List of Punahou School alumni

This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School, a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. An asterisk indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class. Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.

Olympic athletes and other world champions

Beach volleyball

'90 Kevin Wong —2000
'91 Stein Metzger —2004
'10 Taylor Crabb —2021

Diving

'69 Keala O'Sullivan —1968 bronze medalist

Dressage (equestrian)

'72* Sandy Pflueger—1984

Kayaking

'92 Kathryn Colin —2000, 2004
'97 Andrew Bussey —2004

Sailing

'66 David Rockwell McFaull —1976 silver medalist
'72 Michael Jon Rothwell—1976 silver medalist
'76 Keani Reiner

Surfing

'10 Carissa Moore, first Olympic gold medal in women's short board surfing in 2020

Swimming

'24* Mariechen Wehselau Jackson—1924 gold and silver medalist
'24 Helen Moses
'25* Warren Kealoha—1920 gold medalist, 1924 gold medalist
'27 Buster Crabbe —1928 bronze medalist, 1932 gold medalist
'47 Dick Cleveland —1952, four-time world record holder, International Swimming Hall of Fame
'67 Brent Thales Berk —1968
'76 Chris Woo —1976
2009 Christel Simms —2008

Volleyball

'66 Miki Briggs McFadden —1968
'92 Mike Lambert —1996, 2000
'98 Lindsey Berg —2004, 2008, and 2012 silver medalist
2008 Erik Shoji —2016, 2020

Water polo

'84 Christopher Duplanty —silver medalist 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000
'97 Sean Kern —2000
'99 Brandon Brooks —2004, 2008 silver medalist

Track

'72 Henry Marsh —1976, 1980 team, 1984, 1988

Other world champion athletes and recent All-Americans

'99 Elisa Au —3-time World Karate Federation World Champion, Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, 2005 best amateur athlete, Sullivan Award finalist

Athletes

Football

'27 Henry Thomas "Hank" "Honolulu" Hughes —original Boston Braves football player in 1932
'48 Herman Clark —Chicago Bears offensive lineman 1952-57
'48 Jim Clark —Washington Redskins offensive lineman 1952-53 and Hawaii state senator
'49 Charlie Ane Jr. —Detroit Lions offensive lineman 1953-59, team captain for two NFL championships and two-time Pro Bowl selection
'59* Ray Schoenke —Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins offensive lineman 1963-75, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor, 1998, founding president of American Hunters and Shooters Association
'64 Norm Chow —CFL player, former Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator, former University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa head coach
'71 Arnold Morgado, Jr. —Kansas City Chiefs running back 1977-80, city councilman
'71 Charles "Kale" Ane III —offensive lineman for Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers, 1975-1981
'74 Mosi Tatupu —New England Patriots running back 1978-91, one Super Bowl, one Pro Bowl, college football Mosi Tatupu Award, father of Lofa Tatupu
'78 Mark Tuinei —Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman 1983-97, two Pro Bowls and three Super Bowls
'80 John Kamana III —Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons running back
'09 Manti Teʻo —signed by the San Diego Chargers, 2012 Heisman Trophy finalist
'12 DeForest Buckner —NFL defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2016
'12 Kaʻimi Fairbairn —NFL place kicker for the Houston Texans
'18 Andrei Iosivas —NFL wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals
'19 Marist Liufau —NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys

Baseball

'81* Joey Meyer, Jr. —Milwaukee Brewers first baseman 1988-89
'97 Justin Wayne —Florida Marlins pitcher 2002-04
'14 KJ Harrison

Tennis

'63 Jim Osborne —5-time Grand Prix tennis circuit doubles winner

Golf

'97 Parker McLachlin —winner on PGA Tour, 4-time top-10 finisher in 53 events
'99 Bridget Dwyer —#9 on LPGA Futures Tour, #2 on The Big Break VI
2007 Michelle Wie —2-time LPGA winner, winning Solheim Cup team member, 36-time top-10 finisher

Surfing

'65 Fred Hemmings, Jr.—1968 world surfing champion, Hawaii state senator, Republican minority leader
'66 Gerry Lopez—1972 and 1973 Pipeline Masters champion
'67 Jeff Hakman—1974 and 1975 world surfing champion and founder of Quiksilver
'10 Carissa Moore—2011 ASP Women's World Tour Champion; multiple ASP Elite victories; 2010 ASP Rookie of the Year and 11 National Scholastic Surfing Association titles; 2020 gold medalist

