Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Desperately needed products
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” January 20, 2004] Humanitarian marketing: selling desperately needed products for people who can’t afford to buy them The co-founder and partner in a unique water pasteurization equipment company with widespread potential in developing countries faces the challenge of trying to market a […]
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. […]
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, […]
Thinking about ‘ulu
I was picking a couple of ‘ulu [breadfruit] the other day from my neighbor’s tree that hangs over into our yard . . . and it got me thinking about the bright green little ‘ulu tree that President Eric Shumway and a number of others planted during the Church College of Hawaii/Brigham Young University–Hawaii jubilee […]