AWARDS AND HONORS
1947
Royal Society of Poetry, Certificate
of Merit
1948-49
London County Council Scholarship to the Preparatory Academy, Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art
1949-50
London County Council Scholarship
to the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art
1953-54
London County Council
Scholarship and Grant to the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art
1954
Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art Medal
Diploma of Distinction
Comic Mime Prize
Arliss Prose
Prize
Liverpool Playhouse
Scholarship (one year)
Offer of H.M. Tennant One-Year Contract
1968
Churchill Memorial Fellowship in the
Japanese Classical Theatre Arts
1969
Recipient of the Churchill Memorial Medal, presented
by Queen Elizabeth at the Mansion House, London
1971
Honolulu Police Department Certificate of Merit
1977
Japan Foundation
VIP Award.
University of Hawaii Board of
Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching (Senior Professor)
1978
Nominated by Honolulu
Star-Bulletin Editorial as a State Cultural Treasure
1979
Recipient, Hawaii House of Representatives
resolution: "Hawaii's Own Adopted World-CIass Actor"
Damien PBS telefilm received Peabody and Ohio State University Awards
1980
Recipient of University of Hawaii Clopton Award for Distinguished Community
Service
1983
Recipient
of Hawaii State Theatre Council Po'okela (Excellence)
Award as Director of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Kennedy
Theatre, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
1985
Recipient of Services to the Theatre In
Hawaii Award, Manoa
Valley Theatre, presented at Kahala Mandarin Oriental
Hotel Gala Winter Benefit.
Recipient of
Hawaii State Theatre Council Po'okela (Excellence)
Award as director of Night Mother at Diamond Head Theatre.
Recipient,
Ka Iho Iho Award, Honolulu Epilepsy Recipient,
Hawaii State Theatre
Council.
1986
Po'okela Award for Manoa Valley Theatre's production ofAmadeus.
Recipient,
Hawaii State Theatre Council Po'okela Award for best
performance in a musical, Manoa Valley Theatre's
production of Noel and Gertie.
Subject, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Investigation on Excellence in Teaching,
Principal Investigator, Muneo Yoshikawa, Ph.D
1987
Recipient, Hawaii State Theatre Council Po'okela Award as Director of Shakespeare's
A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Kennedy Theatre, University of Hawaii at, Manoa.
1990
Recipient, Certificate of Appreciation from the Friends
of the Hawaii Opera Theatre for 20 years of lectures on opera production, lives
of composers, etc.
1995
Recipient of Presentation Clock in
appreciation of 25 years of lectures for Friends of Hawaii Opera Theatre
1996
Recipient, Scot of the Year Award,
Caledonian Society of Hawaii
Laureate: National Society of Arts and Letters (Hawaii Chapter) presented at the 40th Annual Roselani
Celebratory Banquet, Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hotel
1997
Named one of the Fabulous Ninety Faculty (University of Hawaii Ninetieth
Anniversary).