxie (Amherst) — Endowed Professor of History at U Illinois, twenty books on Native American peoples
- '66 Ellen Lenney (UH) — Professor of Psychology at U Maine Orono, early researcher on gender roles, oft cited, e.g., Women Don't Ask
- '68 E. Mark Cummings III (Johns Hopkins) — Endowed Chair in Psychology at Notre Dame U, five books on child development
- '68 Patrick Vinton Kirch (Penn) — Endowed Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, elected to American Philosophical Society, nine books on oceanic and polynesian prehistory
- '68 Patricia A. Roos (UC Davis) — Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations, and Gender and Work, VP of American Sociological Association
- '70 James J. Moore (Stanford) — Professor of Anthropology at UCSD
- '78 John (Jae Hoon) Lie (Harvard) — Endowed Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and U Illinois, Dean of International Studies, six books on Korea, Japan, and two textbooks on sociology
- '83 Jennifer Hickson Frankl (Princeton) — Professor of Economics at Williams College
- '89 Adria L. Imada (Yale) — Professor of Ethnic Studies at UCSD
[edit] Arts and Humanities
- '55 Elizabeth Bennett Johns (Birmingham-Southern) — Emerita Professor of Art History at Penn, Pitt, Maryland, and Holy Cross; Guggenheim Fellow; books on Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer
- '57 Arthur H. Okazaki (Swarthmore) — Endowed Professor of Fine Art Photography at Tulane
- '68 Leslie K. Hankins (Duke) — Professor of English at Cornell, Virginia Woolf and the Arts
- '70 Robert J. Spitzer (Gonzaga) — President of Gonzaga College, books on ethics, leadership, and religion
- '73 Christin J. Mamiya (Yale) — Endowed Professor of Art History at U Nebraska, current edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages
- '73 John B. Roeder (Harvard) — Professor of Music at U British Columbia (Canada)
- '76 Claire C. Sanford (California Arts) — Metals Faculty at Massachusetts College of Art
- '78 Gwen Griffith-Dickson (London) — Chair in Divinity at Gresham College (UK), The Philosophy of Religion
- '82 Eric Selinger (Harvard) — Professor of English at DePaul University
[edit] Civil Rights Leaders
- 1859 Samuel C. Armstrong (Williams) — defeated Pickett's Charge at Battle of Gettysburg and commanded 8th U.S. Colored Troops, founding president of Hampton University and mentor of Booker T. Washington, honorary LLD from Harvard; subject of Educating the Disenfranchised and Armstrong: A Biographical Study; Armstrong High School (Richmond, VA)
- '14 Elbert Tuttle (Cornell) — Chief Judge of US Court of Appeals 1954-68 appointed by Dwight Eisenhower, leader of the Fifth Circuit Four ruling on Southern desegregation cases, Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary LLD from Harvard, subject of book Unlikely Heroes, inductee of Civil Rights Walk of Fame (Atlanta), oldest serving federal judge at 98, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Legion of Merit, Elbert Parr Tuttle US Court of Appeals and Anti Defamation League's Elbert P. Tuttle Jurisprudence Award
- '29* John W. Gardner (Stanford) — subject of PBS documentary Uncommon American, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Secretary of HEW 1965-68 under Lyndon Johnson, launched Medicare, Common Cause, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and White House Fellows Program, Marine Corps Captain at Office of Strategic Services, head of Carnegie Foundation, Professor at Mount Holyoke College and Stanford, author of seven books, John W. Gardner Center (Stanford University) and John W. Gardner Leadership Award
[edit] Other Elected Representatives, Government Appointees, Judges
[edit] US Congressional Representatives
- 1889 Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (St. Matthews) — Hawaiian prince, Delegate to the US House of Representatives from Hawaii 1903–22
