VOL. 2 No.1 UNITED STATES PEACE CORPS - KOREA OCTOBER 1967
·.Boss Urges Gang . to Hang Tough
Office Expands
Peace Corps Korea is grow­ing.
To meet this expansion
the staff is being expanded
and reorganized on a regional
basis. There will soon be four
regional offices to compliment
the main office in Seoul. . Two
of .the regional offices will
have P.C. physicians perma­nently
assigned to them; this
will be in addition to the two
physicians in Seoul. The staff
will also expand to include
Program Technical Represen­tatives
(PTR's) to support
the education and health pro­grams.
The Seoul office will soon
move to larger quarters and
expand its clerical staff. Ke­vin
O'Donnell and Loren Cox
will continue to work from
the Seoul office. Dr. Mixter
and Dr. Lapides will also
work from Seoul. The PTR's
will all be based in Seoul and
will travel to all regions to
provide technical support.
The two new staff additions
in Seoul are both PTR's for
the health program. Miss Kim
is a naturalized American
who was· born and raised in
Korea and educated at Sarah
Lawrence and Columbia. She
has been ·a social worker· in
the St11tes for several years.
Dr. Justice is a Harvard gra­duate
with public health ex­perience
with the Indians of
Alaska and the Southwest.
Tom Arthur will be the
Regional Director for Cholla
Nam Do and Challa Buk Do
and will be located in Kwang
.Tu. Tom is an ex-PCV from
Thailand and has been in Ko­rea
since March, 1967. Dr.
and Mrs. Garges (Larry a,nd
Cathy) will also be in this
region with a home and office
in Kwang Ju.
Darrel Clowes will be the
Regional Director for Chung
Chong Nam Do and Chung
Chong Buk Do. Darrel, his
wife Cynthia, and their three
children will live in Taejon.
Darrel is a Dartmouth gra­duate
with an M.A. from
Oberli.n. He has been ir{ busi-
', ,:
Mr. and Mrs. Geron Spray combine forces to cut their
wedding cake. Father Breunig married Joyce Cicarrelli
and Jim Spray at Sogang .College on September 2, 1967.
ness and for the last five years
in teaching at both the high
school and college levels.
Mel Mir kin will be the Re­gional
Director for the Kyong
Sang Do's • and Pusan. His
home will be in Taegu
with his wife Sharlot and four
sons. Mel is a Chicago gra­duate
with a law degree from
Stanford. He has been an at­torney
in Phoenix for the past
fifteen years. The Merkins
will be joined by Dr. James
Scholten and his wife Ann.
Don Mosley will be the Re­gional
Director for Kang Won
Do and Kyonggi Do. He and
his wife Carolyn will live in
Chun Chon. Do.n is a former
PCV in Malaya who has lived
in many_ parts of the world.
All the Regional Directors
are now in Korea. These peo­ple
are establishing homes
and should soon be evident in
their regions. These additions
and the reorganization are de­signed
to better serve the
needs of the Volunteers and
the Peace Corp programs in
Korea. The impact of these
changes should soon be ap­parent-
for Peace Corps Ko­rea
is growing-but hopeful­ly
.not like topsey.
Volunteers Move
to Colleges
· Nine Korea I Tesol Volun­teers
have been assigned in
a pilot project to the college
and university leveUor their
second year. Discussions for
such a change began in late
April when the Ministry of
Education proposed such a
change and were concluded in
mid-August with the subse­quent
re-assignment of the
Volunteers.
The MOE and PC Office be­lieye
that while a continued
effort must be made to adopt
the oral method to the reali­ties
of the Korean classroom,
some attempt should be made
simultaneously to work with
future teachers and the en­trance
examination problem
at the universities. Since the
ultimate solution rests in .Ko­rea's
ability to produce new
teachers and retrain older
teachers in modern teaching
methodology, it was felt 'that
the Volunteers could be a re­source
to th~ end.
These Volunteers are ex­pected
to be utilized in sev­eral
ways. Although they will
be teaching spoken English,
the group also will be holding
semi.nars with potential Ko-
I had heard before I joined Korea (you).
PC that PCV's were their own Staff's job is to draw to­worst
critics. Constantly eva- gether the intelligentsia of the
luating themselves harshly; group and use it as the rud­and
questioning their pur- der to steer a course which
nosefulness was reported to you indicate we should steer.
be a congenital malady of a Where did you point Peace
PCV, Corps/ Korea-English Teach-
With a year's experience, ing? Toward Middl~ Schools,
I might tend to agree with toward more hours per week
this generalization except I with each class, toward co­don't
believe it is an inherent ordinated teaching with the
disease, but an environmen- other English teachers, to­tal,
or rather, a communica- ward in-service ·training of
tional one. English teachers. Further,
When a PCV doesn't see you pointed to Teacher Col­how
his part fits into the lar- leges, to· Examinations Sys­ger
whole, despair can seep terns. to Status Quo attitudes,
in. If he doesn't see individual to fewer students per class,
progress and isn't acquainted to "elective" English classes,
with the total group's pro- to selectivity and more.
gress, frustration can over- Some threw up their hands
take him. at what appeared· to be a
Therefore, gather round, hopeless task, while some
gang, and let's review what's · threw their shoulders to the
happened - or more aptly- wheel and kept pushing.
"What You Have Done Im- Elsewhere on these pages,
portant Lately." you will read lines, and ·be-
Reviewing quickly, you re- tween them; of Korea !I's
member such terms and placements, and vari•o us
phrases as "Gun Shot Ap- transfers. Please note the dif­proach,"
"Earn PC Credent- ferences in the past year.
ials," "Establish PC Teach-ing
Competency," "Narrow- Meanwhile, back at the
ing Our Focus," "Zeroing in ranches (training sites) in
on Our Objectives," and some the States, a lot of new, rele­others.
vant, meaningful material is
We kicked around many being integrated into AAP
things in January and again and Tesof studies. Approxi­~
n May. Infrequent as our site mately 350 Trainees have
visits were, when we could something better than a group
get together, we (staff) gain- had last year.
ed a lot of insights from PC Chal Hasyot sim 'ni da.
Breunig Departs for Sogang
Dr. J. E. Breunig is leaving
the Peace Corps staff to
teach at Sogang College.
His message on leaving is:
"I enjoyed the past year
working with the PCVs and
staff, but found that the 20,-
000 miles of travel was a pit
tiring for this old harabogee.
I was glad to be back in Korea
and appreciated the . opportu-rean
English teachers in En­glish
teaching methodology.
The Volunteers will also as­sist
the future teacherfs by
a'rranging. opportunities for
them to observe and teach
with the oral method in ad­jacent
high schools.
It is also expected that
nity to share the first year
with you all. My best wishes
for a happy, healthy, satisfy­ing
year.
"Since I am still in Korea I
am confident that we will be
meeting again. Sogang is
wenchuger,o at the Sinchon
Notary. You will be welcome
at the site that first sold me
o.n Korea and Koreans."
these Volunteers will assist
in devising means of intro­ducing
the oral-aural English
teaching methods on a large
scale in the academic middle
and high schools of Korea.
This would include work on
textbooks and teaching aids.
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