Mixed martial arts

'09 Ilima-Lei Macfarlane—professional mixed martial artist, inaugural and former Bellator MMA Flyweight Champion

Medical doctors

'45 Calvin C.J. Sia —developer and leading advocate of the nationwide Medical Home concept for pediatric care and federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program
'69 Dale T. Umetsu —endowed professor of pediatrics at Harvard

Other educators and researchers

Administrators and general subjects

'70 Robert Spitzer —President of Gonzaga University

Law and business

'33 Honorable Samuel P. King—Federal District Court Judge, Ninth Circuit; co-author, Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust
'48 Isaac Shapiro —Professor of Law at NYU and Columbia, Working but Poor: America's Contradiction, The Soviet Legal System
'54 Robert M. Seto —Emeritus Professor of Law at Regent University, federal patent and contracts judge
'61 William Ouchi —Endowed Professor of Business at UCLA, U Chicago, and Stanford, Theory Z and Making Schools Work, Chief of Staff of LA Mayor Richard Riordan

Science

'46 Alison Kay —malacologist and Fulbright scholar, Shells of Hawaii, ''Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands''

Logic, philosophy, mathematics, computing and engineering

'79 Ronald Loui —professor of computer science at Wash U, patent holder on packet processing hardware, Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning and ''Legal Knowledge and Information Systems''

Social science

'31* Paul Linebarger, a.k.a. Cordwainer Smith—instructor in government at Harvard, Professor of Political Science at Duke and Johns Hopkins, fifteen books of science fiction, five nonfiction works including Psychological Warfare, Bronze Star, Army Major, helped form Office of War Information, advisor to CIA and John F. Kennedy, buried at Arlington National Cemetery
'43 Joyce Lebra Chapman —Fulbright Scholar, Emerita Professor of History at Colorado, nine books on women and Asia
'68 Patrick Vinton Kirch —endowed professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, elected to American Philosophical Society, nine books on oceanic and Polynesian prehistory
'78 John Lie —endowed professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and U Illinois, dean of international studies, six books on Korea, Japan, and two textbooks on sociology

Civil rights leaders

1859 Samuel C. Armstrong —defeated Pickett's Charge at Battle of Gettysburg and commanded 8th U.S. Colored Troops, founding president of Hampton University and mentor of Booker T. Washington, honorary LLD from Harvard; subject of Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited and Armstrong: A Biographical Study; Armstrong High School
'14 Elbert Tuttle —Chief Judge of US Court of Appeals 1954-68 appointed by Dwight Eisenhower, leader of the Fifth Circuit Four ruling on Southern desegregation cases, Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary LLD from Harvard, subject of book Unlikely Heroes, inductee of International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, oldest serving federal judge at 98, brigadier general, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Legion of Merit, Elbert Parr Tuttle US Court of Appeals and Anti Defamation League's Elbert P. Tuttle Jurisprudence Award
'29* John W. Gardner —subject of PBS documentary Uncommon American, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Secretary of HEW 1965-68 under Lyndon Johnson, launched Medicare, Common Cause, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Urban Coalition, Model UN, and White House Fellows Program, Marine Corps Captain at Office of Strategic Services, head of Carnegie Foundation, Professor at Mount Holyoke College and Stanford, offered Robert F. Kennedy's vacated Senate seat, author of seven books including speeches and papers of John F. Kennedy, John W. Gardner Center and ''John W. Gardner Leadership Award''

Other elected representatives, government appointees, judges

United States Presidents

'79 Barack Obama —44th President of the United States 2008–2016, Democratic US Senator from Illinois 2004-2008

U.S. Senators

1892 Hiram Bingham —Republican US Senator from Connecticut 1924–33, discoverer of Machu Picchu, lecturer at Harvard and Princeton, Professor of History at Yale, spouse to the Tiffany fortune heiress, buried at Arlington National Cemetery, possible inspiration for Indiana Jones
'90 Brian Schatz —Democratic US Senator from Hawaii, former Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii

U.S. Congressional representatives

1889 Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaole —Hawaiian prince, Delegate to the US House of Representatives from Hawaii 1903–22
1891* Henry Alexander Baldwin —Republican Delegate to US Congress from Hawaii 1921–23
'15 Joseph Farrington —Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 1943-54
'39* Otis Pike —Democratic US Congressman from New York 1961–79, decorated USMC World War II pilot, known for work on environment, Pike Committee investigations of Richard Nixon's intelligence abuses, Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area
'87 Charles Djou —Republican US Congressman from Hawaii 2010-2011, and Major in the Army Reserve