- 1891* Henry Alexander Baldwin (MIT) — Republican Delegate to US Congress from Hawaii 1921–23
- 1892 Hiram Bingham (Yale) — Republican US Senator from Connecticut 1924-33, discoverer of Machu Picchu, lecturer at Harvard and Princeton, Professor of History at Yale, buried at Arlington National Cemetery, possible inspiration for Indiana Jones
- '15 Joseph Farrington (Wisconsin) — Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 1943-54
- '39* Otis Pike (Princeton) — Democratic US Congressman from New York 1961-79, decorated USMC WWII pilot, known for work on environment, Pike Committee investigations of Richard Nixon's intelligence abuses, Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area (Long Island, NY)
- '79 Barack Obama, Jr. (Columbia) — Democratic US Senator from Illinois 2004-present, 2008 Presidential candidate, lecturer at U Chicago Law School, two bestselling books, Grammy Award winner
[edit] Presidential Appointees
- 1864 Sanford Dole (Williams) — appointed first Territorial Governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by William McKinley
- '33 Samuel P. King (Yale) — appointed Federal Judge by Richard Nixon
- '50 Alan C. Kay (Princeton) — appointed Federal Judge by Ronald Reagan, ruled on Hawaiian schools admission policies
- '62 Wendy Lee Gramm (Wellesley) — Head of Commodity Futures Trading Commission for Ronald Reagan, his "favorite economist," disgraced Enron board member, spouse of Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm
- '62 Terrence O'Donnell (Air Force Academy) — Deputy Special Assistant to Richard Nixon and Special Assistant to Gerald Ford, General Counsel, Department of Defense, Executive VP of Textron
- '65 Robert G. Klein (Stanford) — Hawaii Supreme Court Judge appointed Federal Judge by William Clinton (withdrawn)
- '68 Christopher Ryan Henry (Annapolis) — VP of Science Applications International Corporation and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for George W. Bush
- '75 Robert Stephen Silberman (Dartmouth) — Assistant Secretary of the Army for George W. Bush, President of CalEnergy and Strayer Education
[edit] Other Representatives and Appointees
- '23 Rhoda V. Lewis (Stanford) — early woman state Supreme Court Judge considered for federal bench according to Time Magazine, "Her honor takes the bench"
- '54 Patricia Hudson Birdsall — Councilwoman, served as Mayor of Temecula 1992 and 1997, Patricia H. Birdsall Sports Park (Temecula, CA) named for her
- '56* Jana Gilpin Haehl (San Francisco) — Mayor of Corte Madera 1975-1979, environmental activist, member of Barbara Boxer's staff
- '57 Henry S. Richmond (Williams) — US Consul General for Durban (Saudi Arabia) and Nagoya (Japan)
- '59* David A. Pabst (Dartmouth) — US Consul General for Osaka-Kobe (Japan)
- '61 Peter J. Levinson (Brandeis) — US House of Representatives Legal Counsel, majority counsel during impeachment of Bill Clinton
- '62 Ronald E. Cox (West Point) — Presiding Chief Judge, Washington State Court of Appeals
- '64 Jonathan Jay Healy (Williams) — Massachusetts state legislator and State Commissioner of Food and Agriculture
- '64* James F. Lawrence (North Carolina) — Department of State Director of Weapons Removal and Abatement
- '75 Mary Fairhurst (Gonzaga) — Justice of Washington State Supreme Court
- '76 David Jesmer (West Point) — US Embassy Military Attache to Syria
- '9? E. Peter Giambastiani III (Annapolis) — chief policy advisor to Republican US Congressman Jeff Miller from Florida (son of Edmund Giambastiani II, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff)
[edit] Military Leaders and Heroes
[edit] Army
- '05 Paul Withington (Harvard) — MD in WWI, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and French Croix de Guerre, U Wisconsin football coach and college quarterback
- '20* Russell "Red" Reeder, Jr. (West Point) — Colonel and Regiment leader at Utah Beach on D-Day, Distinguished Service Cross, West Point Distinguished Graduate, thirty-five books including The Long Gray Line (ghost writer) and Born at Reveille (autobiography)
