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- Summary of Report to the President on the Peace Corps
- Volunteer selection; Volunteer recruitment; Technical training; Shriver, Sargent; Press and media; Kennedy, John F.;
- This report outlines Sargent Shriver's initial assessment of how the concept of the Peace Corps could and should be implemented. The summary report was released to the media on March 5, 1961 by the Office of the White House Press Secretary.
- Press Briefings
- John S. Noffsinger & the Global Impact of the Thomasite Experience
- This paper explores the life of a teacher, John S. Noffsinger, who arrived in Manila in either late May or early June 1910, and taught for two years in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya.
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Meet the Press, December 15, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development
- Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.
- Press Briefings
- Press release announcing appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps, March 4, 1961
- Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
- Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
- Press Briefings
- Transcript of background press and radio news briefing, March 6, 1961
- Press and media; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Vietnam war; Volunteer compensation;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
- Press Briefings
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Kennedy addresses first Peace Corps Volunteers
- Peace Corps Directors; Shriver, Sargent; Kennedy, John F.
- In this 1961 photo, President John F. Kennedy and Sargent Shriver address the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers in the White House Rose Garden
- Agency Photos
- President Kennedy and Sargent Shriver in the Rose Garden
- Peace Corps Directors; Shriver, Sargent; Kennedy, John F.
- This photo shows Sargent Shriver and President John F. Kennedy walking down the White House colonnade to the Rose Garden in 1961.
- Agency Photos
- Pre-Service Training
- Training; Pre-service Training (PST); Training groups
- PC trainees bound for Colombia undergo physical training at Rutgers University.
- Agency Photos
- Ghana, 1961
- Schools; Teachers and students
- This photo shows a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching high school students in Ghana in 1961.
- Agency Photos
- Sargent Shriver and Dr. Joseph Kauffman with Masai Warrior
- Photo is from the personal collection of my father, the late Dr. Kauffman who served as the Peace Corps First Chief of the Division of Training from 1961-63. Kauffman traveled with Shriver to Africa in Nov. 1962 Photo taken with my father's camera...
- Staff Photos
- The Volunteer (January 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1962) of The Volunteer: a newsletter by and for the Volunteers of the Peace Corps.
- Newsletters
- The Volunteer (February 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 1962) of The Volunteer: a newsletter by and for the Volunteers of the Peace Corps
- Newsletters
- The Volunteer (July 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 7 (July 1962) of The Volunteer: a newsletter by and for the Volunteers of the Peace Corps
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (June 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (June 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 1962) of the Peace Corps Volunteer
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (March 1969)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (March 1969).
- Newsletters