Waimea Sugar Co. manager Alan Faye Sr. (1905-1968) was born in Waimea, Kauai, one of eight children of Kauai sugar pioneer and Kekaha Sugar Co. manager H. P. Faye and his wife, Margaret Lindsay Faye. He attended Choate, graduated from
Waimea Sugar Co. manager Alan Faye Sr. (1905-1968) was born in Waimea, Kauai, one of eight children of Kauai sugar pioneer and Kekaha Sugar Co. manager H. P. Faye and his wife, Margaret Lindsay Faye.
He attended Choate, graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1928 with a degree in architecture, and looked forward to continuing his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.
However, his plans were interrupted later that year, when he was called home to Kauai by his mother to take over the management of Waimea Sugar Co. — the Faye family sugar plantation.
His father had died, he was told, and he was needed on Kauai to replace his brother, Lindsay Faye, as manager, since Lindsay was required at Kekaha Sugar Co. to assist William Danford, who’d succeeded H. P. Faye as manager there.
Although he’d sacrificed his plans to study architecture abroad, Alan Faye did not abandon the profession.
During the 40 years he managed Waimea Sugar Co., as well as the Fayes’ Waimea Dairy for nearly that long, he designed several buildings, notably the Grove Farm office in Puhi, Danford House in Kokee and the Kilauea Sugar Plantation office building.
As an officer in the Kauai Volunteers — a local militia formed to supplement the Armed Forces and National Guard in defense of Kauai during World War II — Alan Faye commanded Troop A, a mounted unit that patrolled ranch lands.
What’s more, he was active in the Boy Scouts. Camp Alan Faye in Kokee is named after him.
Incidentally, the Fayes closed Waimea Sugar Co. after Alan Faye passed away in 1968.
They’d previously sold Waimea Dairy to Meadow Gold in the early 1960s.
Alan Faye and his first wife, Janet Byrnes Faye, had two children — Sally and Alan Faye Jr. — and Michael and Maren Faye are his children from his marriage to Jean Burns Faye.
