by Dr. Vid Raatior | May 23, 2013 | Education, Featured Article
Graduation season is upon us again. I’m struck with these life lessons which have been mistakenly attributed to Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates. The original version first appeared on September 19, 1996 in an op ed piece in the San Diego Union...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Apr 27, 2013 | Blog, Featured Article, Youth
As a Chuukese I am grateful to Gabe Rossi, Chairman of the Interscholastic Sports Commission (ISC) and the local member schools for their decision to dedicate their annual statewide track and field day to the memory of the late Keitani Graham, our Chuukese Olympian...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Apr 25, 2013 | Photos
Photos taken in 2008 on the Micronesian Dental Support Project’s community clinics. This is the nonprofit organization that I co-founded with Dr. Barry Staley to bring volunteer dentists to help the people in the outer islands of...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Apr 25, 2013 | Photos
These photos were taken back in 2004 on my home island of Houk in Chuuk State, FSM. Houk Island (formerly, Pulusuk) is where I grew up until I moved away to go to college. I am proud to have been raised on this small remote island in the Pacific where I learned how to...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog, Featured Article, Politics, Social Justice
This year’s FSM National Law Day debates will take place on July 12, 2013 in Chuuk State home of the defending champions from Chuuk High School. The best high school debate teams from each of the four states in the country of the Federated States of Micronesia...
