Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
National principal titles goes to Maori educator
[Reprinted from the September 2013 issue of IMUA Polenisia, the Polynesian Cultural Center newsletter: Story and Maori photo by Mike Foley] Some people at the Latter-day Saint Church-affiliated Polynesian Cultural Center only know her as Sheena, a part-time Maori musician, but to 600-plus students as well as the 52 faculty members she oversees every week-day, […]
Thank you, Miss Rappaport
I learned one of my most useful skills in life in the late 1950s when I was in the 8th grade at Roosevelt Junior High School in Salt Lake City, Utah — touch typing. For that I must thank a most unusual teacher: Miss Bertha Rappaport. Anybody who took beginning typing from her back in […]
Understanding Arab-Israeli conflicts
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” January 4, 2004] Former Jerusalem Center director draws parallels between Arab-Israeli and Book of Mormon conflicts David B. Galbraith [pictured at right], a BYU professor emeritus of Middle East studies and conflict management, and a former director of the BYU Jerusalem Center […]
Kolea expert spends two weeks at BYU-Hawaii
[Story by Mike Foley: Originally published in the online BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, January 21, 2008] One of the foremost international experts on Pluvialis fulva — the Pacific Golden-Plover — has spent the past two weeks at BYU-Hawaii helping faculty and students, as well as state and federal researchers, net and band specimens of the unique long-distance […]