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 […]
Kupuna, others harvest HRI taro
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on December 17, 1998] (Left-right): Sione Feinga, Theresa Bigbie, Tino Koahou, Martha Kalama and Lemau Tauali’i show the taro they’ve just pulled. It seemed like déjà vu as kupuna and other community members gathered at the new Hawaii Reserves taro farm mauka of Laie in […]
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 […]
‘Jeopardy’ quiz show conducts auditions at PCC
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” January 20, 2003] A talent search crew for Jeopardy, the Emmy Award-winning TV quiz show, came to the Polynesian Cultural Center’s Pacific Theater on Friday, January 17th, to select three BYU-Hawaii faculty members and a Kahuku High teacher as possible adult contestants […]