Almost everyone would take to the streets on Friday or Saturday nights just to walk from one side of town to the other. Men walked together and women walked together. And you would dress nice too. This was a big deal.
This photo was taken in May at the end of the 1970 school year in Kangavar, Iran. Volunteer Harvey Landress is piuctured with his 9th-12th grade English students.
In Iran in the late 1960's children would flock to any foreigner and call "mister...mister", barely the only English children knew. This streen scene in Harsin, Iran, in April 1970 could have been taken in any of hundreds of small towns and...
This was our "family" in Iran. Ernie is on far left. Sue is 3rd from right. Mr. Salehi and Mrs. Salehi are 3rd and 4th from left. Salehi children are in front. Behrouz is squatting down with his younger brother. The other women in the picture are...
I took this photo during my first few days at site when I discovered a soccer field and played with a bunch of kids. This is a photo of some the kids after the game that were following me after the game and asking me questions.
This is a photo I took before Eid-il-Fitur, a national holiday in which men travel to an open field to buy cows to slaughter for the celebration. Taken in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh in January 2006.
Peace Corps group departing Los Angeles airport for Tuvalu via Fiji, May 17, 1980. The group consisted of five married couples and one individual and was the second group to be assigned to the country. Each couple was posted on one of the outer...
Training sites; Training; Volunteers; Water and sanitation
Volunteers complete the first demonstration ferrocement water tank during training held in the capital of Funafuti, May 1980. This project, which was conducted in collaboration with local development coordinators trained by Save the Children...
This was the last dinner I had with my host family before I left training. This is in the city of Chernigov--my host mother is the blond woman at the far left. The person sitting next to me is another Peace Corps Volunteer with her host mother. I...
Several Albanian Volunteers sitting on the remains of a Roman colosseum in Apollonia. They came from all over the country to celebrate another PCV's birthday.
A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
This was the last moment of our PST training in Targoviste, Romania and we are so very cool as we look ahead toward our service in Romania as new Peace Corps Volunteers. Here we are one hour before swearing-in!
Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)
During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...
After three grueliing months of training we finally arrived at the graduation ceramony in Slovakia. Nelson Chase, Country Director, was at the podium congratulating us for accomplishing our first step. As I remember, no one had left our class at...