Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Kahuku claims ’98 OIA football championship
[Story by Mike Foley, photo by Barry Markowitz, originally published in Kaleo, November 19, 1998] Kahuku’s D-men didn’t let pouring rain stop them from keeping Waianae scoreless during the OIA title match at Aloha Stadium Kahuku High School’s unstoppable, nationally-ranked varsity Red Raiders finished out a perfect 1998 12–0 football season during a downpour at […]
Author-educator urges servant leadership
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 27, 2007] Dr. Kent M. Keith [pictured at left], who in 1968 wrote a series of “paradoxical commandments” as a teenage undergraduate at Harvard that have since spread across the globe and formed the basis for several current best-selling books, urged […]
BYUH presents service honors to labor missionaries
[Story by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 17, 2005] BYU-Hawaii honored 26 labor missionaries during its Koolauloa Community Service Awards Program on March 17. The twenty-six represented several hundred volunteer laborers and supervisors who built the university campus, additions to the Hawaii Temple and Visitors Center, housing, chapels, and the […]
Samoa factoids: Did you know?
In the wake of news from the September 29, 2009, earthquake and tsunami damage in Samoa, I was recently reading some Samoa history, and the following few factoids caught my interest enough to share them: