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- Visitor from Teheran
- This picture is of a Peace Corp staff member from Teheran and his guide and me. I didn't have many visitors in my two years in Iran.
- Volunteer Photos
- Graduation Dinner
- Training; Celebrations; Food and Meals
- Graduating from training in Isfahan, Iran in 1971 was celebrated with a persian dinner.
- Volunteer Photos
- My Office
- Schools; Counterparts
- My classroom office wasn't much but I shared it with my counterpart. Most of the time was spent out on the floor with the students learning to weld. There was not much protection and I received arc burns to the eyes many times while I was there.
- Volunteer Photos
- Students
- Music; Host community friends; Teachers and students
- Pictured are my students from Goldbedaugh, Iran, a small village of about 50 people located about 5 or 6 miles from Kangavar, the county seat, where the school was located This village had no electricity in 1970, and students either walked or...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sue with Girls at the Day Camp
- Camps and clubs; Teachers and students
- Sue is sitting on the front steps of our house in Kerend, Iran with the girls in the day camp she led. July 1970.
- Volunteer Photos
- Preparing to Spray Fruit Trees
- Children; Host community; Environment
- Ernie is showing neighbor children Behrouz Salehi and Shahab Daregari what he is doing to prepare the pesticide to spray on the fruit trees. This photo was taken at our house in Kerend, Iran, Summer 1970
- Volunteer Photos
- Friday Picnic
- Food and meals
- Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Several times a year my fellow teachers at Ebn Sina High School, in Kangavar, Iran, would picnic in the woods along a stream just outside of town, as pictured here in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Picknicking with Students
- Food and meals; Host community friends
- Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Once a year several of my fellow high school teachers in Kangavar, Iran, would select some of their best students and reward them with a picnic. Picnics were in the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Lak Family
- Housing
- This picture is of a Lak family in the mountains of west-central Iran in Lurstan province, several hours by jeep or motorcycle from the nearest town. This family summered in the mountains and wintered in south Iran. They live in large tents and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Children on the Street
- Children
- In Iran in the late 1960's children would flock to any foreigner and call "mister...mister", barely the only English children knew. This streen scene in Harsin, Iran, in April 1970 could have been taken in any of hundreds of small towns and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Bentleys and Salehis in Kerend
- Host families
- This was our "family" in Iran. Ernie is on far left. Sue is 3rd from right. Mr. Salehi and Mrs. Salehi are 3rd and 4th from left. Salehi children are in front. Behrouz is squatting down with his younger brother. The other women in the picture are...
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Child
- Children
- This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
- Volunteer Photos
- Christmas
- Celebrations
- This was the best that I could do as far as decorating for Christmas in 1972. It wasn't like there was a department store nearby or anything.
- Volunteer Photos
- Winter of 1971
- Weather; Environment
- This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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 Fiscal Year 1966 Congressional Presentation
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1966.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1967
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1967.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Presentation of FY 1962 Program to United States Congress, June 1961
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1962.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- ACTION 1977 Annual Report
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the ACTION Annual Report for 1977.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 2003
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 2003.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials