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Title: Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer
Date: [date of creation not identified]
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Memoir consisting of rewritten letters Ronald Rude sent home over his 3 years with Peace Corps, Nepal 17, between 1968 and 1971. It covers his relationship with Nepalese coworkers as well as other Peace Corps volunteers, frustrations, successes, cultural events experienced, a comparison of ceremonies as performed by Hill and Terai Brahmans of Nepal, and travel. The memoirs contain many photos, some taken at a location restricted to Brahman families negotiating the marriage of their children.
Subject: Volunteer workers in agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0001
Type: memoirs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2595
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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: The Gospel According to Timothy and James
Date: 2013
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Description: Account of The Either Or Otter Corps (EOOC) in Afghanistan during the 1972.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0007
Type: memoirs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1712
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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: Memories and Meaning: A 50th Anniversary Report
Date: 2018-12
Creator: Ender, Gary
Description: This report documents the experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal 17 and the impact of the Peace Corps in the volunteers’ lives after the Peace Corps. The report includes photographs and stories contributed by Peace Corps staff and volunteers who served in Nepal 17.
Subject: Volunteers -- Nepal
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Ender_0001
Type: memoirs
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2592
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Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan: 1964-1978
Date: 2017-10-10
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: A 244 page document of personal stories and photographs from sixty-four returned Peace Corps Afghanistan Volunteers.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan; Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes; Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Biography
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0008
Type: memoirs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
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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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