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- 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
- Collection
- Peace Corps Community Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2991
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- Citizen in a Time of Change: the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Report of the Conference, Washington, D.C., March 5-7, 1965
- Date
- 1965
- Creator
- Fox, Ernest; Nicolau, George; Wofford, Harris
- Subject
- Volunteers
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_NPCA_0001
- Type
- conference proceedings
- Collection
- Records of the National Peace Corps Association
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2992
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- Connie Michael McCann obituary, El Campo Leader-News
- Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- El Campo Leader-News
- Subject
- Obituaries; Volunteers
- Country
- Peru
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_McCann_0007
- Type
- obituaries
- Collection
- Connie Michael McCann collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2995
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- Documents and photographs from Paul Robert Willey's Peace Corps service in Colombia, 1962-1964
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Willey, Paul Robert
- Description
- Paul Robert Willey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1962-1964. Willey worked as an education volunteer, teaching physical education.
- Subject
- Americans -- Foreign countries; Physical education and training; Volunteers
- Country
- Colombia
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_FOC_Willey_0001
- Type
- memoirs
- Collection
- Friends of Colombia Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2990
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- 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
- Collection
- Peace Corps Community Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2987
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- How These Diaries Came To Be
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Hitter, Jim
- Description
- Peace Corps Volunteer Jim Hitter explains the story behind the two diaries at the Rest House in Kambia, Sierra Leone. Hitter traces the history of the life of these journals and how they returned to the United States after the program in Sierra Leone disbanded.
- Subject
- Volunteers
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Hitter_0001
- Type
- essays
- Collection
- Jim Hitter collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2851
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- Title
- Howard Ellegant's Peace Corps Volunteer Termination Report, February 1966
- Date
- 1966-02
- Creator
- Ellegant, Howard
- Description
- Howard Ellegant was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1964-1966. Ellegant served as an architect planning schools and community centers. This is Ellegant's Peace Corps Volunteer Termination Report, February 1966. The report was presented to the Peace Corps upon completion of Ellegant's service as a Peace Corps Volunteer Architect, serving in Medellín, Colombia.
- Subject
- Architects; Volunteers
- Country
- Colombia
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_FOC_Ellegant_0001
- Type
- reports
- Collection
- Friends of Colombia Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2989
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- Title
- Libya (1968-1969)
- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Crall, Peter
- Description
- Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's training and service in Libya as education volunteers (1968-1969) before the program was suspended following the 1969 Libyan coup d'état by Muammar Gaddafi. He describes his reasons for joining the Peace Corps, training with the Libya II program in 1968, life in Libya, his students and teaching assignment, travel, and evacuation in 1969 following the Libyan coup d'état.
- Subject
- Travel; Volunteer workers in education; Volunteers
- Country
- Libya
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Crall_0001
- Type
- memoirs
- Collection
- Peter Crall collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2903
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- 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
- Collection
- Peace Corps Community Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2988
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- Peace Corps Philippines pre-service training biography book, 1987
- Date
- 1987
- Creator
- Primack, Avram
- Subject
- Volunteers
- Country
- Philippines
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Primack_0001_Redacted
- Type
- collective biographies
- Collection
- Peace Corps publications
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2994
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- 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
- Collection
- Peace Corps Community Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2993
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- Thailand Year One (1970-1971)
- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Crall, Peter
- Description
- Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's first year of training and service in Thailand as education volunteers (1970-1971). Following evacuation and suspension of the Libya program, Peter and Royse Crall joined the Thailand 30 training program in 1970. He describes his first year in Thailand (1970-1971) including the training program in Hawaii, life in Chiang Rai province, impressions on Thai culture, describes other foreigners living and working in the province, comparisons with Libya, medical and utility services available, teaching work, and travel in Thailand and Nepal.
- Subject
- Travel; Volunteer workers in education; Volunteers
- Country
- Thailand
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Crall_0002
- Type
- memoirs
- Collection
- Peter Crall collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2904
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- Thailand Year Three (1972-1973)
- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Crall, Peter
- Description
- Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's third and final year of service in Thailand as education volunteers (1972-1973). He recounts their final year of living, work, and travel in Thailand, the progress in his classroom, environmental issues in Thailand, preparations for career post-Peace Corps, traditional ghost stories, and travel at the end of their service.
- Subject
- Travel; Volunteer workers in education; Volunteers
- Country
- Thailand
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Crall_0004
- Type
- memoirs
- Collection
- Peter Crall collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2906
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- Thailand Year Two (1971-1972)
- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Crall, Peter
- Description
- Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's second year of service in Thailand as education volunteers (1971-1972). He recounts their second year of living, work, and travel in Thailand, as well as interactions with other volunteers, their experience with Buddhism, Thai weddings, local politics, Christmas abroad, travelling to Afghanistan, Japan, and Hong Kong, and home leave to the United States.
- Subject
- Travel; Volunteer workers in education; Volunteers
- Country
- Thailand
- Local Identifier
- PCCA_Crall_0003
- Type
- memoirs
- Collection
- Peter Crall collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2905
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- 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
- Collection
- Peace Corps Community Archive
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2852
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