PCC videographer produces award-winning film
Milton Kaka’s video, “Tala,” traces the death of an infant girl in Samoa and its subsequent impact over 60 years ago.
Pōuli Magalei Sr.: From town runner to tram driver
[Reprinted from pcc50.com, May 29, 2013; interview and photo by Mike Foley] Pouli Magalei sr. started in 1964, when he came from American Samoa. He worked for two years as a tour guide, usher, and town runner. He left for a while, and came back to work in Security from 1971-72. He returned again about […]
Tui Hunt Ikihega: A PCC “baby”
Tua Hunt’s mother and father were both working at the Center when she was born . . . and she soon joined them, later returning as a student employee.
Vi’iga Fuimaono Jr: “My second home”
Vi’iga Fuimaono Jr. worked his way through college as a Polynesian Cultural Center’s canoe guide, and has held a number of important positions since in Samoa.
Ottley Wright: ‘PCC, like a family’
Ottley Wright — came to Laie in 1984, and worked at the PCC as a canoe tour and Laie Tour guide — at the Center’s 50th-anniversary reunion.
Beth McKinnon Hunt: ‘Kiwi & Kangaroo’ days
Before marrying George Hunt of Samoa, Beth McKinnon Hunt left Australia to attend Church College of Hawaii in 1963, and ended up dancing in the Polynesian Cultural Center night show.
Sione Milford got ‘immersed’ in Tongan culture
[Reprinted from a 2017 PCC blog story and photo by Mike Foley] Sione Milford is currently the Samoan Village “chief,” but when he first came to Laie he worked in the Tongan Village — and some native Tongans didn’t realize that the Polynesian Cultural Center’s Tongan culture ambassador at that time was Samoan. Of course, all […]
Samoan ‘ambassador’ joins East Coast media blitz
Creasepaul Tofa, a PCC Samoan Village culture “ambassador” learned his skills growing up on the island of Savage.