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.
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.
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...
A Volunteer assists as a medical technologist. They are checking for signs of TB through a Mantoux skin test and by listening for lung congestion. She also is shown interviewing families of TB patients and explaining the importance of the tests.
A Volunteer assists a a medical technologist in Papua New Guinea. She is shown interviewing families of TB patients and explaining the importance of the tests.
Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school, and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer works with the Division of Health in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guniea. He is shown working with a local, using computer facilities to enter data from a field survey.
A Volunteer works as a Health Care Officer. She spends much of her time providing advice on nutrition, sanitation and health care to nursing aids and patients at a hospital in Papua New Guinea.
A Volunteer works with the Division of Health in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. He is shown working with a French volunteer doctor at a hospital as he makes morning rounds.