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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001481730-11-000016
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: PREC14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1
FILED AS OF DATE: 20110930
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110930
SUBJECT COMPANY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KAVILCO INC/WA/
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000859765
IRS NUMBER: 920045958
STATE OF INCORPORATION: AK
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: PREC14A
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-06027
FILM NUMBER: 111117115
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: ONE UNION SQUARE
STREET 2: SUITE 3010
CITY: SEATTLE
STATE: WA
ZIP: 98101
BUSINESS PHONE: 2066246166
FILED BY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Olsen Frederick Otilius Jr
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001481730
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: PREC14A
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: P.O. BOX 371
CITY: KASAAN
STATE: AK
ZIP: 99950-0340
PREC14A
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PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT
FREDERICK OTILIUS OLEN, JR. PROXY STATEMENT
Solicitation by FREDERICK OTILIUS OLSEN, JR. for the 2011 KAVILCO, INCORPORATED
Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Frederick Otilius Olsen, Jr.
P.O. Box 371
Kasaan, Alaska 99950-0340
(907)617-9941
October 7, 2011
To Shareholders:
Whether or not you are able to attend KAVILCO, INCORPORATED's 2011 Annual
Meeting, it is important that your views be represented. I am running as an
independent candidate for KAVILCO's Board of Directors. For this election, the
Corporation will use a BLUE Proxy Card and my Proxy Card will be GREEN.
Please vote on, sign, and date the enclosed GREEN Proxy Card and return it
promptly in the envelope provided.
I am one of KAVILCO's original 120 Shareholders and hold 100 shares of Class A
stock. The continued financial success of our Corporation matters to me a great
deal. We must also pay close attention to our Kasaan Haida heritage. Without our
village, especially Old Kasaan, and the land within our customary and
traditional use areas, there would not be a KAVILCO.
At this critical time for our Haida culture, as we have fewer and fewer Haida
speaking elders, as our traditional food gathering Way of Life is under attack,
we must do more to support the documentation and preservation of our elder's
knowledge. Two years ago, I moved back to Alaska to do what I can to help. I
moved to Kasaan.
We can continue and improve our financial success, as well as honor our Kasaan
ancestors by protecting their legacy for our future. Your representatives on
KAVILCO's Board of Directors will help decide whether or not we succeed.
Sincerely,
FREDERICK OTILIUS OLSEN, JR.
(Frederick Otilius Olsen, Jr.)
FREDERICK OTILIUS OLSEN, JR. PROXY STATEMENT
Solicitation by FREDERICK OTILIUS OLSEN, JR.
for the 2011 KAVILCO, INCORPORATED Annual Meeting of Shareholders
FREDERICK OTILIUS OLSEN, JR. furnishes this Proxy Statement in
connection with the solicitation of proxies to be used at the KAVILCO
INCORPORATED (the Corporation) Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the Meeting)
to be held at the Cape Fox Lodge, 800 Venetia Way, in Ketchikan, Alaska, on
November 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, and at any adjournment thereof.
The principal executive offices of the Corporation are
located at One Union Square, 600 University Street, Suite 3010, Seattle, WA,
98181-1129. Only Shareholders of record with Class "A" stock at the close of
business on October 7, 2011, will be entitled to vote at the Meeting and at
all adjournments thereof.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors manages the business of the Corporation.
I, Frederick Otilius Olsen, Jr., AM ASKING FOR YOUR VOTES. This Proxy
Statement with the GREEN Proxy Card is being mailed or given in person to
Shareholders. I will pay for the costs of this solicitation, including my
attorney, mailing, and all other fees and/or expenses.
GENERAL INFORMATION (Voting of Proxies)
If a Proxy Card is properly signed by a stockholder and is not revoked, the
shares represented thereby will be voted at the Meeting in the manner specified
on the proxy and such shares will be voted by the persons designated therein.
