January 25, 2023
Marking a Place in History
Celebrating Where Peace Corps Training Began By Tiffany James Photo at left: Students in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) with Roger Rhatton, a Peace Corps Volunteer from Bay Village, Ohio, 1965. Photo courtesy National Archives In the early years of the Peace Corps, many of the first Volunteers began training on a campus in Brattleboro, Vermont, which is home to the School for International Training. Now there’s a marker honoring that legacy — and the roots of the Peace Corps in the Experiment in International Living. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, was himself a participant in the Experiment in...