THE ADVENTURERS’ CLUB OF
HONOLULU
Newsletter: May to August, 2016
When
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Where*
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Topic & Presenter
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Call**
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Thursday
May 19
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Wailana Coffee House
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Armchair Flying Between the
Islands
Brian Daniel
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Thursday
June 16
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Wailana Coffee House
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The Amazing Amazon
Ed Carus, Jr.
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Thursday
July 21
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Outrigger
Canoe Club
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Around the Hawaiian
Islands in 1934
DeSoto Brown
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Thursday
August 18
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Outrigger
Canoe Club
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China X Two!
Philip Blackman
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Renate
Ryan
at
r enater yan @h
otm ail.c om (808) 926-6226
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Adventurers’ Club members/guests may only book a reservation
via our reservationists.
PAYMENT BY CHECKS PREFERRED
** If making
reservations via e-mail, please include the words:
Adventurers’ Club Meeting and Meeting Date
If
leaving a message or sending an email, please include your phone number. If unable to reach listed reservationist, please
call
Erika Wyrtki at 949-2229
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Having read Lowell’s draft which discusses up-coming venues
& programs, I have nothing more to add other than a ‘thank you’ to a hard
working board and a ‘thank you’ particularly to Ralph and Lowell. As you
know we have had venue challenges lately as food prices and requirements for numbers of attendees increase. Ralph has worked tirelessly to
find satisfactory alternatives and, as you will see in this newsletter,
has done so. Likewise, Lowell continues
to find exceptional speakers. Again, no point in repeating the details in the
newsletter, other than to say we have some interesting evenings ahead. So, thank you to the board, and especially to Ralph and Lowell. Without venues and programs there would be
no Adventurers’ Club. We look forward to seeing you at future meetings. Thanks, Bob Liljestrand, President
ABOUT THE VENUES*…
For the
first two programs, we will be using a brand-new venue (at least for the Club) and for the last two, we’ll return to an old
favorite of many members.
In May
and June we’re at the Wailana Coffee House in Waikiki. It’s been in business
for nearly 50 years and those of you who’ve
eaten here know that this 24-hour restaurant is well known for its homestyle
good food with good service and reasonable
prices.
In July
and August we’re at the Outrigger Canoe Club, in Waikiki. This elegant and beautiful private club overlooks the ocean,
Diamond Head and Waikiki, and its ambience is unsurpassed. Parking is in
their building or on the street
Finding nice venues with good food and service, reasonable prices and all the other requirements we have (bar service, accessibility, parking, private meeting space, etc.) is challenging. Costs keep going up everywhere and we’re doing our best to keep them reasonable for you.
Director and past president Ralph Sprague has worked very hard to scout places and negotiate the “best deal” possible. A big MAHALO to him! So come and enjoy! ….and bring a guest!
Finding nice venues with good food and service, reasonable prices and all the other requirements we have (bar service, accessibility, parking, private meeting space, etc.) is challenging. Costs keep going up everywhere and we’re doing our best to keep them reasonable for you.
Director and past president Ralph Sprague has worked very hard to scout places and negotiate the “best deal” possible. A big MAHALO to him! So come and enjoy! ….and bring a guest!
May
19, 2016: Armchair Flying Between the Islands
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By
Member: Brian Daniel
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Join us for an aerial
adventure in Hawai`i! Brian Daniel will present an evening of still and
video photography from nearly two decades of flying around O`ahu and to and
from all of our neighbor islands in a home-built gyro plane and a plans-built Breezy airplane.
Brian says, "For me, building and flying my own aircraft is the ultimate thrill. It has science, beauty,
and adventure. Some aviators like to go fast and get there as quick
as possible, some like to fly upside
down, for me flying is looking at the
ground. Both of these flying machines are perfect for aerial photography, with almost
unlimited visibility and they both
fly relatively slowly."
Come and see some incredible and breathtaking
scenery as you've never seen it before!
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Location
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6:30 pm
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Wailana
Coffee House - 1860 Ala Moana Blvd
Parking
is available in the lower level of the building with validation.
Enter from Ena Road
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Dinner
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6:45 pm
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Menu:
A
full buffet with three entree selections plus full salad bar, choice of starch, choice
of beverage, hot
vegetables and dessert for $25
Prefer payment by check
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Program
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7:30 pm
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(Approximately)
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RSVP
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Contact
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Wendla
Liljestrand, wliljestrand@hawaii.rr.com
or (808) 554-9639
RSVP
by: Thursday, May 12
Late cancellations and no shows will be billed
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June
16, 2016: The Amazing Amazon
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By
Member: Ed Carus Jr.
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Be amazed at one of the natural
wonders of the world! The Amazon River is unique in so many different ways
that it is difficult to compare it to the major rivers in Asia,
Africa, Europe and North American. In 1994, Ed and Pinkie were invited to
join a small group of members
and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. They
embarked on the 60- passenger
M/V Polaris in Manaus, Brazil, some 900 miles from the mouth of the Amazon.
They disembarked 1,000 miles further upstream at Iquitos, Peru, near the
eastern foothills of the Andes Mountains. Ed says, “traveling from the
largest to the second larg- est city on the river was a special and
exciting adventure!”
