Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Universities
This photo was taken during summer camp at European University--my work site. My students put on "Cinderella" with some reverse gender roles to celebrate graduations and the end of the semester.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
This is a family photo of my neighbors as younger parents--now, their daughters are adults with their own children. The father was a former Communist Party official in Uman who is now a pensioner. This picture was taken on the night of Christmas...
This was the last dinner I had with my host family before I left training. This is in the city of Chernigov--my host mother is the blond woman at the far left. The person sitting next to me is another Peace Corps Volunteer with her host mother. I...
Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
This photo was taken in Papua New Guinea in 1999. I served as a Volunteer teaching English at Rosary Secondary School in Chimbu Province. The picture is of me (someone shot this with my camera) and a student on graduation day. He is wearing...