Employing sailboat racing lingo, a ‘trophy hunter’ would include a son who crewed better than the Old Man in a race to determine which team would represent Hawaii on the Mainland.
Happened when I was visiting professor at University of Hawaii and Kelson was a freshman. Finals. Sailors from yacht club versus three members of the UH sailing team. The student team won the trophy, a necklace with the Hawaiian state motto Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono
The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
King Kamehameha III said it in 1843, when Hawaii emerged victorious from five months of British rule.
At presentation ceremony Kelson showed his trophy to Margaret, the fourth grade teacher at the Hawaiian school. She sang out the motto, then translated.
Kelson gave her the trophy.
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