As you know, Admiral Kihune's final term as Trustee will end on June 30, 2009. The Trustees initiated the process for selecting his replacement in July, when they filed a Notice of Anticipated Vacancy and Petition for Appointment of Successor Trustee.

I am writing to let you know about an important development in Jacob Doe vs. Kamehameha Schools, the lawsuit filed this summer by four anonymous students (and their parents) challenging our admissions policy.

Attorneys for Kamehameha Schools today filed a lawsuit in the Third Circuit Court against individuals known only as John and Jane Doe for the disclosure of material terms of a confidential settlement agreement that resolved the Does’ unsuccessful legal challenge to the schools’ admissions policy. The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages.

This afternoon we filed a lawsuit in the Third Circuit Court of the State of Hawai'i against John and Jane Doe for breach of confidentiality in the settlement agreement reached in May 2007 in Doe vs. Kamehameha Schools, the lawsuit challenging our admissions preference policy.

I am writing to let you know that the Probate Court’s Trustee Compensation Committee has filed its most recent report regarding “A Reasonable Amount to be Paid to the Trustees of the Kamehameha Schools” with the state’s First Circuit Court.

The Board of Trustees of Kamehameha Schools has filed a Petition for Appointment of Successor Trustee, which starts the process of selecting a replacement for Trustee Robert Kihune, whose term expires in one year, on June 30, 2009. A hearing of the petition has been granted by the court for August 8, 2008.