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One question that pops up invariably in Maui conversations is “How long have you been on Maui?”

That’s easy and hard for me to answer. I am very new to Maui, having lived here for about six months. However, I recall visits to Maui of the 1960s when I had fun with my parents, uncles, aunts, and cousins going to the Dairy Queen in Wailuku, shopping at the old Ah Fook market and Woolworths, and slurping the azuki-bean guri-guri sherbet at the Tasaka shop. So I have a “historical memory” of Maui before the enormous population growth of the 1990s and 2000s – a number of current Maui residents were either not born back then or were shoveling snow somewhere on the Mainland.

And I am genetically tied to my grandmother, who was in her eighties when she passed away in Wailuku in the 1960s, and she arrived on Maui in time to possibly watch Haley’s Comet streak overhead (the night sky of Kahului was very clear back then, except for the sugar cane burning days).

One friend, working at a Wailea golf course, came to Maui with his parents when he was two years old. He graduated from Baldwin High School in the late 1960s, and he said that few people around him today exceeded the number of years he had lived on Maui. Although he looked Caucasian, his friends and his world view were more local Maui Japanese, as most of his high school classmates – of that era – belonged to the former ethnic/cultural background, and he assimilated smoothly, even to the point of speaking pidgin English, and religiously attending Baldwin class reunions, increasingly on Oahu, and probably in Las Vegas in the future.

Many of my Maui friends who were born and raised on Maui invariably spent some years on Oahu or Mainland attending college and a first job, then returned to Maui, often for family reasons, like an aged parent (before the War, the plantation camps overfilled with children, now there is the looming need for retirement homes and hospices).

Rochester IBM Alumni News: July 2011 IBM Rochester Retirees ...

The 2011 IBM Retirees’ Club Picnic for members and their spouse or friend, will be held on Wednesday, July 13th from 4 to 7PM at the IBM Woodside Park . Food Service will begin at 4:00PM and end at 6PM. Ticket price will be $8.00 per person . Please fill out the reservation form below and send it with your check made out to the IBM Retiree’s Club. Your check must arrive in the office by June 30, 2011. The picnic will be held rain or shine, no reminders will be sent, and there will be no refunds. Name tags will be handed out at the picnic for all those that registered. The picnic is one of two Retiree’s Club subsidized social events held each year. People travel many miles each year to attend this event and catch up with old friends. Please join us for good food and good company. Our caterer this year will be the Canadian Honker, who has also provided food for our Holiday event the past few years. The menu will include a choice of BBQ Beef or BBQ pork sandwiches, assorted salads, with cake and cookies for dessert and coffee and soda to drink. To assist with seating at the picnic tables, please bring lawn chairs if you would like to sit and visit after you eat. A map below shows the parking layout at Woodside. We will be using the lot closest to the main pavilion as a handicapped parking lot. For those who haven’t ever been to one of the golf outings, the golf committee arranges the teams (to assure some equity in team scoring ability), and the events are all Best Shot (“scramble”). Tee off is a shotgun start at 9:00. We ask everyone to be at the golf course by 8:30 to pay and get your team assignment. Cost is $20 per person for 9 hole green fees and lunch. Carts are extra. Come on out and have a fun experience with other retirees. To participate, call the office at 507- 424 – 4193 by the Friday prior to the golf event, and leave your name (and spouse’s if s/he is also playing).

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