Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Slideshow: President Uchtdorf’s visit to Laie
On August 29, 2015, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated the new Hukilau Marketplace addition to the Polynesian Cultural Center, and then dedicated the new Laie Courtyard by Marriott hotel, which is makai (seaward) of the PCC’s Maori Village. The following slideshow depicts some of the […]
Kahuku High: 2010 Fijian video most popular
Many of you know I’ve been a serious still photographer for many years, but about 15 years ago I started doing web-videos . . . and you can see the most popular one I’ve done, so far, below: A 6:12-minute Fijian segment from Kahuku High‘s 2010 “May Night” program at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii: […]
Thank you, Miss Rappaport
I learned one of my most useful skills in life in the late 1950s when I was in the 8th grade at Roosevelt Junior High School in Salt Lake City, Utah — touch typing. For that I must thank a most unusual teacher: Miss Bertha Rappaport. Anybody who took beginning typing from her back in […]
‘Coming of Age’ with Margaret Mead
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 8, 2009] In 1925-26, armed with a Columbia University Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, 23-year-old Margaret Mead spent about six months on the island of Ta’u, Manu’a, American Samoa, conducting field research on whether nurture or nature was predominant in determining behavior. Her controversial book, Coming of […]