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Kauai-born journalist covered globe In 1978, Kashiwahara opened the ABC News Bureau in San Francisco and became its bureau chief. During his years there, ma 'J1' mri fMi.n.iri mill miMn ini i KHVH anchors Chuck Henry and Ken Kashiwahara, right, shared the news desk circa 1970-71. REUNIONS Send items to 500 Ala Moana Suite 7-210, Honolulu 96813; or fax 5294750. school Baldwin: Class of 1970; 40th reunion July 16-17 on Oahu. Email or visit www.baldwin70.com.

Campbell: Class of 1970: Updating mailing list for 40th reunion Oct. 16. Call 282-5623 or email Jchsl970gmall.com. Castle: Class of 1980: Updating mailing list for 30th reunion in October. E-mail or alohacel737yahoo.com or call Celeste Rezantes at 840-1994.

Chamlnade: All Class Reunion: Events April 17 to May 2. Visit www.chaml-nade.edualumni or call Be-Jay Kodama at 739-8526. Farrlngton: Class of 1946: 64th reunion, 11 a.m. April 27 at Tsukiji Fish Market and Restaurant. Call Albert Chun at 262-7163 or George Yamasaki at 4885567.

Class of 1950: 60th reunion, Oct. 28 Banquet at the California Hotel, Las Vegas. Call Bobby Valenzona at 455-1153orFrancesShimotsuat-5336649. Class of 1960: 50th reunion, April 16 in Las Vegas. Call Pearl ar .8450857.

Class of 1965: 45th reunion, May 2 1-23 in Las Vegas and the week of Oct. 16 in Honolulu. Call Max at 486-3978, email kalihikidsgmail.com or visit www.kalihikids.com. Class of 1968: "Born in '50, Turning 60" Birthday Las Vegas Celebration, April 28 to May 3. Call Darlene at 387-4555 or email Class of 1969: Get-togethers, 5:30 p.m.

first Wednesday monthly at Golden City Restaurant Call 847-6684 or email hnk808gmail.com. Class of 1970: 40th reunion Alaskan cruise, July 3-12 Call Gareth at 230-9271 or Carol at 284-3292; or emailfhsl970hotmail.com. Class of 1973: Alaska glacier cruise, Jury 3-12, to celebrate turning 55 (held in conjunction with Class of '70s 40th reunion). Call Emaof NortSop Travel at 441-2406. Class of 1976: Annual summer picnic, Aug.

15 at Magic Island, Ala Moanapicnic Area 30. Call Scott at 6880771 or email kamiyac002hawaii.rr.com. bland Paradise: Reunion dinner Oct. 9 for classmates (ages 61-62). Call Lon Ibaraki at 235-1943 or email Bbarakigmail.com.

Kauai: Class of 1960: Establishing a KHS Foundation for a give-back project for 50th reunion. Call Jane Ozaki at 337-1251 or 635-7710, or email jozakihawaiiantel.net. Class of 1984: Updating contacts. Visit http:hsbUoks.com20L Konawaena: Class of 1976: Call 325-6530 or email konajawsyahoo.com. Lahalnaliina (Maul) AU-Boardera: April 15 to 17,2011, Lahalna.

Call 671-0866, 737-3625 or email kelkls5hawaii.rr.com. McKlnley: Class of 1946: 64th year "Just Like Vegas" reunion, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 25 at HCC; Tohoku Hokkaido Shinryoku Flower Onsen Tour, May 12-24; Branson Tour, Nov. 4-11; and Las Vegas "Talk Story 6" reunion, Nov.

12-16. Call 3733882 or 595-4957. or email classl946mhshawaiiantel.net. Class of 1967: Call 674-0808. MUilanL- Class of 1992: Visit Ieahi.netmhs92.

Moanalua: Classes of 1987, '88 and '89: 20th reunion in Las Vegas, June 24-26. Visit www.mohsreunions.com or e-mail mihomohsreunions.com. Radford: Class of 1961: Updating contacts for 50 year reunion. Call 595- 3632 or 396-9032 or email reneglava.net. Class of 1977: Email m.hawaiiatt.net.

Roosevelt Class of 1950: 60th reunion, Oct. 28-30. Call 5518284 or email chocolatediashawaii.rr.com. Class of 1955: Updating contacts for 55th reunion, May 14-15. Call Lionel Sakamoto at 282-3035 ore-mall lionelsakamotohawaii.rr.com.

Class of 1960: Updating contact list for 50th reunion. E-mail slx- tyrhsyahoo.com or Kaydi96816yahoo.com. Class of 1980: 30th reunion. Jury Saint Francis Convent Class of 1970: Call 2263287. Saint Louis Class of 1970: Updating mailing list for 40th reunion.

Call 592-5043 oremallbnuibehotmail.com. Walalua: Class of 1993: Updating contacts for reunion in July. Visit www.waialual993.com or call Leilani Orsulak (Elsa Bayudan) at (757)277-3008. Walpahu: Class of 1956: Reunion In Las Vegas Oct 21 through Nov. 1.

Call 4883585 or email Class of I960: Updating contacts for 50th reunion in Jury on Oahu and October in Las Vegas. E-mail Carol Enomoto at Class of 1965: 45th reunion on June 1 1 at Pearl Country Club and Sept 25 in Las Vegas. Call 222-5843. jor news events included the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city Supervisor Harvey Milk, the White Night Riots, Bay Area resi dent Jim Jones and his death cult, and the 1989 earthquake that left 63 dead and many more injured and homeless. Kashiwahara was in New York City when the quake hit, but quickly returned home to discuss the impact of the quake on national tele- vision with ABC colleague Peter Jennings.

