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 […]
BYU-Hawaii Study Abroad group returns from China
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, who accompanied the group: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii “Newsroom” in July 2006] Eleven BYU-Hawaii students and alumni, accompanied by two International Cultural Studies professors and their respective families, recently returned to campus after spending four weeks studying intensive Mandarin in Shanghai and another week visiting historic sites in […]
Francisco, Kemoeatu head for Super Bowl
Congratulations to Arizona Cardinals safety, BYU and Kahuku High player Aaron Francisco who’s heading to the Super Bowl — as is Chris Kemoeatu for the Steelers. Hopefully, Koolauloa family, friends and fans will be reading and seeing more of them . . . but in the meantime, Aaron shared some of his early SB impressions […]
Indonesia days: second-hand smoke
The part about Indonesia is coming up, but first a little intro: As a devout Mormon all my life, just being around second-hand cigaret smoke has always literally been somewhat sickening to me…and for those of you too young to remember when smoking was allowed on commercial airlines, you can’t imagine: