Clifford Kawana:  

Clifford's schools include Kaimuki High School, Ali'iolani Elementary School, William Paul Jarrett Intermediate School. He later attended University of Hawaii. Clifford's interests include Lexington Legends, Bellingham Community Chorus, badly strumming the four chords he knows on his ukulele (and trying to sing). He is about to tackle replacing the water pump and timing belt on his 1989 Nissan truck. Check back later, he may still be working on it. Update alert. After sitting in the front yard for a couple of years, the truck became a "Kidney car." too old, too beat up and too many other things dying on it. A view from the far side, or (Some of us take a long, long time to grow up.) When we were back in high school, Ewa Beach was at the "far end of the world."  So now I live in Ewa Beach. Such is life. How did I get here? And please note, this side of the island should not be considered a negative thing. Hey! We have two Longs and one Walgreens! And lots of golf courses, including the Prince in my backyard. When we were kids, my parents would look at us and say things like, doctor, lawyer, teacher etc. When they looked at me, they would say, "Civil Service!" Never quite figured that out till many years later. Maybe I should have followed their advice/suggestion, once I figured it out. Nice safe career and a pension to go with it. Why I could be retired by now! Some people learn sooooo slowly. But, when you have an attention span of 32 seconds, life gets a lot more interesting. So, after leaving the somewhat familiar/friendly confines of Kaimuki High School, the world awaited me. It took stops at Honolulu Community College, Kapiolani Community College and UH Manoa to finally get a B.S. degree, Speech Pathology and Audiology. Who would have thunk?! And it only took ten years! Along the way there were bunches of jobs, some even fulltime, a marriage and a baby. Then it was off to Bellingham, Washington and graduate school. A short 18 month planned stay, turned into 20 years, another baby, a house and funky adventures. For 14 of those years, there was a once a week radio show (KUGS-FM 89.3 /Western Washington University) spinning Hawaiian tunes, for 30 minutes, then an hour and over ten years of two hours every Saturday morning. Surprisingly, since I left in early 1999, other folks have stepped up and continued on with the show. Something I started in 1984 keeps on going!! Congrats to Maui girl Bernadette (Oliveira) Davidson and son Mike for keeping on keeping on. I think by now they've surpassed my time on air Does that make me famous? Nah. ...Expand for more