Earle S HottaEarle S Hotta was a counselor/educator for 41 years in Hawaii Public Schools and Colleges, but also in Brazil as a peace corps volunteer and teacher at the American School of Recife. He was born and raised on the island of Maui when t was still a territory and comes from a family who immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, during the Meiji Period (1868-1912).