Ryan Anderson

Elder W. Craig Zwick, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, urged students to better build their lives on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in his devotional address at BYU-Hawaii on April 15, and offered suggestions on “creating and strengthening a sure foundation.”

Elder Joshua Subandriyo, Area Authority Seventy in Indonesia, highlighted his many service experiences during his BYU-Hawaii devotional address on April 8 and told how they added to his "journey of life in the Restored Gospel."

Ryan Anderson | University Advancement | 7 April 2008

President Jonathan S. Durrett, Second Counselor in the Hawaii-Honolulu Mission admonished students during his devotional address at BYU-Hawaii on Thursday, April 3, to follow the teachings of Christ and “be the salt of the earth,” especially in missionary work.

President Durrett began his devotional address with a story about the Hanapepe salt ponds on the island of Kauai: An old Hawaiian woman who had taken too many fish from the sea was troubled that she would have to suffer for her mistakes. In her lamenting, she was visited by Pele, the Hawaiian demigoddess who had pity on the woman and showed her how to dig a hole that would eventually fill with salt water. In this pit, the woman could preserve her fish so they were not wasted. Said Durrett, “this was the beginning of the sacred practice of Hawaiian salt-making.”

Ryan Anderson| University Advancement | 7 April 2008


Leading international employment consultant and author of The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas, Jean-Marc Hachey (at left), provided information and tips on international employment during the BYU-Hawaii’s Career Services seminar on International Employment held Thursday, March 27 and Friday March 28.

Hachey, who is originally from Canada, has a long list of activities and involvement with organizations that qualify his expertise in the subject. According to Kim Austin, director of Career Services, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1979 and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the Université Laval, in Québec City, Canada, in 1986.

Ryan Anderson | University Advancement | 7 April 2008


At a small awards ceremony in the BYU-Hawaii Macintosh Computer Lab on March 19, three students won prizes in the first annual brainhoney.com online lesson competition.

Aaron Doxey, a senior from Provo, Utah, majoring in Information Systems with a minor in Instructional Design and Development (IDD), won the competition and received a scholarship worth $1,000 from Agilix, Inc., the sponsor of both the brainhoney.com site and the competition. Doxey said his instructional video, “Résumé Building,” on how to make an effective résumé, is actually one of four parts to a project he is putting together for Career Services.

Elder Michael J. Teh, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, shared with students in the March 25 devotional the importance of combining diligence both in studies and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to fully realize the potential of President David O. McKay’s prophetic vision for BYU-Hawaii.

Aimed at exposing BYU-Hawaii students to the opportunities available through entrepreneurship, the annual Business Plan Competition and Entrepreneurship Conference, hosted by the Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship (CIE), was a success, according to students who were involved.

Arnold K. Wunder, president of the Kahului Stake on Maui, used the imagery from the hymn "Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy " (number 335) and examples from his own life to encourage students to be better "lower lights".

Comparing the young people of today to the army of Helaman, as a group of Christians involved in both physical and spiritual wars, Elder Kim B. Clark, president of BYU-Idaho and member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy, shared at campus devotional two patterns seen in the Book of Mormon that can be used for protection today.