![]() JWG: Well I think it probably is all documented. He was an interior decorator and in 1938 he re-decorated the Throne Room, in fact the whole Iolani Palace. They got divorced and we moved to Honolulu in approximately 1935. ![]() After I was born she didn’t like the partying aspect. He was a traveling salesman, loved to play golf, had a lot of friends and liked to party. Well, they were happy for about three years. He swept her off her feet and they married. He hated the name James and called himself Norman all his life. His mother wanted him named James and his grandmother wanted Norman. JWG: Alice Kuaihelani Macfarlane and James Norman Growney. MMT: Please tell your parents’ full names. My father saw a green cross and it turned out it was an eye hospital. (While driving in the car) my mother started going into labor. JWG: Augin San Francisco, California, at Green’s Eye Hospital. Ja-ne de Abreu, Chair of the Historical Committee, is filming a video as we speak. We are at the back of my house in a cabana on a beautiful Hawaiian day two doggies are running around. My name is Moana McGlaughlin-Tregakis (MMT) from the Outrigger Canoe Club Historical Committee, and I’m sitting with James Growney (JWG) to talk about his oral history. ![]() MMT: Today is Sunday, the 10th of April, 2013. A complete transcript is shown below the video. Because of the spontaneous nature of this kind of document, it may contain statements and impressions that are not factual. The reader should be aware that an oral history document portrays information as recalled by the interviewee. Anyone wishing to reproduce it or quote at length from it should contact the Historical Committee of the Outrigger Canoe Club. The legal rights of this material remain with the Outrigger Canoe Club. This oral history interview is a project of the Historical Committee of the Outrigger Canoe Club. Outrigger’s Role in Canoe Racing History.
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