- '22* Donald Prentice Booth (West Point) — High Commissioner of Okinawa 1958-61, Lieutenant General, Commander of Fourth United States Army, buried at Arlington National Cemetery
- '22* Walter M. Johnson (West Point) — Brigadier General, commanded 117th infantry in Battle of Normandy, a unit known as "The Workhorse of the Western Front" and "Roosevelt's SS Troops" (reorganized as 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment)
- '23 Archie Chun-Ming (Columbia) — WWII Lieutenant Colonel in Army Medical Corps, Bronze Star
- '28* Stephen O. Fuqua, Jr. (West Point) — Brigadier General, Director at Bureau of International Security Affairs, son of Stephen O. Fuqua, Chief of Infantry
- '29 Alex Earl McKenzie (USC) — Lieutenant Colonel, commanded company of U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion Nisei, the Purple Heart Battalion
- '31 John Alexander Johnson (UH) — Major, commanded company of U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion Nisei, Killed in Action at Cassino, Johnson Hall (University of Hawaii)
- '33 Stanley R. Larsen (West Point) — Major General, commanded 8th Infantry Division 1962-64, commanded I Field Force, Vietnam 1966-67, featured in book Touched with Fire: the Land War and author of US Army text, Allied Participation in Vietnam
- '34 Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II (Harvard) — Lieutenant Colonel, Bronze Star in WWII, unsuccessful Republican candidate for US Senator from Hawaii
- '35 Richard P. Scott (West Point) — Brigadier General and Commandant of Cadets, West Point US Military Academy
- '35 Francis B. Wai (UCLA) — Captain in WWII, Medal of Honor for actions in Battle of Leyte Gulf, Killed in Action
- '38 George Cantlay (West Point) — Deputy Chairman of NATO Military Committee, Lieutenant General, commanded 2nd Armored Division, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, four Legion of Merit, Distinguished Service Medal, and Defense Distinguished Service Medal
- '38 Frederick A. Schaefer, III (Cornell) — Brigadier General, Distinguished Service Cross with 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning) at Battle of Guadalcanal
- '38 Thurston Twigg-Smith (Yale) — Lieutenant Colonel in National Guard Artillery, Bronze Star, leading critic of Hawaiian sovereignty movement
- '60 Peter E. Gleszer (West Point) — Captain in Vietnam War Bronze Star (heroism), 25th Infantry Division
- '64 Michael G. MacLaren (West Point) — Colonel in Gulf War, New Yorker's testifier of "turkey shoot"
- '66* George Barnett Forsythe (West Point) — Colonel, Current Academic Dean of West Point US Military Academy
- '74 Thomas D. Farrell (UH) — Colonel in Army Intelligence, Bronze Star and Legion of Merit during Operation Iraqi Freedom
[edit] Navy
- '29* Gordon Chung-Hoon (Annapolis) — Rear Admiral, USS Arizona (BB-39) survivor, Commanded WWII destroyer USS Sigsbee (DD-502), Silver Star and Navy Cross, destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93), Sports Illustrated featured football star
- '58 Robert T. Guard (USC) — Bronze Star, commanded swiftboat and USS Esteem (AM-438) aggressive minesweeper
- '65 Christopher H. Johnson (Stanford) — commanded USS Vandegrift (FFG-48) escort frigate
- '69 Thomas G. Kyle (Stanford) — commanded USS Puffer (SSN-652) attack submarine, investigated Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision
- '76 Dennis A. Schulz (Marquette) — Commodore (USN) commanded Tactical Air Group One
[edit] Marines
- '37 Ross T. Dwyer (Stanford) — Major General, Commanded 1st Marine Division and I Marine Amphibious Force, USMC Aide to Secretary of the Navy, Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star
- '50 Wallace M. Greene III (Annapolis) — Lieutenant Colonel and author, son of Commandant of the Marine Corps Wallace M. Greene, Jr.
