CLUB SLOWS PACE FOR THE SUMMER June 2016 
NEXT MEETING NOTICE WHEN: Saturday, June 18, 2016 TIME: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM WHERE: Newport Hills Swim & Tennis Club, Bellevue, WA …..
No club meeting in July. Come out to June meeting to wala’au and renew acquaintances before everyone scatters on vacations. …..Members will need to pay their annual dues starting Jan 2016. Dues are $36 for the year, or $30 if you pay by January 31. You can pay the treasurer at our club meeting or mail it to her at her address on page 2. …..If you prefer to receive this newsletter in electronic form rather than paper, thus reducing club mailing expense, send an email to our corresponding secretary, Stan Dahlin, at scdahlin@comcast.net. www.wakinikonaclub.com
As the weather heats up, our club slows down a bit to enjoy the weather, allow families to squeeze in whatever time they have for vacations, and otherwise just lay back and take it easy. The first obvious sign of this slowing pace is the monthly potluck. We don’t have one in July, and the August one serves as our summer picnic. We also don’t have a potluck in September, so it is more time off from the routine. However, when we do have meetings, we encourage members to participate and attend them so they can promote fellowship and camaraderie —one of our primary goals of our club. Our next potluck on June 18 is another chance to meet and renew acquaintances with fellow club members. Come out for a relaxing evening on the 18th in a very nice setting overlooking the pool at Newport Hills. 

Many monarchs are honored in Hawaii. King Kamehameha is the most celebrated monarch of all, with multiple statues. The sculpture in Honolulu is one of the most photographed landmarks. Photos were used in the opening scenes of the original 1970’s Hawaii Five-O and in the new Five-O series, possibly hundreds of travel magazine pages and an un-counted number of Trip to Hawaii story-line sit-coms and television commercials.
The Original Kamehameha Statue How the king’s likeness got to the spot is interesting. In 1878 Walter M. Gibson, a member of the Hawaiian government wanted to commemorate the 100-year arrival of Captain Cook to the Hawaiian Islands. The legislature appropriated $10,000 for the project. Gibson contracted Thomas R. Gould, a Boston sculptor who had never been to Hawaii, Gibson sent photos of Polynesians. Still, the face came out a bit Roman. In 1880 the sculpture was sent to Paris to be cast in bronze, too late for the 100th anniversary of Cook’s arrival.
The Original Kamehameha Statue resides in Kohala on Hawaii Island. 

A Second Statue Was Quickly Re-castCompleted In 1883, the statue was on its way to Hawaii when the ship sunk off the Falkland Islands and the statue assumed lost. A second statue was quickly re-cast. Meanwhile, some Falkland-islanders found the original and sold it to the captain of the wrecked ship. He, in turn, sold it to Gibson for $875. Both statues arrived. The first stands on Hawaii Island in the king’s birthplace, Kohala. The second is in Downtown Honolulu.
The second Kamehameha statue resides in Downtown Honolulu. 
A Third Statue for StatehoodThe third statue was commissioned when Hawaii became a state. It was unveiled in 1969 and stood in the United States Capitol beside the Father Damien of Molokai statue. It was the heaviest of all the statues, weighing in at 15,000 pounds. When Barack Obama was nominated as a candidate for president the statue was moved from a dark back corner of Statuary Hall to a very prominent position in Emancipation Hall in the new visitor center.

The third Kamehameha statue proudly stands in Washington D.C. 
Hilo, Grand Wailea Resort and Las VegasThree more castings are located in Hilo on Hawaii Island, at the Grand Waialea Resort on Maui and, finally, there is a statue in what is often called the 9th Hawaiian Island, located at the Las Vegas Hawaiian Marketplace.

Do you know where any other statues are? Have you been to a Kamehameha Day parade? Share your experience with us below in the comments.  King Kamehameha conquered all islands except one, name that island?