Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
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 […]
Congratulations, Kahuku High Class of 2009
[Blog entry and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published May 29, 2009] During the annual commencement ceremonies on May 28 in the BYU-Hawaii Cannon Activities Center, 232 seniors became “now and forever graduates of Kahuku High”:
What a ‘wero’!
Over the past 40-plus years I’ve seen Maori at the Polynesian Cultural Center welcome many visiting groups of their countrymen with traditional greeting ceremonies, but I think the wero or challenge-and-acceptance protocol the PCC and Maori from the surrounding communities put on for Te Panekiretanga O Te Reo Maori on July 27, 2010, was one […]
History missionary traces close PCC/BYU-Hawaii ties
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the online BYU-Hawaii “Newsroom,” September 26, 2003] Elder R. Lanier Britsch [pictured at left], a service missionary working on writing the 40-year history of the Polynesian Cultural Center, traced the close ties between BYU-Hawaii and the popular visitor attraction during the University’s Sept. 25 devotional address. […]