Comments on: The Polynesian Cultural Center pays homage to Bill Cravens https://pccblog.splatblurt.com/the-polynesian-cultural-center-pays-homage-to-bill-cravens Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:16:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Nina Jones https://pccblog.splatblurt.com/the-polynesian-cultural-center-pays-homage-to-bill-cravens#comment-69170 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:16:17 +0000 https://pccblog.splatblurt.com/?p=6979#comment-69170 In reply to John Choate.

John, what an interesting interaction. I will send this memory to President Craven’s family. I am sure that they will be pleased to receive this example of his concern and problem solving skills, plus in knowing about your assistance to him with such an important question.

]]> By: John Choate https://pccblog.splatblurt.com/the-polynesian-cultural-center-pays-homage-to-bill-cravens#comment-69163 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:46:22 +0000 https://pccblog.splatblurt.com/?p=6979#comment-69163 In 1973, while my family attended the Nuuili branch, I worked for the High Court as an executive research assistant. Then Stake President Cravens and I had the following discussion. Advisors from the United States, perhaps Department of Interior, but I have forgotten if I ever knew, had expressed concern about the relatively large families on the Island of Tutuila, and that it would be overcrowded. President Cravens asked me for my advice. I told him that Tutuila was about the same as Manhattan Island, 26 to 30 miles long, 3 to 5 miles at its widest, surrounded by water, and Manhattan had a population of about one million eight hundred thousand, compared with the 25,000 in Samoa, so there was no immediate concern I could see.

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