Report Title:

Honoring Ronald E. Bright

WHEREAS, through the artistic direction of Ronald E. Bright and the talented members of the Castle Performing Arts Center, we have been transported to many faraway places -- the misty glens of Scotland, a secret annex in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, and a small village in Czarist Russia; and

WHEREAS, because of Ron Bright and his students, we have seen the world through the eyes of the Jets and the Sharks, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, a King and a school teacher, a Professor and cockney flower girl, a burlesque queen, and seven brides and seven brothers; and

WHEREAS, as a teacher and mentor of children and adults, Ron Bright has led his students to the thresholds of their own minds -- revealing to them that which already lay half asleep in the dawning of their knowledge, giving not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his love; and

WHEREAS, through his overlapping roles as teacher, mentor, friend, and artistic director, Ron Bright has made innumerable contributions to his school, his community, and Hawaii by demonstrating -- through the performing arts -- the precious and often fragile nature of life, friendship, and love; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, that this body honors Ron Bright for his invaluable and innumerable contributions in Hawaii to the performing arts, education, and our understanding of and insights into our own humanity, and this body wishes him well in all his future endeavors.