Cathy Strong, family vacation in Tonga

Former BJ staffer Cathy Strong, a communication and media sciences professor at Zayed University in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate, vacationed in Tonga last month with her family. Daughters Amanda and Rebecca, Rebecca's husband Dion and their daughter, Katie-Belle, and granddaughter Libby, 2 on Sept. 8, joined Cathy. Katie-Belle is short for Katalina Isabelle Mary Hewson.

The Kingdom of Tonga comprises 169 islands, 36 inhabited, spread over 500 miles about a third of the way from New Zealand, where Cathy had similar jobs for decades, to Hawaii.

Tonga has a literacy rate -- 98.9% -- that is the envy of most industrial nations. Free Wesleyan has the most church members, followed by the Latter Day Saints, Catholics and Free Church of Tonga, in that order.

Click on the headline to see photos of Cathy (the last one is of her Tonga vacation).