- '61 Gene Smedley McMullen (Penn State) — Lieutenant Killed in Action in Vietnam
[edit] Air Force
- '28 Benjamin Jepson Webster (West Point) — Lieutenant General, Commander of Allied Airforces, Southern Europe (AIRSOUTH)
- '30 Charles Barnard Stewart (West Point) — Brigadier General, director of aerospace safety, Norton Air Force Base
- '35* William Brewster Morgan (Columbia) — Eagle Squadron pilot, subject of movie, The Great Escape, Commander of Hawaii National Guard
- '40* Ben Cassiday (West Point) — Brigadier General and Commandant of AFROTC, Silver Star
- '59* Karl Polifka, Jr. — Colonel in Central Command Intelligence, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, son of Karl "Pop" Polifka, pioneer in air reconaissance
- '66* Gregory S. Martin (Air Force Academy) — General and Commander at Wright-Patterson AFB, Commander of Allied Airforces, Northern Europe (AIRNORTH); Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross
- '72 Gregory B. Gardner (UH) — Air National Guard Major General, Kansas National Guard Adjutant General and Director of Homeland Security for Kansas, commanded B1 bomber 184th Wing
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Musicians and Composers
- '12 Robert Alexander Anderson (Cornell) — WWI downed pilot, subject of film The Dawn Patrol, composer of Hawaiian standards Mele Kalikimaka, Lovely Hula Hands
- '52* Dave Guard (Stanford) — Kingston Trio founder
- '52 Bob Shane (Menlo) — Kingston Trio founding guitarist
- '55 Joy Davidson (Occidental) — mezzo-soprano, Carmen in Miami, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and NYC
- '59 Robin Luke (Pepperdine) — early rockabilly singer, Rockabilly Hall of Fame, Susie Darlin #5 hit, then Professor and Head of Marketing, Southwest Missouri State University
- '73 Henry Akina (Tufts) — co-founder, Berliner Kammeroper (Berlin Chamber Opera)
- '77 Conrad Herwig (N Texas State) — Grammy Award-nominated jazz trombonist, recorded 17 albums as leader, Professor of Jazz at Rutgers
- '78 Bruce Uchimura (Juilliard) — Professor of Music, Western Michigan University, cello
- '00 Melody Ishikawa "melody." — J-pop artist, albums hit #3, #5, and #6 in Japan
[edit] Broadway Stage and Dance Performers
- '33* Jean Erdman (Sarah Lawrence) — one of Martha Graham's first dancers, founded her own NYC dance company; spouse of religion and mythology author Joseph Campbell
- '39 Helen Duryea Dietz (Dominican Convent) — Martha Graham dancer, surfing champion, reporter for New York Times
- '69 Bonnie Oda Homsey (Juilliard) — principal dancer for Martha Graham, co-founder of LA-based American Repertory Dance Company
- '75 Angela Leilani Jones (actress) (UH) — actress in Little Shop of Horrors, Tony Award for Grind
- '76 Willy Falk (Harvard) — Tony Award winner for Miss Saigon; Marius in Les Miserables on Broadway
- '81 Ann Harada (Brown) — original cast main actress, Tony Award-winning Avenue Q
- '86 Carrie Ann Inaba (Irvine) — choreographer and judge, Dancing with the Stars, actress, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Flygirl dancer on In Living Color
- '87 Rachel Factor, nee Christine Horii (Colorado) — Broadway actress, Rockettes dancer, one person show JAP
- '96 Amanda Schull (Indiana) — lead actress in Center Stage, dancer for San Francisco Ballet
- '98 Jacqueline Dowsett (Southern Methodist) — dancer, Radio City Music Hall Rockettes
[edit] TV and Film Performers
- '27 Buster Crabbe (USC) — athlete and leading actor, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers 1933-50
- '27 Leslie Vincent, nee Leslie Fullard-Leo, Jr. — actor, Pursuit to Algiers, Paris Underground, Deadline for Murder
- '54 Al Harrington (actor) (Stanford) — athlete and actor, Hawaii Five-O
- '66 Gerry Lopez (UH) — surfer and main actor, Subotai in Conan the Barbarian
