I returned to Thailand for a surprise reunion with my former students at a restaurant in Bangkok. I taught them English in the southern town of Pattalung in 1973. After so many years, I wondered what became of them and whether my teaching them made...
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.
Urairat in new graduation dress. A wonderful woman and student. Urairat came from a poor family in Surin, Thailand and is now an English Teach in Surin. Bangkok, Thailand, 1973.
On my first visit to my village's school, the moment the kids saw me, they went nuts. The ones in the photo did not have an supervision, so they stormed out of the classrooms to look at the tall American who just came to their small school in...