August 11, 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Caroline Witherspoon
Becker Communications
(808) 533-4165
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BISHOP MUSEUM APPOINTS NEW MEMBERS TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
HONOLULU – Bishop Museum has named five community and business leaders to its Board of Directors. Serving three-year terms, the new board members include: Danny Akaka Jr., Native Hawaiian tradition expert at Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island; Richard Humphreys, who serves on the board of Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i and the Board of Trustees of Hawai‘i Employees Retirement Systems; Mitch D’Olier, president and CEOof Kaneohe Ranch Company Ltd.; Richard Paglinawan, senior staff member of the Queen Emma Foundation; and Winona Kealamapuana Ellis Rubin, founding CEO of ALU LIKE. Bishop Museum is a private, non-profit corporation that is owned and governed by a volunteer board of directors. Operating entities of the corporation are Bernice P. Bishop Museum, The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, The Hawai‘i Maritime Center, and the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden. A treasured resource of Hawaiian history and heritage, Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop as a tribute to his wife Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha dynasty. Located at 1525 Bernice Street, the Museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $14.95 for adults; $11.95 for youth 4-12 years; special rates for kama‘āina, seniors and military; children under 4 years and Bishop Museum Association members are free. For information, call 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org. ###