Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.
This Volunteer handles forest research and management for the Station de Recherches Forestieres in Rabat, Morroco. Here he is shown with his co-worker checking some of the instruments they use to daily monitor the weather Arboretum.
This Peace Corps Volunteer constructs methane gas generators around the cities of Loja and Saraguro. During the past two years, he has constructed three such generators, each being a huge success. Here, he works with Ecuadorians to install storage...
This Peace Corps Volunteer constructs methane gas generators around the cities of Loja and Saraguro. During the past two years, he has constructed three such generators, each being a huge success. Here, he works with Ecuadorians to install storage...
A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture in Rabat and works in audio-visual. She photographs and produces sound for programs on agriculture. Here she confers with her French supervisor on copy work.
This Volunteer is setting up a complete soil testing lab for Morocco. He is acting as the Director of the Lab, located in Tangie, which will eventually be expanded into a research lab for Foods and Drugs.
Volunteers are assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture where they both are doing film editing and sound production for 16 mm motion pictures of agriculture.
A Volunteer (left) works for the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture doing film editing and sound production for 16 mm motion pictures of agriculture. He is shown with other Volunteers.
This Volunteer (left) is a safety supervisor on leave from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and is installing $10,000 worth of generators and electrical equipment (donated by the people of San Diego) on the Galapagos Islands to upgrade...
This Volunteer (lleft) is on leave from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in San Diego and goes over plans to upgrade the island’s electrical system with John Arango, Peace Corps Director of Ecuador. Arango was one of the first group of...
This Peace Corps Volunteer constructs methane gas generators around the cities of Loja and Saraguro. During the past two years, he has constructed three generators, each being a huge success. Here, he works with Ecuadorians installing storage...
Shriver, Sargent; Master's International (MI); Universities; State-side training;
Full text of Sargent Shriver's February 9, 1962 statement prepared for the Student Editor's Conference on International Affairs held at the Overseas Press Club in New York City. The statement focuses on efforts by Peace Corps and its partner...