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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: A Yanomami man stands inside the shabono holding a bunch of plantains, Venezuela
Date: [1990-10-17/1990-10-20]
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: 10/17-20/90 BK673; 196.326; Venez: Yanomamo Tribe; B. Gentile/Newsweek
Subject: Dwellings; Indians of South America; Plantain banana; Yanomamo Indians
Country: Venezuela
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_1070
Type: color slides
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:65878
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Title: Community Study, San Estanislao, Paraguay - Survey 2
Date: 2013/2014
Creator: Thomson, Brienne
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Anonymous interview of a business owner in his 30s, who is male, single, lives alone, has lived abroad and in Santani [San Estanislao] throughout his life. The interview is conducted by Brienne Thomson as part of a community economic development study of San Estanislao, Paraguay during her service in the Peace Corps.
Subject: Social surveys; Community life -- Case studies
Country: Paraguay
Local Identifier: PCCA_Thomson_2
Type: interviews
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:12
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Title: First Lady Hillary Clinton conversing with event attendees at the opening of the Internado Centro Cultural Mapuche in Temuco, Chile
Date: 1998-04-19
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: Peace Corps Volunteers Will Cady 1992-1994 on right and Quinton Harris 1995-1998 attend the inauguration of the Internado Centro Cultural Mapuche, and discuss its mission with their guest, First Lady Hillary Clinton, 19 April 1998.
Subject: Mapuche Indians -- Ethnic identity; Mapuche Indians -- Social life and customs
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Cady, Will; Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Quinton, Harris
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0001
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2272
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue meet with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena, Icalma, Chile
Date: 1967
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: 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 income, 1967
Subject: Mapuche art; Mapuche Indians; Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Goodhue, Gail Bakken; Buzenberg, John
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0028
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2265
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Title: Community Study, San Estanislao, Paraguay - Survey 3
Date: 2013/2014
Creator: Thomson, Brienne
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Anonymous interview of a man in his 40s, who is married with children, works in the field of trade, was born in Paraguay but has lived abroad for more than a decade; he has been in Santani [San Estanislao] for the last five years. The interview is conducted by Brienne Thomson as part of a community economic development study of San Estanislao, Paraguay during her service in the Peace Corps.
Subject: Social surveys; Community life -- Case studies
Country: Paraguay
Local Identifier: PCCA_Thomson_3
Type: interviews
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:7
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteer John Vinton examines a woman's pottery in Cobquecura, Chile
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer John Vinton worked with potters. Peace Corps volunteers frequently worked with artisans to create income generating cooperatives and industries selling their art.
Subject: Potters -- Chile; Pottery -- Chile; Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Vinton, John
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0017
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2280
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteer Gage Skinner in traditional dress sitting with Mapuche peoples, Chile
Date: 1964/1966
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Gage Skinner served in Chile between 1964-1966 under the supervision of the Dirección de Asuntos Indígenas (DAI). Skinner helped start the successful Mapuche beekeeping venture and proposed marketing the sticks and balls from the traditional Mapuche game of chueca, which sold out in Temuco. Next came drums, flutes, wooden masks, and cradle boards. Profits from the sales went one-quarter to the crafts person and the rest to the Reducción Quetrahue's women's organization for the purchase of wool and dye for weaving projects. After the Peace Corps, Skinner became a cultural anthropologist, with a specialty in Native American studies. Skinner eventually donated his extensive collection of Mapuche arts and crafts to San Diego's Museum of Man.
Subject: Mapuche Indians; Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Skinner, G. Gage
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0025
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2283
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis does a Mapuche dance with his neighbors, Chile
Date: 1967
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: 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.
Subject: Dance -- Chile; Mapuche Indians; Mapuche Indians -- Ethnic identity; Mapuche Indians -- Social life and customs; Volunteer workers in community development -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Davis, Bill
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0033
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2268
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Title: Aerial view of a Yanomami village with a shabono dwelling, Venezuela
Date: [1990-10-17/1990-10-20]
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: 10/17-20/90 BK673; 196.326; Venez: Yanomamo Tribe; B. Gentile/Newsweek
Subject: Dwellings; Indians of South America; Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs; Yanomamo Indians
Country: Venezuela
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_1067
Type: color slides
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:65875
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Title: Community Study, San Estanislao, Paraguay - Survey 4
Date: 2013/2014
Creator: Thomson, Brienne
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Anonymous interview of a woman in her mid-30s, who moved to Santani [San Estanislao] 25 years ago to study, has children and works in the field of education. The interview is conducted by Brienne Thomson as part of a community economic development study of San Estanislao, Paraguay during her service in the Peace Corps.
