Holding Sacred Knowledge: The Life Work of Kahuna Gerald (Gerry) Lam
Gerald Nalikonauokalanike`alohilanikīkaupe`aokalanikapahupineakaleikoakeopuhiwa lanikaula-a-pākī Yun Chin Lam (“Gerry”) was born and raised in Papakōlea Hawaiian Homestead and Makiki on O`ahu Island, reared in a Hawaiian speaking household and specifically selected, personally trained, and authorized to practice and teach in ancient purity the Hawaiian traditional cultural arts known as lapa`au (healing) and i keao i kapō (“Maweke lua”).
Intense, home based training began at age three continuing through adulthood by five of Hawai`i history’s most renowned native Hawaiian cultural practitioners, i.e. grandmother Princess Alina “Elizabeth” Kapahupinea-kaleikoa-keōpūhiwa-a-Pākī (ho`ohānau – midwife), grandaunt Luka Kinolau (kahuna lā`au lapa`au – healer), grandaunt Lillian Kahoali`i Pākī (royal Pākī genealogist), grandaunt Alice Namakelua (native linguist, chanter, and composer), and Papa Henry A. Auwae (master healer – po`okela kahuna lā`au lapa`au). Gerry co-drafted Hawai`i’s “Healers Law” as Act 153 of 2005 amending Acts 162 of 1998 and Act 304 of 2001, whereby he is State certified as a recognized traditional practitioner and community teacher of lā`au lapa`au since 2001. Gerry is also an accomplished musical arranger and performer of traditional Hawaiian Slack Key guitar. His performing arrangements include compositions as performed by various professional artists recorded on albums published under George Winston’s Dancing Cat recording label. Gerry is his Pākī family’s royal genealogist and exclusive custodian of ancient genealogical chants and 19th century archived records.
Gerry’s training began at four years of age in the Kumulipo (Creation), native identity, the four navigations that had settled the islands, and Hawai`i’s ancient governing genealogies. He continued intense training in Native Hawaiian medicine as a select student under Papa Henry Auwae, Hawaii’s last living ancient master kahuna la’au lapa’au, until Papa Auwae’s death on December 31, 2000, and continues as a traditional fine artist and medicinal healing practitioner today. In June 2000, along with Papa Henry Auwae, Gerry was inducted as an honorary member into the Elders’ Longhouse of the Native American Haudenosaunee Six Nations (Iroquois) where he counseled tribal leaders of the Mohawk, Tonawanda Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora nations. Gerry has been counseling many charitable organizations with respect to grants since 2000. In 2000, he was successful in writing and receiving a federally backed State grant to develop and manufacture a specialty health food from the intellectual property of traditional Native Hawaiian healing arts. This hypoallergenic full-bodied nutrition has been used by demand in hospitals, care homes for the elderly, and infant care.
Gerry cofounded Oahu’s kupuna (elders’) council of traditional Native Hawaiian healers, Na Lei Hulu No Ke Ola Mamo. He also served for four years as the President of Papa Ola Lokahi, the 501(c)(3) Native Hawaiian Board of Health, and for four years as the Chairman of Ke Ola Mamo, the 501(c)(3) Native Hawaiian Health Care System for O`ahu Island. Papa Ola Lokahi is the U.S. Federal agent under 42 U.S. Code 11701 – 11706 (Native Hawaiian Health Care Act 1988, 1992) which administers five Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems. Ke Ola Mamo on O`ahu serves the largest population among the Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems named in 42 U.S. Code 11701 – 11706. Gerry currently remains as a board director of Ke Ola Mamo and is involved in developing its new medical clinic adjacent the Hawaiian Homelands building in Kapolei on O`ahu.
