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Amelia Linsky
June 5, 2009
Filed under News

Senior Robert Tamai has been named one of two Presidential Scholars from Hawaii. The other is Lucia Mocz of Mililani High School. The proconsul, cross country captain, and tennis player has maintained 4 AP courses and two electives throughout the past year with a 4.31 GPA.

The eminently qualified Tamai professed surprise at first, but conceded, “Yeah, I’m really excited to meet all of those fascinating people [at the awards ceremony]. I get to shake the President’s hand so that’s pretty cool.”

The ceremony will be held in Washington, D.C., in June. Tamai named Chemistry teacher and 2009 class adviser Mrs. Gail Tuthill as the teacher who most influenced him, and she will accompany
him to the nation’s capital.

There are 176 Presidential Scholars throughout the USA and its territories. They have demonstrated
“outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship, and community
service” as determined by a 29-member Commission on Presidential Scholars appointed by the President.

Tamai will attend Harvard College in the fall.