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BYU-Hawaii campus reaches 50-year mark
ec. 17, 2008, the Brigham Young University Hawaii campus — that is, the actual physical plant — marks 50 years to the day since President David O. McKay stood at the podium in the brand new auditorium, now named in his honor, and dedicated the core facilities of the Church College of Hawaii (renamed in 1974) that the labor missionaries had just completed. That morning, President McKay and Elder Mar-
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