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Eric B. Shumway R. Kelly Haws
Commencement Address by R. Kelly Haws | April 19, 2024

"You are graduating from a university with the distinct advantage of being directly led by those we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators. I testify that intentionally and undauntingly choosing to follow the Savior ... will endow you and me with answers, confidence, healing, and crystal-clear direction."
Commencement Address by R. Kelly Haws| December 8, 2023




"This university and what you have experienced here is directly led by those we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators. Please remember, prophetic leadership invites—and even compels—you and me to do things differently as we commence and go forward after today."
Commencement talk by R. Kelly Haws | April 14, 2023


"We know with perfect assurance that BYU–Hawaii’s success and your blessing is directly tied to our aligning with them, because—and this is really important—because by aligning with them, we are aligning with Him."
Commencement talk by R. Kelly Haws | June 25, 2022

"When you and I realize that we are literally children of God, children of the covenant, and disciples of Jesus Christ, our love for Heavenly Father and the Savior will grow almost beyond comprehension, we will find it easier to love ourselves and allow ourselves to flourish, and only then can we truly love others as we’ve been commanded to do."
Commencement talk by R. Kelly Haws | April 16, 2022

"The prophets and apostles come from different backgrounds. Some have been businessmen or car salesmen or airline pilots. And some have been professors, judges, and even heart surgeons. Regardless of their backgrounds, they have now been called by and speak for the only professor who really does know all the answers, the one who knows all there is to know on every subject."
Commencement talk by R. Kelly Haws | December 10, 2021

"You’ve learned to observe when someone around you is hurting and needs your arm or smile of encouragement. You’ve learned to love and serve those who don’t look exactly like you do, who have accents different than yours, who like different foods, who have different customs, and you’ve learned to love, understand, and treat each other not merely with respect, but with kindness and mercy. The world desperately needs that kind of discipleship."
Commencement talk by R. Kelly Haws | June 26, 2021

"Each of you has gratefully heard Heavenly Father’s hope-filled voice whispering, “You can do this, and I will help you!” Thinking of all those we’ve just thanked, and with your diploma in hand, you may want to return to your home, friends, and family and somehow return what they’ve so generously given to you."
Graduates, I join you in thanking your family and friends as well as the university personnel who’ve worked tirelessly on your behalf. And thank you to the many tithe payers and generous donors who’ve also made today possible. And, graduates, may I be your voice in thanking President Kauwe, his family, and your faculty at this great university! They’ve spent their lives studying so that they could be here and help you learn how to find answers.
Eric B. Shumway
Former President, BYU-Hawaii Former Temple President, Nuku'alofa Tonga Temple

October 26, 2015
My dearest brothers and sisters, university family, and guests and members of our President's Leadership Council, aloha! We gather today almost on the eve of our 50th anniversary as a campus. Most of us here are familiar with President David O. McKay's prophecies and blessings concerning this campus, the temple, the Polynesian Cultural Center, and the community of La`ie. There is a continuing and glowing fascination for these prophetic utterances as we see them unfolding in living realities. Certainly one of the objectives of the Jubilee year will be to capture and celebrate as many instances as possible in which the hand of the Lord has been manifest among us in great mercy.
We are all on this earth to learn from our own experience. That's the purpose of our existence. We are here at BYU-Hawaii to learn and to grow, to learn of things spiritual, things on the earth, in the earth, in the skies, sciences, languages, history, learn about societies, about the perplexities of nations.
Eric B Shumway
President of BYU-Hawaii
August 29, 2002
Eric B. Shumway
Former President of BYU-Hawaii
August 08, 2002
Eric B. Shumway
Former President of BYU-Hawaii
May 02, 2002
Eric B. Shumway
Former President of BYU-Hawaii
March 26, 2002
Eric B. Shumway
President of BYU–Hawaii
January 10, 2002
Dear brothers and sisters, Aloha!
Aloha and Happy New Year!
Aloha. And aloha, too, from the bottom of my heart. Especially to you who are new to this campus or who are returning do I express our love and welcome. I am always moved by this sight of our university family coming together in devotion. Looking into your faces and feeling your collective spirits, it is as if the very heart of the international Church of Latter-day Saints is beating right here. The spirit of God rests down upon this campus and is prepared to work miraculous things in our hearts and minds if we are prepared to received them. More important, the Lord intends to work His miracles on this planet through you as he establishes his Zion across the world.
Eric B. Shumway
Former President, BYU-Hawaii
August 28, 1997
Eric B. Shumway
President, BYU-Hawaii
August 29, 1996
Eric B. Shumway
President of BYU–Hawaii
February 8, 1996
Eric & Carolyn Shumway
Former President & First Lady of BYU–Hawaii
January 12, 1995
Eric B. Shumway
Former President, BYU-Hawaii
September 01, 1994
Eric B. Shumway
Vice President of Academics
January 21, 1993