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- Planting a Garden in the Village
- Gardens
- Taken in 1990. Here I am planting a garden in my backyard with a village girl, Lois (who is a grown woman now). With the dry desert climate of the island of Antigua, West Indies, this turned out to be a challenging project and ultimately did not...
- Volunteer Photos
- Writing in my Journal
- Housing
- This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
- Volunteer Photos
- Claire Potter Lewis-Martin with fellow English Teachers
- Teachers and students
- This photo was taken by one of the students of the Petchburi Teacher's College English Staff including myself (Claire Potter Lewis-Martin) during graduation ceremonies in 1973.
- Volunteer Photos
- First Day in my New Village and Home
- Housing; Children; Transportation
- May 1989. Crabb Hill Village, Antigua, West Indies (Eastern Caribbean) My husband took this photo. All of the children came out to see the new Volunteers who just moved into the village. They were very excited, and we were happy for the warm...
- Volunteer Photos
- Kratovo vista
- Built in an extinct volcano on the western banks of the Osogovo mountains, Kratovo was originally Roman and was built up by the Ottomans as a way station and mining town. It became famous for precious metal crafting, and hosted Turkish families...
- Volunteer Photos
- Over Ohrid
- Taken from a vantage point above a fishing village above Lake Ohrid in Macedonia. May Day 2004.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Goat and a Mule
- Animals; Elders
- Near Zeleznica in the foothills of the Osogovo Mountains in Eastern Macedonia, a woman on the road to Kratovo walks her goat and mule. I took this during a walk outside my site, Kratovo, in March 2003. The woman is from a village and going to town...
- Volunteer Photos
- Return Visit to Host Family in Haiti 9 Years Later
- Host families
- My Haitian Host family during traing, 9 years later. I went back for a visit with another RPCV and there were two more kids, a new home and wonderful memories. Training in Akaye (Archaie)near Port.
- Volunteer Photos
- Latvia Group 9 Volunteers
- Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers
- The Volunteers of Group 9 Latvia gather with Peace Corps training staff in Valmiera, Latvia toward the end of our training in Summer 2000. We are in the ruins of a castle believed to have been built in the 1280s.
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- 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
- We Still Do
- Peace Corps Directors; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's December 1967 speech delivered at Georgetown University's Hall of Nations.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- The Peace Corps: a pilot program for American development
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack; Volunteer compensation; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Volunteerism; Training design and evaluation
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's February 13, 1968 address at Harvard Business School.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
- Returned Volunteer Services
- 25th Anniversary of: The Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers & Staff September 20, 1986. Washington, D.C.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1989
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1989.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Statement by Sargent Shriver before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 22, 1961
- Cross-cultural transition; Volunteer selection;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's June 22, 1961 statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Statement of Jack Vaughn, Director of the Peace Corps, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, September 19, 1967
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's September 19, 1967 statement before the House Foreign Relations Committee.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Statement of Jack Vaughn, Director of the Peace Corps, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 23, 1968
- Budget; Congress; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's April 23, 1968 statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Who's who in the Peace Corps--Washington
- Directories
- Full text of Who's Who in the Peace Corps--Washington, which includes staff bios of many of the founding staff members of the Peace Corps. Approximate date of publication is 1963.
- Brochures
- High school students and the Peace Corps
- Teachers and students
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures