Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
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...
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.
The left side of the photo shows Bill Miles as a Peace Corps teacher in Niger between 1977 and 1979. The right side depicts his daughter Arielle Miles, currently a Peace Corps teacher in Kenya. The picture of Bill was snapped at the CEG (middle...
I took this photo in Juan O' Leary, Alto Parana while in the backyard of a friend's house on February 13, 2011. It's a photo of two girls posing while one is holding a bird.
I was visiting Mongolian friends at Tsgaan Sar, the celebration of the lunar new year. Everyone gets dressed up in their best--and these two boys were no exception. The expressions on their faces are so clear--confidence on the face of the boy on...
I took this photo during my first stove demonstration on November 30, 2009 in the village of Cajola Chiquito, Guatemala. Many women in rural Guatemala still cook over open fires, and families suffer form chronic respiratory diseases year-round. The...
I took this photo while on the c-section ward at the hospital in Arua Uganda. This is a set of twin girls. I also took photos of other twins born at this time. Being a nurse I have direct patient contact to help educate and inform. Education is a...
I served as town photographer while teaching secondary school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. This sitting was of an older woman and her grand daughter who were both called "Old Lady."
Out of respect for her age, the woman was Old...
The two people in the middle are Marine guards at the American embassy in Kyiv and the two guys sitting on either end are Volunteers and dear friends. They are at my Ukrainian university to give a presentation on military life and Peace Corps life....