Dear Auntie Dottie

Dorothy (Hanamaikai) Crowell ’55 … affectionately known as “Auntie Dottie” to most … has been affiliated with Mid-Pacific Institute for over 53 years as a scholarship student, Admissions Director and mentor extraordinaire!

On this special page … MPI alumni, family and friends are invited to write a note to Auntie Dottie. We encourage you to ask Auntie about Mid-Pacific … fill her in on your new baby, upcoming wedding, grandchildren, promotion, accomplishments or milestones … this is a time to share!

To write to Auntie, we ask that you complete the form located here. This form will be sent to the alumni director who will then forward your note to Auntie Dottie. Your letter to Auntie as well as Auntie’s reply to you will then be posted on our website.

Auntie Dottie is looking forward to hearing from you! Aloha!

Send a message to Auntie Dottie! Click here. Aloha Auntie Dottie,
     I just wanted to update you after all these years as to the where abouts of Jan '00 and Lori '01. After graduating from USC in '04, Jan worked for KPMG - LA and entered law school in '05. She will be graduating this May from Georgetown Law Center, in Washington, DC and working as a corp. lawyer associate with Millbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in Los Angeles.
     Lori after graduating from Claremont McKenna in '05 is in her 4th year at the Universtiy of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, IL in the School of Vet Medicine and graduating in May '09.
     They are doing well, and hopefully this note finds you in good health and spirits. We are always grateful to you and the wonderful people that help the girls back in 1997-2001 in preparing them for the hard work and journey in their careers.
                                                God bless! Michael & Diane Nishizawa

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Dear Michael and Diane:
     Thank you for sharing the excellent news regarding Jan and Lori. Congratulations! Imagine lawyer Jan and veterinarian Lori! Your daughters are outstanding young people and will do very well in their careers. It is MPI's good fortune to have them as members of our alumni association. Please extend my best wishes. I hope they will be able to visit campus on their next visit. Perhaps I will have the pleasure of seeing them.
                                                                Aloha, take care, Dottie

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Hi Auntie!
I could not resist writing you a note. You have always been in my heart whenever thoughts of the good old days at MPI enter my mind. Those years were the best years of my life. I am so happy to see that you are still such an active part of the MPI scene. I retired last year from Pepsi Cola Company as the Plant Manager after 31 years. My daughter Alison '98 has graduated from the UH School of Nursing and is currently working as a RN at the Queen's Medical Center. I want to wish you all the best. 
                                                                        Albert

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Hey Auntie Dottie!!
   How are you! I hope you are fine. I'm doing well here in Vegas. Anytime you're up give me a jingle, I'll cruise by and pick you up!! My kids now are 11 and 12!! Conor and Allessandra are growing so fast!! I just hope you are in good health and spirits (and enjoying yourself!). Remember to give me a call when you get up here to Vega$$!!
                                                    Love to all, Jan C. Climo (Yoshida '88)

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Aloha Jan,
How great it is to hear from you.  And so nice that Conor and Allessandra are doing well.
I will be in Las Vegas for the Alumni Homecoming, July 9-14 and would love to spend
some time with you. I will be staying at the Orleans. Hope you can join us.
Since your phone is such, please call me at the Orleans.
                                                        Take care, stay healthy, Aunty Dottie

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Hi Auntie Dottie,
     Hope you're doing well! Pauline, Lauren and I are off to the West Coast to meet up
with Bev, Randy, and Heidi's family this week for Spring Break. Perhaps when we're
visiting home this summer we can get together. It has been awhile.
                                                              Aloha, Tyler
                                                           
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Dear Tyler,
     So nice to hear from you. Are you still in Canada? I imagine Lauren is attending school
by now. Hope the Kim clan has a wonderful visit in California. I bet Disneyland is on the
itinerary. Yes, let's meet this summer during your family visit to Hawaii. It'll be great to see
you, Pauline and Lauren, & Heidi and her keiki. Please give the family my aloha.
                                                             Take care, Aunty Dottie

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Hi Dottie:
     This past weekend, Denise Liu '78 and I attended a hula performance (Daughters of
Haumea) by a San Francisco based halau. Ms. Koco Conner '79 is a member of the halau,
and she reserved tickets for Denise and me. The halau is directed by Kumu Patrick
Makuakane, a St. Patrick's classmate of Scott Botelho '78. The performance was an infusion
of traditional and modern interpretive hula. I hope that all is well.
                                                              Love, Jon '79
                                                           
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Dear Jon,
     So glad you were able to attend Kumu Patrick Makuakane's Daughters of Haumea
performance. He is an awesome person. I have great admiration and respect for him. And,
so great to hear that Koco is a member of his halau. You take care, Jonjon. We will
see each other soon.
                                                            Love, Aunty Dottie

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