founder of hui o nā ʻōpio
Kumu John Keola Lake was the man who first introduced Hawaiian Studies to Saint Louis School (SLS) and from that came Hui o Nā ʻŌpio (HUI). Ironically though when Kumu Lake first started in 1962 he taught Spanish until a nun at the school questioned why there was no Hawaiian Studies program. In the 1964-1965 school year, Kumu Lake began the Hawaiian studies program with Hawaiian language, Hawaiian history, and Hui o Nā ʻŌpio. Kumu Lake is a very renowned Hawaiian who has gone far in the Hawaiian community being the kahuna nui at Pu'u Koholā and traveling to Rapa Nui for the 1999 Ho'olaule'a voyage. He has also brought up his own hālaus other than HUI such as Hālau Mele in 1975 and Nā Hānona Hālau hula Pā Oia Kapu in 1980. Kumu Lake has also received awards such as the Outstanding HCC Member (1978), Outstanding Hawaiian (1980), and Outstanding High School Teacher at Catholic Schools (1992).
Kumu Lake has been a very influential person on the Hawaiian community through all his achievements and events that he did. He believed he had a kuleana (responsibility) to bring stability to traditional protocol and to find the next generation to carry it on. Kumu Lake was a very admirable, 'olu'olu (kind) man who loved the Hawaiian culture.
"The beauty, the styles, the topics, and the metaphors of our chants make the Hawaiian oral form just as great as the British Orations, American Novels, or Greek Tragedies." -Lake
Kumu Lake has been a very influential person on the Hawaiian community through all his achievements and events that he did. He believed he had a kuleana (responsibility) to bring stability to traditional protocol and to find the next generation to carry it on. Kumu Lake was a very admirable, 'olu'olu (kind) man who loved the Hawaiian culture.
"The beauty, the styles, the topics, and the metaphors of our chants make the Hawaiian oral form just as great as the British Orations, American Novels, or Greek Tragedies." -Lake
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Kumu John Lake's Hawaiiana teachings carried on
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Hawaiian Prophecies:
John Keola Lake |