Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
It’s all relative…
Lately we’ve been experiencing what passes here for Hawaii winter weather, and quite frankly for the fully acclimatized, it’s been down-right chilly: People wear jackets and sweaters all day long, put extra blankets on the bed at night, drink more hot chocolate, sleep with their socks on, etc. For example…
Internationalization of CCH (2004)
Ross R. Allen (1957-1966): 1957 registrar recalls internationalization of CCH Ross R. Allen (pictured at right), who joined the Church College of Hawaii administration in 1957 as the registrar and director of admissions, claims to be “the first person who ever applied for a job” at the university, compared with the original faculty, “who were […]
Kolea expert spends two weeks at BYU-Hawaii
[Story by Mike Foley: Originally published in the online BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, January 21, 2008] One of the foremost international experts on Pluvialis fulva — the Pacific Golden-Plover — has spent the past two weeks at BYU-Hawaii helping faculty and students, as well as state and federal researchers, net and band specimens of the unique long-distance […]
Interisland boats in Samoa, 1965
[Blog entry and photos by Mike Foley, originally published online, December 7, 2008] In my “Mutiny in Samoa” entry, I referred to the fact that by 1965 most Mormon missionaries in Samoa flew between American and Western Samoa on a Polynesian Airlines DC3 [pictured at right]. New policy called for missionaries to fly whenever possible, […]