Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Hugh Yoshida: Coach Durham ‘touched so many of us in our formative years'



Linfielder Hugh Yoshida and his wife, Patti, traveled from Hawaii for the Oct. 18, 2014, Linfield Homecoming unveiling of the Coach Paul Durham statue (monument). 

A member of the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame, Yoshida is a 1962 Linfield grad (also earned a M.Ed. from Linfield) and was an All-American linebacker (played 1958-1961) for the Paul Durham-coached Wildcats. 

After Linfield, he became a high school football coach and athletic director in Hawaii and, later, athletic director of the University of Hawaii.
 

He said the unveiling ceremony was "very well done. It was a great send off for a man who touched so many of us in our formative years of growing from a boy to a man. Those of us who were lucky enough to play for Paul, it was a means of thanking him for all the lessons and values that we still carry with us in whatever decisions we make on a daily basis. I felt very honored to have been played for him and also was a mentor for me during my football coaching and athletic administrative career."
 



--2/22/2002 Honolulu Star-Bulletin:Yoshida to retire as UH athletic director


--9/17/2004 Honolulu Advertiser:Leilehua honors former coach

Wildcatville photo of Hugh Yoshida, Linfield at Maxwell Field 10/13/2012