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The Kamehameha Schools is interested in co-developing this critical community model for Native Hawaiian health for reproduction in Hawaiian communities across the islands. Gerry’s father, Clarence Wing Hoon Lam (aka “Lum”), recently passed in September 2018 at age 101 having been one of Honolulu Chinatown’s most renowned community organizers since the 1930s. Simultaneous to Gerry’s cultural Hawaiian training in the Papakōlea Hawaiian Homestead directly above Honolulu’s Chinatown, Gerry was placed at age three under world renowned Tao-gar master Lum Dai Yung at the Tin Hau Taoist Temple of Clarence’s Lum Sai Ho Tong Society at River and Kukui Streets. Tao-gar is China’s indigenous art underlying history’s famous Shaolin Temple that had been burned down by the Ching Dynasty Emperor in the 17th century CE. In 1971, Gerry developed a unique ancient Chinese fighting style successfully winning traditional competitions in Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Bangkok. Today, Tao-gar is an ancient art found nowhere in China or the world except for perhaps a few masters living in Hawai`i. While Gerry has been teaching the Shaolin Temple kung-fu arts of White Crane, Tibetan Lama, Righteous Knight, and Choi-Li-Fat in Chinatown since 1978, only in 2009 did Gerry agree to teach the Tao-gar.to select students who had distinguished themselves after a decade of separate lā`au lapa`au training. This training includes direct record of Chinese merchant fleet contacts into ancient Hawai`i during the 10th and 15th centuries CE, before the burning of the Shaolin Temple in China’s Fujian Province. Captain James Cook first appeared much later in the 18th century CE. Gerry protects various artifacts of ancient Hawaiian origin due Chinese contact over three centuries prior to Captain Cook’s appearance. Besides Papa Henry Auwae, Gerry is so far the only other genealogist known who has possessed such ancient Hawaiian records and implements. In 1976, Gerry drafted the laws for licensing acupuncturists in Hawai`i, helped develop the regulatory professional education curriculum for the Board of Acupuncturists, and taught the first classes for licensures. He continues active in various Honolulu Chinatown community organizations.
Furthermore, Gerry has over 40 years of professional experience in finance, business management, mergers & acquisitions, law, real estate development, federal and state taxation, employee benefits and compensation, corporate structuring, exempt organizations, building and construction, litigation, strategic planning, and accounting. His education and experience spans the U.S., Pacific Basin, Asia, Europe, and South America. He graduated from The Kamehameha School for Boys in 1969. He was appointed to the State District Court bench in 1982. In 1988, he provided the key strategic thrust that tipped the scales for winning Wall Street’s famed $22 billion RJR Nabisco takeover. In 1989, he led the mergers & acquisitions and business development executive team establishing America’s 6th largest national outdoor advertising company. He has extensive experience designing, building, financing, developing, constructing and selling of residential homes, duplexes, four-plexes, condominiums, planned unit developments, office buildings and strip shopping malls. From 1991 through 2001, Mr. Lam also renovated, managed and sold 23 multi-family, residential apartment buildings in Houston, Texas.
Gerry grew up as an artist entering college majoring in fine arts. He eventually finalized his major in Political Science, but continued to produce and sell works in drawing, painting and sculpting through graduate law and post graduate business colleges. His academic portfolio had been human anatomy in charcoals, ceramics, watercolor and oil media. He was featured in various public art showings in the 1970’s and early 1980’s in Utah, Colorado, and Hawaii. He produced the poster arts for the 1988 collegiate NCAA Maui Basketball Classic and the project artwork for various professional U.S. PGA golf tournaments in Hawaii. Gerry also has designed and hand
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crafted custom steel and classical string guitars and ukuleles, composed tablatures and performed Hawaiian Slack Key guitar music in the local community.
Traditional cultures and arts serve as bases for Gerry’s avocations and professional pursuits. In elementary and secondary schools he received local recognition and international awards for his drawings and paintings. He was one of the first pioneers in 1967 of surfing industry’s “short board” revolution creating, shaping and manufacturing some of the world’s first big wave designs for Oahu’s North Shore wave breaks. In 1973, he designed and made the first surfboard for the snow at Snow Basin, Utah. His design was modified in 1974 and was tested as the Winterstick – the predecessor to today’s modern snowboards. In 1972, he designed his own first short-skis and successfully competed with shortened skis in freestyle competitions turning professional in 1973. As a professional alpine extreme and freestyle skier, he designed and choreographed ski ballet and triple high jump aerials. As a competitive bi-plane aerobatic flight pilot, he designed and executed air show performances in a Pitts Special from 1977 through 1990. As a hang glider test pilot from 1974 through 1980, he showcased the industry’s first hang glider named Manta Wing having dive and spin recovery. He designed, staged and flew the U.S. Navy’s first helicopter search, recovery and surveillance operations for the Kahoolawe Island Unexploded Ordnance Cleanup in August, 1995, which continued through 2003.
