12th Annual Ohana Golf Tournament
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Help Send the McKinley Football Team to Oregon
Coach Joe Cho (McKinley Class of '72), current head football coach at McKinley, is looking for any assistance in the form of donations, sponsorships, etc., to help offset the costs for a planned team trip on August 29, 2012, to play La Salle Catholic College Prepatory, a high school in Oregon. The current head football coach of La Salle, Tim Bowman, is also a McKinley alumnus from the Class of '77.
Since Coach Cho left Oregon 2 years ago to return to Hawaii to coach at McKinley, he and Coach Bowman had talked about setting up a game between McKinley and La Salle. This was the year they wanted to do it. Unfortunately, our football team's fundraising efforts up to this point have not been as good as they had expected it to be. Now they need your help.
As a gesture of appreciation, Coach Cho can put your name or business on their game programs as a sponsor of the team and of McKinley High School, and of course sending you a picture of the team in Oregon with a big thank you on the picture. And you'll also take with you a sense of Tiger Pride by helping the team fulfill this opportunity to play in Oregon against a team coached by another McKinley alumnus.
You can contact Coach Cho by email at Joseph_Cho@notes.k12.hi.us, or by phone at (808) 594-0400 ext. 2087. And you can also catch up on the football team at their Web site: www.mckinleytigersfootball.com.
Date CHANGED for 2012 Membership Fest
The date of the Membership Fest has been changed to Saturday, November 17, 2012.
Get more info or view the PDF flyer.
Snail Mailing Alumni Pinion Items
Effective immediately, if mailing in reunion news, articles, photos, etc. for the Alumni Pinion, please mail it to the school address:
McKinley Alumni Association
Alumni Pinion
c/o 1039 South King Street
Honolulu, HI 96814
If emailing items, continue to send it to .
Hawaii's Korean Volcanoes - The Minn Brothers
Read about 2 extraordinary graduates of McKinley High School - Herbert and Albert Minn.
Hawaiian Airlines Preferred Affiliate Program
The McKinley Alumni Association has joined Hawaiian Airlines’ Preferred Affiliate Program. Now you can help the Alumni Association earn Hawaiian Airline miles!
Become a Facebook Fan
The Alumni Association is now on Facebook. Become a fan and get updates automatically posted to your Facebook news feeds. Click the "Become a Fan" button found in the right column (or click here to view our facebook page).
Twittering Tweets
We have begun posting tweets of miscellaneous school and class events that we may discover from time to time. The tweets allows us to provide the information to you much quicker.
You can follow the tweets right here on this Web site, on the right-hand side. Or you can visit www.twitter.com/mckinleyalumni.
To learn more about Twitter, you can visit http://news.cnet.com/newbies-guide-to-twitter/. To learn more about following a tweet (especially from your mobile phone), visit http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14019.
Guy Hagi Visits McKinley
The crew of the KGMB news team goes back to visit their schools. In this episode, weather anchor Guy Hagi goes back to visit McKinley. Read the story and watch the online video at www.kgmb9.com/main/content/view/17165/288.
Alumni e-Pinion Available
To help us cut costs in printing and postage, we're making the Alumni Pinion available to Alumni Association members via email. But more importantly, the money used towards printing and postage is money that could be used towards more support of school programs (Robotics, JROTC, etc.) and student scholarships. In addition to helping us reduce expenses, an added benefit to you would be the instant gratification of receiving the Alumni Pinion via email instead of waiting for it via "snail mail." You will also get to view most of the pictures in color, whereas the pictures are black and white in print.
Subscribe to the e-Pinion now! (Reminder: You need to be a member of the Alumni Association to receive the Alumni Pinion - paper or electronic.)
The e-Pinion is sent as a PDF file which can be viewed using the free Adobe Reader.
Association Tax Status
The McKinley Alumni Association is a non-profit 501(c)(7) organization under the IRS which does NOT allow donations made to the Association to be a tax-deductible contribution. Please consult your tax advisor with any questions and clarifications. (Note: The Association may seek, in the future, to obtain the IRS Section 501(c)(3) status that allows for tax-deductible contributions.)
Please refer to the Donations page on how to make a donation.
Organizing Your First Reunion
You're getting old(er) and suddenly realize your first reunion is coming up (whether 5th, 10th, etc.). What the heck do you do now? Read on...

