September 2024 Gleanings
Meet the Mayor, Mahalo to our sponsors!
Who’s going to be our next mayor? Two candidates made it through the Primary Election, and here’s your chance for some one-on-one time, along with a delicious pupu lunch Sept. 21 at the Hilo Yacht Club. We still have a few tickets left, and you won't want to miss it.
Interested in joining a committee? Want to serve on the BIPC board next year? Email President Tiffany Hunt: newswoman@mac.com
We're already planning our Torch of Light luncheon with this year's winner, retired Intermediate Court of Appeals Judge Daniel Foley. Save the date -- December 14 at Pueo's Osteria in Waikoloa.
Have news to share? Just email Gleanings editor Nancy Cook Lauer at nclauer@gmail.com for inclusion in an upcoming issue.
Next Meeting: 9 a.m. Sept. 14 via Zoom. Email Director Jim Wilson at jimwilsonvolcanocottage@gmail.com for a link.
Message from the President
We are in the throes of planning the Sept. 21 Mayoral Forum at the Hilo Yacht Club, and we hope you can take the time to join us. It’s bound to be a successful event, with scrumptious food and good company, along with thought-provoking conversations. We are putting together some pretty compelling questions for our mayoral candidates to answer, and Ken Hupp is slated to be a moderator along with a panel of seriously cool people. I don’t want you to see me and say Shoulda Coulda Woulda. Just take a moment and sign up and join us as soon as you can. Know that we will be using this gathering as an opportunity to raise funds for our scholarships, and this event will be when we launch our online auction. Remember that from last year? We were able to give out a few more thousand dollars in scholarship funds this spring, thanks to that auction.
So, hopefully I have convinced you to join us Sept. 21. A Hui Hou!
Wishing you all the best!
Aloha,
Tiffany Hunt,
Your president
(Pictured with fellow board members John Burnett (L) and Bob Duerr at a recent Mayoral Forum planning meeting at the Hilo Yacht Club)
Tickets are going fast!
The Big Island Press Club, along with community co-sponsors, is hosting a luncheon event featuring delicious heavy pupus, a reception line, a Q&A session and ample opportunity to talk one-on-one with the candidates at the beautiful Hilo Yacht Club.
This is a benefit event to help provide scholarships to deserving Big Island students pursuing journalism, communications and related majors.
Tickets are $40 for BIPC members and sponsors, $45 for the general public. You'll want to be there to learn more about the candidates or to support your favorite. Go to www.bigislandpressclub.org to reserve your spot.
Member News
BIPC Board member Patsy Iwasaki, University of Hawaii-Hilo Assistant Professor, English, was in Rome, Italy in June to give a presentation on “Utilizing a Graphic Novel, Instructional Design and Community of Practice: A Framework for a Cultural, Place-based Educational Resource” at the 2024 New Directions in Humanities international conference at Sapienza University (one of the top universities in Rome with an enrollment of 104,000) and also to pitch the 2025 New Directions conference, which will be held at UH Hilo.
She will chair this conference, which will also include three plenary speakers from UH Hilo: Marianne Takamiya, Physics and Astronomy; Clint Anderson, Education, and Jackie Pualani Johnson, Professor Emeritus.
For faculty, staff and students interested in presenting or attending the New Directions conference at UH Hilo June 25-27, 2025, email piwasaki@hawaii.edu.
2024 Big Island Press Club Board
Please feel free to contact any board members with your suggestions, or if you wish to volunteer!
President: Tiffany Edwards Hunt, former journalist, middle school teacher newswoman@mac.com
Vice President: John Burnett, journalist, Tribune-Herald <jburnett@hawaiitribuneherald.
com>
Treasurer: Bob Duerr, filmmaker and journalist, Hawaii Fishing News <surf77@me.com>
Secretary: Nancy Cook Lauer, retired journalist, blogger www.allhawaiinews.com <nclauer@gmail.com>
Director: Ross Wilson, PR, Current Events rossw@current-events.com
