Board of Directors
Front Row L-R: Julie Patacchia, artist; Evelyn Kaneshige, Recording Secretary; Antya Miller, President; Margaret Sagaysay, Programs Chair; Back Row: Boyd Ready, Vice-President & Local Historian; Cy Yamanoha, Marketing/Communications; George Tanabe, PhD (resigned);
Not Shown: George Atkins, Director and Museum Chair; David Robichaux Acquisition Committee. Keith Awai, Director Emeritus & Kumu; Archivist: Karen Benally, PhD
Our Mission
" To preserve and promote the history of Hale'iwa and the Waialua Moku." This includes collecting, researching, preserving and promoting information or items of historical interest for a future local history museum.
The Society is a 501 c 3 nonprofit incorporated in the state of Hawaii.
Programs
Accomplishments
2023:
1. Completed an Historic Structure Report on the Waialua Sugar Company’s (WACo) Office Building done by an historic preservation architectural firm, FAI Architects.
2. Completed Community Engagement process of three community workshops to see how the community wanted to use the WACo building into the future. These were funded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Atherton Family Foundation.
3. Started restoration of the WACo Office Building by renovating the Manager’s office, where our office is currently located. The goal was to restore/adapt the building for use as a heritage and community center with multiple activities and programs, and for use by appropriate tenants that would provide rental income to support the community center.
4. Acquired the George Williams Collection of thousands of documents and photos saved from being thrown away when the company closed. Also, acquired the Surf N Sea replica model and the Frank DeSilva photo collection.
5. Developed and installed a Waialua Town History Kiosk in the Waialua Bandstand Park; developed and printed a Waialua Walking Tour; continue to provide historical tours of Hale‘iwa.
2024:
6. Acquired computers and PastPerfect small museum software program.
7. Hired PhD anthropologist as a parttime, contract archivist in 2024 who is entering the collections into the museum program.
8. Rented Conference Room for Exhibit. Demo’d canec ceiling and falling-down light fixtures; drywalled new ceiling; installed new light fixtures and air conditioner; did half of electrical renovation and painting of room.
9. Started on Waialua History Timeline.
2025:
10. Finished painting of Exhibit Room; finished electrical; installed new flooring per FAI Architects.
11. Acquired display cases; completed planning of Exhibit; implemented 22 displays.
12. Completed Timeline and displays; held Dedication & Opening of Waialua Heritage Center Exhibit on April 26, 2025 attended by 150 members and guests.
January 2023 - present: Wrote monthly history column in local newspaper, North Shore News.
11-10-25
Haleiwa Waialua Historical Society
2024 990-EZ federal tax filing (open to public inspection)