Woodson House Publishing: Pearl Harbor Child, Books, DVDs Kansas City MO

Woodson House Publishing Orders: 1-800-555-2693 Contact: 816-356-6375 Copyright© 2012 Nicholson Communications, Inc. As civilians, they were living in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack, and stayed until forced to give up their home after the end of the war. Her mother was a hula teacher, so Dorinda made her debut as a hula dancer at the age of three. She graduated from Punahou School in Honol

ulu, then attended the University of Hawaii, where she was spotted by a local TV producer and invited to be the hula dancer on a weekly show, "Campus Canteen." When Dorinda was 18, she won the KGMB-TV "Flight to Fame" contest for a hula performance, which took her to the mainland for the first time. While there, she went on to visit her father's family in Missouri. After attending college in Kansas City, she became a flight attendant for a national airline, and then married Larry Nicholson, a photographer, who is also a designer, illustrator, and multimedia producer. Dorinda and Larry work as a team in producing their books and DVD's.. After the birth of their four sons, Dorinda earned undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Counseling Psychology. She worked for a large community mental health center in Kansas City as a psychotherapist.