Before Owen Loui passed the CPA exam and opened his own firm in the late 1940's, he worked as a senior accountant at Lambert and Pearson.  He often stayed in Hilo, since one of the big sugar companies was a client.  He became friends with many of the local residents, especially those who played tennis, including ret. Sen. Pat Saiki's father.  One day, he was asked to play in a doubles tennis match against a top navy team who was in town.  The navy men were expected to win easily against the two men who didn't normally play together, but they were beaten by Owen Loui and his partner.  Dad said the navy men were so upset, they wouldn't shake hands after the match!  There's a picture of all 4 of them together  - that must have been taken before the tennis match!  I wonder if the names of the players would have been published in the local paper? 

Our whole family "roughed" it for a week at Camp Gold in the Sonora mountains.   sleeping in bunk beds in a wood-framed lean-to, with just a flap of fabric as our "door".  Meals were served in the cafeteria.   There was a pond and stream that was stocked with trout, and we would patiently trap the fish with our hands, then take to them to the cafeteria where the staff would fry them and serve it for our dinner.   I remember some of the other kids being surprised we spoke such good English and asked if we lived in grass shacks.  

Because Owen Loui ran his own business, he rarely took off from work.  There were two years when he took our whole family of 8 on vacation, but it was multiple trips in the summer of 1969 to the Big Island, Maui, and Kauai.  We stayed at the Manago hotel in Kona and also at an oceanfront hotel in Kona.