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Joelle Moen English Department Smith 356
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Greg Palmer Department of Religious Education Taylor 224 496-2236
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John Griffith Biology Department Benson 226 (Bro. Griffith is on leave in 2008.)
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Stephen Smith Department of Sociology and Social Work Ricks 132H 496-1361
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Larry Thurgood Department of Religious Education Taylor 213 (Bro. Thurgood is on leave in 2009.)
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Joelle Moen of the English Department has taught English, Spanish, humanities, biology, anthropology, and honors classes since coming to BYUI in 1995. She holds a graduate degree in English from Washington State University and has traveled to over 20 different countries. This is her tenth year leading the MesoAmerica Tour. Previously, she helped direct the 1998 Ricks College European Humanities Tour and served a mission to Spain. She regularly searches for agua dulces while in Mexico and loves challenging students to eat grasshoppers and termites. Her favorite part of the tour is people watching in Guatemalan markets.
Greg Palmer has been on the Religious Education Faculty since 2000 (but has been associated with Church Education since 1980). Prior to joining the BYU-Idaho faculty he was director of Annual Giving for LDS Philanthropies. He also serves as the director of BYU-Idaho Outreach, a program taking him to Mexico thirty-plus times in an effort to help provide returned missionaries marketable skills. Following his mission to Hermosillo, Mexico, Bro Palmer earned degrees from Ricks College and BYU, and a Masters of International Management from Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management). This is the fourth year with the MesoAmerica Tour. He loves all things Mexican and playing with little kids. In MesoAmerica you can regularly make him happy with cheese, papaya with lime, or a Luis Miguel song.
John Griffith has been teaching in the Biology Department at BYUI since 1996. After his mission to Hawaii, he received a BS in Zoology and a PhD in Microbiology from Brigham Young University. He has participated in Discovery programs to the Salmon River and the Oregon Coast and has traveled to Africa to study the wildlife and ecosystems of Kenya. He has helped direct the MesoAmerica Tour 2000-2006 and is rejoining the tour in 2009. He regularly eats ice cream and wrestles sharks while on the MesoAmerica Tour.
Stephen C. Smith is on leave from the MesoAmerica tour and will be sorely missed. Stephen has been in the Sociology department of BYUI since 2000 and teaches Anthropology, Social Problems, Foundations of Sociology and upper-division sociology courses. He served his mission in Guatemala and has taught on the MesoAmerica Tour twice. He enjoys really long bus trips and getting sunburned.
Larry Thurgood has been at BYU-Idaho since 1997 and participated in the MesoAmerica Tour 2000-2002. Previously, he taught seminary for more than 20 years. In addition to being a member of the Religious Education Department, he has been the chair of that department and the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development. He is currently finishing his dissertation on the BYUI Learning Model. Bro. Thurgood is excited to return to the MesoAmerica Tour in the future.
