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Brother and Sister Goo Cook up Inspiring Devotional Message
Stace Hall | University Advancement | 27 September 2007
As they make final preparations before departing to preside as president and matron of the Hong Kong Temple, Charles and Helen Goo shared thoughts and lessons they've learned throughout the years.
While doing so, they said they wanted the audience to feel right at home.
"My kitchen is a wonderful place to talk story, and so today I'd like to invite all of you as if you are in my kitchen… the only difference is I do all the talking, and you do all the listening," Helen Goo said.
Goo, an entrepreneur and founder of Helen's Kitchen, shared what she called "pearls of wisdom from Helen's Kitchen." She said through life experiences she acquired three pearls, which she wanted to pass along to the audience.
First, Goo shared a teaching from Confucius, which, translated, reads as follows:
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As they make final preparations before departing to preside as president and matron of the Hong Kong Temple, Charles and Helen Goo shared thoughts and lessons they've learned throughout the years.
While doing so, they said they wanted the audience to feel right at home.
"My kitchen is a wonderful place to talk story, and so today I'd like to invite all of you as if you are in my kitchen… the only difference is I do all the talking, and you do all the listening," Helen Goo said.
Goo, an entrepreneur and founder of Helen's Kitchen, shared what she called "pearls of wisdom from Helen's Kitchen." She said through life experiences she acquired three pearls, which she wanted to pass along to the audience.
First, Goo shared a teaching from Confucius, which, translated, reads as follows:
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BYU-Hawaii Women’s Organization Begins 2007-2008 with Two Service Projects
Members of the BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir showcased the 2007-2008 theme of the BYU-Hawaii Women’s Organization by singing “Holding Hands Around the World,” a popular LDS Primary song, at the organization’s first luncheon of the academic year held Friday, 21 September 2007. Sister Margaret Wheelwright, wife of BYU-Hawaii president, Steven Wheelwright, was the featured guest speaker.
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Asher Dispenses Grad School Admission Strategies
Donald Asher, author of nine books on career development who regularly gives presentations at more than 100 major universities around the U.S. each year, shared strategies with BYU-Hawaii students in the September 25 Career Services forum on how to land scholarships, take standardized tests, stand out from the crowd and write amazing essays to gain admission to highly competitive graduate school programs.
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Faculty Member Ford Exhorts Audience to be 'On the Move'
Individuals must be the change they wish to see in order to be on the move with God, faculty member Chad Ford told the audience at Thursday's devotional.
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Feeling the Love
Stace Hall | University Advancement | 19 September 2007
When BYU-Hawaii tennis player Shenley Searing steps on to the tennis court, she wants her opponent to feel the love—reflected in the match's final score.
"I love the competition and it gives me satisfaction. I just have a drive and I feel at home on the tennis court," she said.
But a different kind of love motivated her to trade in her racket for gardening tools over the summer. Searing's solid serves down the line were put on hold in order to serve in a different way.
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When BYU-Hawaii tennis player Shenley Searing steps on to the tennis court, she wants her opponent to feel the love—reflected in the match's final score.
"I love the competition and it gives me satisfaction. I just have a drive and I feel at home on the tennis court," she said.
But a different kind of love motivated her to trade in her racket for gardening tools over the summer. Searing's solid serves down the line were put on hold in order to serve in a different way.
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BYU-Hawaii Basketball Alum Extols Entrepreneurship
Alan Akina, a BYU-Hawaii basketball player from 1991-95, told School of Business students in the September 18 entrepreneurship lecture how he was inspired to start several businesses while still a full-time student at the university. He also shared some of the keys to the success he has enjoyed since then and encouraged the students to begin developing networks with professors and peers.
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Seasider Basketball Goes to China
Over the summer, around 100 teenage Chinese athletes played basketball Seasider-style. In cooperation with the China University Basketball Association (CUBA), BYU-Hawaii conducted the first-ever American basketball academy for high school players in China.
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BYU-Hawaii Conducts Mentored Internship Project in Brazil
While hundreds of BYU-Hawaii students now go on individual internships each summer, a much smaller number participate in mentored projects such as the one this year where five international students and three faculty members are producing a case-based multimedia training tool for mental health workers with one of the top medical schools in Brazil.
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Alumni go the Distance Against Varsity Volleyball Team
Alumni players from the BYU-Hawaii women's volleyball team came together in the Cannon Activities Center on September 13, and showed they still got game by forcing the varsity into a two-two tie before bowing in the fifth game of the match.
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“Ka Ua Ka’a” Shares Magic of Hawaiian Culture
Rosemarie Howard | University Advancement | 14 September 2007
“There is a Wind and Rain particular to Maui that rises at twilight. It whispers of other places and other times, both mythic and real. It blows between daylight and night, between times and worlds. It is hopeful and cleansing. The ancient Hawaiian name for the wind and rain is ‘Ulalena !”
So begins the storyline for “Ka Ua Ka’a,” the traveling 45-minute version of ‘Ulalena. Written by former cast member, Pono Murray, the production “intertwines Hawaiian myths and legends through dramatic interpretation, modern and traditional hula, acrobatics, song and chant,” said Matthew Erickson, marketing and sales manager for the production company.
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“There is a Wind and Rain particular to Maui that rises at twilight. It whispers of other places and other times, both mythic and real. It blows between daylight and night, between times and worlds. It is hopeful and cleansing. The ancient Hawaiian name for the wind and rain is ‘Ulalena !”
So begins the storyline for “Ka Ua Ka’a,” the traveling 45-minute version of ‘Ulalena. Written by former cast member, Pono Murray, the production “intertwines Hawaiian myths and legends through dramatic interpretation, modern and traditional hula, acrobatics, song and chant,” said Matthew Erickson, marketing and sales manager for the production company.
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