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- Shriver with Philippines Volunteers
- Shriver, Sargent
- This photo shows Sargent Shriver conducting an impromptu discussion in Tolosa Leyte with Group III Volunteer Don Smith as Volunteer Bill Pearre looks on.
- Volunteer Photos
- Shriver and Volunteers at Tolosa Leyte
- Shriver, Sargent
- Tolosa Leyte, where the meeting was conducted, was code-named “White Beach” when General Douglas MacArthur and the American forces invaded Leyte in October 1944. MacArthur’s famous “I shall return” landing took place just a few yards from...
- Volunteer Photos
- Shriver with Ambassador Mucu
- Shriver, Sargent
- This photo shows Sargent Shriver and Philippines Group III Volunteer Don Smith speaking wtih Ambassador Mucu of the Philippines.
- Volunteer Photos
- Outward Bound Training
- Pre-service training (PST)
- Philippines III trainees under the "Big Top" tent during Outward Bound Training in Arecibo, Puerto Rico (January 1962)
- Volunteer Photos
- Laying Foundation for School
- Construction; Schools
- Godfrey, Osmania University Students and Neredmet villagers working on foundation for new village school. Neredmet, 1964
- Volunteer Photos
- Osmania Students and Lecturer between Classes
- Teachers and students
- Larry Godfrey and Osmania University M.A. Arts Students relaxing between classes at University Arts College. Hyderabad, 1964
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteer Presenting Project to Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba
- Dignitaries; Architecture
- First group of Volunteers in Tunisia met with President Bourguiba in 1963 and several Volunteer Architects presented projects they were working on while working for the Department of Public Works. The photo is of me presenting a grammar school...
- Volunteer Photos
- Colombia II Arriving in Bogota on Avianca Airlines
- Pre-service Training (PST)
- Picture taken by Peace Corps press at Bogota airport in May 1962, showing Colombia II Volunteers deboarding, later to join Colombia I volunteers in rural Community Development. Shriver and JFK endorsed both groups as part of State Department's...
- Volunteer Photos
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Site
- Peace Corps Volunteers on their first day arrival to La Paz, Bolivia. June 1962.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteer Rhoda Teaching Nutrition Class
- Health; Nutrition
- Volunteer Rhoda is teaching how to make baby food to a group of fishermen's wives neighbors. Babies die at rate of 50% by the age of 5 from malnutrition. 1962, Manta, Ecuador
- Volunteer Photos
- Making a Bed
- Housing; Life skills
- I took these images in Lahore, Pakistan in 1961. The man started in the morning restringing his Charpai (rope bed). He finished about dusk. The children just appeared.
- Volunteer Photos
- Moro Dancers Greeting Peace Corps Volunteers, Sulu Sea, Philippines
- Dance
- This picture was taken in 1962 while sailing in the Sulu Sea. The small islands south of Siasi, Sulu in the Philippines consisted of two cultural groups: Tausug and Samal. The dances that the women performed were influenced by the music and culture...
- Volunteer Photos
- Roger Supervising Playground Workers
- Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows Roger, my Peace Corps partner, in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, supervising town workers provided by Mayor Bautista, in creating a town children's playground. We ultimately set up several...
- Volunteer Photos
- Camp Brotherhood, Negros Occidental, Philippines
- Camps and clubs
- Taken about July, 1964, this photo is the entrance gate to the summer camp fostered by Peace Corps Volunteers from groups I , III and I, Philippines. With the financial backing of local sugarcane companies, we set up the camp which had an existing...
- Volunteer Photos
- Reading "Mad"
- Host families
- Taken about December, 1964, the photo shows Gregorio Dedal, the owner of the home we two Volunteers stayed in for the two years of our Peace Corps service. My parents sent me the Mad magazine and I shard it with Mr. Dedal. I don't know that he...
- Volunteer Photos
- Finishing Touches on the Seesaws
- Secondary projects; Children
- Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows Richard Johnsen (myself) painting the seesaws before the grand opening of the town playground of Canlaon, Negros Oriental, Philippines. With the approval of the town mayor and the help of town workers, the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.
- Secondary projects; Children
- Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows how enthusiastically the town children (Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines) adopted the new seesaws, overseen by Volunteers Roger and Richard and approved by the town mayor, Mr. Bautista.
- Volunteer Photos
- Philippine Neighbor Girl
- Host families
- This picture is of a 2 or 3-year old neighbor girl sitting on the bamboo front step of her house. Her family worked for the Gregorio Dedal family with whom I, as a Volunteer, lived. I never knew the name of the girl but I took the picture (about...
- Volunteer Photos
- Neighbor Girl as an Adorable Little "Mushroom"
- Children; Host community friends
- Taken approximately April, 1964, the photo shows the little 2 or 3 year old neighbor girl on the porch of her "nipa hut"---the house she lived in with her parents and brother. I don't remember her name but her father was an aide to Gregorio Dedal,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Roger and Richard and Playground Workers
- Secondary projects
- In Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philipines, Volunteers Richard and Roger worked with the city to plan and build a public playground for the children of this rural area. The photo shows us measuring out the site of the seesaws. Taken...
- Volunteer Photos