Mike Foley

Memoriam: CCH/BYU-Hawaii Art Professor Emeritus Wylie W. Swapp, 88, passed away early Sunday morning, January 14, 2007, surrounded by his family and a few close friends.

Tuesday, January 16, Dr. Paul Alan Cox will present an Honors Academic Forum at 10 a.m. in the Little Theatre on the BYU-Hawaii campus. The forum, sponsored by the University Honors Program will feature the topic “New Medicines from Ancient Knowledge in the Pacific Islands.”

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 11 January 2007  In the first devotional address of 2007 BYU-Hawaii president and Area Authority Seventy Elder Eric B. Shumway drew upon a lesson learned as a teenager from his mother to remind university students, faculty and staff that they are the "children of the light." President Shumway recalled in the January 11 address in the Cannon Activities Center whenever he came home at night that the light from his mother's reading lamp in St. John's, Arizona, signaled she was "awake and waiting, expecting a report on my evening's activities."

He also asked if they wondered what it would have been like to "live in the days of the Savior" and be on the shores of Galilee," when Jesus "looked into the eyes of four fishermen and spoke the words that would change their lives forever: 'Follow me.' If you had been there, would you have heeded the Savior's call? Perhaps, a more productive question might be: If the Savior were to call to you today would you be just as willing to follow Him?"

With a reinforced focus on service learning, BYU-Hawaii social work majors are infusing concepts and skills learned in the classroom by advocating for social justice in communities throughout the world.

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 6 December 2006

In the final BYU-Hawaii School of Business entrepreneurship lecture for 2006, a businessman who has based his success on "changing lives through inspiring family entertainment" outlined how some of his unconventional approaches have led to hundreds of profitable products and media releases.

Seldon O. Young, Co-chairman and CEO of NEST Family Entertainment™ and a member of the BYU-Hawaii/Polynesian Cultural Center Presidents' Leadership Council, started at age 20 to produce and market such products as Animated Bible Stories for Children, Living Scriptures™, The Swan Princess — an original G-rated general release movie, and many others, including several technologically innovative services.

Dr. Ethan Yorgason, an adjunct assistant professor in the history and International Cultural Studies departments at BYU-Hawaii, contributed a chapter on the "shifting role of Latter-day Saints as the quintessential American religion" to a recently published, scholarly three-volume work entitled Faith in America.

Dr. Li Yining, considered to be the foremost economist in the People's Republic of China and the principal scholar involved in its recent phenomenal economic growth, outlined some of the remaining difficulties his country still faces to a large group of BYU-Hawaii students.

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 27 November 2006 

The Mormon Pacific Historical Society, the Laie Community Association and the BYU-Hawaii History Department teamed up November 21 to co-sponsor an "old movie" night in the McKay Auditorium featuring rarely seen footage of Laie from the 1930-50s. The selections included a historic look at the Hukilau program from 1949 or ‘50, and a more modern 1966 clip of Elvis Presley at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

The evening began, appropriately, with Hawaiian music by the Laie Serenaders — a volunteer group of local kupuna musicians who perform for free at many community events.