Global outreach
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On a mission
Knowledge flows both ways in new teacher
exchange with a Korean school
T
im Boyer, a biology teacher from Taejon College and then studied for a time at Old Domin-
Christian International School in Daejeon, ion, where a teacher turned him onto biology.
South Korea, visited campus in late March “He stuck us out in the woods for four
after sailing aboard Geronimo during spring break. weeks—and I loved it,” Boyer said.
The trip was part of a new teacher exchange To finance the rest of his graduate degree, he
with the school. SG math teacher Joe Elias spent got a job in the library at the College of William
time at TCIS in March and on a community service and Mary, where he ended up studying white-
trip to an orphanage in Thailand. footed mice. Then he returned to TCIS for a short
Traveling between Asia and the United States is time to teach, met his wife, and returned to the U.S.
nothing new to Boyer. The Boyers have a daughter Hannah, 11, and a
Boyer’s parents were missionaries and he grew son, Will, 8.
up in Korea, returning to Virginia every four years Boyer’s main mission in coming to St. George’s
to visit the churches that supported his family’s was to explore new ways to get students to learn
work abroad. Boyer and his wife, Barbara, who was about science off campus.
a librarian in the TCIS elementary school, are both He spent the majority of his visit on Geronimo
Tim Boyer of the TCIS alums. in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, with a group of SG faculty
Taejon Christian Asked where home is, Boyer paused. members that included art teacher Gideon Web-
International School
“As a missionary kid, you don’t think of a place ster, science teacher James Stevens, Administrator
spent time on
as much as where family is,” he said. “Home is of the Health Center Eileen Texiera and English
Geronimo and
about relationships, not places.” teacher Mary Alice Cornog. It was his first time on
visiting campus
in March.
Boyer was a psychology major at Davidson a sailing ship and his first time snorkeling. “Now I
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