It is with sadness that we learned of the passing of Joseph Mullins. Joe, as he was called, was Mutual’s first author of Mutual’s first book. His Hawaii 1776 - 1976 The Bicentennial Years evolved into Hawaiian Journey and is still a best seller today with over 150,000 copies in print. Coincidently, Joe lived on Center Street, now a parking lot, across from the building in which Mutual has its offices. The lot then consisted of plantation style bungalows.

Joe epitomized gentleness. He was a gentleman and a gentle man. It’s hard to believe that he was a marine during World War II and saw active duty. Joe told me that he was the youngest marine to have ever enlisted in the Chicago area where he was born ((Joe occasionally, like any good Irishman, did the blarney. He also told me that his mother was the youngest woman to have given birth in Chicago at the time that he was born.)