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, […]
Original Maori artisan refreshes PCC carvings
[Published in the December 2013 issue of IMUA Polenisia, the Polynesian Cultural Center newsletter: Story and photos by Mike Foley] Before sunrise on November 30, in accordance with New Zealand Maori custom, carvers, service missionaries, island representatives, other Maori from the community and special guests waited at the Maori Village gate for a special kawanga ceremony to […]
Te Aroha Nui Maori group returns to PCC
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in PCC’s Imua Polenesia newsletter, August 2005] In the summer of 1963 the late Wendell B. Mendenhall, president of all LDS labor missionaries in the Pacific, asked 148 New Zealand Maori to help get the Polynesian Cultural Center ready for its opening on October 12th that year. […]
Hawaii-based film cgi veteran encourages BYUH students
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 29, 2005] Cheryl LaMont [pictured at right], President and CEO of Dot C Software — a Kailua, Hawaii business that does photorealistic 3D computer generated imagery (cgi) for Hollywood and other major clients around the world — urged students interested in […]