- '79 Teri Ann Linn (Pepperdine) — Miss Hawaii 1981, singer and main actress, Kristen Forrester Dominguez in The Bold and the Beautiful, Teri Linn Drive (Killeen, TX)
- '80 Kelly Preston, nee Kelly Palzis — leading actress, For Love of the Game (film), Jerry Maguire; spouse of actor John Travolta
- '81 Jennifer Nicholson (USC) — actress; daughter of Jack Nicholson
- '82(?) Scott Coffey — actor, male lead in Shag (film) and director of films starring Naomi Watts and Julia Roberts
- '91 Matt Corboy (Colorado State) — actor, The Shield
- '95 Sarah Wayne Callies (Dartmouth) — actress, female lead in Prison Break
- '00 Jason Tam — actor, Markko Rivera on One Life to Live and Beyond the Break (TV series)
[edit] Other Entertainment Industry Producers
- '24 Mary Louise Love Schneeberger (Sorbonne) — Cine Golden Eagle Award winner for A Child's Garden of Verses 1975
- '26 J. Ken Peterson (Washington) — Disney animator and supervisor 1936-83, Snow White, 101 Dalmations, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone (film)
- '35* George "Buck" Henshaw (Stanford) — set decorator 1950-1987, Burns and Allen, Twilight Zone, Black Widow (1987 film)
- '53 Allan Burns (Oregon) — 6-time Emmy Award-winning writer and creator 1961-96, The Munsters, Get Smart, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and the Cap'n Crunch cereal character, animator of George of the Jungle
- '61 Bruce Bryant (Irvine) — 3-time Emmy Award-winning title designer for X-Files, Cheers, Caroline in the City
- '65 John I. Kjargaard II (UH) — volcano photographer and filmmaker, son of artist John Ingvard Kjargaard
- '69 Edgy Lee (SF Art) — independent filmmaker
- '72 Phyllis S. K. Look (UH) — Berkeley Repertory Theatre producer and director
- '74 Deborah Susan Rosen (USC) — Senior VP at Universal Studios, Executive VP at Paramount Pictures, casting director Hill Street Blues, second unit director Weird Science
- '74 Jim Simpson (Boston) — Professor of Theater at Yale, Obie Award-winning director; spouse of actress Sigourney Weaver
- '75 Sarah Robinson (California College of Arts) — Art Department for ten films including Casino Royale (2006 film), Die Another Day, The World is not Enough
- '80* Kevin McCollum (Cincinnati) — Broadway producer of Tony Award-winning Rent (musical) and Avenue Q, owner of production company claiming ten Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prize for Drama
[edit] Business Leaders and Philanthropists
[edit] Major Philanthropists
- '33 Maude (Ackerman) Woods Wodehouse (UCLA) — philanthropist, America's #14 most-generous donor in 2003 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($80M in 2003)
- '39 Charles Gates, Jr. (MIT) — owner of Gates Rubber Company and Gates Corporation (owner of Learjet), often listed on Forbes 400, e.g., #186 in 1999, #209 in 2002, #222 in 2003, philanthropist through Gates Family Foundation ($147M over 60 years)
- '76 Steve Case (Williams) — founder of America Online and philanthropist, America's #19 most generous donor in 1999 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($40M in 1999)
- '84* Pierre Omidyar (Tufts) — founder of eBay and philanthropist, America's #20 in 2002, #13 in 2003, #7 in 2004, #9 in 2005, and #29 most-generous donor in 2006 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy ($403M, 2002-06)
[edit] Other Charitable Business Leaders
- '34 Richard Tam (Stanford) — Las Vegas developer, honorary LLD from UNLV, Richard Tam Alumni Center (UNLV) named for him
- '52 Hugh T. Murphy (Berkeley) — Director at IRRI, Trustee of AsiaRice USA, development banker at World Bank
- '52 John Bowman O'Donnell (Stanford) — decorated USAID official, nonprofit fundraising
- '63 Christopher T. Prukop (Middelbury) — Leadership Gifts Officer, World Society for the Protection of Animals
- '65 Erik Holtedahl (Oslo) — Chairman of Scanteam, Norwegian NGO international development consultants
