Ah sore...Dr. Gabriel Kulwaum...a loss for Manus! He did his PhD at the University of Queensland with his thesis titled 'Problems of devolution in Papua New Guinea education' in 1995. I remember when I was in high school at ECOM, he was a dedicated school Board Chairman.
One day he came to school and found that the students in one class were
making a lot of noise and he went in to investigate. He found that the
teacher had just left to find buai/smoke at the nearly village. Dr. Kulwaum quickly took his vehicle, went to the village and literally chased the teacher back to the classroom.
When students faced disciplinary actions during weekends he would
interrupt the school assembly on Monday morning and lecture the whole
student body: 'hamaspla haus yu buildim pinis na yu laik marit? Hamaspla
kanu yu sapim pinis na yu laik wokim family? Hamas spia botol yu
stretim pinis na yu laik pait? Hamaspla saman blo kanu yu pasim pinis na
yu tok yu man?'
I salute you for the fact that you impacted the lives of Manusians for so long in so many areas of their social and cultural wellbeing. My sincere condolences to his family.
