It has had difficulty finding a suitable director, and its board went through a period of soul-searching as it tried to clarify the direction of the museum and put it on a more professional footing.
A scanned image of his birth certificate released in 2008 says he was, and Hawaii's health director and its registrar of vital statistics have confirmed it.
It has also lost its chairman, executive director, artistic director and its place in ACE's national portfolio in the last year.
But the observatory was a separate institution with its own director and its own financial responsibility.
To some extent, the more significant love story is that between its director and its star.
But some hard feelings remain, at least on the part of the show's director and its lead producer.
Armando Perez-Roura, Radio Mambí's editorial director and its principal on-air voice, is an exile in his seventies.
"You have an elite few that control everything," said the film's director and its main screenwriter, Gaz Alazraki, 35.
This character is based on Gerald Arpino, the Joffrey's real artistic director and its founder with Robert Joffrey.
Its new acting chief executive is a director and its acting chief financial officer is from Alix Partners, a restructuring firm.
Mr. Powell will continue in his roles at Seymourpowell, London, where he is director, and its parent, Loewy, where he is group creative director.
