Mike Foley

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 6 March 2003

The president and CEO of one of Hawaii’s most unique hotel chains told BYU-Hawaii business students how the company has evolved over the past 50-plus years from a spare bedroom through a string of affordable lodgings spread throughout Waikiki, to an international network of properties that include luxury service at premium rates.

Speaking at the Mar. 4 School of Business Entrepreneurship Lecture series, David Carey traced the growth of Outrigger Enterprises back to its founders, Roy and Estelle Kelly who started leasing out spare bedrooms in their Waikiki home not long after World War II, then started building their own hotels or buying them and converting them into the Outrigger chain which featured limited services at affordable rates.

Imagine a small, committed group of BYU-Hawaii students who meet weekly on their own initiative to take rigorous practice exams and discuss ways to prepare for graduate school, and you have begun to form a mental picture of the campus pre-law group.

"We're pleased to have the new enrollment cap. It's going to be positive for the University and the students," Dean Bunker said. "Right now, though we're still in the adding and dropping phase until the end of the week, the majority of registration is done. We anticipate we'll end up with around 2,400 students enrolled."

A former international health care executive who recently started a media production and distribution company in Orem, Utah, shared insights into his successes, failures and challenges over the years with BYU-Hawaii students in the latest entrepreneurship lecture.

A talent search crew for Jeopardy, the Emmy Award-winning TV quiz show, came to the Polynesian Cultural Center`s Pacific Theater on Jan. 17, to select three BYU-Hawaii faculty members, five BYUH students and a Kahuku High teacher as possible contestants for 2003.

BYU Professor Susan Easton Black told a BYU-Hawaii devotional on November 21st how the horrendous events surrounding Saturday night, March 24, 1832, in Hiram, Ohio, turned into the Prophet Joseph Smith’s first brutal test of faith.

Hawaii Reserves, Inc. President & CEO R. Eric Beaver encouraged BYU-Hawaii students in his November 14th devotional address to use eternal perspectives in their studies as they develop knowledge and character.