Presidential appointees

1864 Sanford Dole —appointed first territorial governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by William McKinley
1881 Walter Frear —appointed third territorial governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by Theodore Roosevelt
1896 William Castle, Jr. —Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Japan under Calvin Coolidge, Undersecretary of State for Herbert Hoover, Harvard Board of Overseers
1905 Lawrence M. Judd —appointed seventh territorial governor of Hawaii by Herbert Hoover
1908 William Charles Achi, Jr. —appointed territorial judge by Woodrow Wilson
'33 Samuel Pailthorpe King —appointed federal judge by Richard Nixon
'47 John M. Steadman —appointed judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan
'50 Alan Cooke Kay —appointed federal judge by Ronald Reagan
'51 Elinor G. Constable —US Ambassador to Kenya nominated by Ronald Reagan
'62 Wendy Lee Gramm —head of Commodity Futures Trading Commission for Ronald Reagan, his "favorite economist", disgraced Enron board member, spouse of Texas Republican senator Phil Gramm
'65 Robert G. Klein —justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, appointed a federal judge by Bill Clinton
'75 Robert S. Silberman —Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) for George H. W. Bush, President of CalEnergy, CEO of Strayer Education

Local officials, other representatives and appointees

1858 Albert Francis Judd —Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii
'23 Rhoda Valentine Lewis —inaugural, and first female, justice on the Supreme Court of Hawaii
'40 Charles Marsland —first elected Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu, who served from 1980 to 1988
'59 Stephen Yamashiro—Mayor of Hawaii County from 1992 to 2000
'75 Mary Fairhurst —justice of Washington State Supreme Court
'79 Laura Thielen —Hawaii Senate representative, District 25; former chair of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
'92 Clare E. Connors —United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii

Military leaders and officers

Army

'05 Paul Withington —MD in World War I, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and French Croix de guerre, U Wisconsin football coach and college quarterback
'20* Russell "Red" Reeder, Jr. —colonel and regiment leader at Utah Beach on D-Day, Distinguished Service Cross, West Point Distinguished Graduate, 35 books including The Long Gray Line, Born at Reveille, and the "Clint Lane" stories
'22* Donald Prentice Booth —High Commissioner of Okinawa 1958–61, lieutenant general, commander of Fourth United States Army, commander of Persian Gulf Command, buried at Arlington National Cemetery
'35 Francis B. Wai —Captain in World War II, posthumous Medal of Honor for actions in Battle of Leyte
'38 Thurston Twigg-Smith —lieutenant colonel in National Guard Artillery, Bronze Star, leading critic of Hawaiian sovereignty movement
'42* George Patton IV —major general, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, served in Korean War and Vietnam War, son of General George S. Patton

Navy

'29* Gordon Chung-Hoon —rear admiral, survivor, commanded World War II destroyer, Silver Star and Navy Cross, destroyer, Sports Illustrated featured football star
'77 Thomas H. Copeman III —rear admiral, commanded, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Training, and Readiness, appointed to reform the internment camp at Guantanamo Bay
'77 Alma M. Grocki —admiral, member of the 2nd class at the Naval Academy to admit women

Marines

'37 Ross T. Dwyer —major general, commanded 1st Marine Division and I Marine Amphibious Force, USMC Aide to Secretary of the Navy, Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star

Air Force

'66* Gregory S. Martin —general and commander at Wright-Patterson AFB, commander of Allied Airforces, Northern Europe ; Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross

Entertainment

Musicians and composers

'12 Robert Alexander Anderson —World War I downed pilot, subject of film The Dawn Patrol, composer of Hawaiian standards "Mele Kalikimaka", "Lovely Hula Hands"
'52* Dave Guard —Kingston Trio founder
'52 Bob Shane —Kingston Trio founding guitarist
'59 Robin Luke —early rockabilly singer, Rockabilly Hall of Fame, "Susie Darlin'" was a No. 5 hit, then Professor and Head of Marketing, Southwest Missouri State University
'62 Bruce Broughton—film composer and 10-time Emmy-winner for TV themes and series
'77 Conrad Herwig —Grammy Award-nominated jazz trombonist, recorded 17 albums as leader, Professor of Jazz at Rutgers
'00 melody.—Japanese pop artist with three top ten albums
'00 Yasmeen Sulieman—recording artist with two top-100 R&B hits

