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- Title
- American Airlines menu for Peace Corps Volunteers en route the Philippines, 1961
- Date
- 1961
- Creator
- Karon, Janet S.
- Description
- Janet S. Karon served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines from 1961-1963. She was an education volunteer and taught English in an elementary school.
- Subject
- Menus; Volunteers
- Country
- Philippines
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Karon_0001
- Type
- menus
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2991
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Barbara Wallace, Peace Corps Korea 1975-1977 slideshow
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Wallace, Barbara
- Description
- Barbara Wallace served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea from 1975-1977. The video slideshow depicts her life in the Peace Corps.
- Subject
- Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
- Country
- South Korea
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Wallace_0001
- Type
- streaming video
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2983
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Case Studies of Home Economists/Family Consumer Scientists in the Peace Corps
- Date
- 2011
- Creator
- Andrews, Mary; Chromy, John
- Description
- List of Case Studies 1. Marilyn Ambrose, Lithuania 1993-96 2. Donna Anderson, India 1963-65 3. Mary Andrews, India 1963-65 4. Mary Crave, Morocco Trainer, 1998 5. Jessica Cummings, Madagascar 2009-2011 6. Peter & Emily Gladhart, Ecuador 1962-66 7. Nancy Granovsky, Paraguay 1969-72 8. Pego Jean-Paul, Ghana 2010- 9. Claudia Jayne, Fiji 2011- 10. Katherine Jorgenson, Paraguay 1970-73 11. Cindy Jurgensen, Kiribati 1981-83 12. Diana Kingston, Uganda 2007-2009 13. Patricia Kratky, Pakistan and Iran 1964-67 14. Cynthia Mark, Benin 1974-76 15. May Mong, Colombia 1972-75 16. Wanda Montgomery, Thailand 1961-63 17. Ann Moore, Togo 1961-63 18. Charlotte Olsen, Liberia 1970-72 19. Marie Olson-Badeau, St. Lucia 1977-79 20. Mary Rainey, Philippines 1953-65 21. Elaine Randeau, Nigeria 1962-64 22. Lois Schneider, India 1968-70 23. Kathy Stadler-Thompson, Dominica 1980-83 24. Fortune Zuckerman, Colombia 1974-80
- Subject
- Home economics
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Chromy_0001
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3005
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Excerpt from "Georgie Girl" published in Today's Black Woman
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Burnett, Joyce
- Publisher
- Today's Black Woman
- Subject
- African Americans; Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
- Country
- Mauritania
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Burnett_0001
- Type
- articles
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2987
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Interview with Tony Longi, Returned Sierra Leone Peace Corps Volunteer
- Date
- 2023-04-07
- Creator
- Roman, Michael
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- In this video recording, returned Peace Corps Volunteer Tony Longi talks about his service in Sierra Leone III from 1962-1964. Mr. Longi worked in rural community development.
- Subject
- Oral histories; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Sierra Leone
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Longi_0001
- Type
- interviews; motion pictures (visual works); oral histories (literary genre)
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Mary Ann McDonald Edelen’s letters from Nepal as a Peace Corps Volunteer, 1969-1970
- Date
- 1969/1970
- Creator
- Edelen, Mary Ann McDonald
- Description
- Transcribed correspondence written by Mary Ann McDonald Edelen from her Peace Corps service in Nepal, 1969-1970. Mary Ann volunteered after she retired from teaching 1969-1970. She wrote a letter to her family every week on an airmail letter.
- Subject
- Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
- Country
- Nepal
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Edelen_0001
- Type
- correspondence
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2988
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Memories and Meaning: A 50th Anniversary Report
- Date
- 2018-12
- Creator
- Ender, Gary
- Description
- This report documents the experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal 17 and the impact of the Peace Corps in the volunteers’ lives after the Peace Corps. The report includes photographs and stories contributed by Peace Corps staff and volunteers who served in Nepal 17.
- Subject
- Volunteers -- Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Ender_0001
- Type
- memoirs
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2592
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Peace Corps Group "India 20A" in Kerala, India, 1965-1967
- Date
- 1965/1967
- Creator
- Scholl, Phillip L.
- Description
- Phil Scholl was a member of the Peace Corps India 20A group, stationed in Balusseri, Kerala, India, from 1965 to 1967. India 20A was the name of the 20th group of volunteers that the Peace Corps sent to India in 1965. Members of India 20A were assigned to rural public health centers in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. While serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Phil Scholl shot this film entirely on silent 8mm color film. The film captures the Peace Corps India 20A group experience during their rural public health assignment between 1965 and 1967, and includes significant events such as the group’s arrival in New Delhi and everyday life in the state of Kerala.
- Subject
- India -- Rural conditions; Public health -- India; Rural health services -- India; Volunteer workers in community health services
- Country
- India
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Scholl_0001
- Type
- silent films
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2250
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Stirrings of Democracy, Lutsk, Ukraine, 2013-2014
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Walton, Peggy
- Description
- Peggy Walton was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 1994-1996. Walton wrote this essay about being a Response Volunteer in Lutsk, Ukraine before being evacuated due to the Maidan in 2014.
- Subject
- Ukraine -- History -- Euromaidan Protests, 2013-2014; Volunteers
- Country
- Ukraine
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Walton_0001
- Type
- essays
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2993
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Tales of a twenty-something traveler
- Date
- 2016/2019
- Creator
- Miller, Sara
- Description
- PDF copy of Peace Corps Panama Volunteer Sara Miller's personal blog. Miller kept the blog during her service as a Community Environmental Conservation Volunteer in the province of Los Santos, Panama from 2016-2018 and her extension year as Regional Leader of the Azuero Region from 2018-2019.
- Subject
- Volunteer workers in conservation of natural resources
- Country
- Panama
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Miller_0001
- Type
- blogs
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2594
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Tin-Hama
- Date
- 1996/1998
- Creator
- Harris, Joshua
- Description
- Video documenting scenes around Tin-Hama, Mali. The video was taken by Peace Corps Volunteer, Joshua Harris, who served in Ansongo, Mali between 1996-1998.
- Subject
- Villages -- Africa -- Mali
- Country
- Mali
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Harris_1
- Type
- video recordings
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1704
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Watching Soyinka: Notes of an Old Peace Corps Volunteer
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Hebert, Tom
- Description
- Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Tom Hebert, writes a memoir about his time in Ibadan, Nigeria between 1962-1964. He includes descriptions of his involvement in the local art and theater scene, centering stories around a his friend, Wole Soyinka. Hebert also discusses perceptions of race, displaying art, and his interpretation of Nigerian politics.
- Subject
- Art -- Nigeria; Theater -- Nigeria; Volunteers
- Country
- Nigeria
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Soyinka, Wole
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Hebert_0001
- Type
- memoirs
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2852
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.