Statsraad Lehmkuhl Oceanics 1972-73

Greetings to all Statsraad sailors! What a fantastic journey with beautiful and exciting memories endlessly jogging my mind to this day. For me, it was a pivotal time as I was stimulated to follow the teaching path on a more continuous and consistent basis and my appetite for travel multiplied
exponentially. So what to do? The obvious answer was to become involved in international education.

After a year teaching at Wilbraham Academy, a small prep school in western Massachusetts, I began my international teaching career at the Herringswell Manor School in England, the International School of Hamburg in Germany, United World College in Singapore, Cairo American College in Egypt and lastly a 27-year stint at the Taipei American School in Taiwan which also allowed for travel all over Asia, so I’ve long since become an “establishment gypsy”.

I met my wife, Michelle, also a teacher, in Taiwan and we spend time both in Asia and U.S. during the year since my retirement 7 years ago.
Contact: jimsoja@hotmail.com