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- Village Child
- Children
- This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
- Volunteer Photos
- Bangladesh Landscape
- Water and sanitation
- This picture was taken right in front of my training institute in Savar, just outside of Dhaka. It is a typical view of the Bangladeshi landscape.
- Volunteer Photos
- Christmas
- Celebrations
- This was the best that I could do as far as decorating for Christmas in 1972. It wasn't like there was a department store nearby or anything.
- Volunteer Photos
- Winter of 1971
- Weather; Environment
- This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
- Volunteer Photos
- Russian Soldier and Me
- Cold war; Volunteers; Statues and monuments
- This photo was taken in Slagotarjan, Hungary in 1990 just after the fall of the Iron Curtain. This is a statue of a Russian soldier that used to overlook the city to remind the citizens who was in charge. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Salgotarjan...
- Volunteer Photos
- PC Tuvalu National Development Plan
- Education; Life skills; Site development; Training
- National Development Plan training workshop coordinated by Save the Children Federation (SCF) in collaboration with Volunteers, Nukulaelae atoll, March 1982. SCF and PC were directly involved in the preparation of Tuvalu's 1982 National...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Last Supper
- Host families; Celebrations; Food and meals
- This was the last dinner I had with my host family before I left training. This is in the city of Chernigov--my host mother is the blond woman at the far left. The person sitting next to me is another Peace Corps Volunteer with her host mother. I...
- Volunteer Photos
- Dacia with Daily Bread
- Food and meals; Pre-service training (PST)
- Close to the apartment where I lived in Arad, the driver in this classic Dacia had fallen asleep. In the back were loaves of bread. During in-service training I stayed with a host family in Ploiesti (I felt I was the luckiest of Volunteers to have...
- Volunteer Photos
- Baptist School Students
- Children
- I had left my camera back in the US when I left to volunteer in Romania. There I acquired an old Russian Zorky-C rangefinder camera and an old very bulky medium format German camera. This picture of students was taken at one of the schools where I...
- Volunteer Photos
- Old Man on Icy Sidewalk
- Elders; Host community
- In the city of Arad, on my way to the after school program run my the orphanage where I worked, I saw this older gentleman carefully balancing on the icy sidewalk.
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Bride
- Weddings; Youth
- After the first year of service, I moved to a new apartment that had been occupied by a former Volunteer. She had left in one of the closets a few blankets. Another Volunteer in Arad and I decided to bring those blankets to a very poor family that...
- Volunteer Photos
- At the local market
- Elders
- This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Boy with Nike Hat
- Youth
- Portrait of a boy that used to frequently beg on the streets of Arad. He was frequently with his bigger sister and his smaller sister.
- Volunteer Photos
- Roma Woman Selling Rugs
- Markets
- This is part of the market portrait photos. (This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In...
- Volunteer Photos
- From New York to LA
- Youth
- To boys with NY and LA hats sit on the steps of an apartment building enjoying the sun on a Winter morning.
- Volunteer Photos
- Bunica Watching
- Elders; Housing
- Very often older people in Romania like to watch who is entering or leaving the building....This "bunica" or grandma is looks out the window.
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving "Lunch"
- Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals
- I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...
- Volunteer Photos
- At the Local Market
- Elders; Markets
- This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Let the Creative Juices Flow
- Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers; Art; Education
- In an effort to nurture creativity, the training staff engaged the Volunteers in a group mural painting exercise. We all made contributions and learned collective creative thinking. But it didn't do much for our painting skills.
- Volunteer Photos
- Misto!
- Pre-service Training (PST)
- This was the last moment of our PST training in Targoviste, Romania and we are so very cool as we look ahead toward our service in Romania as new Peace Corps Volunteers. Here we are one hour before swearing-in!
- Volunteer Photos