1973: Stuart Bethune served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea in Yosu beginning in 1973

Peace Corps Online: Directory: Korea: Directory of Korea RPCVs: 1973: Stuart Bethune served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea in Yosu beginning in 1973

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1973: Stuart Bethune served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea in Yosu beginning in 1973

1973: Stuart Bethune served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea in Yosu beginning in 1973

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Stuart Bethune can be contacted at stuartbethuneagmaildcom

Country of Service: Korea

Training Group: K-29

Cities you served in: Yosu

Arrival Year: 1973

Departure Year: 1974

Work Description:

Taught English in Middle School. I taught at yeosu소년 중학교 and my wife Sally taught at yeosu여아 중학교

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Stuart: PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill, 20 years there as administrator and part-time faculty member...for past nearly 10 years have led a software consulting team at SAS. Sally: Master's from NC State University, worked in a prison, a community college, Girl Scouts as a regional coordinator, then 17 years as a manager at SAS. Sally's now retired and loving life, gardening, yoga, and helping others... Two children: a daughter with a degree in Biology/Pre-med/Marine Sciences...she now lives in the USVI...charter sailboat chef/mate/dive instructor; son, married living in Chapel Hill, working with GIS software team for a major company. We all still make every effort we can to continue to explore the planet...

Any message for returned volunteers?:

The only people for us are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...

Originally posted: August 12, 2007




Related Links:

Peace Corps Korea; Directory of Korea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Korea RPCVs; Peace Corps Annual Report: 1973



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