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Story by Mike Foley, originally published in my blog on December 9, 2008
Thousands of people have been paying tribute to Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, at age 91 the oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he passed away on December 1, 2008…and because I had the great privilege of knowing him personally as my bishop over 50 years ago, I would like to add my own small homage: [Read more…]
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in PCC’s Imua Polenesia newsletter, August 2005] In the summer of 1963 the late Wendell B. Mendenhall, president of all LDS labor missionaries in the Pacific, asked 148 New Zealand Maori to help get the Polynesian Cultural Center ready for its opening on October 12th that year. […]
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 14, 2006] One of Hawaii’s leading corporate attorneys shared some of the learnings and business philosophies he has incorporated into his own and other ventures in the March 14 entrepreneurship lecture series. Gregory R. Kim, Esq. [pictured at right] worked at […]
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” April 11, 2005 In February 2004 when Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of The Quorum of the Twelve served in residence as President of the Chile Area, he became the first LDS Apostle to visit Easter Island — or Rapa Nui as its […]
[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 […]
