| Michal Dobson
3025 Buena Vista
Alton, IL 62002
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Michal is retiring in December 2007. She is in Illinois from June to December 2007 and is available to speak in churches. See her contact information on the Mission Speakers site.
Michal Dobson has served in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for five three-year
terms over the past 40 years. Her first term of service with the
PC(USA) was as a volunteer 1967, teaching fourth grade at the
Chiang Mai Coeducational Center, now called the Chiang Mai International
School or CMIS. Her most recent term of service began in September
2001 and through 2007.
CMIS is a school of the Church of Christ in Thailand, the largest
Protestant denomination. CMIS helps make it possible for the children
of mission personnel from all denominations as well as children
from expatriate families, to get an international education. The
international community appreciates the long-term commitment of
the Christian staff, which must overcome a turnover rate (staff
and students) of about 50 percent each year.
In her various terms of service since 1967 Michal has worked
as a teacher and a substitute teacher. She’s even been asked
to fill in as principal of CMIS. Most recently, she was a kindergarten
teacher, with duties that included the training of teacher’s
aides. She has served on the advisory board and been the teacher
representative to that board.
Michal is the youngest daughter of William Turnbull and Mary
McClanahan Turnbull Monroe. She grew up in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,
and in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. She graduated from Muskingum
College in New Concord, Ohio, with a bachelor of science degree
in education. She began her teaching in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio,
then moved to Fairfax county, Virginia, before going to Thailand.
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