The Despedida 6: The Newlyweds shows newlyweds Jeff and Francy Hirsch leaving the Bicol Teachers College (BTC) Little Theater. Well-wishers in white are BTC students (future teachers). The two children at right are fourth-graders in the BTC...
The Despedida 5: “are now husband and wife.” It’s official! Jeff and Francy are legally married, a few people thinking to the contrary notwithstanding!
The Despedida 4: With This Love, I Thee Wed shows us at about the time we together proclaimed, “With this love, I thee wed.” Looking on are bridesmaid, Flor Andes, PCV groom, David Briscoe, the bride’s father, Quirico Villar, and Reverend...
The Despedida 3: Be My Wife and Share a Life shows me saying that “I, Geoffrey Alan Hirsch, take thee, Francia Marchan Villar, to be my wedded wife, to share a life, as long as we both shall live.” It’s the same concept as “’til death do...
Of the more than 30 remaining photos, The Despedida 1 – The Despedida 6 capture the essence of the event.
The Despedida 2: The Assemblage, shows some of those gathered for The Despedida. Most did not realize they would be at a wedding ...
It’s not every day that one gets married… to a person of a different culture… in a far-off place… for next to nothing … in a wedding ceremony one wrote oneself… as part of a surprise number… at a farewell party (despedida)… with...
Here, in 1966, the Volunteer is addressing the Supervisors and Principals' League in the Philippines, because I was assumed to know something because I was a Peace Corps Volunteer. Because of the trust placed in my abilities, I did read the...
When the car transporting me arrived at my assigned high school (Polangui General Comprehensive High School), it was surrounded by students welcoming me to their school. I jumped out of the car and people threw some leis around my neck. I wanted to...
This photo was taken near the end of September, 1998 outside the town of Varshets, Bulgaria. This photo was taken following the first week of school at Ivan Vazov. My students asked me on an impromptu hike to a mountain hut named "White Water"...
Education 14: Discovery Approach to Learning and Teaching. I had two very proud accomplishments in education as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Philippines, 1966-1970). One was creating a student-centered and diagram-based approach to logic, which...
Education 14: Discovery Approach to Learning and Teaching. I had two very proud accomplishments in education as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Philippines, 1966-1970). One was creating a student-centered and diagram-based approach to logic, which...
Education 14: Discovery Approach to Learning and Teaching. I had two very proud accomplishments in education as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Philippines, 1966-1970). One was creating a student-centered and diagram-based approach to logic, which...
The newspaper article tells the complete story, but the date written on it, 1-18-67, must refer to the (CA) Ojai Valley News publication date rather than when the photo was taken, which was in late September, 1966, on my first day of assignment to...