Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
III. Things have changed: Way back when
As the third in a series on my blog about how things have changed a lot since I was a kid, I’m reminded of a prof years ago at the University of Hawaii who told us that our personal “stories” or historical heritage begins with the memories of the oldest people we’ve known. If that’s […]
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 […]
Some help with the Aborigines
In the early 1990s the management team at the Polynesian Cultural Center was trying to develop a series of “special events” to help overcome one of the periodic downturns in the visitor industry: The idea being to offer something new or different that would encourage people to visit, including some of those who have been […]
Rainy Rushmore!
Mt. Rushmore and surrounding region (if you don’t see a video window above, please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWp2Q05v77E) Almost every time I saw pictures or movies of Mt. Rushmore in the past, its grand-scale patriotism instilled in me a desire to see it in person . . . so, even though it made for several long […]