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.
Whenever the seaplane came to the island...usually twice a week, the children would run through the village announcing they had just heard it flying overhead. They would scream "Si bi eaa" for "Sea Bee Air" the name of the plane. The plane was...
Singing in the photo are Dick Lundgren, Dee Maning, Rich Holmes, Neil Dupree, Joyce Emery, and Roger Lavallee. One was usually asked to perform at functions. This was on our visit to established volunteers in the Cotobato area of Mindano in 1965.