The Corporation uses cumulative voting. For example, if you own 100 shares of
Class A stock, you would be allowed a total of 300 votes. All shares
multiplied by 3 equals the total number of votes. You can vote all your shares
to one nominee/candidate or divide amongst those listed on the Proxy Card.
The Corporation will use a BLUE Proxy Card. My Proxy Card is GREEN. You may
notice the Corporation does not include me on its BLUE Proxy Card. Please
Understand: The Corporation is not required to include me on its Proxy Card,
EVEN THOUGH I AM LEGALLY RUNNING and have filed with the Security Exchange
Commission (SEC) to compete in this election for a position on the
Corporation's Board of Directors. I am an independent candidate and the
Corporation only supports its own nominees. This is normal for SEC registered
companies.
Your votes on my GREEN Proxy Card WILL COUNT, if you use it to properly vote,
sign, date, and return it in time to be voted at the Meeting. YOUR LAST VOTE IS
THE ONE THAT COUNTS. Even if you vote, sign, and return a BLUE Proxy Card, you
may still vote the GREEN Proxy Card at a later date.
The proxy may be revoked by the stockholder at any time prior to the
voting thereof by giving notice of revocation in writing to the Secretary of
the Corporation or by duly executing and delivering to the Secretary of the
Corporation a proxy bearing a later date or BY VOTING IN PERSON at the
Meeting.
Whichever Proxy Card you use, PLEASE, vote DIRECTED. I have included the
Corporation's candidates on the GREEN Proxy Card so that you may divide your
shares as you see fit. Of course, I ask for as many votes as possible. However,
feel free to divide your shares amongst the various nominees. The Corporation
allows Discretionary Voting on the BLUE Proxy Card. If you use this method,
the Corporation, not you, decides how to divide your votes, to the best
advantage of its nominees. Voting DIRECTED makes your voice heard.
FAMILY
Born in Ketchikan, Alaska, I am one of the original KAVILCO Shareholders and
have a life-long interest in my Kasaan heritage. My father and his siblings
came from and grew up in Kasaan. My father's grandfather, Joseph Jones, was
born in Karta Bay and his family lived in Old Kasaan. Joseph Jones had two
daughters, Margaret and Pauline. Margaret was my father's mother. Current
members of the Corporation's Board are also related to Margaret: Jeane Breinig,
Ramona Hamar, Laird Jones, and Louis Jones, Sr. Ramona Hamar, Louis Jones, Sr.,
and I are first cousins. Jeane Breinig and Laird Jones are more indirect cousins
of mine. Of course, none of us have any deals regarding a position on the
Corporation's Board of Directors.
I am FOR KAVILCO. My uncle Bob and my father have both served as Vice President.
My aunt Helen (Olsen) Dailey and my sister Kristine (Olsen) Mooney have
previously served on the Board. I want KAVILCO to be as good as possible.
EXPERIENCE
From 1992, I had traveled mostly at my own expense to photographically
Document Kasaan and surrounding area as well as record our endangered Haida
language. From 1994 to 2009, I lived in the New York City area (Brooklyn
1994-2003; Jersey City, NJ 2004-2009). I worked as a Camera Operator and
Director of Photography for many nationally-televised programs. For two years,
I taught Digital Cinematography at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
During my time in NYC, I also produced and directed my own documentaries,
including GASA'AAN XAADAS GUUSUU (2002) and SURVIVING SOUNDS OF HAIDA (2007).
These short movies feature Kasaan descendants talking about their Kasaan
experiences as well as sharing their knowledge of our Haida language. Most of
the elders in the two documentaries have died. Because of the advanced age of
our remaining elders, it became evident to me that I needed to move back to
Alaska in order to do more of this work.
Since 2009 to present, I am employed by the Organized Village of Kasaan (OVK),
a federally recognized Tribe, as the Cultural Resources Coordinator.
