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Enjoy Kapi‘olani Community College's  Kaiāulu Webinar Series Back in the Day: 1946 Facts and Throwback When: Thursday, September 30, 2021 Time: 5:30-6:30PM (HST) Virtual Webinar (via Zoom) Cost: Free, but registration is required View the recording below: For those of you who appreciate history, nostalgic moments and fun activities, you are bound to enjoy Back in the Day: 1946 Facts and Throwback, a talk story virtual webinar hosted by Kapi‘olani Community College (KCC).  To commemorate its 75th anniversary, the college is hosting a series of webinars and welcomes the public to participate. On September 30th, special guests Bob Sigall, published author and historian; Kiersten Faulkner, Executive Director of Historic Hawai‘i Foundation; and Keith Kashiwada, speech professor at Kapi‘olani Community College will take a look back at KCC's beginnings in the year 1946. World War II had just ended and Hawai‘i was experiencing dramatic shifts in economics, politics, education, labor, technology and culture.  The lively discussion will explore some of those changes that have shaped the Hawai‘i we know today. Thursday, September 30, 2020, 5:30 PM PANELISTS Bob Sigall, author, The Companies We Keep Bob Sigall is the author of The Companies We Keep books and writes the popular Rearview Mirror column in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser each Friday.  Bob is Hawai‘i's "business historian." His books and columns tell amazing stories about well-known Hawai‘i people, places, and companies.  Bob taught marketing and management at Hawai‘i Pacific University for 15 years, and with the help of his students, has researched and written the five bestselling The Companies We Keep books. Since April 2011, he has written a weekly column in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser called Rearview Mirror. [...]