The parents of a Mid-Pacific alumnus donated $250,000 to support the schoolʻs Pūpūkahi hula program.
This marks the largest gift to the Oʻahu-based private school’s program, according to hula program head Michael Lanakila Casupang, who’s been teaching at Mid-Pac since 1987.
He said the donation was surprising because it wasn’t coming from the parent of a Pūpūkahi student. The gift came from Stephen and Gloria Kosasa Gainsley, whose son, Christian, graduated from Mid-Pac in 2000…