Present and past employees of The Garden Island gathered Thursday evening at the Holiday Inn Sun Spree Resort in Wailua to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the newspaper. Those in attendence stood up by the decade in which they were
Present and past employees of The Garden Island gathered Thursday evening at the Holiday Inn Sun Spree Resort in Wailua to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the newspaper. Those in attendence stood up by the decade in which they were first employed. A commemorative special edition will mark the centenniel celebration later this year. The event was co-sponsered by the Kaua’i Historical Society, a partner for over 80 years with The Garden Island.
Harriet Albao 1930 – 1941 – Reporter, Advertising, News Editor
Cristeta Delos Santos – Circulation
Turk Tetsuo Tokita 1937 – 1940 – Sports Reporter
Mike Ashman 1940 – 1952 KTOH radio announcer
John M. Uyeno 1941 – 1993 – President/Publisher
Shimoe Mukai 1944 – 1968 – Office
Lois Lydgate Coleman 1948 – 1948 – Column for Teens “Titas & Blas”
Elpidio Aquino 1951 – 1968, Typesetter – Press
Lillian Miyake 1952 – 1968 – Circulation Department
Eiko Muranaka 1952 – 1968 – Job Layout
Kenneth Chow 1953 – 1992 – Press
Jimmy Oyadomari 1953 – Composing Room
Flor Labuguen 1954 – 1960 – Linotype Operator
Evelyn Eto 1957 – 1968 – Advertising – Layout
Gladys Tashiro 1960 – 1995 Ohana
Maria Salud 1960 – 1976 – Circulation Department
Valerie L. Hepa 1960 – 1975 – Reporter, photographer, circulation manager
Edith Tanimoto 1961 – 1993 – Publisher
Carol Rayno 1964 – 1968 – Proofreader, Reporter, Family Page Layout
Pam Valdez 1964 – 1968 Janitorial/ Insert paper/ newspaper delivery
Jean E. Holmes – 1965 – 1984 Editor
Domi Alayvilla 1968 to present – Composing
Larita Paet 1968 – 1997 – Circulation Department
Kathy Ladera 1968 – present – Composing
April Oyadomari 1969 – 1970 – Office Clerk
Rita De Silva 1970 – present – composing to editorial
Georgia Mossman 1971 – 1997 – Reporter
Trinidad Yago 1972 – 1975 Circulation Department
Nancy Harker 1976 – present – Composing
Romana Espanto 1979 – 1986 – Circulation Department
Gerald Ida 1981 – 1992 – Darkroom tech/Photographer/Advertising Director
Agripina Segismendo 1983 – 1988 – Circulation Department
Wesley Hayashi 1981 – 1998 Pressman & Darkroom
Chris Cook 1983-1987/1997 – present – Editor, Reporter, Internet
Dennis Fujimoto 1990 – present Photographer
Sherry Olkonen 1990 – present – Composing
Yukie De Silva 1990 – 1994 – Classified Clerk – 2001 to present – Editorial & more
Happy Pleas-Preble 1992 – present – Advertising
Monte Seifert 1993 – present – Circulation
Benjamin R. Toribio 1994 – present – Plateroom
Carmen Centeno 1995 – present – Business Office
Lester Chang 1997 – present – Reporter
David Campbell 1998 – present – Circulation Manager
Monica Williams 1998 – present – Classified Manager
June Tada 1999 – present – Advertising
Paul Curtis 1999 – present – Business Editor, Reporter
Steve Farrell 2001 – present – E-Media
JulieAnne Layaoen 2001 – present – Phone operator/data entry
Tim DeLaVega 2002 – Pagination, Internet
Kendyce Manguchei 2002 – Reporter
