<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/summer-1996/thailand-anyone.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Thailand, Anyone?</title><excerpt>Take a “Vacation with a Purpose” this year and travel with Mike Leming ’70 to Thailand in January 1997. A professor of sociology and anthropology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Mike has led groups to Thailand for five years. His adult study-travel program, which explores the changing nature of contemporary Thailand and its hilltribe societies, is open to Westmont alumni and friends. Throughout the trip, Mike shares both his expertise and his passionate enthusiasm for the country and its culture. He recently spent his sabbatical leave in Thailand writing a book on the Karen village of Tee Mae Ker Lah and producing a documentary film on the same topic.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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