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Park, Alice Pulu`elo Naipo
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Kupuna
Name:
Park, Alice Pulu`elo Naipo
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Middle
Names and Meaning:
Pulu`elo
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| Birthday: |
Oct 12, 1924
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| Birth
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Kohala, Hawai`i
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| Brief
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Pulu`elo Park is from the Kohala area of the Big Island. Her early informal hula training came from family members there, including her aunties and Tutu MacDougal. Her subsequent teachers in Honolulu included Caroline Tuck, Mrs. Tuttle, Katie Nakaula, and Lökälia Montgomery, with whom she `üniki'd (graduated). In 1952 in Pälolo valley, Auntie Pulu opened Puamana Hula Studio, named after her first daughter. She later moved it to Hau`ula and then Kailua, where she became a fixture in the community for many decades. Since the early 1980's, Pulu`elo has also taught at Kainalu Elementary School (Kailua) in the Department of Education's Küpuna Program. Her final `üniki (graduation) rites were held in October, 2002, at Kë`ë, Kaua`i. 2002 marked the year she celebrated 50-years of teaching hula.
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 | | Hula interview with Auntie Pulu, Kailua, 2001 |
 | | Teaching keiki at Kainalu Elementary, 2002 |
 | | Being honored with a City & County Certificate for 50-year teaching career, Feb 2002 |
 | | Kumu Park with Alaka`i Mälia Bird, Hilo, 2001 |
 | | Lovely Auntie Pulu`elo, 2001 |
 | | Surrounded by haumana, 2002 |
|  | | Blessing the studio of her new Kumu Malia Bird, Feb 2003 |
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