Subject: Social surveys; Community life -- Case studies
Country: Paraguay
Local Identifier: PCCA_Thomson_4
Type: interviews
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:8
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Title: Community Study, San Estanislao, Paraguay - Survey 6
Date: 2013/2014
Creator: Thomson, Brienne
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Anonymous interview of a male, under 20 years old, who grew up and lives in a rural Santani [San Estanislao] community with four family members, and is studying at a university. The interview is conducted by Brienne Thomson as part of a community economic development study of San Estanislao, Paraguay during her service in the Peace Corps.
Subject: Social surveys; Community life -- Case studies
Country: Paraguay
Local Identifier: PCCA_Thomson_6
Type: interviews
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:10
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Title: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth's fish packing plant, San Antonio, Chile, 1998
Date: 1998
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: 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.
Subject: Fisheries, Cooperative -- Chile; Fishery processing plants -- Chile; Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Wadsworth, Peter
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0022
Type: color photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2282
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteers Warren Howell and Paul Smith working with a credit savings and loan cooperative in Valdivia, Chile
Date: 1966
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: Peace Corps Volunteers Warren Howell and Paul Smith worked with a credit savings and loan co-op in Valdivia, Chile, 1966.
Subject: Consumer cooperatives -- Chile; Credit unions -- Chile; Savings and loan associations -- Chile; Volunteer workers in community development -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Howell, Warren; Smith, Paul
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0059
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2308
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteers Jim Olenhauser (left) and Buso Warner demonstrate tree planting for a reforestation project, Chile
Date: 1966
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: Peace Corps Volunteers Jim Olenhauser (left) and Buso Warner worked in rural community development educating and working with the reforestation of the region in 1966.
Subject: Forestry schools and education -- Chile; Reforestation -- Chile; Tree planting -- Chile; Volunteer workers in community development -- Chile; Workshops (Adult education) -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Olenhauser, Jim; Warner, Buso
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0041
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2290
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteer Larry Kness converses with two other men on a construction site in Barros Arana, Chile
Date: 1966
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Larry Kness worked in urban community development as a civil engineer and master carpenter with community members in Barros Arana on a co-op and community center building, 1966.
Subject: Community centers -- Chile; Building sites -- Planning; Construction projects -- Chile; Engineering -- Chile; Volunteer workers in community development -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Kness, Larry
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0054
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2303
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Title: Film for Action: Piedras como esta
Date: 1966/1968
Creator: Greven, John; Witt, Cliff
Publisher: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Description: "Piedras como esta" is part of the Film for Action documentary set in the village of Granadillo. It depicts the indigenous people building foot paths and bridges over a river in the southern Colombian mountains, led by PCV and civil engineer Gary Bryant. This project allowed the inhabitants to be able to take their produce to the nearby markets.
Subject: Rural development -- Colombia; Community development -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_film_for_action_3
Type: documentaries (motion picture genre)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1719
Rights statement: Copyright held by filmmakers. Film should be cited as follows: John Greven and Cliff Witt, Film for Action, Friends of Colombia Archive, American University

Title: Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth accompanying artisan fisherman on a boat, San Antonio, Chile
Date: 1967
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: 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.
Subject: Fisheries, Cooperative -- Chile; Fishers -- Chile; Fishing -- Chile; Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Wadsworth, Peter
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0021
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2260
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Title: Letter from Michael McCann to the Hett family, 23 December 1966
Date: 1966-12-23
Creator: McCann, Connie Michael
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Connie Michael McCann writes to his sister Karen and brother-in-law Roger Hett about adjusting to his recent placement in Peru. He describes the many fiestas that have been held since his arrival.
Subject: Parties; Volunteer workers in community development -- Peru
Country: Peru
Local Identifier: PCCA_McCann_0001
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2600
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Title: Peace Corps Volunteer Fred Stoffel lecturing a class on electricity at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile
Date: 1965/1967
Creator: Muldoon-Ibrahim, Kay
Description: 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.
Subject: Education, Higher -- Chile; Electrical engineering -- Study and teaching -- Chile; Universities and colleges -- Chile; Volunteer workers in education -- Chile
Country: Chile
Subject -- Personal Name: Stoffel, Fred
Local Identifier: PCCA_Muldoon-Ibrahim_0007
Type: black-and-white photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2254
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