Comments on: Chuck Frankel – 30 - http://www.ilind.net/2012/11/14/chuck-frankel-30/ Ian Lind • Online daily from Kaaawa, Hawaii Sat, 25 May 2013 06:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Roy Takumi http://www.ilind.net/2012/11/14/chuck-frankel-30/comment-page-1/#comment-43890 Roy Takumi Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:17:17 +0000 http://www.ilind.net/?p=10787#comment-43890 I think all of us have Chuck Frankel stories that we will treasure.

Newspapermen like him (and George Chaplin) are few and far between today.

]]> By: David Stannard http://www.ilind.net/2012/11/14/chuck-frankel-30/comment-page-1/#comment-43872 David Stannard Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:40:31 +0000 http://www.ilind.net/?p=10787#comment-43872 Sorry for the late comment….but both Haunani and I have very fond memories of Chuck. In the late 70s, fresh from graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, she showed up outside his office with an op ed piece she had written on PKO, stop the bombing, Section 5-F, etc. She was absolutely convinced that the Establishment Press would never print it, but after he had gone through what she later recalled as his central-casting, Humphrey Bogart, gruff newsman, don’t-bother-me routine as an intro, they sat down to talk, he gave her the space (and much more in years to come), and they remained two people who truly delighted in the company of one another as the subsequent years unfolded. As for me, I recall him giving me any number of half-page op-eds on everything from Hawaiian rights to the horrors of mass tourism to UHPA’s legitimate contract grievances to Affirmative Action and more–and in those days of larger format newspapers a half-page was huge. He always peered at me skeptically over his glasses, unsmiling, promised nothing, and then published almost everything I gave him word-for-word. The only time I recall him cracking a smile about those pieces was when the S-B editors were so unhappy with what I had written in criticism of them that they ran an editorial against my op-ed piece in the same edition. He loved that, and so did I. Years later, after he retired, both Chuck and Helga took classes from me at UH and charmed the younger students with their sharp minds, committed politics, historical anecdotes, and wisdom. We will miss him. But their son David, now winning court cases before the Supremes, keeps hope alive.

]]> By: Jim Loomis http://www.ilind.net/2012/11/14/chuck-frankel-30/comment-page-1/#comment-43868 Jim Loomis Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:55:55 +0000 http://www.ilind.net/?p=10787#comment-43868 Chuck drove me nuts. With a cheerful grin, he’d toss a barb about Frank Fasi my way and somehow I could never think of an adequate response. Why was that, d’ya suppose?

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