var year1998= new Array("('Select Name','',true,true)",
	"('Dyanne Affonso, PhD `66','1998-0',false,false)",
	"('David E.K. Cooper, `63','1998-1',false,false)",
	"('Soon-Kwon Kim, PhD `74','1998-2',false,false)",
	"('Beatrice Krauss, `30','1998-3',false,false)",
	"('Ernest K. Nishizaki, `69','1998-4',false,false)",
	"('Livingston M.F. Wong, `52','1998-5',false,false)");
	
	var bios1998 = new Array(
	"(UH Distinguished Alumni Award)  Dr. Affonso is the Dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta.  She is currently a Distinguished Trowgridge Memorial Lecturer at the Rush University School of Nursing and is a former Distinguished Soule Professor at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Dr. Affonso has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was named Nurse of the Year by the March of Dimes and the American Nurses' Association.  From 1990-1992, she served as a Summer Outreach Sponsor for baccalaureate students from diverse ethnic backgrounds. From 1991 to 1993, she volunteered to help prepare a grant to recruit ethnically diverse students for the rural health nursing curriculum at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo.  Dr. Affonso also raised $3.2 million to develop and administer 'Malama Na Wahine Hapai - Caring for Pregnant Women' through the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Nursing Research.  She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Hawai'i in 1966.",
	"(UH Distinguished Alumni Award)  Cooper is Chief Executive Officer of Hana Engineering, an environmental engineering firm with offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C.  He chairs the Federal National Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans and serves as President of the Pacific American Foundation. Cooper is on the Board of Governors at the Japanese American National Museum.  He collaborated with the UHM Colleges of Arts and Sciences to provide fellowships for UH students in Washington, D.C. A Distinguished Alumnus of Kamehameha Schools, he is Director of the Kamehameha Schools Alumni Association East Coast Region Chapter.  As Hawai'i's most decorated soldier of the Vietnam War, Cooper was promoted to brigadier general and directed eight major installations and numerous strategic, financial, training, academic, and personnel agencies.  Cooper received a BA in English from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1963.",
	"(UH Distinguished Alumni Award)  Dr. Kim is Director General of the International Agriculture Research Institute, College of Agriculture at Kyungpook National University in Taesu, Korea.  From 1974 to 1979, he directed the 'Maize Green Revolution,' which tripled national yields of corn in Korea. Dr. Kim directed programs in Africa that successfully controlled major crop diseases. His environmentally protective methods helped control major insects and S triga, a major parasitic weed, which led to an 800 percent increase in corn yields in Nigeria.  In 1988 he received the honor of East West Center Distinguished Alumnus, and in 1996 he was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.  Dr. Kim received two honorary chieftaincies in Nigeria and five nominations for the Nobel Prize, among many other honors.  He received his PhD in Horticulture from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1974.",
	"(UH Distinguished Alumni Award)  Krauss devoted 70 years of her career to science and public service.  After retiring, she taught enthnobotany at UH for 30 years in addition to giving a tremendous amount of volunteer time to Hawai'i's public schools, the Bishop Museum, He'eia Fishpond State Park, the Alzheimer's Association, Queen's Hospital, the Hawaii Blood Bank and various botanical gardens.  Krauss was the first woman to receive a BS from the University of Hawai'i.  She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Humanity degree from the University of Hawai'i, the Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service, the Board of Regents' Award for Fifty Years of Service to Humanity, and the 1996 College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Outstanding Alumna Award.  Krauss received a BS in Agriculture in 1926 and a MS in Botany in 1930 from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.",
	"(UH Distinguished Alumni Award)  Nishizaki is the first Hawai'i-born general manager of the Royal Hawaiian hotel, the crown jewel of the ITT Sheraton chain. He has been a leader in the state's hotel and tourism industry for the last decade, serving as president of the Hawai'i Hotel Association and board member of the Hawai'i Visitors Bureau and the Department of Labor's Tourism Training Council.  In 1993, Nishizaki received one of ITT's highest honors, the Harold S. Green Award, for his work on the Sheraton Kaua'i Resort Disaster Team following Hurricane 'Iniki.  As a service to UH, he developed an alumni-student mentor program and other School of Travel Industry Management programs.  He was also the first inductee to the TIM/College of Business Administration Alumni Hall of Honors.  Nishizaki has also served terms as president of the Ka'anapali Beach Operators Association and the Po'ipu Beach Resort Association. He received a BBA in Travel Industry Management from the University of Hawai'i in 1969.",
	"(UH Distinguished Alumni Award)  Dr. Wong is a pioneer in kidney and bone marrow transplant procedures.  He is currently a member of the medical staffs of nine local hospitals as well as numerous professional organizations in medicine and surgery. He was Councilor of the Oregon/Hawai'i Caucus of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association and a board member of University Health Care Associates.  He was also on the Boards of the Makana Foundation and the Hawai'i Medical Association's Emergency Medical Services Program.  Dr. Wong was instrumental in launching and enhancing the statewide Emergency Medical Services System and has played a key role in developing the 911 emergency call system and rapid helicopter evacuation of patients from remote island areas.  In addition, he secured funding to develop a program that brought medical specialists to the Trust Territories to treat, assist, teach, and provide care for residents unable to fly to the U.S. for treatment. For the last 32 years, Dr. Wong has been a volunteer faculty member at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, and he has also chaired the Department of Surgery.  Dr. Wong received a BS in Biology from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1952 and a MD from the University of Oregon in 1959." );