Lemon Wond Holt

Lemon Wond Holt, known as Rusty, lived from 22 September 1904 to 12 March 1999 and was one of the last surviving local-born members of the Stonewall Gang, a group that frequented Waikiki Beach in the early 1900s. As a boy he gathered surgeonfish, sea urchins, seaweed and young coconuts for Queen Liliuokalani when she visited his grandmother, and he knew Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, who sometimes took him tandem surfing on a koa longboard. Holt kept surfing into his mid-70s at Kuhio Beach, where he had surfed as a child. At the Kamehameha School for Boys he played football and helped set an all-time scoring record in a 104 to 0 win over Honolulu Military Academy, and at the University of Hawaii he played halfback on the championship teams coached by Otto Klum from 1927 to 1929. He was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.