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Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, Lecture Series Draw High Interest
As a special traveling exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls opened in the Laie Temple Visitors Center on January 19, BYU-Hawaii students, faculty, staff and visitors filled the McKay Auditorium to capacity to hear Dr. Donald W. Parry, BYU Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and a member of an international team of translators working on the 2,000-year-old records, explain their significance to Latter-day Saints.
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Calvin College Students Travel Over 4000 Miles to Hold Class at BYU-Hawaii
Sixteen students from Calvin College left behind the freezing winds of GrandRapids, Michigan to attend class in tropical Hawaii—and the weather doesn’t seem to be bothering them.
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Laie Welcomes Well-Traveled Scrolls Exhibit
Justin Smith | University Advancement | 20 January 2006
From the shores of the Dead Sea comes an exhibit of renowned historical
significance that has arrived on the Hawaiian Islands for display at the
Hawaii Temple Visitor’s
Center through March 2006.
The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was flown to Oahu from Europe, where it had toured England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, and a host of other countries. It contains pieces of authentic pottery, a collection of certified scroll replicas (the originals remain secured in the Middle East), a Roman soldier’s sword, a model of the city Qumran (where the scrolls originated), a model of metal plates, literature, paintings, and pictures of the caves where the scrolls were discovered, and many other items.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was flown to Oahu from Europe, where it had toured England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, and a host of other countries. It contains pieces of authentic pottery, a collection of certified scroll replicas (the originals remain secured in the Middle East), a Roman soldier’s sword, a model of the city Qumran (where the scrolls originated), a model of metal plates, literature, paintings, and pictures of the caves where the scrolls were discovered, and many other items.
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Jericho Road to Perform at PCC for New Student Orientation
Justin Smith | University Advancement | 9 January 2007
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Religion Chair Publishes Viewpoint on Joseph Smith's Prophetic Understanding of Modern Issues.
Read coverage in the Marcus Martins article in Star Bulletin
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Valedictorian Anticipates Next Step; Encourages Grads to Continue in Ways of the University
Media Relations | University Advancement | 20 December 2005
More than 250 graduates from over 30 different countries walked during BYU-Hawaii's
December 2005 Commencement on Saturday—but there was only one from Russia.
Valedictorian Olga Bogach Moulton, an international business management major
from Far Eastern Russia, addressed her fellow graduates and thanked the faculty
who provided the many teaching moments she experienced at the university.
"Teaching is truly a higher calling," Moulton said, as she drew a comparison between the teaching efforts of her professors with the master teaching of the Savior. "Indeed, the Savior of the world used His whole life as a teaching purpose that He might show the world how to obtain happiness in this life and in the life to come."
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"Teaching is truly a higher calling," Moulton said, as she drew a comparison between the teaching efforts of her professors with the master teaching of the Savior. "Indeed, the Savior of the world used His whole life as a teaching purpose that He might show the world how to obtain happiness in this life and in the life to come."
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Elder Packer Emphasizes the Need for Personal Revelation
Mike Foley | University Advancement | 19 December 2005
In his December 17 commencement address to over 250 BYU-Hawaii
graduates, Elder Boyd K. Packer, Acting President of The Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, used some
of his own experiences in the Pacific 60 years ago to emphasize
the increasing need for personal revelation in modern times.
Elder Packer, who was ordained an Apostle on April 9, 1970, told the graduates he was serving in the military when he originally stopped in Laie 60 years ago to see the temple. The next day in Honolulu he learned World War II had ended and hoped that he would soon be going home, "but that was not to be."
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Elder Packer, who was ordained an Apostle on April 9, 1970, told the graduates he was serving in the military when he originally stopped in Laie 60 years ago to see the temple. The next day in Honolulu he learned World War II had ended and hoped that he would soon be going home, "but that was not to be."
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President Shumway Summarizes the Jubilee Year
President Eric B. Shumway used his remarks at the December 15 graduation luau and a thank you letter from former university president Alton Wade to comment on BYU-Hawaii's year-long Golden Jubilee celebration, which drew to a close with the December 17 commencement.
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