Pictured are Sargent Shriver (l), the first Peace Corps Director, and Paul Arfin (Colombia 1963-1965) in Washington DC to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Peace Corps
Sarge was open and frank in his discussions with Philippine Group III Volunteers. We asked him about how the organization came to be named “Peace Corps,” if he thought that name wasn’t a bit pretentious and fatuous given the kind of...
Sargent Shriver conducting an open discussion among members of Philippines Group III, May 1963. The location was Tolosa, Leyte at the beach home of House Speaker Daniel Romaldez. Just moments before the appearance of Shriver, he took an overseas...
This photo shows Sargent Shriver conducting an impromptu discussion in Tolosa Leyte with Group III Volunteer Don Smith as Volunteer Bill Pearre looks on.
Tolosa Leyte, where the meeting was conducted, was code-named “White Beach” when General Douglas MacArthur and the American forces invaded Leyte in October 1944. MacArthur’s famous “I shall return” landing took place just a few yards from...
Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.