Mike Foley

Eight years ago BYU-Hawaii alumni Delbert Kim ('83) and his wife, ClaireSepton Kim ('82), quit their conservative day jobs and went into thebusiness of helping others have fun.

George Greenwood, a volunteer service missionary at the Polynesian Cultural Center, shared lessons he learned over years of running his own multi-million dollar construction company during the BYU-Hawaii School of Business entrepreneurial lecture series on October 4.

His Excellency Nambar Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia, visited with the 54Mongolian students at BYU-Hawaii on September 20, answered their questions, listened to their accomplishments and encouraged them to help provide similar educational opportunities for others by creating jobs when they return home.

The author of the number-one selling book on gardening is at BYU-Hawaii this week to introduce and certify interested students and community residents in his highly productive square foot gardening methods.

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 26 August 2005 The BYU-Hawaii President's Council named Dr. Yee Kong Peter Chan, assistant professor of instructional design and development, its "teacher of the year" at the August 26 ohana or family meeting of university faculty and staff.

"This is always a difficult time, because so many of you who are not honored in this way deserve to be," said university President Eric B. Shumway in announcing Chan, a 1995 BYU-Hawaii information systems alumnus from China who went on to earn his doctorate at BYU in Provo and returned to his alma mater three years ago. He added that others who have previously received awards "could easily receive them again," but school policy limits the award to one time.

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 19 July 2005 Though summer term is usually not as busy as the rest of the academic year at BYU-Hawaii, it seems various parts of the campus have been under construction for the past several months.

BYU-Hawaii Physical Plant Director Judd Whetten agreed. "Our focus is to get these projects done during the summer when it has less of an impact on students and faculty."

For example, Whetten pointed out that a new parking lot behind the Stake Center was completed about a month ago, and a two-to-three-month project to replace some sidewalks, curbs and gutters, and to repave some of the roads "is really making a mess at the moment. We've widened some of the sidewalks, improved the drainage a bit, and replaced some of the older sections."

Owen J. Cook, 90, president of the Church College of Hawaii from 1964-71, died June 25 of respiratory failure in Grand Terrace, California, where he and his wife of 64 years, Ellen, lived for the past 34 years.

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 13 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii faculty, staff and students successfully hosted approximately 300 widespread international members of the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education on campus from June 6-9 during the group's ninth annual but first-ever conference outside of Asia.

"From all aspects, I think the conference was a success, both in the paper quality as well as the other functions," said GCSCE organizing chairman Dr. Tak-wai Chan of Taiwan Central University. "One surprising thing to us, this was supposed to be a western place, but somehow this conference inherited the spirit here [in Hawaii]. It's not only the mountains and the beaches, but you have a human paradise here."

BYU-Hawaii Biology Department chairman Dr. Roger Goodwill and several students recently returned from Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands where they initiated radio telemetry and DNA study fieldwork on Pacific Golden-Plover, a migratory shorebird known as kolea in Hawaii.