ABSTRACT
The author of the second epigraph above, Joakim ccJojo” Peter, is president of the COM-Chuuk campus, a chon Ettal with graduate degrees in Pacific history and Pacific Islands Studies from the University of Hawai’i, a professional colleague,
and a personal friend. His sister is married to a chon Namoluk, and she, her husband, and their children have lived and worked on Guam for at least the past decade. Jojo himself is a traveler to Guam, having completed his undergraduate studies at UOG once he graduated from Xavier High School. He knows intimately about points of departure and about how it is to be a chon Ettal in the Mortlocks, a Mortlockese in Chuuk, a Chuukese on Guam, a Micronesian in Hawai’i, and a Pacific Islander scholar among his international academic colleagues. Points of departure and shifting identities are among the topics I will address in this final chapter.
