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- Seisumwomw (Gathering Trochus)
- Host families; Animals
- Pohnpeians can harvest sumwomw -- trochus, a species of sea snail highly valued for its shell -- only one week every year. Pictured here is my host father holding up his catch. Playing hookie from school and accompanying my host family on this...
- Volunteer Photos
- Statement of Sargent Shriver concerning Peace Corps and the United Nations, May 1962
- United Nations Volunteers
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's May, 1962 statement concerning inquiries: "to what extent, whether either in theory or in practice, members of the Peace Corps are working for, controlled by, or guided by agencies or employees of the United Nations?...
- Press Briefings
- Stick Dance -- Pohnpei Culture Day 2011
- Children; Host community; Traditional dress; Dance
- Three ECE (kindergarten) students rehearse a traditional stick dance they will perform with their classmates on Pohnpei Culture Day, March 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Graduate
- celebrations; traditional dress
- Evangeleen, one of my 8th grade students, strikes at pose after their graduation ceremony. Graduations are reminiscient of weddings -- white dresses, church, pride, and lots of flowers and gifts. Sometimes a graduate will get so many mwarmwars --...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Miles Go By
- Youth; Pre-service Training (PST); Host families; Transportation
- During the second phase of my pre-service training, I stayed in a village on the main island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. My host family there is from the Lamotrek Atoll, but they moved to the main island as Callistus (host father)...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- The Spearfisherman
- Children; Host families; Fishing
- My host brother tackles what lies beneath our mangrove "swimming pool" at high tide. FSM New Year's Day, 2010
- Volunteer Photos
- Three Girls in Micronesia (including One PCV)
- transportation
- My wife Karen and I were volunteers in Truk, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia) from 1974-76. Twenty married couples comprised our group, which served as teachers throughout Truk. We lived on the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Too Young for Sakau
- children
- A toddler looks out from the sakau circle -- that's another word for kava, a local narcotic used ceremonially and recreationally. January 2010
- Volunteer Photos
- Transcript of background press and radio news briefing, March 6, 1961
- Press and media; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Vietnam war; Volunteer compensation;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
- Press Briefings
- Volunteer, Host Family, and United States Family
- Host families
- This photo was taken in November of 2009 at my host family's house during my parents' trip to the Philippines. Right before this picture was taken we all enjoyed a fantastic lunch of seafood and fruit. From left to right: Back: My mother and my...
- Volunteer Photos
- Walking to School in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
- Animals; Children
- An every day walk to school in the village.
- Volunteer Photos
- Water, Water, Everywhere
- funerals
- Two women seek out the shade during day one of a funeral in Pohnpei, FSM. Beside them are the several gallons of water there for the mourners, also seeking some coolness. May, 2010.
- Volunteer Photos