Punahou '59 Web Site

     Our Punahou Class of '59 web site will continually be enhanced and kept current over the coming years. Please send us your ideas for web site content and your materials to be published including photos with captions.

     Please write us interesting recollections about our Punahou days together, yourself today, your family, work, your community, children, grandchildren, pets, awards, life experiences growing up to where you are today, life's learnings, recommended reading for our personal preparations for the reunion,,, anything you think will be interesting which you wish to contribute in this shared public forum called the Internet.

     Please send your stuff to: The '59 Web Site, c/o Jon Larson PO Box 751, Tiburon, CA 94920 or email it to jon_larson@hotmail.com.   We will scan and return to you any photos you send in.   If you have Internet web site programming skills, then we need you. Please call Jon today at 415-435-0523.

 

Mahalo, and we look forward to seeing you at our 55th in 2014.

A note from the Editor

"Dear Punahou '59 classmates:

The "Class of '59 Web Site" is accessible worldwide now on the Internet at http://www.punahou59.org. It is a work in progress. Now that the structure is set up, it is relatively easy to make changes and incorporate new categories and information including photographs and personal information from all of our classmates.

I have exhausted my own personal collection of Punahou and '59 memorabilia as well as that of my sister Helen and look forward to continuing to receive over the years more additional photo's and information to be published from our many classmates. This will greatly enrich the web site experience for everyone. I send a special Mahalo to those of us who have already contributed materials to our web site. I have duplicated some images and information available on the main Punahou School web site for consistency which you should visit when you have time.

The '59 web site is in addition to and will never replace the Punahou Bulletin that with special mahalo's to Diane, has kept us together and in touch over the years. The Bulletin will keep us current and the web site will collect and hold our collective story in photos. Both of them together enrich our lives. (Sorry Diane, you have to keep going with the Bulletin).

I welcome and encourage your review and critique of the web site and openly welcome any and all suggestions for changes and new subject matter. The Punahou Alumni Office now references our web site to other classes. I donate my web space and software tools gratis to the cause so there are no costs to the class as we move forward.

I have tried to keep it respectful where appropriate, and appropriately disrespectful and light where appropriate. I apologize if any of my attempts at humor with captioning or in content or photo selection have offended anyone. If I have done so please call or email me and I will remove the offensive material immediately. Four nice features of the Internet are:

1) It is easy to update and distribute current information.

2) It is viewable worldwide from a PC anywhere .

3) It is easy to obtain hard copy printouts of the information .

4) It is in living color.

We need to remain very sensitive and aware of confidentiality and accuracy because the information in our web site is available worldwide and any portion may be viewed, copied and used by others out of context.

I hope you all enjoy our web site and find it interesting, educational, historical and fun.

We will use the web site to help us organize and promote our reunion coming up in June of 2014.

I am pleased to defray the expenses for supporting our Class of 1959 web site through our Larson Family Foundation  which is supported by my venture capital firm   Investment Recovery Partners.

Finally, always remember that your Punahou '59 classmates love you for who you are, not for who you think we think you were, are or should be. My love for you, Punahou and Hawaii is boundless and forever.  Come catch the 'Spirit' at our reunions every five years.   If not then,,, when? Life marches on doesn't it? 

 

1943                              1947                              1959                                    2002                                              2009

 

We are all in this wonderful voyage together. I take immense comfort from knowing this."

Mahalo and Aloha Nui, Jon Larson, '59 Web Site Editor

2009  - Tiburon, California