Kashiwahara retired in 1988 and the San Francisco Bureau closed. By then, "news had become a business," he said. Kashiwahara still lives in the Bay Area. He's enjoying playing golf, traveling, spending time with his children and grandchildren, and performing charity work. "I just finished anchoring a telethon for Kimochi, a wonderful nonprofit in (San Francisco's) Japantown," he said.

He returns to Hawaii at least once a year, most recently to answer questions for documentary filmmaker Tom Coffman's new movie Tfinov Aauino the Rise of People Power," about Philip pine senator Benigno Aquino, Kashiwahara's brother-in-law, who was imprisoned by Ferdinand Marcos, exiled and assassinated upon his return to the Philips pines. AJ. McWhorter is a collector of film and videotape cataloging Hawaii's TV history. His column runs on the first Monday of each month. E-mail him at fla8hbackhawalLrr.coni.

AJ. McWhortcr Flashback Ken Kashiwahara covered the fall of Saigon for the ABC network 35 years ago and calls it "my most memorable story." Hilary Brown and Kashiwahara were the last two news correspondents in the region. As Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Americans and Vietnamese were fleeing the country. Kashiwahara witnessed a baby crushed by the wheels of a bus In the panic that ensued. That typifies the chaos, fear and anarchy of the last day," he said.

"You were seeing a country fall apart and collapse." Like Connie Chung, Kaslu-wahara was among the first Asian-American broadcast journalists to appear on national television. An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Kashiwahara spent 25 years as an ABC correspondent, covering some of the biggest national and international news events, after getting his start InHawaii. Kashiwahara was born in Waimea, Kauai, and moved to Okinawa with his family at age 10. The family later moved to Pennsylvania, then Maryland, where he graduated from high school. In 1960, Kashiwahara returned to Hawaii and enrolled as a premed student at the University of Hawaii.

He soon became fascinated by the medium of television and decided to switch degrees, transferring to San I 1 ENTER COURTESY STEPHEN BRAMHAM really took me by the hand and showed me the ropes about Hawaii politics," Kashiwahara said. IN 1971 he left KHVH news and joined Bob Sevey at KGMB, where he covered politics for the station and cc-anchored the 10 o'clock news with Tim Tindall and a young sports anchor named Joe Moore. Late in 1972, Kashiwahara was hired at KABC News in Los Angeles, where he and Chuck Henry aninchored the weekend news. Kashiwahara covered major news events in Southern California, including the Sym-bionese Liberation Army shootout involving kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, and Richard Nixon's post-presidential exile in San Cle- -mente, but he had higher aspirations. "The goal was to get to, the network," he said.

That goal was achieved in 1974 when he was hired at the ABC News Bureau in Los Angeles. Soon afterward he was sent to Vietnam. "It was a very good experience for me," he said. Kashiwahara went on to cover the civil war In Beirut, Lebanon, and in 1978 was sent to the Philippines to cover the Interim assembly elections. While in the Philippines he met his wife, Lupita Aquino.

Kt 1:1 Kashiwahara Francisco State College where he earned his broadcast degree. A five-year stint as a public information officer in the Air Force followed. While on in Hawaii, he noticed the lack of Asian-Americans on local news stations and considered it odd in light of the Isles' Asian demographic. After leaving the military, he returned to Honolulu and in May 1969 was hired by KHVH radio. Within six months he was put on television, co-anchoring the KHVH (now KTTV) news with Chuck Henry and Al Michaels.

He credits KHVH TVradio owner Bob Berger with giving him his break. His contemporaries at KHVH were Jim Manke, Don Rockwell, Linda Coble, Tom McWilliams, Doug Bruckner, Bart Fredo and Byron Baker. In addition to anchoring the news, he also was a political correspondent at the state CapitoL "Byron Baker TO WIN! Ken ffiVwi; What's your theory on the main mystery of 'Lost? Class of 1987: Email Class of 1970: 40th reunion Oct 16. Email kaimukihsl970gmail.com. Kaisrr Class of 1982: Email or visit www.kaiserhighalumni.com.

Class of 19X9: Visit www.class-creator.ccnHonohilu-Hi-Kaiser-1989 or email biisercougars89gmaiI.com. Kabul: Class of 1965: 45th reunion, Oct. 22-23, Las Vegas. Can Diane at 235-2513 or emaU blanl1965yahoo.com. Class of 1980: 30th reunion banquet Jury 11, California Hotel, Las Vegas.

Waimanalo picnic In August, mail Class of 1987: Visit KITV May 14. Send entries, including your name, phone number and address, by e-mail to loststarbulletin.com, by fax to 529-4750 or by mail to Lost contest, Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features section, 7 Waterfront Plaza Suite 210, Honolulu 96813. A winner will be announced May 25. is it a dream? Are they in hell? Are they all in a snow globe? Calling all Hawaii residents: Tell us how you think the time-bending series "Lost" will end. Send us your prediction In 75 words or less.

The person whose vision mostly closely matches how the series actually concludes will receive "Lost The Complete Collection" on Blu-ray, when it is released Aug. 24, to live every alterna-universe moment over again. The finale airs May 23; entries must be received by I- Employees of the StarSulletin and MidWeek and their children are ineligible. Judges' decisions are final All entries may be printed without compensation to the entrant.