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Comment on It’s Coming! National Day of Action by Mel Schnapper

Mel Schnapper — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:51:07 +0000

Great! I had signed up for similar activity during the recent PC 50th celebratory activities and then I got a contract for work in what had been Somalia, so I had to give up 50th participation, sell off some tickets I had purchased and leave that week! So this time, as a native Washingtonian, I hope to get a picture of how our legislative process works (and doesn’t!). Going back to Somalia was also special for me as I had helped train the last group of PCVs in 1968, returned to train Somali managers in 1988 and now in 2011 to return yet again. So, I guess I’m due back in Somalia in 2031 or every 20 years. And the most exciting part of my recent trip to Somalia was meeting a Somali who had been a language teacher back in 1968! Imagine that.

Comment on RPCVs in Orlando Connect During Brunch in Florida by Jacque Altomare

Jacque Altomare — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:38:43 +0000

That’s great you were able to get together . . . Just wondering if a group in Orlando meets on an “irregular” basis . . . I have been looking for such a group.

Jacque
RPCV Ghana 1974-6

Comment on We’re Moving!! by Patt Behler Peru 62-64

Patt Behler Peru 62-64 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:14:26 +0000

Hi, Nothing earthshaking but want to say it’s nice to put a face with a name…Ann Baker, hello! Looks as though you’re doing thngs in typical PC style….good luck on the move for all. I see you have a box of tissues on the shelf in back just in case you need them!!??
PB

Comment on Next Stop, Nepal by Phil Brandt

Phil Brandt — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:02:20 +0000

This is a wonderful development. As a former PCV (Nepal II – 1963-1965) who resides in Nepal, my main expectation is that the PEACE CORPS COUNTRY DIRECTOR, whomsoever it may be, will use the opportunity to bring the older generations of Nepal PCVs into contact with this new generation of Volunteers to enable them to learn some different perspectives on change and development in Nepal.

Comment on Next Stop, Nepal by Kanak Mani Dixit

Kanak Mani Dixit — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:06:01 +0000

This great news for Nepal. The role of the PCV will obviously be different than when they were introduced and the decades that they served. We are here to welcome!

Comment on Next Stop, Nepal by RON RANSON

RON RANSON — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:32:25 +0000

Jai Nepal!!

Comment on Survey Results Are In: Peace Corps’ Impact Over 50 Years by NORMAN MUIR WOLFF

NORMAN MUIR WOLFF — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Served (with distinction) as teacher at St Mary’s High School, Sanniquellie, Nimba County, Liberia, 1976-79 (just before the troubles began). The President of Liberia, William Tolbert, dedicated the school library I had been working on as an extra project. That was the high-point of my tour.

My younger sister Jean and I had both graduated from the mediocre American School of Guatemala in the early 1970s. Dad was a USAID capital development officer, involved with the Central American Common Market. Before moving to Guatemala we lived in the Panama and Jamaica. We liked the schools in both countries a lot, especially the progressive British-style one in Jamaica. In Panama we attended schools in the Canal Zone. I attened the US Army-run Curundu Junior High, the most modern in the world at the time, complete with huge geodesic dome. In contrast the school in Jamaica was an old colonial era house and simple cinder block classrooms. My parents moved to Kenya after Guatemala, and my sister and got to visit them there – at US gov’t expense!

I attended graduate school in DC after the Peace Corps. I remember going to a conference about Liberia. A State Department official was present. He strongly suggested that a Liberia PCV (no, not me) had played an indirect role in Tolbert’s overthrow and assassination. The State Department had questioned this RPCV. Beyond that, I don’t anything more on the issue.

Comment on Senegal 1 RPCV reflects on the 50th Anniversary in DC by Carol Seeley

Carol Seeley — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:25:51 +0000

Please keep me posted re time and place of this reunion in Senegal. I would be so wonderful to return with a solid reason/program waiting for me. . . and hopefully we can get back to the Casamance. I remember and recall my time and projects and friends there to my friends and family in the States, frequently, often with the response that i should go back. So I’m sooooo ready! Ruth Mently was in my group of PCV’s from training on. This could be the best thing that ever happened in my life’s travels. Thanks so much for arranging this, Doug. jTalk with you soon. -carol

Comment on North Alabama Peace Corps Volunteers Plant Trees for Peace Corps Day by Brenda Vaccari

Brenda Vaccari — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:59:26 +0000

hi! i´m looking for john David Flood, i know he´s a member of this wanderful group, and i´m very interested of knowing him. If someone how can i contact him, i´d be very pleased.

sorry if my english is not very well, but i´m latin american.

Thank you very very much!

Comment on Senegal 1 RPCV reflects on the 50th Anniversary in DC by Douglas Scott Treado, RPCV, Senegal 1, 1962-64

Douglas Scott Treado, RPCV, Senegal 1, 1962-64 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:01:19 +0000

Thanks to all of you who responded to my short article concerning Senegal party during the 50th RPCV/Staff Reunion in DC last September. For those of you former Senegal RPCVs/Staff, please note that there is a Senegal PCV site on Facebook, too. Hopefully, that may be the spot to find information concerning any planning for the 50th Senegal PCV festivities in Senegal, circa February 2013.