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Peace Corps Response: An anniversary. A pandemic. A historic moment for this program launched a quarter century ago.

Short-term, high-impact. Now marking 25 years since its founding.   By Steven Boyd Saum Photo by Christian Farnsworth   A quarter century ago, at a midsummer White House Rose Garden ceremony attended by President Bill Clinton and Sargent Shriver, first director of the Peace Corps, a new type of Peace Corps service was announced to the world: Crisis Corps. Short-term, high-impact, it was, as then-Peace Corps Director Mark Gearan explained, “an effort to harness the enormous experience, skills, motivation, and talents that the Peace Corps, including its returned Volunteer ranks, possesses, and bring them to bear in an organized fashion during...