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    • School Library

    • School Library

    • Schools; Libraries

    • This was the school library at Mohamed Ali Othman School in Taiz, in 1979, at the end of my service. I'd acquired the books (by various methods), typed catalog cards for each one, made the signs, assembled the shelves, and trained older kids to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saturday Nights

    • Saturday Nights

    • Host community

    • Almost everyone would take to the streets on Friday or Saturday nights just to walk from one side of town to the other. Men walked together and women walked together. And you would dress nice too. This was a big deal.
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    • Nearby Hills

    • Nearby Hills

    • Environment

    • This was a place that I liked to go when I wanted to get away. It was a hilltop that looked down on smaller hills and a valley with a river that ran through it. The first time I went there I couldn't figure out what was so different. And than it...
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    • My Office

    • My Office

    • Schools; Counterparts

    • My classroom office wasn't much but I shared it with my counterpart. Most of the time was spent out on the floor with the students learning to weld. There was not much protection and I received arc burns to the eyes many times while I was there.
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    • Students

    • Students

    • Music; Host community friends; Teachers and students

    • Pictured are my students from Goldbedaugh, Iran, a small village of about 50 people located about 5 or 6 miles from Kangavar, the county seat, where the school was located This village had no electricity in 1970, and students either walked or...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls

    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls

    • Traditional dress; Host community friends

    • Taken in the highlands of Yemen, somewhere between Amran and Thula, in Fall of 1977. My husband and I had arrived in Yemen about a week before and were hiking toward the highest mountain on the Arabian peninsula, and wondering how we would be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing to Spray Fruit Trees

    • Preparing to Spray Fruit Trees

    • Children; Host community; Environment

    • Ernie is showing neighbor children Behrouz Salehi and Shahab Daregari what he is doing to prepare the pesticide to spray on the fruit trees. This photo was taken at our house in Kerend, Iran, Summer 1970
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friday Picnic

    • Friday Picnic

    • Food and meals

    • Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Several times a year my fellow teachers at Ebn Sina High School, in Kangavar, Iran, would picnic in the woods along a stream just outside of town, as pictured here in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picknicking with Students

    • Picknicking with Students

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Once a year several of my fellow high school teachers in Kangavar, Iran, would select some of their best students and reward them with a picnic. Picnics were in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lak Family

    • Lak Family

    • Housing

    • This picture is of a Lak family in the mountains of west-central Iran in Lurstan province, several hours by jeep or motorcycle from the nearest town. This family summered in the mountains and wintered in south Iran. They live in large tents and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bentleys and Salehis in Kerend

    • Bentleys and Salehis in Kerend

    • Host families

    • This was our "family" in Iran. Ernie is on far left. Sue is 3rd from right. Mr. Salehi and Mrs. Salehi are 3rd and 4th from left. Salehi children are in front. Behrouz is squatting down with his younger brother. The other women in the picture are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Child

    • Village Child

    • Children

    • This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Christmas

    • Christmas

    • Celebrations

    • This was the best that I could do as far as decorating for Christmas in 1972. It wasn't like there was a department store nearby or anything.
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    • Winter of 1971

    • Winter of 1971

    • Weather; Environment

    • This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
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