Poetic Obituaries: Theresa M. Haunani Bernardino, a musician, poet

and Hawaiian scholar who started the kupuna program used today in public schools, died Aug. 27. She was 56.

Bernardino was a professor of Hawaiian language at University of Hawai'i-Hilo, and from 1972 to 1989 taught hundreds of students as an instructor at UH-Manoa.

from The Honolulu Advertiser: Hawaiian scholar Theresa Bernardino

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