- '67 Suzanne M. Sato (Harvard/Radcliffe) — VP of AT&T Foundation and VP for Arts and Culutre at Rockefeller Foundation
[edit] Other Founders and CEOs
- '08 Stanley C. Kennedy, Sr. (Stanford) — founder of Hawaiian Airlines and chairman, 1929-63, Silver Star as WWI pilot
- '33 John Magoon, Jr. (Berkeley) — majority owner and chairman of Hawaiian Airlines, 1964-89
- '48 D. Kenneth Richardson (Tufts) — President and COO of Hughes Aircraft Company
- '70 Constance Lau (Yale) — President and CEO of Hawaiian Electric Company
- '71 Lloyd Kunimoto (Stanford) — CEO at CalGen, Epicyte (now Biolex), and Galileo Pharmaceuticals, VP of Monsanto and Exelixis
- '73 Derek T. Morikawa (MIT) — CEO at Vision Robotics, CEO at Wavetek, President of RD Instruments
- '74 David D. Parker (Stanford) — CEO of SeeRun and Enlighten Software, founder of Quintus, President of WebLogic
- '74 William S. Price III (Stanford) — Founding partner of Texas Pacific Group (e.g.,, Seagate Technology, Petco, MGM, Neiman Marcus), VP of GE Capital
- '74 Carla Rayacich (Mills) — Founding President of Stanford Mortgage
- '75 Dan H. Case III (Princeton) — CEO of Hambrecht & Quist Capital, Rhodes Scholar, San Francisco Chronicle's "Scholar of Venture Capitalism"
- '75 Ron Higgins II — founder of Digital Island
- '77 David T. Hamamoto (Stanford) — partner of Goldman Sachs and CEO of Northstar Capital, e.g., Morgans Hotel Group
- '77 Michael W. Rogers (Berkeley) — CEO of Indevus, e.g. Histrelin, NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, Director of pSividia Limited
- '78 C. Malcolm Holland (Southern Methodist) — CEO of Colonial Bank
- '79 J'amy Owens (UC?) — Inc. (magazine)'s "Diva of Retail", co-founder of Laptop Lane
[edit] Other Business Leaders
- '30 David L. Livingston (Yale) — VP of City Bank and Trust (now Citibank)
- '43* Thomas R. Hodge (Yale) — division manager for AT&T, subject of New York Times "Retired Executives Return as Volunteers"
- '43* Henry M. Morgan (MIT) — Partner of Innovative Capital
- '59* E. Alan Holroyde (Stanford) — executive VP of Wells Fargo Bank
- '66 Carter Pruyn Reynolds (Endicott) — Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Senior VP at Bankers Trust
- '67 Lloyd M. Oki (Northwestern) — VP at Pixsense, Senior VP at Clickmarks, Director of Sales at Compaq
- '68 J. Eric Greenwood (Rutgers) — VP of Goldman Sachs and trustee of Foreign Policy Research Institute
- '70 Toni Shimura (Wellesley) — VP of Eaton Vance
- '71 John G. Ripperton (U Redlands) — Senior VP of Radio Shack, Navy Commander
- '72 John Landers (Harvard) — VP and Managing Director of Paine Webber
- '74 Penelope Van Niel Engle (Princeton) — VP of JPMorgan Chase
- '74 Tedmund W. Pryor (UC Santa Cruz) — Senior VP of Captial Funding at GE Capital
- '76 Mary Machado-Schammel (Georgetown) — Senior VP of Standard Chartered Bank
- '77 Jeff Lum (Santa Clara) — Early VP and Director of Sales of Microsoft
- '77 Duncan MacNichol (Princeton) — VP of JP Morgan, Senior VP of NationsBank
- '78 Jordan Graham (USC) — VP of Cisco Systems
- '78 Pamela Hamamoto (Stanford) — VP of Goldman Sachs
- '78 Paul David Rezents (U Washington) — Senior VP of Heitman Capital/Real Estate
- '79 Robert W. Hong (Williams) — Managing Director, Salomon Smith Barney
- '83 Rainer Michael Blair (Massachusetts) — Group VP (North America) of BASF
- '84 Nina Ebert Labatt (Stanford) — CFO of Labrador Ventures (see List of venture capital firms)
[edit] Cultural Notables
[edit] Authors and Editors
- '39 Nancy Hartung Holmes — editor of Worth (magazine), Town & Country (magazine), photographer for Daily Mail, model, and New York socialite, author of best-seller Nobody's Fault
- '60* Christina Goodale Grof (Sarah Lawrence) — Psychedelic literature author, spouse and co-author of Stanislav Grof
- '64 Perrin Ireland (Randolph-Macon) — author of Ana Imagined and Chatter, arts leader with CPB and NEA
