Getting to Know our new President Katy Deshotels-Moore I was thrilled when Garrett Webb sent me a text announcing that Katy DesHotels-Moore was appointed the new LICH President. My thoughts: it was perfect in every way. I don’t remember the first time I met Katy, but it was somewhere back in the mid-1990s. I was a landscape supervisor at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and she was involved with a big new project down the coast called Hualalai Resort. I had no idea then that she would become the Resort Landscape Director and hire me to join her management team in the year 2000. Actually, my first memory of meeting Katy was being invited by our National Guard employees to a field day at Schofield Barracks. We met at Keahole Airport, boarded the general’s private jet and landed at Schofield for a tour of the headquarters and base. After lunch, we donned heavy vests, helmets, ear protection and big-a** automatic guns and headed out to the live-fire range for target practice.... ...
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