Ruddy F. Tongg Sr. (1905-1988) was an American businessman.[1][2]

Biography

He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1925.[1]

In 1946, he started his own airline company, Trans-Pacific Airlines, now known as Aloha Airlines.[1][2][3] He also started the Tongg Publishing Co.[1][2] He served on the Boards of Directors of the Honolulu Trust Co., American Finance, Hawaii Thrift & Loan and Hawaiian Motors.[1]

A polo player, he became disabled after an accident while playing polo in Kapiolani Park in 1964.[1] In 1965, his pony, Lovely Sage, was the first pony to receive the Willis L. Hartman Trophy established by Willis L. Hartman that same year.[4]

He died at the age of eighty-three, in 1988.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mike Gordon, Ruddy F. Tongg Sr., The Honolulu Advertiser, July 2, 2006
  2. 1 2 3 Robert C. Allen, Creating Hawaiʻi Tourism: A Memoir, Bess Press, 2004, page 52
  3. ↑ Hawaii Aviation
  4. ↑ Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in the United States: A History, McFarland, 2011, page 232
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