Blossom Puanani Alama-Tom

Blossom Puanani Alama-Tom (born July 31, 1930) is a Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi and the last surviving judge of the first Merrie Monarch Festival.

Since 1940, Alama-Tom has performed at the City and County of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation’s Nā Hula Festival.Her daughter Puanani Jung has created her own halau in Southern California.

She was raised by her mother, Agnus K. Wright and her father, Joseph K. Alama on Liliha Street.

[2] Alama-Tom is an alumnus of President William McKinley High School.

[1] Three years later, in 1957, Alama-Tom was featured on the cover of Honolulu Magazine, then called Paradise of the Pacific.