Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

Collection Title: Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

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Description: This collection contains images taken by Kay Muldoon-Ibrahim, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and former Peace Corps Photographer. The images depict Peace Corps Volunteers working with Chilean community members to further programs in areas such as urban and rural community development, education, public health services, artisan cooperatives, and housing projects.

Pages

: The Peace Corps Serving Chile booklet, 1967; A booklet outlining the history of the Peace Corps in Chile. It also gives an overview of the volunteer work and programs maintained by the Peace Corps, such as rural and urban community development, education, forming cooperatives, and helping with professional assistance.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Bertram Millhouse stands with a group of people at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Santiago, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Bertram Millhouse, who served in Chile, taught communication classes at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Santiago, Chile, 1966/1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Bob Laine helping a student with arithmetic, San Fernando, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Bob Laine taught arithmetic to campesinos, and assisted with rural health programs in San Fernando, Chile, 1965/1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Charles Murray and an unidentified man working on electrical equipment at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Charles Murray taught electrical engineering at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile, 1965/1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Fred Stoffel lecturing a class on electricity at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Fred Stoffel taught first year students about electricity and electrical engineering at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile, 1965/1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Rex Jackson posing with his fourth grade students in a classroom, Melipeuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Rex Jackman with fourth grade students, Melipeuco, Chile, 1997.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Richard Bennett and an unidentified man in a science lab at the Universidad de Chile in Montemar, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Richard Bennett taught marine biology and researched in the Oceanography Department of the Universidad de Chile in Montemar, Chile, 1976.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Walter White instructs a forging class at the ship building school in Valdivia, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Walter White taught forging at the ship building school in Valdivia, Chile, and helped build recreation equipment for poblaciones, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Kay Burgi works in the lab at the Temuco Hospital, Temuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Kay Burgi worked as a lab technician and trained other lab technicians at the Temuco Hospital, Temuco, Chile, 1966.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth pulling in fishing nets with fishing cooperative members, San Antonio, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio, Chile, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth accompanying artisan fisherman on a boat, San Antonio, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio, Chile, 1967.

: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth in San Antonio, Chile, 1998; Peace Corps Volunteer Pete Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio in 1967. In April 1974 Wadsworth moved back to San Antonio to help run the artisan fisherman cooperative. In 1976 Wadsworth started exporting fish and built a small freezing plant. In 1982 Wadsworth and his Chilean partners devised a new way to catch swordfish that increased the total annual catch from 140 tons in 1978 to 6500 tons in 1992.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Gail Bakken Goodhue displays Mapuche weavings and handicrafts at a conference, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Gail Bakken Goodhueworked with Mapuche weavers and wood carvers in Llama Volcano and Laguna Iclama regions to sell their crafts to supplement income. The Mapuche women of this region make traditional blankets, mantas, saddlebags, belts, and the Ski Llama vest. Mapuche men of this region make musical instruments and small wooden carvings.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Gail Bakken Goodhue leads a meeting with Mapuche weavers, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche weavers and wood carvers in the Llama Volcano and Laguna Iclama regions to sell their crafts to supplement income. The Mapuche women of this region make traditional blankets, mantas, saddlebags, belts, and the Ski Llama vest. Mapuche men of this region make musical instruments and small wooden carvings.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Lynne Alper and Mapuche children holding a kitten on the Reducción Quetrahué, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Lynn Alper worked on rural community development projects at the Reducción Quetrahué. She and Dan Alper replaced Gage Skinner in Quetrahué, and helped the weavers expand their market, 1968.

: Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue meet with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena, Icalma, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche artisans in Icalma. John Buzenberg worked with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena in Temuco to set up an artisan sales area. Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche weavers and wood carvers in the Llaima Volcano and Laguna Iclama regions to sell their crafts to supplement incomel, 1967

: Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Kate Lorig consults a mother regarding her child at the Consultorio Gil de Castro, Valdivia, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Kate Lorig worked in the well-child clinic at the Consultorio Gil de Castro in Valdivia, Chile.

: Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Susan Blake and Dr. Jorge Hausmann inspecting an x-ray at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Susan Blake worked at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia, Chile. Blake served alongside Chilean colleagues in pediatric, burn, medical and surgical units. The program focused on helping prepare practical nurses and nursing students at University Austral.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis does a Mapuche dance with his neighbors, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis 1965-1967 worked in rural community development projects in the campo near Lautaro. Davis worked with reforestation and the improvement of rabbit raising methods projects in 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Chuck Lewis helps community members repair a well, near Temuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Chuck Lewis worked in rural community development near Temuco, Chile in 1966. He later worked as an assistant to the regional Peace Corps Director and became Associate Peace Corps Director in Honduras.