Royal "Roy" Arnold Vitousek, (May 6, 1890 – April 3, 1947) — was a member of the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives from 1922 to 1944.
When the Pirates' Club became a chapter of Sigma Pi fraternity the year after his graduation he was one of the first alumni to be initiated into the national organization.
[5] From 1919 to 1921 he was the city and county attorney for Honolulu[2] He also coached a high school track team in his spare time.
[9] Vitousek was caught in the air on a joy ride with his seventeen-year-old son, Martin, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
After about ten minutes of trying to avoid Japanese aircraft they were able to land at John Rodgers Airport amid exploding bombs.
Once on the ground they found a dead man (Robert Tyce) and two passenger planes that had been shot up.