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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
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2991
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Title: 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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Title: 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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Title: 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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Title: 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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Title: 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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Title: 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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Title: 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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Title: 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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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
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2852
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