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Board
of Directors
Matt
Kester
President
(vacant)
Vice President-
President Elect
Londa
Chase
Secretary
Merlin Waite
Treasurer
Riley
Moffat
(past president)
John Elkington
(past president)
Stella Keil
(past president)
Mark James
(past president)
Mike Foley
Cynthia Compton
Other
Past Presidents
Grant
R. Underwood
Rex Frandsen
Lance D.
Chase
Ken Baldridge
Co-founders (1980)
Temple,
Town, Tradition:
The Collected Historical Essays
of Lance D. Chase
A selection
of MPHS co-founder
Lance Chase's most popular essays
[read the annotated index],
available from Londa Chase,
the BYUH Bookstore
and the BYU-Hawaii Pacific Institute.
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The Mormon Pacific
Historical Society has four stated purposes:
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To
maintain bibliographic and reference information relative to The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Pacific Basin
area.
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To
gather in conferences and workshops to teach and to learn from
each other about Latter-day Saint history in the Pacific.
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To
teach those skills helpful in the gathering and recording of historical
information.
...a
reprinting of Ka Elele o Hawaii (96 pages),
the Hawaiian Mission
publication issued
in 1942 as
many of the missionaries were being sent home.
It served as a general handbook for local
leaders.
Available from Mark James for $20
plus $5 shipping and handling.
Join
MPHS today!
(Membership Form)
Updated
March 28, 2008
This site
was created
and
is proudly hosted by
Nani Laie Communications
Mike
Foley, Webmaster
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2008 MPHS
conference
The MPHS annual conference was held March 21-22, 2008, with keynote guest speaker Rangi Parker from New Zealand on Friday night. The Saturday session included a report on the 2007 Uho 'o Tonga reunion in Tonga, the Maori Agricultural College (Ken Baldridge), a New Zealand labor missionary panel discussion, Dr. Jerold Ottley's missionary choir experience, a CCNZ faculty panel discussion, and more.
Read a brief summary...
November 24, 2007 tour
of five Laie cemeteries
Randolph and Donnette Kekauoha, Kela Miller, JoJo Au, Dawn Wasson, Joaquin and June Chang, and Gladys Ahuna as well as other kupuna shared their memories and insights into these sacred places in one of MPHS' more fascinating activities.
Read more about it...
April 17, 2007 Conference summary
November 21, 2006 'movie night'
March 25, 2005 Conference summary
Past Conference Proceedings
All
of the proceedings
MPHS has gathered, transcribed and published
over the past 20-plus years (many of which are not included
in the publications
listed below) have recently been digitized and are now available
online through the BYU library in Provo at:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/spc/mphs/
The
complete collection of published proceedings resides
in the BYU-Hawaii Archives.
The most recent proceedings are still in transcription
and will be published when available.
Grant
R. Underwood and the
BYU Press have published:
Voyages
of Faith: Explorations
in Mormon Pacific History
...a
413-page illustrated selection from
the best MPHS proceedings
[read the annotated index]. Copies
are available from
the BYU Provo and BYU-Hawaii Bookstores, or BYU Press.
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