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Gae Bergquist Trommald and Dr. Edison H. Miyawaki Join Chaminade's Board Of Regents


HONOLULU -- March 6th, 2008 -- Chaminade University announced that Gae Bergquist Trommald and Dr. Edison H. Miyawaki have been recently appointed to serve on the university's board of regents. Chaminade regents serve in a decision-making capacity, are responsible for establishing and approving plans and policies of the university and oversee the accomplishment of these plans and policies.

Gae Bergquist Trommald
Gae Bergquist Trommald currently oversees the marketing division of Communications Pacific as its executive vice-president. Previously she was the senior vice president for all of the marketing services for Outrigger. A Certified Financial Manager (CFM), she has also served as a senior financial advisor with the Saracco, Hochuli and Bergquist Trommald and Associates Group of Merrill Lynch, focusing primarily on investment management for endowments, foundations and high-net-worth individuals and families. The former chair of the board of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Bergquist Trommald currently serves as a director of SHPDA, the State Health Planning and Development Agency, and is an active member of the board of the Washington Place Foundation.

Edison H. Miyawaki
Dr. Edison Miyawaki is the chairman, president, and CEO of Family Health I and II, which operate skilled-nursing facilities in Honolulu. Educated at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., he became the first Japanese-American to purchase an ownership interest in a National Football League (NFL) franchise in the early 1990s. A partner-owner of the Cincinnati Bengals, he works annually to bring the Pro Bowl to Hawaii and is an investor in the National Basketball Association's team the Boston Celtics. On numerous boards, including those of the Bishop Museum, Loyola Marymount University and the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles, he currently is board chair for the East West Center and is advisor to Shiseido Company and the Shiseido Social Welfare Foundation. He is an Overseas Board member of Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital - Deaconess Hospital. The Edison H. and Sallie Y. Miyawaki Gifts for Teaching in Neurology at Harvard Medical School is one of many of his major philanthropic projects.

Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. The main campus is located in Kaimuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 10 satellite locations around Oahu military bases and Catholic parishes and schools. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.

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