Typical housing for volunteers- brightly painted row house at Rua Belo Horizonte #54, in Jequie, Bahia, Brasil. House had electricity, water storage tank, bottled gas stove for cooking, 2 small bedrooms and a banana tree growing in the backyard. ...
Women in Peace Corps; Children; Education; Schools
This is a farewell photo presented at the end of myservice (September,1975) and signed by the director of the school expressing appreciation for contributions to the students and community. The school was organized by a local association to provide...
Local newspaper offered a journalism course during the evening that I attended as a student. I received a certificate of completion at a graduation ceremony in 1974. This program provided me an opportunity to improve my Portuguese language skills...
After 17 years I returned to visit my host family in Jequie. My host father Esmeraldo dos Santos loved to hunt and we visited many rural farms together. My host mother Maria had 13 children and invited me for Sunday dinner every week. My big...
This is my girl's club, Club de Muchachas, in El Limon, Nicaragua, in Nueva Segovia close to the Honduran border. This area later became known as "Contra country" after the revolution. These girls took up leadership roles in their community, and...
In the summer of 1972, I was inventorying the Middle Atlas cedar forests which included hiking to this remote village where we spent several nights. The two on the right of the picture are “city folk” whom I had brought with me from Rabat,...
This photo shows Claire A. Potter, Jenny Luck, Susan Smith, and Robert Lo, with the Bangkok Community Theater. We volunteered our time to put on plays for the community. 1972
This photo was taken in the town of Teppi, in Ilubabor Province of Ethiopia in 1974. At my school there had been a big grassy knoll that separated the football field from the local airstrip. During an intensive clean up day at the school we...
This photo was taken circa 1980, when Peace Corps Director Loret Miller Ruppe came to visit in Mauritania. Pictured in the photo are Loret, David Scotton, Dick Wall and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
This photo was taken circa 1980, when Loret Ruppe came to visit Peace Corps/Mauritania. Pictured in the photo are Loret, David Scotton, Dick Wall, Susan Hancks, Rebecca Brookes, Roger Conrad and local PC/Mauritania Staff.
This photo was taken circa 1988 in the Peace Corps office in Burundi. Pictured is the cashier Anicet Ntansenabigua, Country Director Erica Eng, and several Volunteers.
This photo was taken circa 1989 outside the Peace Corps Office in Rwanda. Pictured are Country Director Jim O'Keefe, Administrative Officer Roger Conrad, and three local staff members.
Hotel Haik was the town center, as it provided a locale for news, entertainment and gatherings. Ethiopians love to spend their free time with friends and family, drinking coffee and Hotel Haik provided that venue. Lights were out, as the town had...
Assigned to each Peace Corps Volunteer, by the school principal, was a cook and housekeeper. This woman and her child were also my companions and became my family after our time together. Dedicated work, wonderful food and always a good...
The town of Haik was in a very rural part of Wolo Province, in Ethiopia. Teachers in Ethiopia are revered and given much. The house I lived in was considered grand, by Ethiopian standards. I had three rooms: a living area, a bedroom (in this ...
The roads leading into Haik, Ethiopia were made of dirt and rock. The rains would come and often wash them away. The winds would often blow them away. Yet the views were spectacular and the people traveling on them were charming and warm. ...