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Title: Agriculture Pernambuco Agricultural Cooperatives Summer 1969 Draft
Date: 1969
Description: The Peace Corps - Pernambuco (PC-PE) Agriculture Cooperatives project description was drafted in mid-1968 to request replacements for the first FECOMIPE (Federation of Mixed Cooperatives in the State of Pernambuco) Cooperatives group (December 1967 – December 69) for on-site placement in October 1969. The document was based on six to eight months of experience with the first Pernambuco Agriculture Cooperatives group. The Peace Corps project description was a document required by the Peace Corps bureaucracy to request a group of Volunteers. Since the process of approval, recruitment and training took about nine months, a decision to request a new or replacement group needed to be made one year in advance of expected placement in the field.
Subject: Agriculture, Cooperative -- Brazil
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: PCCA_Reeder_0002
Type: document
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3165
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Title: Biographies: Peace Corps Training Program at the University of Washington, Bolivia Mines Community Development, April 2- June 10, 1967
Date: 1967
Description: Booklet (mugbook) contains biographical information of each volunteer and staff member involved the 1967 Bolivia Mines Community Development training group.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia -- Biography
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0001
Type: collective biographies
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3153
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Title: Connie Michael McCann obituary, El Campo Leader-News
Date: 2015
Publisher: El Campo Leader-News
Subject: Obituaries; Volunteers
Country: Peru
Local Identifier: PCCA_McCann_0007
Type: obituaries
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2995
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Title: Diary of Brian Adler, 2002-2004
Date: 2002/2004
Creator: Adler, Brian
Subject: Volunteer workers in education -- Suriname
Country: Suriname
Subject -- Personal Name: Adler, Brian; Elliott, Cynthia
Type: diaries
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-89317
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Title: Documents and photographs from Paul Robert Willey's Peace Corps service in Colombia, 1962-1964
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Willey, Paul Robert
Description: Paul Robert Willey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1962-1964. Willey worked as an education volunteer, teaching physical education.
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Physical education and training; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Willey_0001
Type: memoirs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2990
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Title: First Peace Corps Volunteer Families: Diary of the Zieglers in Colombia, South America, 1970-1972
Date: 1970/1972
Creator: Ziegler, Claire; Ziegler, Delwyn
Description: This diary details the daily volunteer experiences of the Ziegler family from 1970-1972 in Colombia, South America. Delwyn was age 38, Claire was age 30, Colette 4 1/2, and Andre 2 1/2. Delwyn, a former hospital controller, worked in business administration programs, including small business consulting and hospital administration. Claire, a fluent French speaker, taught French at a high school as well as at the Alliance Française. The Zieglers participated in the Peace Corps' experiment with families. Previously the Peace Corps had accepted only singles and couples. In an attempt to recruit more senior people with experience, the Peace Corps tried to see how families might work out as volunteers. The Zieglers were part of a group of five families recruited for Colombia.
Subject: Business consultants -- Colombia; Hospitals -- Colombia -- Administration; Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Small business -- Colombia; Volunteer workers in community development; Volunteer workers in education
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Ziegler_0001
Type: diaries
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2249
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Title: GERAN Training manual
Date: 1970
Description: The Peace Corps - Pernambuco (PC-PE) Rural Development (GERAN) project description and training outline were drafted in mid-1969 to request a group of Peace Corps Volunteers for October 1970 placement on sugarcane plantations. Pre-service training began in St. Croix, Virgin Islands and in Pernambuco. In-country pre-service training plans were refined based on the experiences of four Volunteers who had worked in two teams on two plantations in a six-month GERAN pilot program starting March 1970. The Peace Corps project description was a document required by the Peace Corps bureaucracy to request a group of Volunteers. Since the process of approval, recruitment and training took about nine months, a decision to request a new or replacement group needed to be made one year in advance of expected placement in the field.
