The Historical Committee of the Outrigger Canoe Club began conducting oral histories of members in 1968 in an effort to preserve significant activities in the growth of the Club. The early histories involve groups of three or four members discussing a specific subject or event. In later years, the Historical Committee began interviewing individual members about their lives and memories of the OCC.
Beginning in 2015, the histories are recorded on videotape and may be viewed on the website or you may read the transcript. To date the Club has conducted more than 140 Oral Histories.
The legal rights to the oral histories remains with the Outrigger Canoe Club. Anyone wishing to reproduce or quote from the Oral History should contact the Historical Committee of the OCC. The reader should be aware that an oral history document portrays information as recalled by the interviewee. Because of the spontaneous nature of this kind of document, it may contain statements and impressions that are not factual.
Members of the OCC Historical Committee who have conducted Oral History interviews include: William C. Kea Sr. (1968), Kenneth Pratt (1978-1992), Vera Forbes (1979), Josie Achimore (1979), Alex H. F. Castro (1979-1983), Don Machado (1981-1987), Ernest H. Thomas (1982-1988), J. Ward Russell (1983-1998), John W. Bustard (1990), Cobey Black (1993), Kelli A. McCormack (1993), Sue Avina (1998), Paul Dolan (1999-2007), Moana McGlaughlin-Tregaskis (2011-2013), Barbara Del Piano (1993, 2014-2018) and Marilyn Kali (2017-2018). Interviews in 2015 and 2016 were videotaped and edited by John Lacy of the Historical Committee. Beginning in 2017, oral history videos were produced by Turner & de Vries (HotPixels.com).
Outrigger Canoe Club’s Oral History interviewees include:
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Brant E. Ackerman (2017)
Charles Edward “Bud” Ackerman (1997)
Nip Tong Akona (1995)
Maydeen “Deenie” Fuller Allen (2017)
Bruce Ames (2017)
Margaret Leith Anderson (1981)
Pamela Anderson (1991)
Robert Alexander Anderson (1981)
Robert A. Anderson (1993)
Robert A. Anderson Jr. (2014)
Marion B. Arnott (2014)
Thomas Arnott (1995)
Henry Keawe Ayau Jr. (1997)
B
Peter A. Balding (1996)
Peter A. Balding (2014)
William M. Barnhart (1998)
S. James Beardmore (1991)
Evelyn Jane Black (2003)
Gerd Hiorth Blodgett (1981)
Helen Haxton Bode (2003)
May Evelyn Freeth Borthwick (2007)
Francis Andrew Imaikalani Bowers (1978)
Waldo Bowman (1984)
George Brangier (1984)
Bill Bright (2017)
Anita Davis Brightman (1998)
Lex Brodie (1983)
Wendell Brooks Jr. (2016)
Mark Eric Buck (2005)
Reynolds G. Burkland (1987)
Robert I. Bush (1987)
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William C. Capp (1988)
Benjamin B. Cassiday (1995)
Helen Moses Cassidy (1979)
Ernest Tucker Chase (1968)
George Alvin Cook Jr. (2004)
William A. “Knute” Cottrell (1968)
Wilbur Craw (1983)
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Geraldine DeBenedetti (2017)
Barbara Jane Dorsam Del Piano (2001)
Paul Arthur Dolan (2006)
Norman K. Dunmire (2017)
E
Eight Old-Time Members 1968
Wayne Thad Ekstrand (1993)
Agenhart Ellis Jr. (2017)
Bonnie Eyre (2017)
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Tiare Richert Finney (2017)
Robert Fischer (1985)
Muriel Macfarlane Flanders (1993)
G
Josephine Hopkins Garner (1981)
Josephine Hopkins Garner (1990)
J Atherton Gilman (1980)
Ruth Scudder-Gillmar (1979)
Demetrio “Domie” Gose (2017)
John Townsend Goss (2000)
Kawika Grant 1 (2017)
Kawika Grant 2 (2017)
James Walter Growney (2013)
Robert T. “Tim” Guard (2017)
Robert Wylie Guild (1998)
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Kristin “Kisi” Stevens Haine (2004)
Marc V. Haine (2018)
Marilyn Haine (1995)
Heidi Hemmings Hall (2017)
Ronald Haworth (2017)
Fred Hemmings Jr . (1985)
Fred Hemmings Jr. (2017)
Fred Hemmings Sr (1987)
Hal Henderson (2016)
Karl Heyer IV (2017)
Ronald Dewolf Higgins (1978)
Michael Holmes Part I (2017)
Michael Holmes Part II (2017)
Dale Hope (2017)
Marjorie Howe (2018)
Harry Withers Huffaker (2017)
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J
Mariechen Wehselau Jackson (1968)
Mariechen Wehselau Jackson (1979)
K
Duke Kahanamoku (1984) (as told by Sarge Kahanamoku)
Victor Kahn (1983)
Malia Kiku Pietsch Kamisugi (2005)
William C. Kea (1988)
Patricia Halliday Barker Kemeny (1998)
Roy Clark Kesner (1997)
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Alan Lau (2010)
Alfred Lemes Jr. (2017)
Elia Austin Long (2002)
Alan “Turkey” Love (1986)
M
Jack Mackenzie (1968)
Lillie Bowmer Mackenzie (1979)
John Cline Mann (1982)
Jessie Matthias (1983)
Jimmy McMahon (2017)
Mary Philpotts McGrath (2017)
Albert E. Toots Minvielle Jr. (1979)
Robert Wakefield Mist (1989)
Robert L. Moore (2017)
Wilmer Cox Morris (1999)
William J. Mullahey (1980)
Mitzi Lee Murphy (2017)
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Peter Nottage (2015)
Jan Newhart (2018)
O
P
Wilfred Paul (1993)
Geraldine Pedesky (2017)
Elizabeth “Liz” Perry (2012)
Glenn Perry (2018)
Tay Wright Perry (2011)
Tay Wright Perry (2018)
James Clyde Peterson (2008)
James Henry Pflueger (2017)
Tracy Elizabeth Phillips (2017)
Eva M. Pomroy (1986)
R
Mark Knapp Rigg (2017)
David Michael Rochlen (Baby Dave) (2018)
Joan Martin Ballentyne Rodby (2017)
J. Ward Russell (1968)
J. Ward Russell (1981)
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Charles Schrader (2017)
Steven J, Scott (2017)
Randy Shaw (2017)
Thomas W. G. Singlehurst (1983)
Ronald Quay Smith (1968)
Ronald Quay Smith (1982)
Stephany Louise Sofos (2003)
Stephany Louise Sofos (2017)
Ronald Glen Sorrell (1996)
Jon C. Stanley (2017)
Frederick Steere Jr. (1979)
Barbara Stehouwer (2017)
Judge Harry Steiner (1968)
Joseph B. Stickney (1968)
Charles Oscar Swanson (2007)
Diane McLean Stowell (1993)
Conne Sutherland (2017)
T
Herbert M. Yabo Taylor (1981)
Leighton Taylor Jr. (2017)
Ernest H. Thomas (1986)
Lorrin P. Thurston (1979)
Elbert Tuttle (1993)
W
Vikram Watumull (2017)
Rodney West (1991)
Anita Berg Whiting (2003)
Lorraine “Brownie” Williams (2017)