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30th Annual Conference Of The Mphs, Waianae, Hawaii, 2011 Jan 2011

30th Annual Conference Of The Mphs, Waianae, Hawaii, 2011

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Jerrold Ottley Interview With Mikaele Foley, 2005, Jerrold Ottley Mar 2008

Jerrold Ottley Interview With Mikaele Foley, 2005, Jerrold Ottley

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Former Tabernacle Choir director Dr. Jerold Ottley, who some may remember served as a senior educational missionary at BYU-Hawaii with his wife, Sister JoAnn Ottley, about 15 years ago, passed away on Feb. 19, 2021, in Salt Lake City, Utah. While in Laie, he taught the University Chorale and choral techniques, and his wife, a well-known soprano, taught French diction for singers and private voice lessons.


Closing The Church College Of New Zealand: A Case Study In International Church Education Policy, Scott C. Esplin Mar 2008

Closing The Church College Of New Zealand: A Case Study In International Church Education Policy, Scott C. Esplin

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

“It is the policy and practice of the Church,” observed the Church News, “to discontinue operation of such [Church] schools when local school systems are able to provide quality education.” Thus the difficult decision was announced on June 29, 2006, to close the Church College of New Zealand by November 2009. The pronouncement and even the very words chosen to convey it place the decision in the historical context of Latter-day Saint education. This policy regarding Church school closures was established over nine decades ago, and the practice has been consistently applied worldwide since. Church education in the Pacific, …


From Korongata To Tuhikaramea, Ken Baldridge Mar 2008

From Korongata To Tuhikaramea, Ken Baldridge

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Sidney J, Ottley was a young carpenter in Murray, Utah, when he was called by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to service a mission in New Zealand. With three other missionaries he arrived in Auckland, December 2, 1912, and was immediately assigned to teach at a little mission primary school in Korongata, near Hastings, in Hawke's Bay. He had no previous teaching experience and later remembered that he had never planned on acquiring any. But the Mormon Church had been operating small schools such as this as early as 1886 and this is where mission president Orson …


'Johnny Lingo' Cast, Crew Hold Laie Reunion, Mike Foley Mar 2008

'Johnny Lingo' Cast, Crew Hold Laie Reunion, Mike Foley

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

LAIE, Hawaii — Cast and crew members of the 1969 Latter-day Saint film "Johnny Lingo" reunited on July 29, 2010, in the BYU–Hawaii Cannon Activities Center to celebrate the cinematic Polynesian fable's perennial popularity over the past 40 years. At the same time, they heard from two of its main characters, Naomi Kaho'ilua Wilson, who acted in the role of Mahana, and Joseph Ah Quin, who played her father, Moki.