[Copied from the June 2003 issue of IMUA Polenesia, reprinted in the pcc50.com, interview by Mike Foley, February 12, 2013]
PCC dancer Tiffany Ieremia, the daughter of alumni Filipo and Dawn Ieremia of Laie, can be seen sharing her full-page smile and mana’o on page 95 of the June 2003 nationwide issue of Seventeen Magazine.
PCC Director of Marketing Ray Magalei reported he and a promo team were recently in New York where they visited the publishers
of Seventeen who told the Laie group they only covered 17-year-old teens. “Wait a minute,” Magalei said. “We have a very interesting 17-year-old for you.”
And the rest is now in national print: “Hula has always been a part of my life. My mom taught me and my sisters to dance,” Tiffany told the editor.
“For me, dancing the hula is really special — more than just an after-school job. It’s something that I love to do and a part of my culture that I want to continue.”
“One of my favorite songs is Waikoloa. It’s
about a town where my grandmother lives. I think of her every time I dance it,” she added.”
