Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
E hoa: Congratulations, Alfred
Grace It is with great pleasure that I congratulate my young friend and former colleague, Puataata (if you ever wondered what the P. stands for) Alfred Grace, who was recently named as the first-ever Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Polynesian Cultural Center. I can honestly say I knew Al back when. I first met […]
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. […]
BYUH Honors students look at countering terrorism
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” April 4, 2007] A counter-terrorism expert now on the BYU-Hawaii faculty suggested to Honors students in their April 4 colloquium that humanitarian aid — helping people — will ultimately be more effective than military intervention in fighting terrorism. “Terrorism isn’t something new. […]
BYUH Hawaiian Studies faculty to report on historic sail
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in the BYU-Hawaii online Newsroom, April 12, 2007] Two members of the BYUH Hawaiian Studies program will report on their participation as crew members during the recent open-ocean journey of two voyaging canoes from Hawaii to Satawal in Micronesia to honor the man responsible for restoring traditional […]