Mililani High School - Na Mana O Poina Ole Yearbook (Mililani, HI)

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Happy Anniversary Tops! he rhyThm of The drums ac- companied The chanTing of The kumu hula, or hula masTer, as The dancers gracefully glided along The maTTed floor. The dresses creaied a flurry of whife as The syncronized beaiing of The bare feeT and ipu CHawai- ian percussion devicej provided The audiences wiTh a precision exhibiTion of classical Hawaiian hula. The hearTbeaT of The halau Chula schoolj is The kumu hula, a posiTion ThaT Teacher John Topo- linskiknows well, As The kumu hula for The presfigious Ka Pa Hula Ha- waii, lvlr. Topolinski for Tops as he is affecTionaTely calledy allows his halau To perform only aT The mosf selecfive evenTs. They have performed before TahiTian royal- Ty, and many oiher prominenT digniTaries. Even as a social sTudies Teach- er, Tops' exiended his love for his culTure in his Hawaiian hisiory class. There he hoped To imparT some of The reverence for The TradiTions which he almosT ig- nored as a young man. Being broughf up in a wesfern culTure, Tops adopTed aTTiTudes Toward dancing which were common aT ThaT Time: dancing was noT for men. His love for hula emerged affer he realized his culTural iden- TiTy, he realized I was Hawaiian Sandra Pairia Guidance STeven Poor Social Sfudies Valerie Roibal ESOL Charlene SakomoTo Science Kennefh Sakamofo Science David Sanfana Spanish Edward Sawada Main Richard Shinseki Science 434 Faculfy and couldn'T even do The nafional dance. ThaT was The spark ThaT Told me To come back home and learn To dance. His skill wiTh hula and his remarkable Teaching Talenfs gave Tops a place in The Spoflighf. The cusToms, TradiTions and beliefs of old Hawaii live and Thrived in The heari of John Kahai Topolinski and in The hearTs of his sfudenfs, boTh in The class and in The dance hall. Now in Their l5Th year, Ka Pa Hula Hawaii sTrived To perfecT Their dancing according To TradiTion and will conTinue To shine in The Spofiighf. Copy By KeiTh Kamisugi and Vivian Akiyama - Tizfz T y . -- . z Q' ,, - if Y V ,, ,L ,.., ,pf ,, Q ., K V . L. r N ,I cg: Q, I , c T e i r- T T T- f ' c 'T T T , .,, 1: -:-' 'sa ell? rgnw ,, 1 . so T X

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