- '65* Stephen Eaton Hume (Trinity) — author of award-winning children's books, A Miracle for Maggie
- '67 Gerald W. Sams (Georgia Tech) — AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta
- '69* WIlliam J. Lambert III (Hillsdale) — author of at least twelve science fiction books under pseudonyms
- '71 Richard Sia (Harvard) — Senior Editor of Congress Daily
- '72 David Ranada (Harvard) — editor of Stereo Review and High Fidelity
- '73 Kirby Wright (UH) — writer, honored for poetry
- '74 Shannon Brownlee (Santa Cruz) — journalist, Associate Editor of US News & World Report, Science writing award
- '74 Robert S. Sandla (UH) — Editor in Chief, Symphony (magazine) and Stagebill, (seePlaybill)
- '76 Kathleen Norris (poet) (Bennington) — best-selling Christian spiritual poet and essayist, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
- '78* Gale Pryor (Cornell) — author of Nursing Mother, Working Mother and current edition coauthor of Nursing your Baby with mother Karen Pryor
- '85 Allegra Goodman (Harvard) — author of award-winning The Family Markowitz
[edit] Other Cultural Notables
- 1869 Alexander Cartwright III — early player of baseball with Punahou classmates; son of baseball's inventor, Alexander Cartwright, Jr.
- 1875 Lorrin A. Thurston — leader in overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, owner of Honolulu Advertiser, early player of baseball with Cartwrights
- 1883* Sun Yat-Sen — founding president of the Republic of China, founder of the Kuomintang [1]
- '27 Ellery Chun (Yale) — creator of the Aloha Shirt
- '31 Barbara Pine Ramage (American U) — christener of destroyer USS Ramage (DDG-61), wife of Medal of Honor recipient Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage
- '34 Stanley Livingston, Jr. (Yale) — America's Cup Hall of Fame inductor
- '41 Wiliam M. C. Lam (MIT) — Lam Partners architectural lighting, e.g., Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- '58 Jerry Berman (Berkeley) — Chief Legislative Counsel of ACLU, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of Center for Democracy and Technology
- '61 Henry Y. H. Kim (Annapolis) — US Forest Service pilot Killed in Action; Henry Y. H. Kim Aviation Facility (Prescott National Forest)
- '62 Charles L. Veach (Air Force Academy) — astronaut, two shuttle missions; Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Force Commendation Medal
- '65 Charlie Wedemeyer (Michigan State) — medical survivor celebrated in Emmy Award-winning film, Quiet Victory
- '67 Susan M. Sandlin (American U) — American Kennel Club judge of Maltese, Shih Tzu, and Yorkshire Terriers
- '72 Nainoa Thompson (UH) — navigator of the Hōkūleʻa establishing Polynesian diaspora, Chairman of Board of Trustees, Kamehameha Schools
- '75 Lindy Vivas (UCLA) — Fresno State women's volleyball coach, plaintiff awarded largest compensation for retaliation under Title IX discrimination statute
- '79 Quentin Kawananakoa (USC) — current claimant to head of Hawaiian kingdom, Hawaii state representative, Republican minority leader
- '80 Kevin Edward Brown (Washington & Lee) — Project manager of CloudSat and CALIPSO, NASA Exceptional Service Medal
- '86 Richard Y. Lee (Yale) — college defensive tackle, internet executive, casualty of September 11, 2001 attacks
- '87 Heather Malia Ho (Boston) — executive pastry chef at Windows on the World, North Tower 107th Floor, casualty of September 11, 2001 attacks
- '89 Adriana Yvonne Iwalani Spray — Paris model under Elite Model Management
- '95 Candes Gentry (UH) — Miss Hawaii 1999
- '96* Ehren Watada (HPU) — Army Lieutenant involved in Iraq War court-martial mistrial over command responsibility
- '02* Kiwi Camara (HPU) — youngest matriculate of Harvard Law School, catalyst for racial scandal
- '03 Jennifer Fairbank (Loyola Marymount) — Miss Hawaii 2004
- *indicates attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class.
