President Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will announce the new president-designate of Brigham Young University Hawaii during a special live, two-way video teleconference originating in Salt Lake City, Utah, that will be shown in the Cannon Activities Center on Tuesday, June 5, at 10 a.m. All faculty, staff and students are invited.
Following the broadcast, the new president-designate and Elder W. Rolfe Kerr, Church Education System Commissioner and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, will travel to Laie where they will speak at a devotional in the CAC on Thursday, June 7, at 10 a.m.
The new president-designate will be installed in office during BYU-Hawaii's commencement exercises, which start at 9 a.m. on June 23 in the CAC. Effective immediately after, he will succeed Dr. Eric B. Shumway, who has served as president of BYU-Hawaii since 1994.
President Shumway, an English literature and Tongan language scholar who joined the university faculty in 1966, will retire at that time with 41 years of service. He and his wife, Carolyn Shumway, have accepted a three-year voluntary assignment as president and matron, respectively, of the Latter-day Saint Temple in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, starting in September 2007.
