{"id":100096,"date":"2019-07-18T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=100096"},"modified":"2019-07-24T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:35:14","slug":"ralph-yoshioka-honored-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/18\/ralph-yoshioka-honored-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Ralph Yoshioka honored for university service"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_100087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100087\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-yoshioko-r.jpg\" alt=\"three people, one holding award and wearing lei\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-yoshioko-r.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-yoshioko-r-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-yoshioko-r-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Yoshioka, center, was presented the Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service by Board of Regents Acting Chair Wayne Higaki and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> President David Lassner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> <abbr title=\"information technology service\">ITS<\/abbr> Telecom Analyst <strong>Ralph Yoshioka<\/strong> was recognized with the Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service. Yoshioka is a proud <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa alum who has worked at the university for 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the &ldquo;Voice of M\u0101noa,&rdquo; Yoshioka\u2019s name is synonymous with &ldquo;telecom&rdquo; on campus.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as selfless, kind, humble and dedicated. He attends to a vast number of large and small telecom issues, helping everyone in a calm, patient and efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshioka\u2019s best characteristic is his ability to treat all customers, and their problems, with utmost professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what his fans say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&ldquo;I can never tell if Ralph is busy or stressed because he always makes me feel like my problem is his number one priority.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;He always makes me feel like I am the only important person that he serves.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s what many may not know&#8212;Yoshioka is also a longtime volunteer shuttle driver for Student Housing\u2019s M\u0101noa Move-In, giving up his Statehood Day holiday to warmly welcome the campus\u2019 new students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have no doubt that Ralph will continue to offer amazing and unstinting service to <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>, because that is just what Ralph does every day,&rdquo; says a colleague.<\/p>\n<p>The Willard Wilson Award is named in honor of Willard Wilson, longtime <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> administrator and secretary to the Board of Regents, who set the standard for exemplary service to the university during his 40-year career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_24247\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w1y6QAiVP6E?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&start=658&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"President\u2019s July 2019 highlights and updates\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr title=\"information technology service\">ITS<\/abbr> Telecom Analyst Ralph Yoshioka was recognized with the Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142,698,9,56,1096],"class_list":["post-100096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-award","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","tag-willard-wilson-award","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100096"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100338,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100096\/revisions\/100338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}