Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 3, 1 March 2010 — He hoʻomanaʻo [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

He hoʻomanaʻo

in memūnam WILLIAM G. DEMMERT

Larry Kimura, assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo Ka Haka 'Ula o Ke'elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, wrote a kanikau or dirge honoring the memory of William Demmert, who died Jan. 19 in Bellingham, Washington, at age 75. Demmert, of the Tlingit Eagle elan, was in 1973 one the first Native American doctoral graduates of Harvard

University. He was a founding member of the National Indian Education Association and a ehampion for improving the academic performance

Pholo eaplion: William T Amenean n l dl i r lndian, Native Demmert. - Photo: Cour- TT .! , . eu ■ o ■ Hawanan and tesy or Hiapo Perreira ., , ,T ... ' r AlaskaNativechildren. Along with the kanikau, the Hawaiian Language College also offered a eondolence resolution written in Hawaiian and English by assistant professor Hiapo Perreira to Demmert's family. Both documents made their way to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who added them into the congressional record. Kimura's dirge appears helow. The condolence resolution may be found online in the February issue of Ka Wai Ola Loa at oha.org/kwo/loa/20 10/02/ story05.

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