Broadway, stage, and dance performers

'33* Jean Erdman —one of Martha Graham's first dancers, founded her own NYC dance company; spouse of religion and mythology author Joseph Campbell
'68 Rap Reiplinger—Emmy-winning comedian
'81 Ann Harada —original cast main actress, Tony Award-winning Avenue Q
'86 Carrie Ann Inaba —choreographer and judge, Dancing with the Stars, actress, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Flygirl dancer on In Living Color
'87 Rachel Factor, née Christine Horii —Broadway actress, Rockettes dancer, one person show JAP
'96 Amanda Schull —lead actress in Center Stage, dancer for San Francisco Ballet

TV and film performers

'25* Joan Blondell —leading actress for 52 years in films and on stage, Hollywood Walk of Fame star, nominated for Academy Award best supporting actress in 1951
'27 Buster Crabbe —athlete and leading actor, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers 1933-50
'54 Al Harrington —athlete and actor, Hawaii Five-O
'66 Susan Blakely —winner of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Award 1976 Best Dramatic Actress Rich Man, Poor Man, twice nominated for the Emmy Award as Best Dramatic Actress, 1976–77, Rich Man, Poor Man
'66 Gerry Lopez —surfer and main actor, Subotai in Conan the Barbarian
'79 Teri Ann Linn —Miss Hawaii 1981, singer and main actress, Kristen Forrester Dominguez in The Bold and the Beautiful, gold CD Teri on the European charts
'80 Kelly Preston, née Kelly Smith —leading actress, 50+ films including For Love of the Game, Jerry Maguire, Addicted to Love, Twins, Only You, Waiting to Exhale; spouse of actor John Travolta
'82 Scott Coffey—actor, Tank Girl, Mulholland Drive, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Wayne's World 2, male lead in Shag
'91 Matt Corboy —actor, The Shield, The Descendants
'95 Sarah Wayne Callies —actress, female lead in Prison Break, female lead in The Walking Dead
'96 Amanda Schull - actress, One Tree Hill, Suits, Pretty Little Liars, and 12 Monkeys
'01 Jason Tam—actor, Markko Rivera on One Life to Live and Beyond the Break
'06 Asia Ray Smith—actress, Sierra Hoffman on ''The Young and the Restless''

Other entertainment industry producers

'35* Buck Henshaw —set decorator 1950–1987, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Twilight Zone, Black Widow
'38 John Kneubuhl —writer for Wild, Wild, West, Star Trek, Mannix, The Fugitive, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train
'53 Allan Burns —6-time Emmy Award-winning writer and creator 1961–96, The Munsters, Get Smart, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and the Cap'n Crunch cereal character, animator of George of the Jungle, nominated for Oscar
'69 Edgy Lee —independent filmmaker
'78 Don King —surfing photographer and cinematographer
'80 Rod Lurie —creator of Commander in Chief, Line of Fire, portraying the first Jewish U.S. president and the first woman U.S. President
'80* Kevin McCollum —Broadway producer of Tony Award-winning Rent and Avenue Q, owner of production company claiming five Tony Awards, thirteen nominations, and Pulitzer Prize for Drama
'83* Iris Yamashita —nominated for best original screenplay for Letters from Iwo Jima
'85 Scott Moore —nominated for BAFTA Award for best original screenplay for The Hangover, co-wrote and -directed Bad Moms
'88 Albert Cheng—Emmy award for ABC streaming video internet site
'92 Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal —Filmmaker, award-winning director of several documentaries, co-producer of Grassroots
'94 Kaui Hart Hemmings —writer of The Descendants
'97 David Nakayama—concept and comic book artist

Business leaders and philanthropists

Major philanthropists

'39 Charles Gates, Jr. —owner of Gates Rubber Company and Gates Corporation, often listed on Forbes 400, e.g., #186 in 1999, #209 in 2002, #222 in 2003, philanthropist through Gates Family Foundation
'65* James C. Kennedy —director of Cox Enterprises and principal heir of the Barbara Cox Anthony estate, #49 in 2008 on Forbes 400, Atlanta philanthropist of the year 2003, conservation and education donor
'76 Steve Case —co-founder and CEO of America Online and philanthropist, America's #19 most generous donor in 1999 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy, appointed to the Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
'84* Pierre Omidyar —founder of eBay and philanthropist, America's #20 in 2002, #13 in 2003, #7 in 2004, #9 in 2005, and #29 most-generous donor in 2006 according to Chronicle of Philanthropy, appointed to the Presidential Commission on White House Fellows