Numerous athletic, educational, cultural, business, and government leaders of significance to the State of Hawaii have been excluded, as well as all University of Hawaii and other State of Hawaii educators.
[edit] Notable Former Faculty and Staff
- Nick Bozanic — former English teacher, winner of Anhinga Prize for Poetry
- Edward Lane-Reticker — former Latin and Greek teacher, directed banking and law centers at Boston University
- H. Wells Lawrence — former Computing teacher, commanded 339th Fighter Squadron in WWII, one of the first US pilots in the air during Attack on Pearl Harbor; Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart
- David McCullough, Jr. — former English teacher, son of noted historian David McCullough
- Queenie B. Mills — former Director of Kindergarten, University of Illinois Head of Human Development Department, helped design the Head Start Program and programs for animal visits to nursing home residents
- Susan Tolman Mills — former principal, founder of Mills College
- Siegfried Ramler — former adminsitrator, interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials
- Joe Tsujimoto — English teacher, author of Teaching Poetry Writing to Adolescents
- Willard Warch — former schoolmaster, Professor of Music at Oberlin College, author of texts such as Music for Study and Beethoven's Use of Intermediate Keys, WWII Army Air Corps Band
[edit] References
The main reference for this page is the Punahou School Alumni Directory 1841-1991 Harris Publishing, Hew York, 1991.
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[edit] Further Reading
Jack Bass, "Death of Judge Tuttle: A Hero of Desegregation," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, June 25, 1996. Page A-09 quotes a New York Times writer, Claude Sitton, "Those who think Martin Luther King desegregated the South don't know Elbert Tuttle and the record of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals."
Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, The World's Most Mysterious Castles, Dundum Press, 2005. Page 107 describes Hiram Bingam (III) as "a real-life Indiana Jones."
Richard Goldstein, "Russell Reeder, 95, Leader In Invasion on D-Day, Dies," New York Times, March 1, 1998. "Col. Russell P. (Red) Reeder, who accumulated six demerits in his first two hours as a cadet at West Point, but went on to become one of its most beloved graduates... ."
Loch K. Johnson, Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World, Yale University Press, 1996. Page 91 has Otis Pike as "an able and fair-minded person, but his committee ran amuck nonetheless, pulled in a dozen different directions ... by an overzealous staff."
William Kubey, Creating Television: Conversations with the People Behind 50 Years of American TV, Erlbaum, 2004. Page 175 quotes Allan Burns: "All the best comedy writers come from Honolulu, you know. It's a hotbed of comedy writers. ... You know, the hostility of it and everything. Plus the bad climate."
Robert D. McFadden, "John W. Gardner, 89, Founder of Common Cause and Advisor to Presidents, Dies," New York Times, February 18, 2002. Common Cause President, Scott Harshbarger, is quoted: "When Americans attend open meetings or read their government's documents, or take part in our battered but resilient public finance system for presidential elections, there is a memorial to John Gardner."
Cody Monk, Legends of the Dallas Cowboys, Sports Publishing, 2004. Page 124 says "Mark Tuinei, Bill Bates, and Too Tall are the only players ever to play 15 seasons in Dallas."
"The honor of Judge Elbert Tuttle," New York Times, June 26, 1996. "He made the court the leading edge in the fight against segregation."
Richard M. Rollins and Archibald Rutledge, Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg, Stackpole Books, 2005. Page 312 details the "brave action, which aided in the great victory secured," of Captain Sam Armstrong.
Bill Stevenson, "Principle, conviction, and fate in the remarkable career of Judge Elbert Tuttle," Southern Changes 10, number 6, 1988. Quotes Tuttle: "I just recognized that this man had been convicted and sentenced to death without due process of law."
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1907. Page 54 describes General Samuel Armstrong as "the noblest, rarest hu