In 1990, Gerry formed BioGenesis Pacific, Inc. (“BPI”) to expand and diversify his interests into environmental services and facilities maintenance that became a successful graduate of the U.S. Small Business Administration 8(a) Program. In 2001, Mr. Lam formed Navajo Hawaiian Native Corp. for the Federal contracting 8(a) Program. In 2005, Mr. Lam developed AMT Truss JV LLC which became Hawaii’s premier building roof and floor trusses manufacturer. His solely owned companies successfully performed over $800 million in federal contracts in construction, building, and hazardous waste within a 7 year period.
In 1996, Gerry had formed an enterprise to develop LASIK eye sight-correction surgery for Dr. Virgilio Galvis, the world’s renowned lasik pioneer in medicine. LASIK was unknown in the U.S. at the time when Gerry implemented LASIK outreach to the world from Bucaramanga and Bogata, Colombia in South America. LASIK has since matured into a global industry worldwide. Gerry had also been a principal in developing the health industry’s breakthrough of laser technology for the non-invasive treatment of chronic pain through a large medical center in San Francisco. As well, Gerry is involved in non-invasive methods effectively preventing diabetic amputations and sores and puts certain common cancers into remission. Mr. Lam possesses and utilizes this technology for his select patients today within the Native Hawaiian communities.
EXPERIENCE
September 2011 – 2016
• Moanalua Gardens Foundation: Board Director. Since 1970, MGF’s mission has been to preserve the native Hawaiian culture and environment of Hawaii through education accomplished through a school program–Partners in Education, Exploring the Islands distance learning television, resources for teachers, weekend walks into Kamananui Valley on O`ahu Island, the Ohia Project Curriculum, and the famous annual Prince Lot Hula Festival.
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March 2005 – Present
• Ke Ola Mamo: Past Chairman and current board director. Responsible for receiving over $3 million annually in grants and supervising this 501(c)(3) Native Hawaiian Health Care System serving for O’ahu Island. Each of five major islands has a health care system certified by U.S. Congressional Act since 1988. Ke Ola Mamo is the largest and most complex of the five health care systems that together serve the health and social welfare of the Native Hawaiian population worldwide.
September 2005 – 2011
• Papa Ola Lokahi: Chairman, President, and Treasurer. Responsible for receiving over $16 million annually in grants and supervising this 501(c)(3) serving as the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services administering the Native Hawaiian Health Care System. This is the Native Hawaiian Board of Health over the five Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems on each major island in conjunction with the U.S. Heath Resources Services Administration.
May 2004 – 2013
• AMT Truss JV LLC: Founder and Manager. This $6 million facility became Hawaii’s model manufacturing plant and one the nation’s most modern high-tech facility for the manufacturing of roof and floor trusses provided to thousands of newly constructed homes statewide. This was the first step toward developing high-tech automation, proprietary manufacturing technologies, and strategic business structuring, to provide building supplies at prices and services to fit the U.S. Department of Defense budget for entirely rebuilding all of the military residential reservations on all military bases in Hawai`i.
September 1990 – Present:
• Environmental-Heavy Construction: Founder and CEO of BioGenesisSM Pacific, Inc., a graduate Section 8(a) SBA company with national award winning technologies for remediation of contaminated soil and water. This Company controls and manages the business and assets of its consortium that had included Navajo Hawaiian Native Corp and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies LLC. As the U.S. Navy’s primary contractor engaged under its Remedial Action Contract (“RAC”) contractor, Mr. Lam remediated Kaho’olawe Island of ordnance and explosives in 1995 and formed the general contracting team that won the Navy’s $400 million Kaho’olawe Omnibus Contract in July, 1997 that completed the work on December 31, 2003. Pollution Engineer Magazine’s top-10 technology award in 1992 for remediating contaminated soil and water. Co-developed technology, developed the finance, marketing and operating plans. Wrote and implemented the safety, quality control, and quality assurance plans. Designed the cost bid federal contracting plans that succeeded in winning nationally competitive best-value contract bids with the Department of Defense. Performance history includes BioGenesisSM cleaning products listed on the U.S. National Contingency Plan Product Schedule for use in the EPA Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program to remediate contaminated soil and water; on-site operations, site audit, site technological application, and equipment operation in soil cleaning and industrial wastewater remediation; management of unexploded ordnance disposal, air transportation, ocean barging, base maintenance support operations, geologic and topographical data processing, surveying, heavy construction, archeological assessments, botanical services, and environmental project planning.
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January 2000 – 2012:
• Navajo Hawaiian Native Corporation: Executive Director. Established as a Navajo Native American Tribal Corporation mentored by Biogenesis Pacific, Inc., this tribal corporation is a licensed building contractor in the State of Hawaii and Guam, and is established in federal contracting in heavy construction, building, demolition, facilities maintenance, logistics, and hazardous waste management including unexploded bombs and ordnance. It graduated as a certified SBA Section 8(a), Native American Indian, woman-owned, HUBZone company. It became one of Hawaii’s premier local heavy construction, demolition, hazardous waste abatement companies in the federal contracting sectors. It has performance at Pearl Harbor, Hickam AFB, Bellows AFS, Kaneohe Marine Corp Base, and Schofield Barracks. Its mission includes training, educating and mentoring Native Americans through federal contracting and manufacturing. Its competencies are based upon the proposition that the condition of a community’s economy directly affects the state of health of its people for which the best preventative medicine is in improving the economy of the community.
October 1996 – 2003:
• Sharper Visions Associates: Co- founder and CEO over proprietary technology with Dr. Virgilio Galvis, the pioneer founder of LASIK, Minister of Health of Colombia, and responsible for revolutionizing the modern industry of corrective eye surgery which is now global. This charitable effort begun in 1996 has pioneered billions of dollars for today’s commercial industry. Additionally, helped with 12 years of research and development in hospital facilities before implementing a commercially available laser treatment that significantly resolves and heals many causes of chronic pain in humans and animals.
• Agricultural Products: CEO of Taro Foods, Inc.SM Products which technology yet promises to establish a significant agricultural industry in Hawaii following the demise of sugar and pineapple. Global demand for these unique, proprietary high nutrition food products that are hypoallergenic include hospitals, private medical clinics, baby foods, elderly care homes, aids clinics, and health and fitness product distributors. In collaboration with an organist chemist, Mr. Lam developed proprietary nutraceutical recipes based upon traditional Hawaiian healing practices, some prevalent by Hawaiian families in the 1950’s and 1960’s for babies. The food product is delicious, provides full nutritional absorption without allergy, bulk or nausea, and causes absorption of additional nutrition of other foods simultaneously resulting in not only dramatic healing of hospital patients and the elderly, but also, even regularly used by highly competitive athletes and fitness trainers.
September 1976 – Present:
• Tax, Finance, Contracts and Environmental Attorney: Mergers and acquisitions; recapitalization of financial, manufacturing, and service companies; financial structuring of real estate developments; human resources and compensation; pension and benefit plans; and tax litigation.
• District Judge: 1982 – 1988: District Judge, First Circuit, Honolulu, State of Hawaii. Jurisdiction included non-jury civil litigation, all landlord-tenant actions, criminal misdemeanors, felony probable cause hearings, insanity hearings, family court, traffic court, and small claims court.
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• Arbitrator: 1983 – 1988: Hawai`i State Labor Relations Board.
• U.S. Corporate Executive: 1989-1990. CFO and Asst. to the President. Reagan National Advertising, Inc. Mergers acquisition Team Leader growing RNA into the 6th largest outdoor advertising company in the U.S. Designed the strategic plan to qualify investment bank participation. Led the cash flow modeling; product marketing; budget modeling for each division across the U.S.; and corporate strategic financial modeling; Writing and implementing personnel procedures and compensation manuals. Restructured senior and junior debts, drafted the final strategic plans, implemented profit center budgets, drafted the final procedures and personnel manuals, and reorganized executive management.
• Management Consulting: Grant writing, research and writing, and strategic planning for domestic and international business. Strategic planning and reorganization of non-profit charitable organizations. Raised equity financing for real estate development projects, foreign trade, startup ventures. Analysis and reports on profit, cash flow, and investment evaluations for corporations. Developed think tanks for media and real estate businesses. Managed business turnarounds. Provided litigation support for commercial litigation. Designed and instructed intensive multi-day seminars in marketing, team dynamics and personal empowerment.
• Quantitative analyses: Econometrics – risk management and stochastic forecasting; Corporate budgeting; Mergers and acquisitions; Sale and leasebacks; Commercial Real Estate – office buildings, shopping centers, resorts; Impact planning; Global and domestic marketing plans; Equities and debt obligations; Real Estate securitization.
