Mike Foley's blog
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Working on Kalaupapa family history records
During our June 2010 road trip on the U.S. mainland, my wife and I visited with our friend and fellow Laie 4th Ward member, Sister Napua Baker, who is currently serving as a senior missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. […]
Duo marks 20 years in Laie preschool
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, November 29, 1997] Gerry Nihipali [pictured at right] and Lilian Makaiau have been preparing children for school for 20 years in Laie. They teach preschool for four-year-olds and last year they had children of former students in their classes. Their students mainly come from Laie, […]
The ‘poor man’s cruise’
Back in the late 80s, a bunch of us marketing guys from Hawaii qualified for a TV advertising incentive prize that my wife, Sally Ann, and I thoroughly enjoyed: We flew to Miami, Florida, then spent seven days and six nights on a new Carnival ship cruising the Western Caribbean with ports of call at […]
BYUH unveils Hawaiian Studies program
[Story by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, February 26, 1998] All the hopes and emotions of a long-time vision being fulfilled were on display the evening of Feb. 12 when the Center for Hawaiian Language and Cultural Studies at Brigham Young University-Hawaii was introduced to the public. The new program’s introduction occurred on Founders […]