Subject: Volunteer workers in agriculture --Brazil
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: PCCA_Reeder_0004
Type: document
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3167
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Title: Hawks of the Sun: A Filmscript Autobiographical Story About a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile (1966-68) Facing the Challenges of Culture and Adaptation
Date: 2020
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: This filmscript describes many events in the two-year Peace Corps service of volunteer Kenny Karem in Chile, working in agriculture, education and forestry. It focuses on his relationships with Chilean friends, co-workers, Mapuche Indians and campesino farmers. It details actual events, cultural happenings, fiestas, cross-cultural snafus, the challenges of adapting to a foreign culture and the tremendous impact politics in Chile had on a volunteer’s service. Two of the scenes, “Coca Cola is Everything and Something More” and “Day of the Dead” were previously published in magazines.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile -- Motion picture plays
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0001
Type: screenplays
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3162
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Title: Howard Ellegant's Peace Corps Volunteer Termination Report, February 1966
Date: 1966-02
Creator: Ellegant, Howard
Description: Howard Ellegant was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1964-1966. Ellegant served as an architect planning schools and community centers. This is Ellegant's Peace Corps Volunteer Termination Report, February 1966. The report was presented to the Peace Corps upon completion of Ellegant's service as a Peace Corps Volunteer Architect, serving in Medellín, Colombia.
Subject: Architects; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Ellegant_0001
Type: reports
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2989
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Title: It Seemed Like a Dream: A Peace Corps Volunteer Returns to his Community in Chile
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: The article, “It Seemed Like a Dream” describe Kenny Karem’s return visit to his Chilean community and friends in 1995. He has maintained communication with them ever since his volunteer days up to the present time. This article had been previously published in a magazine.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0002
Type: essays
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3163
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Title: One of the First Peace Corps Volunteers Dies on the 60th Anniversary Year of the Peace Corps : William Dennis Grubb : 1941-2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Creator: [Person responsible unknown]
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Mr. W. Dennis Grubb peacefully entered into eternal rest on October 25, 2021 at home in Washington, D.C., SW after a courageous, multi-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare form of Parkinson’s. He was 80. The Peace Corps, global development, education, and the church have propelled his lifelong service to help others in nations on five continents. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Grubb joined the-then new Peace Corps at the age of 19 as one of its first and youngest volunteers, and served in Colombia One (1961-1963). He worked in Zipacon, a village 8,700 feet high in the Andes, a place with no running water or sewers, little electricity and few paved roads. Illiteracy, malnutrition, dysentery and tuberculosis were rampant. To address them, Mr. Grubb, Mr. Thomas Whalen, a fellow Volunteer, and the Colombian counterpart (referred to as promotor) assigned to their team by the Office of Community Development in Bogota, formed a liaison between Zipacon and government officials and secured assistance to build the first cooperative food store, a small medical center, three schools, roads, and a water supply pipeline. When the government offered a day of free chest X-rays and vaccinations, he and fellow Volunteers plastered the village with announcements, producing a record turnout upon the doctors arrival. He worked with Colombians of all levels, from rural farmers to national officials, to achieve his overall goal, which was to convince the community that they could control their lives. Mr. Grubb later said that his idealistic view of a peaceful and humane world was formed by his experience in Colombia.
Subject: Obituaries; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Subject -- Personal Name: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0003
Type: obituaries
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Title: Peace Corps/Brazil Project Description Pernambuco/Sugar Zone Program Rural-Development Summer 1970
Date: 1970
Description: The Peace Corps - Pernambuco (PC-PE) Rural Development (GERAN) project description and training outline were drafted in mid-1969 to request a group of Peace Corps Volunteers for October 1970 placement on sugarcane plantations. Pre-service training began in St. Croix, Virgin Islands and in Pernambuco. In-country pre-service training plans were refined based on the experiences of four Volunteers who had worked in two teams on two plantations in a six-month GERAN pilot program starting March 1970. The Peace Corps project description was a document required by the Peace Corps bureaucracy to request a group of Volunteers. Since the process of approval, recruitment and training took about nine months, a decision to request a new or replacement group needed to be made one year in advance of expected placement in the field.
Subject: Volunteer workers in agriculture --Brazil
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: PCCA_Reeder_0003
Type: document
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3166
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Title: Peace Corps Colombia IV: An Innovative Physical Education and Sports Development Program
Date: 2016-08-15
Creator: Carrasco, Andrew A.
Subject: Physical education and training -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Type: Dissertations
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2248
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Title: Peace Corps Program Memorandum for Agriculture and Rural Development Programs in Northeast Brazil 1970-1972
Date: 1970
Subject: Agriculture -- Brazil; Rural development -- Brazil
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: PCCA_Reeder_0001
Type: memorandums
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3164
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Title: PUES, April-May 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0005
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3157
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Title: PUES, August-September 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0007
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3159
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Title: PUES, December 1968-January 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0003
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3155
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Title: PUES, February-March 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0004
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3156
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Title: PUES, June-July 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0006
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3158
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Title: PUES, October-November 1968
Date: 1968
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0002
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3154
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