• Project Implementation: Cash flow modeling; product marketing; Divisional budget modeling; Strategic financial modeling; Writing and implementing personnel procedures and compensation manuals.
• Residential and Commercial Design/Build and Construction:
138 multi-family residential apartments, design/build renovation construction – Houston, Texas. 1990 – 2002. Owner-founder, Okole, Inc., Houston, Texas.
Development, construction and property management – Acquisition, design, engineering, new construction, total renovation, and property management of 23 low-income multi family apartment buildings in Springbranch District, Houston, Texas. Sole responsibility for financing, acquisition, project construction management, project design, engineering, scheduling, permits, project Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
Condominium renovation and property management – Ogden, Utah. 1982 – 1988 Private development – Total renovation and repair of 256 residential condominium units. Property management responsibility: lease contracts, facilities maintenance, security, move-in and move-out scheduling and preparation of units. Short term rentals and long-term leasing. Family services.
Land acquisition, zoning, subdivision, heavy construction site improvements, and real estate sales in Utah (Park City, Salt Lake City, St. George), and Nevada (Clark County, Henderson, Reno). 1978 – 1988 PIC Corporation of Hawaii.
– Strategic budgeting, acquisition, leasing, cash flow analysis, and environmental site management. Zoning, planning, financing, property management, and supervision of marketing. Sole quality control responsibility and management of construction subcontracts. First to subdivide all the open desert lands along and South of the Las Vegas Strip and Henderson in Nevada in 1978.
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Land acquisition, revenue projection and planning, pricing, competitive analysis of real estate holdings – continental U.S. Reagan National Advertising, Inc. Philadelphia, PA. 1989 – 1990. – Real estate acquisitions for outdoor advertising operations in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Laredo, Corpus Christi, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Provo. Demographic analyses concerning population growth, income, economics, consumer demand, housing, transportation, and infrastructure.
Real Estate use planning – Philadelphia, PA 1987 – 1989
– Developed planning for redevelopment, renovation, and management of mixed use urban locations in Philadelphia. Wrote plans for the development of affordable housing in Philadelphia.
Resort, commercial, and industrial – Honolulu, HI 1974 – 1987
– Acquisition, financing, legal structuring, design, leasing and planning of various resort hotels, warehouses, and office buildings in Hawaii. Approved designs. Secured financing. Drafted legal documents and secured permits and licenses. Wrote management plans. Supervised quality assurance managers. Negotiated purchase and sale prices.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SUPPLEMENT
• Environmental Training and Education: 1989 – 1992.
Mr. Lam spent months in Europe studying, field auditing, and field operating equipment on contaminated soil sites. He studied every aspect of BioVersal Umlatech contaminated soil cleanup projects in Hamburg, Germany and Grotz, Austria acquiring substantial field experience in cutting edge technology unavailable to the U.S.
1. May – June 1989: Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland – study of carbon filtration, reverse osmosis technology proposed by European companies. Research of soil cleanup technologies. Compilation of technical data and scientific papers regarding cutting edge technology for cleaning contaminated wastewater and contaminated soils.
2. September 1989 – January 1990: Utah, Colorado – study of the science of water purification methods specifically studying pyrolitic methods and solar/enzyme processing.
3. September – October 1990: Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland. Research, study of field operation, conducting of field audits, study of specialty equipment engineering, and equipment operation on a contaminated soil site in Hamburg, Germany. Research and study of methods of laboratory engineering of bacteria mutations for remediating hydrocarbons in soil.
4. November 17-19, 1992: Technical Paper presentation at the EPA’s Fourth Forum on Innovative Hazardous Waste Treatment Technologies: Domestic and International, San Francisco, CA. 5. September 20-23, 1993: Paper presentation at the Eight Annual Conference on Contaminated soils, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Remediation of Contaminated Soil & Sediment Using the Biogenesis washing process.
6. 1991 – 1992: Emerging Technology, Demonstration, and Commercial phases of the EPA Superfund SITE (Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation) Program to completion of the EPA’s ITER (Innovative Technology Evaluation Report). “Biogenesis Soil Washing Technology”, EPA/540/R-93/510, Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio.
7. May 1992, Site #1 – Santa Maria, CA, cleanup of soil contaminated with No. 6 fuel oil (bunker fuel). November 1992, Site #2 – Minnesota oil refinery, cleanup of soil contaminated with crude oil.
