Archive - January 19, 2024

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Jamelyn Ebelacker (Eastern Caribbean) | MBA candidate: Arizona State University
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THE CHINESE DETECTIVE by Joseph Theroux (Samoa)

Jamelyn Ebelacker (Eastern Caribbean) | MBA candidate: Arizona State University

Forte: More Women Leading by Meredith Hunt Jamelyn Ebelacker MBA Candidate W. P. Carey School of Business, 2024 Jamelyn Ebelacker has taken a circuitous route to her current position as a full-time MBA student at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business. After a childhood toggling between Eagle River, Alaska, and Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Jamelyn chose to study New Media Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Coming from generations of Pueblo potters who make traditional “red and black” pottery, she chose a more modern path – a decision encouraged by her elders. “They wanted me to broaden my horizons as much as possible and learn new things to be able to survive in a non-Indigenous world,” Jamelyn explains. After college, Jamelyn joined the Peace Corps. “I also come from a long line of warriors and military service people,” she . . .

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THE CHINESE DETECTIVE by Joseph Theroux (Samoa)

  The Chinese Detective: Hawaii’s Real Charlie Chan by Joseph Theroux (Samoa 1975-78) Kilauea Publications January 2024 228 pages $5.00 (Kindle); $12.00 (Paperback) Reading Age 15 and up .  .  . Honolulu, 1920 — Lloyd Osbourne witnesses the remains of a body that has washed up on the Waikiki shore, and soon finds himself working alongside a remarkable local Chinese detective. Other dead bodies appear and the detectives draw up a list of missing men in the city. Writer Earl Derr Biggers is also vacationing at Waikiki and one morning his wife suddenly disappears. A search for her results in the kidnapping of Lloyd, and a massive opium enterprise is uncovered. A scandal at the Customs House involves the suicide of a cashier named William Wilder. Is Honolulu Sheriff Charles Rose merely incompetent or is he an active conspirator in the opium ring? And how is the violent murder of . . .

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