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Outrigger CEO Visits BYU-Hawaii
Mike Foley | University Advancement | 6 March 2003
The president and CEO of one of Hawaii’s most unique hotel chains told BYU-Hawaii business students how the company has evolved over the past 50-plus years from a spare bedroom through a string of affordable lodgings spread throughout Waikiki, to an international network of properties that include luxury service at premium rates.
Speaking at the Mar. 4 School of Business Entrepreneurship Lecture series, David Carey traced the growth of Outrigger Enterprises back to its founders, Roy and Estelle Kelly who started leasing out spare bedrooms in their Waikiki home not long after World War II, then started building their own hotels or buying them and converting them into the Outrigger chain which featured limited services at affordable rates.
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The president and CEO of one of Hawaii’s most unique hotel chains told BYU-Hawaii business students how the company has evolved over the past 50-plus years from a spare bedroom through a string of affordable lodgings spread throughout Waikiki, to an international network of properties that include luxury service at premium rates.
Speaking at the Mar. 4 School of Business Entrepreneurship Lecture series, David Carey traced the growth of Outrigger Enterprises back to its founders, Roy and Estelle Kelly who started leasing out spare bedrooms in their Waikiki home not long after World War II, then started building their own hotels or buying them and converting them into the Outrigger chain which featured limited services at affordable rates.
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Student group prepares diligently for law school
Imagine a small, committed group of BYU-Hawaii students who meet weekly on their own initiative to take rigorous practice exams and discuss ways to prepare for graduate school, and you have begun to form a mental picture of the campus pre-law group.
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Contemplating Mortality and Our Eternal Journey
Merrill J. Bateman, President of BYU and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with his wife Marilyn outlined “the mortal journey, its purposes and challenges, and its role in the eternal plan” during their devotional address at BYU-Hawaii Feb. 27.
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CES Executive Committee visits BYU-Hawaii
Members of the LDS Church Education System’s Executive Committee, including Elders Richard G. Scott {pictured at right] and Henry B. Eyring of The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, met with the BYU-Hawaii faculty and staff on Feb. 24 to answer questions and assure them they’re doing “very well.”
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BYU-Hawaii Observes 48th Homecoming Celebration
BYU-Hawaii President Eric B. Shumway and a group of students gathered in the Aloha Center on Feb. 11 to enjoy refreshments and kick off the university's homecoming festivities.
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Winter '03 Enrollment on Track With New Objectives.
"We're pleased to have the new enrollment cap. It's going to be positive for the University and the students," Dean Bunker said. "Right now, though we're still in the adding and dropping phase until the end of the week, the majority of registration is done. We anticipate we'll end up with around 2,400 students enrolled."
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Media Entrepreneur Draws Success, Failure Lessons.
A former international health care executive who recently started a media production and distribution company in Orem, Utah, shared insights into his successes, failures and challenges over the years with BYU-Hawaii students in the latest entrepreneurship lecture.
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Jeopardy Quiz Show Conducts Auditions at PCC
A talent search crew for Jeopardy, the Emmy Award-winning TV quiz show, came to the Polynesian Cultural Center`s Pacific Theater on Jan. 17, to select three BYU-Hawaii faculty members, five BYUH students and a Kahuku High teacher as possible contestants for 2003.
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Joseph Smith’s Brutal Test of Faith
BYU Professor Susan Easton Black told a BYU-Hawaii devotional on November 21st how the horrendous events surrounding Saturday night, March 24, 1832, in Hiram, Ohio, turned into the Prophet Joseph Smith’s first brutal test of faith.
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President of HRI Encourages Knowledge and Character
Hawaii Reserves, Inc. President & CEO R. Eric Beaver encouraged BYU-Hawaii students in his November 14th devotional address to use eternal perspectives in their studies as they develop knowledge and character.
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