(a) Project coordination
(b) Technology application
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(c) Demonstration and field operations of subcontractors, equipment, and permits (d) Site security and equipment maintenance
(e) Daily site audits and lab analyses
(f) Cost and personnel analyses.
8. Confidential Technical Report – Bench Scale treatability study of a former wood treating facility site contaminated with carcinogenic PAHs, pentachlorophenol, creosote, arsenic, and petroleum waste from vehicle maintenance and fueling.
9. Equipment studies of the following:
(a) SKIT-aquaclean – wastewater cleaning by automatic breaking and de-oiling of stable technical emulsions from industrial sources.
(b) RWO COLA Oil/Water Separation System – coalescence stage for the separation of micro dispersed oil particles from waste water.
(c) RWO SIKA Aquaclean System – gravity separation.
(d) SINO System – ring chamber separator for removal of oil and fat from water.
(e) Oil-in-water monitors, type OCD for industrial applications
10. Publication and submission with the State of Hawaii Department of Health Biogenesis Operations Manual re EPA regulatory field guidelines, site procedures, technology, and compliance.
EDUCATION
1987-89 University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, M.B.A., Finance and Strategic Management.
1976-78 University of Denver Law School, Colorado, The Graduate Tax Law Program, LL.M. in Taxation; joint program University of Denver College of Accounting, Masters of Tax and Accounting, M.T.
1973-76 J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Utah, Juris Doctor, J.D.
1969-73 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, B.A., multiple majors in Political Science and Fine Arts. Minor in Physical Education. Deans List and National Honor Society.
1962-69 The Kamehameha Schools, Military Institution for Boys, Honolulu, Hawaii, Native Hawaiian High School.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE
Hawaiian Cultural Birthright
Keeper of the Maweke and Pākī royal genealogies handed from grandmother Princess Alina Kapahupineakaleikoa-keopuhiwa Pākī, and named in birthright as Nalikolauokalani ke’alohilanikīkaupe’aokalani-kapahupinea-kaleikoakeopuhiwa-lanikaula-a-Pākī to protect the huna (sacred) family genealogy of King Kamehamehanui ‘Ailu’au and history’s renowned ancient kahuna, Lanikauula. Historical land birthrights are Ka‘u district on the Big Island and Kingdom of Maui (inclusive of the islands of Moloka’i, Lana‘i, Kaho’olawe, O’ahu, and Kaua’i).
1955 – 2001
Trained by grandmother Alina and grandaunts who were Hawai`i’s renowned Luka Kinolau and Lillian Kahoali’i, Aunty Alice Namakelua, and Papa Henry Auwae in ‘ohana servitude, spiritual protocols, lā`au lapa’au (medicine), slack key guitar, and kahiko mele (ancient chant) at Papakōlea Hawaiian Homestead, Makiki and Punalu’u districts on O`ahu Island, in Hanalei district on Kauai Island, and on the Big Island of Hawaii. Alina was a prolific “midwife.” Luka Kinolau is recorded as a noted Kahuna La’au Lapa’au (healer) in Territorial Hawaii history. Lillian Kahoali’i was a noted Hawaiian royal genealogist and ancient culturalist. Alice Namakelua is one of Hawai`i’s most lauded and celebrated expert culturalists. Papa Henry Auwae was Hawaii’s Po’okela Kahuna La’au Lapa’au (master of healers) and Hawai`i’s last living ancient practitioner (dec. 12-31-2000).
1954 – Present: Chinese Cultural Community.
Past president of the United Chinese Labor Association, Chung Wah Chung Kung Hui. Senior counsel, Chee Kung Tong (Free Masons of China). Senior counsel, Lum Sai Ho Tong Society and Tin Hau Taoist Temple. Counsel to Lung Doo Benevolent Society. Since age 4, trained in Tao-gar and each separate Shaolin kung-fu style of White Crane, Hop Gar, Choi-Li-Fat, and Tibetan Lama; trained in Chinese medicine and acupuncture in Honolulu and China by Master Wong Cook Fat (dec.), Master Lum Dai Yung (dec.), Master Ho Ngau (dec.), Dr. Setwing Tang (dec.), and Prof. Cheuk Tse. Currently master instructor of cultural medicine and traditional Tao-gar, and Shaolin Temple’s ancient kung-fu arts of Tibetan Lama, Hop-Gar, White Crane, and Choy-Li-Fat.
