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.
Richard Trinrud examines results of TB test for a Korean
middle school student. This was a field trip practicum during our (K24) training. After the vaccinations and tests were done, the school principal treated the half dozen volunteers to a lunch...
Bill Wresch, K24, reads a Korean middle school student's TB test results.This was part of our practicum field trip during K24 (TB Control) training. Winter of 1972. P
Ralph Echols, K24, gives a TB vaccination to a middle school studentat a Seul middle school, winter of 1972. This was part of our training practicum. Photo by Richard Trinrud.
Taken on April 22, 2010 in a rural community in my site in Nicaragua. This photo shows me helping the nurse carry the cooler with the vaccines. Every year Nicaragua has a national vaccination campaign for measles, mumps, diphtheria, tetanus etc,...
Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead the health workers from the Hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead, the health workers from the hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, I was assisting a Salvadoran NGO in first aid instruction to rural community rescue brigades. During one such demonstration word came from another community further up the...