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.
The agriculture minister was very delighted to see the results of the expertise that Peace Corps Volunteer Bill brought to Yo Creek, OW District, Belize. I took this photo on an educational tour of the potato farm for the locals. The minister is...
I took this phot in the capital city of Boac, on the island province of Marinduque, Republic of the Philippines. 1976. 5 volunteers were assigned to the 6 towns on the island of Marinduque. We were having beach R & R with some of our neighbbor...
I took this photo while visiting a fellow PCV in Laoang, Philippines, on May 14, 2011. We had both just arrived in country as Peace Corps Response Volunteers two weeks before. My friend wanted to show me the beautiful white sand swimming beaches...
Here, in 1966, the Volunteer is addressing the Supervisors and Principals' League in the Philippines, because I was assumed to know something because I was a Peace Corps Volunteer. Because of the trust placed in my abilities, I did read the...
In this photo, Peace Corps Volunteer Mark Fullmer is teaching English vocabulary and pronunciation to 4th year (16-year old) high school students. The photograph was taken by a student, who had been assigned to be the class photographer, a way of...
Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Host community
I took this photo on June 29, 2011, during one of my multimedia workshops I facilitated as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Calbayog, Philippines. I came to Calbayog to train staff members of the SOS Children's Village how to produce their own...
The photo was taken during an Information, Education, Communication (IEC) campaign the Philippines. The kids in the photo are 4th year high school students along with the Volunteer who is leading them through a a team building exercise....
It’s not every day that one gets married… to a person of a different culture… in a far-off place… for next to nothing … in a wedding ceremony one wrote oneself… as part of a surprise number… at a farewell party (despedida)… with...
Of the more than 30 remaining photos, The Despedida 1 – The Despedida 6 capture the essence of the event.
The Despedida 2: The Assemblage, shows some of those gathered for The Despedida. Most did not realize they would be at a wedding ...
The Despedida 3: Be My Wife and Share a Life shows me saying that “I, Geoffrey Alan Hirsch, take thee, Francia Marchan Villar, to be my wedded wife, to share a life, as long as we both shall live.” It’s the same concept as “’til death do...
The Despedida 4: With This Love, I Thee Wed shows us at about the time we together proclaimed, “With this love, I thee wed.” Looking on are bridesmaid, Flor Andes, PCV groom, David Briscoe, the bride’s father, Quirico Villar, and Reverend...
The Despedida 5: “are now husband and wife.” It’s official! Jeff and Francy are legally married, a few people thinking to the contrary notwithstanding!
The Despedida 6: The Newlyweds shows newlyweds Jeff and Francy Hirsch leaving the Bicol Teachers College (BTC) Little Theater. Well-wishers in white are BTC students (future teachers). The two children at right are fourth-graders in the BTC...
Poro, Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines.
June 2011.
Our NGO was holding a DIsaster Risk Reduction program. The School was part of the refuge area for pretend victims. I was sitting wating for lunch and I noticed the old fashion attendance board....
Our town hall put on an Agriculture Fair event. All the towns had representatives from the different areas or baranagays, each with their agriculture specialty, like bananas, camotes, baked goodies and of course some live stock.
THis photo was taken in the Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines, November 2010.
I was bike riding, and I happend to see the beautiful fish for sale, so I stopped and took a look. The older lady was excited I was interested in the fish. I asked if i...
Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows how enthusiastically the town children (Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines) adopted the new seesaws, overseen by Volunteers Roger and Richard and approved by the town mayor, Mr. Bautista.