Join us for this program as they visit
isolated Indian villages and explore remote bayous
and slews, while
still enjoying the comforts of ship board living.
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Location
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6:30 pm
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Wailana
Coffee House - 1860 Ala Moana Blvd
Parking
is available in the lower level of the building with validation.
Enter
from Ena Road
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Dinner
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6:45 pm
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Menu:
A full
buffet with three entree selections plus full salad bar, choice of starch, choice
of beverage, hot
vegetables and dessert for $25
Prefer payment by check.
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Program
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7:30 pm
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(Approximately)
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RSVP
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Contact
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John
Smith, johnvirgilsmith@yahoo.com,
(808) 396-3583/384-0460
RSVP
by: Thursday, June 9
Late cancellations and no shows will be billed
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July 21, 2016: Around the
Hawaiian Islands in 1934
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By Guest:
DeSoto Brown
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Step back eighty-two years and see
what Hawai`i and life in the Islands was like! We’ll screen four rare color
and sound travelogues on O`ahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big
Island, made for the Hawaii Tourist Bureau in 1934. See low-rise Waikiki,
quiet down- town Honolulu, the “new” road around Koko Head, rice fields on
Kaua`i, a drive on the newly-opened road to Haleakala’s summit, and many more places and things long gone but fondly remembered!
These fascinating films are among
the earliest surviving color and sound films of Hawai`i – and rarer still as
they were originally on fragile and volatile nitrate film
stock. DeSoto Brown, the Historian at Bishop Museum and well-known local
author and collector, will talk
about the films history and significance, why they were
made and where
they were shown,
and program chair
Lowell Angell will relate how they were
almost destroyed, how he acquired them in 1963 and kept them in his Manoa
family home’s basement for 30 years before donating them to
the museum.
Don’t
miss the chance to see these glimpses of the Hawai`i of yesterday!
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Cocktails
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6:00 pm
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Outrigger Canoe Club - 2509 Kalakaua
Avenue, Free parking in club lot
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Dinner
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6:45 pm
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Menu:
Cobb
Salad: Chopped Crisp Greens, Tomato, Turkey, Egg, Avocado, Bacon = $20 Beef Stew: Classic Beef Stew, Sweet
Potato Crisp, Steamed Rice = $22
Mahi Mahi:
Traditional preparation, spring vegetables, toasted almonds = $26 1/2 Mahi Mahi: Traditional
preparation, spring vegetables, toasted almonds = $20
Prefer payment by check
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Program
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7:30 pm
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(Approximately)
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RSVP
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Contact
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RSVP: Thursday, July 14
Late
cancellations and no shows will be billed
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August 18, 2016: China X Two!
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By Member: Philip Blackman
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Make it a point to
come and enjoy Philip‘s “double-header!” As he relates it, “The Peoples
Republic of China and the Republic of China are not equals in size, but my trips
to each 5 years apart share equally in the tales of my adventure! The timing
of my 2010 visit to PRC was so as not miss the
Shanghai Expo which, after 6 months, was about to close and was still
attracting up to a million visitors a day! I was fortunate to have
friends to stay with in Beijing and will share images from our tours there
and at the Great Wall. Last year, I spent one month in
Taiwan. I explored city life by car, scooter, and subway in the capital city
of Taipei. By train
I explored the northern half of the island. Included were multiple visits to Buddhist schools and temples where guests were few and the generosity of the grounds keepers in improvising closer looks was fortuitous. I joined as the only American with hundreds of high energy, low-age Chinese on a splashing good river rafting/crashing all day river trip in a country sporting the title of "having the most mountains over 3000 meters of any country in the world”."
When Philip was growing up, he recalls
that “we had a local radio show about Hawai`i which I listened to and I
intrigued peers into believing that Queen Liliuokalani had
hidden crown jewels in the forest by our house during Hawai`i's revolution!“
Years lat- er, while at MIT, he was contracted by artist Otto Piene to work
on the light sculpture, “The Sun," that hangs in Hawai`i's state capitol building. In 1971, he had a five day layover in Hawai`i after
an Army tour
in Vietnam, and made his home here a month later.
Hawai`i has been a gateway for him to visit more than 35 countries!
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Cocktails
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6:00 pm
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Outrigger Canoe Club - 2509 Kalakaua
Avenue, Free parking in club lot
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Dinner
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6:45 pm
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Menu:
Cobb
Salad: Chopped Crisp Greens, Tomato, Turkey, Egg, Avocado, Bacon = $20 Beef Stew: Classic Beef Stew, Sweet
Potato Crisp, Steamed Rice = $22
Mahi Mahi:
Traditional preparation, spring vegetables, toasted almonds = $26 1/2 Mahi Mahi: Traditional
preparation, spring vegetables, toasted almonds = $20
Prefer payment by check
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Program
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7:30 pm
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(Approximately)
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RSVP
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Contact
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RSVP: Thursday, August 11
Late
cancellations and no shows will be billed
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Spread the word about the Adventurers' Club! Tell your friends about us and our programs, or consider inviting them as a guest to future programs!
For Adventurers’ Club Information Visit:
adventurersclubhonolulu.blogspot.com/
Know of a
good future speaker or program (maybe yourself!)?
Tell our Program Chair Lowell Angell about it.
Email him at angell @
haw
aii .edu
.
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