Graduation speaker Phung said he dreams of becoming a BYUH p

Graduation speaker Phung said he dreams of becoming a BYUH professor and helping students to become leaders around the world


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Mark Daeson Tabbilos
Spring 2021 Commmencement graduation speaker Kai Phung
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Mark Daeson Tabbilos
Kai Phung, the summa cum laude Spring 2021 Graduation speaker, said something he couldn’t include in his speech is the picture that inspired it.
He said Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, a Hawaiian singer who sang “Somewhere over the Rainbow,” had an album in 1993 called “Facing Future.” Despite the title of the album, the cover is of Kamakawiwo'ole with his back towards the camera.
Phung said in one of his Hawaiian history classes, he was taught a Hawaiian proverb that he believes inspired the album cover. “We can only move into the future, by looking to the past.”

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