Other founders and CEOs

'67 Jeff Hakman—world surfing champion and founder of Quiksilver in the U.S. and in Europe

Cultural notables

Authors, editors, and journalists

'10 William Whitmore Goodale Moir – botanist, agricultural technologist, author of multiple books about orchids
'63 David Boynton —photographer, naturalist, educator and author of Kauai Days, Kauai, NaPali: Images of Kauai's Northwest Shore, and several other photographic essays about Hawaii
'63 Susanna Moore—author of My Old Sweetheart, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, In The Cut, One Last Look, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i, The Big Girls, The Life of Objects
'65 Kathleen Norris —best-selling Christian spiritual poet and essayist, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
'71 Richard H.P. Sia —associate editor, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; senior editor, managing editor of National Journal; former defense correspondent at the Baltimore Sun
'73 Kirby Wright —author of Punahou Blues, Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle, Sorrow Town: Selected Stories, The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse , Square Dancing at the Asylum: Nouveau Noir Flash Fiction, and The Queen of Moloka'i: Book 1
'83 Nora Okja Keller —Pushcart Prize, 1995, for "Mother Tongue", from Comfort Woman; American Book Award, 1998
'85 Allegra Goodman —author of award-winning The Family Markowitz
'91 Nancy Cordes, née Weiner —CBS and ABC NY and Washington, D.C. news correspondent
'92 Hanya Yanagihara —author, writer, journalist
'98 Emily Chang —broadcast journalist

Other cultural notables

1861* Cornelia Hall Jones— Co-founder of the Daughters of Hawaii
1863* Emma Smith Dillingham— Co-founder of the Daughters of Hawaii and founder of the Oahu chapter of the YWCA
1875* Lorrin A. Thurston—leader of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, owner of Honolulu Advertiser, early player of baseball with Cartwrights
1883* Sun Yat-Sen—founding president of the Republic of China, founder of the Kuomintang
'13 Clorinda Low Lucas – the first Hawaiian woman to receive a professional training in social work, pioneer of Hawaiian social work
'55* Ron Jacobs—co-creator of American Top 40
'58 Jerry Berman —chief legislative counsel of ACLU, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of Center for Democracy and Technology
'62 Charles L. Veach —astronaut, two shuttle missions; Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Force Commendation Medal
'65 Charlie Wedemeyer —medical survivor celebrated in Emmy Award-winning film, Quiet Victory
'70 Arthur Johnsen—artist and painter of Hawaiiana, including The Goddess Pele
'72 Nainoa Thompson —navigator of the Hōkūlea establishing Polynesian diaspora, chairman of Board of Trustees, Kamehameha Schools
'75 Lindy Vivas —Fresno State women's volleyball coach, plaintiff awarded largest compensation for retaliation under Title IX discrimination statute
'76 Judi Andersen—Miss Hawaii, Miss USA, and runner-up Miss Universe
'79 Quentin Kawananakoa —a claimant to head of Hawaiian kingdom, Hawaii state representative, Republican minority leader
'89* Brook Mahealani Lee—Miss Hawaii USA and Miss Universe 1997
'95 Kealoha —performance poet, storyteller, and Hawaii's SlamMaster
'96* Ehren Watada —army lieutenant involved in Iraq War court-martial mistrial over command responsibility
'96* Lena Yada—professional wrestler and actress
'02* Kiwi Camara —youngest matriculate of Harvard Law School, catalyst for racial scandal

Notable former faculty and staff

Loye H. Miller, former biology instructor, paleontologist
Susan Tolman Mills—former principal, founder of Mills College
Lillian "Pokey" Watson (Richardson)—trustee, 1964 Olympic gold medalist, 1968 gold medalist
Willard Warch—former schoolmaster, professor of music at Oberlin College, author of texts such as Music for Study and Beethoven's Use of Intermediate Keys, World War II Army Air Corps Band

Additional references

The main reference for this page is the Punahou School Alumni Directory 1841-1991 Harris Publishing, New York, 1991.