Hollis Wright:  

I was at Allendale from kindergarten almost all the way through 6th grade, when my family moved to Australia-- Western Australia! I missed all of you! It was very different from Pasadena from a child's viewpoint. School involved a lot of memorizing, the food was unusual (meat pies were big) and we wore uniforms to public school. In retrospect I adjusted ok, it was just very different, and I couldn't seem to keep in touch with old friends. There were these very thin letters they called aerogrammes.... I was glad when we moved back, this time to Hawai`i. Life was pretty good from a teenage perspective: swimming, surfing, going to school. I guess the food was different in Hawai1i too, but being older now it seemed just fine with me (lomi salmon, poke, sushi -- all good). I was on the swim team, but eventually couldn't manage to come in third or better, so dropped out of swimming. Continued with, French, I guess and something called Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, wrote some bad poetry.. Over the years I graduated from the University of Hawai`i with a BA (honors) in economics and an MBA. ...Expand for more