Susana Magalei-Wong: “I wouldn’t trade those times”
Susana Magalei-Wong grew up in Laie and worked at the Center as a girl but moved to Honolulu in 1975 and recently retired from Hawaiian Airlines.
Susana Magalei-Wong grew up in Laie and worked at the Center as a girl but moved to Honolulu in 1975 and recently retired from Hawaiian Airlines.
Shirley Dela Rosa grew up in Laie and worked at the Center as a teenager but later moved to American Samoa where she still lives today.
Aunty Kela Miller was born in Laie, learned hula from her ‘ohana, danced at the Hukilau, then became an original Hawaiian Villager and dancer at the PCC.
Aunty Valetta Nepia Jeremiah from New Zealand devoted 50 years of her life to the Polynesian Cultural Center and was revered as a “living treasure.”
Tivakno Ieli Sievinen was originally from the small, remote island of Rotuma, a political dependency of Fiji with its own language and culture. (She passed away in July 2020.)
Ottley Wright — came to Laie in 1984 and worked at the PCC as a canoe tour and Laie Tour guide — at the Center’s 50th-anniversary reunion.
Before marrying George Hunt of Samoa, Beth McKinnon Hunt left Australia to attend Church College of Hawaii in 1963 and ended up dancing in the Polynesian Cultural Center night show.
Tongans at the Polynesian Cultural Center draped the queen’s summer palace in the Tongan Village in mourning the death of Her Majesty Queen Mother Halaevalu Mata’aho, who passed away at age 90 on February 19, 2017.
PCC senior missionary Sister Gayle Bleak felt angelic help in the dark.
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