1990 – Present: Native Hawaiian Community.
Founder of the Native Hawaiian Organization Charity Inc. to propagate the practice of traditional Native Hawaiian healing arts and provide medical services to Hawaii’s local communities. Co founder of Na Lei Hulu, Oahu’s Elders’ Council of Traditional Hawaiian Healers. Publicly honored by Papa Henry Auwae (dec.), Hawaii’s last ancient master kahuna lā`au lapa’au (medicine), and subject of Papa Auwae’s first ‘uniki (graduation) and second ‘uniki hanai (adoption) protocols; and, final ‘uniki in sacred covenant and releasing to Ke Akua (The Creator) in the traditional Native Hawaiian practices of la’au lapa’au (medicine), kūkākūkā (counseling), ho’oponopono (dispute resolution) and ‘ohana protocol and tradition (social governance). Growing, cultivation, and propagation of Hawaiian medicinal plants. Gathering and preparation of traditional Hawaiian medicines. Treating of patients in select communities. Instructor of Native Hawaiian traditions, history and culture. Instructor, performing musician, and arranging artist of Hawaiian Slack Key guitar.
1995 – 1999: Community-at-Large.
Created Job Programs for the Big Island, Maui and Moloka’i for the training and certification of Native Hawaiians disadvantaged economically, in education, and/or with past felony convictions.
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Contributing personal income and savings, awarded over 900 Davis-Bacon wage jobs over a 9 year program targeted to the employment of Moloka’i and depressed communities on Maui.
1982 – 1988
Organized and primarily funded with personal savings, private donations, and public grants the Hawaii region of the United States Volleyball Association taking activity programs to crime risk communities on O’ahu predominantly of Native Hawaiian population.
SUPPLEMENT
Professional surfer and pioneer of history’s short-board surfing revolution from 1967 to 1978. Present avid surfer on O’ahu and big-wave windsurfer on the North Shore of Maui.
NAIA U.S.A. National Volleyball Championship Team member. Gold medals in volleyball, swimming, track & field, snow skiing, fencing, gymnastics, and wrestling.
Work and study in human physiology, anatomy, and kinesiology. Internships and studies in clinical psychology and human behavior. Provo, Utah.
Professional Alpine Freestyle Skier 1973 – 1986. Snowbird, Utah home base. A first pioneer of professional freestyle skiing in 1972, later winning numerous events in moguls, aerials, and ballet. Moguls and aerials have since become separate Olympic events with ski ballet now nonexistent.
Professional Hang gliding 1974 – 1982. An early pioneer of hang gliding as a test pilot for various wing manufacturers in California and Utah.
Air Show Aerobatic Competitor 1976 – 1984. A Pitts Special bi-wing aerobatic pilot specialist originating out of the Boulder, Colorado airport winning various local and U.S. national competitions in Sportsman, Intermediate and Advanced categories in fly-in airshow competitions at Longmont, CO, and Oshkosh and Fond du Lac, WI.
Fine arts professional commissions and awards for works in watercolors, pastels, charcoals, and ceramics.
Performer and music composer-arranger in Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar for professional recording artists under the George Winston’s Dancing Cat record label.
Instructor and Senior disciple of Master Cheuk-Tse and Master Ho Ngau in the kung-fu systems of White Crane, Tibetan Lama, Hop Gar, and Choy-Lee-Fut.
Legal counsel to the Hawaii Acupuncturist Association 1977 – 1987. Organized Honolulu Chinatown’s medicinal practitioners in 1975. Co-drafted Hawai`i State laws and created the curriculum and tests to license acupuncturists in 1977.
Cultural and Legal Counsel and executive advisor to the Hawai`i Hung Mun Ghee Gung Tong and Lum Sai Ho Tong and Tin Hau Taoist Temple, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Past legal treatises, academic journal articles, and monographs: Legal treatise and journal of history of Hawai`i laws from the Kingdom to the present, Constitutional law, anti-trust law, Native American law, corporate tax law, nonprofit law, legal aspects of health care; employee compensation and benefits, strategic business acquisitions; impact marketing, personnel management and incentives; Chinese philosophy, Chinese physical culture, and Chi Tao.
