Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Laie ladies named top teachers at Kahuku
[Originally published in KALEO on October 3, 1996] Students, staff and faculty at Kahuku High and Intermediate School recently elected two Laie women as top teachers at the North Shore school: Sunday Mariteragi (left) and Elizabeth Kammerer (right). In addition to tying for the teacher of the year award and winning $100 each, Mariteragi received the Oceanic Cablevision/Finance […]
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 […]
The ‘big payday most entrepreneurs dream of’
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” September 12, 2006] A Honolulu attorney advises business students on exit strategies In the first entrepreneurship lecture of Fall Semester 2006, Honolulu attorney Larry Gilbert provided BYU-Hawaii School of Business students with “some real world lessons” on the “big payday most entrepreneurs […]
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 […]