Mike Foley
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Star Kist™ Samoa Tuna GM talks to BYUH Students
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Mike Foley
March 21, 2008 04:55 PM
BYU-Hawaii Career Services invited Brett Butler, general manager of Del Monte's Star Kist™ Tuna manufacturing plant in American Samoa, to speak to School of Business students on March 20 about the issues and challenges he faces running the largest single packing operation of its kind in the world.
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Walker Draws on Waves of Belief
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Mike Foley
March 19, 2008 05:43 PM
BYU-Hawaii history professor Isaiah Walker drew on some of his surfing skills in his March 18 devotional address in the Cannon Activities Center to encourage university students, faculty and staff to ride life's waves of belief.
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PCC's Muaina: 'No More Strangers'
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Mike Foley
March 12, 2008 08:34 AM
John Muaina, Vice President of Human Resources at the Polynesian Cultural Center, shared his experiences as a young student worker as well as an international recruiter and diplomat to encourage today's BYU-Hawaii students to be "no more strangers" in his March 11 devotional address in the Cannon Activities Center.
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Language School Plan Wins Business Competition
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Mike Foley
March 08, 2008 10:15 AM
A proposal by two TESOL [Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages] majors and a Latina classmate to establish an English language school in Merida, Mexico, won the $5,000 grand prize in the 2008 BYU-Hawaii Mark and Laura Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship (CIE) business plan competition on March 7. Visiting entrepreneurs who earlier participated in a two-day business conference on campus acted as judges to also award six other cash prizes in the university's annual business plan competition.
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President's Council Holds March Q&A Session
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Mike Foley
March 07, 2008 11:35 PM
The BYU-Hawaii President's Council met with interested faculty, staff and students at 7:00 a.m. on March 6 in the Little Theater to answer a range of questions from the floor and also pre-submitted by email. For example:
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New Matthew Cowley Society Honors BYUH/PCC Donors
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Mike Foley
March 07, 2008 10:10 PM
LDS Philanthropies, which coordinates fundraising beyond tithing and fast offerings for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its institutions, founded the Matthew Cowley Society during a special luncheon on campus March 5 to honor donors who make estate planning deferred gift contributions to Brigham Young University and/or the Polynesian Cultural Center.
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Church Board of Education Execs Convene at BYUH
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Mike Foley
February 26, 2008 12:28 PM
The Executive Committee of the Board of Education of the Church Educational System — including Elders Russell M. Nelson, chairman, and M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve [pictured at top left], and Sister Julie B. Beck, General Relief Society President — held day-long meetings at BYU-Hawaii on February 25. That afternoon they addressed the university ohana or faculty and staff "family." Some of them also addressed the students and Saints in special fireside meetings on the previous Sunday evening.
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Canadian Fosters Philanthropy Through Entrepreneurism
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Mike Foley
February 21, 2008 05:22 PM
Dal Zemp, a BYU-Hawaii alumnus and member of the BYUH/Polynesian Cultural Center Presidents' Leadership Council who describes himself as an entrepreneurial philanthropist, told School of Business students on February 21, 2008, how he built several successful enterprises so he can pursue his love of special education and helping others.
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Joseph Smith Revelations Tie to Early Christian Doctrines
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Mike Foley
February 19, 2008 12:48 PM
Dr. Daniel C. Peterson [pictured at left], professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at BYU in Provo, turned to a range of modern and ancient scholars during the annual Joseph Smith Lecture Series at BYU-Hawaii on February 19 in the Cannon Activities Center to show that the Latter-day Saint Prophet's revelations restored a number of early Christian doctrines and practices.
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