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Kamehameha High School - Health and Wellness Academy


Bottom row: Dane Nelson, Connie Leyendecker
Top row: Hanakahi Perreira, Gaynell Fuchs, Lisa Soares

Aloha mai kakou!

The Health and Wellness team enters this school year healthy and well, and hopes for the same for all reading this. Our members have Bachelors degrees in health, P.E., mathematics, computer science, speech communication, theatre arts, English, history, and Hawaiian studies, and Masters degrees in educational leadership, English, and curriculum and instruction, and we have a total of 94 years of teaching experience. Another reason we can relate to our students is because we have seven children, and seven grandchildren.

One member of the team has such dedication to education that all of his work experience has been in this field, while others have had jobs as tobacco farm worker, popcorn maker, greeter at the visitor information book at the Hilo airport, and girl singer with several bands. Likewise, our hobbies range from gardening to sewing to traveling to computer gaming to hula. Many of us spent some of the summer reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, while others perused deeper material, such as Covey’s Seven Healthy Habits of Teens, and local author Lois Ann Yamanaka’s Behold the Many.

As we reflected on highlights of the last year at KS, we warmly recall the Academic Decathlon team winning states, and the beautiful singing and dancing at Ho`ike, though our expertise varies from simply “not being scared” to dance at Ho`ike to having danced for over 25 years!

Together we have six pets and spouses (though these latter have not all been simultaneous), twelve swimsuits, and eight siblings. For junk food we like popcorn, ice cream, and arare and ice cream together. Though there really isn’t much time for television, we do enjoy Damages, Rescue Me, and Ugly Betty.

We’re looking forward to learning about your children, too, as well as teaching them their academics. Please keep in touch with us throughout the year as we all work to keep the students of Kamehameha Schools Hawai`i healthy and well.
Na makou no me ka `oia`io.