Mike Foley, who also goes by his Sāmoan and Hawaiian name Mikaele, first visited the Polynesian Cultural Center on his way home from serving for 2.5 years in the Latter-day Saint Samoa Apia Mission. A few months later, he returned to Laie to enroll at the Church College of Hawaii and also got a student job at the Center. He has worked intermittently at the Center ever since, now more than 60-ish years, including about 25 years full-time in marketing communications, PR and advertising. During the earliest of those years, he met and married Sally Ann McShane, a beautiful young Hawaiian dancer (who came to Laie from Waimalu in 1963; her motherʻs Hawaiian ancestors come from the Big Island). They raised their family in Laie and still live there.