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.
Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development
Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.
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.
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...
Volunteers in language training class being held at home where one of the Volunteers is living during training. These three Volunteer will all be math science teachers in secondary schools. The language instructor is on the left.
Pre-service Training (PST); Knight Foundation; Language training;
Language training for Peace Corps trainees is intensive and important. Here, a Nepali language instructor works with a small group of trainees at the training site at UC Davis.
Pre-service Training (PST); Language training; Knight Foundation
Language class took place under one of the houses. A Sabah/Sarawak training group goes through the mill in Waipio Valley, which is located 50 miles from Hilo. Efforts have been made to recreate a Southeast Asian village, which will expose the...
Pre-service Training (PST); Language training; Knight Foundation
Language class under one of the houses. A Sabah/Sarawak training group goes through the mill in Waipio valley, which is located 50 miles from Hilo. Efforts have been made to recreate a Southeast Asian village, which will expose the trainees to many...
This language teacher is working with a new language saturation technique (LST) which teaches a Volunteer to speak a foreign language in four weeks nearly as well as many language majors do after four years of college. She is a Spanish language...
These Volunteers practice conversation in Krio during language lessons given in small groups during health training program held in the village of Mbundorbu. Both Volunteers are health volunteers and will be assigned to a health and rural...
Training; Language Training; Cross-cultural training
This picture shows a Peace Corps training class, where volunteers are given intensive training in the language, culture, history and traditions of the host country.
The Volunteers in Daloa, Ivory Coast, are involved in different facts of the health program. The Volunteer works on pediatric nursing. The other Volunteer spends much of his time visiting villages and giving health lectures to the people. Here, the...
These three Volunteers began their service in the Ivory Coast. Here, the three volunteers attend a language class in Abidjan. In the classroom they work on the specific dialect of their region.
Education; Language training; Business development
This Volunteer discusses school life in the United States with a group of high school students in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, who had invited him to speak to their English Club. The Volunteer is part of a Peace Corps program helping Ivorien businessmen...