Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
Me with a stateside friend (who was also a Volunteer in Nepal 66-68) and a Sierra Leonean friend. We were on the way to his home village for a holiday visit during the Christmas break in 1977.
Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
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.
Taking a break on a hot day in Rokupr, Sierra Leone, 1977. I had made my rounds to local farmers and stopped to pick up my mail and visit a friend over lemonade at the Titanic club. How hot was it? No thermometers, we didn't want to know!