(Organized Village of Kasaan, P.O. Box 26, Kasaan, AK 99950-0340)
I am currently producing and directing a documentary about the history of Naay
I'waans, Chief Son-i-Hat Whale House, near Kasaan. Overseeing the
Neighborhood Revitalization grant and OVK's NAGPRA program, I am responsible
for hiring and supervising employees as well as creating and overseeing the
budgets and reporting to grantors.
In 2010, I was elected to OVK's Tribal Council. The Tribal Council governs
the Tribe, conducts business with other Tribes and state and federal
governmental agencies, defines policy and procedures for the Tribe, and
approves all budget matters. I am currently the OVK Sergeant at Arms.
Over the years, many elders had mentioned to me the importance of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB), the oldest civil rights organization in the
USA. Alaska Natives owe many rights now enjoyed to the ANB's struggles. In
2010, a group of us in Kasaan reactivated Kasaan ANB Camp 11. I was elected
President. In October 2010, Kasaan was represented at ANB's Grand Camp for
the first time since 1951.
In 2011, I became Kasaan's representative on the Board of Directors for the
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). The Board is
responsible for hiring and overseeing the President/CEO, approving all policy
and procedures, approving the operating budget (over $100 Million for this next
fiscal year), and providing the highest quality health services in partnership
with Native people.
(SEARHC, 3245 Hospital Drive, Juneau, AK 99801)
WHY VOTE FOR ME?
I feel compelled to run for the Corporation's Board of Directors because we can
do more to preserve, protect, and promote our Kasaan culture and heritage. It
is NOT too late but time is precious. We have so few elders left from which to
collect knowledge. We have sacred sites neglected in the woods. Naay I'waans
(the Whale House) continues to detiororate. We, as Shareholders of the
Corporation, collectively, own our land and these sites. Our Board of Directors
must diligently oversee our heritage just as they currently devote all of their
time to investing money.
Money matters, too. KAVILCO has done well investing and reinvesting the profits
made in the 1970s and 1980s. We have done well, better than many corporations
formed out of ANCSA. We will in the future be in position to sell timber again
or create other financial opportunities to benefit our Shareholders. We can
make money and honor our Kasaan roots. These do not have to be mutually
exclusive.
Traditionally, our commerce and our culture were intertwined.
Our Corporation has done well financially and I will not forget. I will work to
improve upon our past success. But we should not let money become our only
memory of Kasaan's important heritage, a heritage not born from timber sales in
the 1970s but out of the culture, language, art, struggles, and traditions of
our Kasaan ancestors who lived in the Kasaan area for centuries.
Most residents of Old Kasaan did not live to see KAVILCO or its financial
benefits. Some elders from Kasaan and other Kasaan residents did not become
KAVILCO Shareholders, either. We must remember that, because of our land and
legacy, KAVILCO is different than the average SEC registered investment
company. Our Corporation does not belong to us as much as it belongs to our
children and grandchildren. We must be the caretakers. If our Corporation fails,
what becomes of our land?
KAVILCO owns much land in the customary and traditional use areas of the Kasaan
Haida people. Our land had the timber we sold. This land came to us from the
US Government but only because our ancestors first lived and built Kasaan's
legacy as one of a few Haida villages in what later became Alaska. Now, only
two Haida villages remain inhabited: Hydaburg and Kasaan.
We need to better protect and preserve sacred sites within our territory, as
well as look for business and cultural opportunities available within
appropriate areas. We can do many of these things without spending our
corporation's money, too. Our Board of Directors could do more to encourage our
Shareholders and other Kasaan descendants to visit Kasaan and to take part in
Kasaan cultural activities.
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
With your support, I will work within the Corporation's tight financial
constraints to preserve and advance our Haida culture. We can continue to
achieve financial success as well as promote, support, and initiate cultural
heritage endeavors by and for the Haida people. With the earned respect through
35 years of documented achievement, KAVILCO (and its Kasaan Haida Heritage
Foundation) can have much more cultural influence than at present.
Hawaa! Thank You!
FREDERICK OTILIUS OLSEN, JR.
(Frederick Otilius Olsen, Jr.)
October 7, 2011