“On Monday, 4 August, 1958, late afternoon, in the garage of “Papa” Louis Mahoe’s beachside home, ten determined men and women gathered to discuss the formation of a Hawaiian civic club in the Kailua district; [these founders] included Clay Bishaw, Eleanor Hutchinson, “Papa” Louis Mahoe, Solomon Mahoe, Kenneth Olds, Pilahi Paki, Eleanor Hussey Santos, and others...It was Papa Mahoe’s vision to have a Hawaiian civic club in Kailua with the objective to support the growing popularity of canoeing, to perpetuate all things Hawaiian in the district, and to provide educational scholarships to worthy students of Hawaiian ancestry. In the months that followed, people who joined the club at the time of its formation were dubbed Charter members. Mahoe, who did not want to be the president, scouted for a candidate and was excited when James K. Trask Sr. accepted the call and, thus, the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club was duly organized on 17 November, 1960.” —Dot Uchima, KHCC Historian, compiled in 2006-7.
Pictured below: Sol and father Louis “Papa” Mahoe at the club’s first AHCC convention, ca. April 1961. James K. Trask, Sr., the club's first president.
Pictured below: Sol and father Louis “Papa” Mahoe at the club’s first AHCC convention, ca. April 1961. James K. Trask, Sr., the club's first president.
