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Title: One of the First Peace Corps Volunteers Dies on the 60th Anniversary Year of the Peace Corps : William Dennis Grubb : 1941-2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Creator: [Person responsible unknown]
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Mr. W. Dennis Grubb peacefully entered into eternal rest on October 25, 2021 at home in Washington, D.C., SW after a courageous, multi-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare form of Parkinson’s. He was 80. The Peace Corps, global development, education, and the church have propelled his lifelong service to help others in nations on five continents. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Grubb joined the-then new Peace Corps at the age of 19 as one of its first and youngest volunteers, and served in Colombia One (1961-1963). He worked in Zipacon, a village 8,700 feet high in the Andes, a place with no running water or sewers, little electricity and few paved roads. Illiteracy, malnutrition, dysentery and tuberculosis were rampant. To address them, Mr. Grubb, Mr. Thomas Whalen, a fellow Volunteer, and the Colombian counterpart (referred to as promotor) assigned to their team by the Office of Community Development in Bogota, formed a liaison between Zipacon and government officials and secured assistance to build the first cooperative food store, a small medical center, three schools, roads, and a water supply pipeline. When the government offered a day of free chest X-rays and vaccinations, he and fellow Volunteers plastered the village with announcements, producing a record turnout upon the doctors arrival. He worked with Colombians of all levels, from rural farmers to national officials, to achieve his overall goal, which was to convince the community that they could control their lives. Mr. Grubb later said that his idealistic view of a peaceful and humane world was formed by his experience in Colombia.
Subject: Obituaries; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Subject -- Personal Name: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0003
Type: obituaries
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
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Title: Letter from M.I. Majid-Seraj to Ron Dizon, February 15, 1973
Date: 1973-02-15; 1973-02-15; 1973-02-15
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Digitized by Archives; Letter from M.I. Majid-Seraj, Chairman of the Coordination Committee for Operation Help, thanking Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon for his work in famine relief in Afghanistan.
Subject: Humanitarian assistance -- Afghanistan; Volunteers -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0100
Type: correspondence
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
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Title: Wells' systematized method of reading columns of figures : with a new system of multiplication and some new methods of computing interest which save time and labor
Date: 1878
Creator: Wells, Harvey
Publisher: Wellston, Ohio : H. Wells
Description: Gift of Artemas Martin.
Subject: Ready-reckoners
Local Identifier: QA3-M37-v1-Wells-systematized
Type: calculations
Collection: Mathematics Rare Books
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100518
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Title: Graphical computing-table
Date: 1879
Creator: Bixby, William Herbert, 1849-1928
Publisher: New York, J. Wiley and Sons, 1879
Subject: Ready-reckoners
Local Identifier: QA111-B62-1879
Collection: Mathematics Rare Books
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Title: Graphical method for finding readily the real roots of numerical equations of any degree if containing but one variable
Date: 1879
Creator: Bixby, William Herbert, 1849-1928
Publisher: West Point, N.Y. : s.n.
Description: Artemas Martin collection of pamphlets v.5
Subject: Algebra -- Graphic methods
Local Identifier: QA3-M37-v5-Graphical-method
Type: algebra
Collection: Mathematics Rare Books
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Title: Operation Help plan
Date: 1972-09-25
Description: Working plan for Operation Help created by the Coordination Committee. The Peace Corps and USAID send volunteers to participate in Operation Help, an Afghanistan government effort to provide relief to victims of severe drought. This program fed 250,000 before the winter of 1972.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0004
Type: plans (reports)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1709
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Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan Rural Public Works and Food for Work program description
Date: 1972 Spring
Description: Peace Corps document outlining the background and volunteer involvement for the Rural Public Works and Food for Work Program in Afghanastan.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0005
Type: documents
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1710
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Title: Letter of recommendation for Ron Dizon written by Abe S. Ashcanase, 14 June 1973
Date: 1973-06-14
Creator: Ashcanase, Abe S.
Description: Letter of recommendation written by Abe S. Ashcanase, Assistant Director for Management for the United States of American Agency for International Development, regarding Ron Dizon's involvement with the Peace Corps and the Operation Help report.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0006
Type: letters of recommendation
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1711
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Title: Operation Help final report
Date: 1973-03-15
Creator: Dizon, Ron; Hicks, James C.
Description: Final report, including photographs taken by PCVs Ron Dizon and James C. Hicks, from Operation Help. The Peace Corps and USAID send volunteers to participate in Operation Help, an Afghanistan government effort to provide relief to victims of severe drought. This program fed 250,000 before the winter of 1972.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0003
Type: reports
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1708
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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: 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: 143rd Commencement Program, American University, Spring 2022
Date: 2022-05
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2022_S
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: 142nd Commencement Program, American University, Winter 2021
Date: 2021-12
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2021_W
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: 141st Commencement Program, American University, Spring 2021
Date: 2021-05
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Subject -- Personal Name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2021_S
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: 140th Commencement Program, American University, Winter 2020
Date: 2020-12
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2020_W
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: 139th Commencement Program, American University, Spring 2020
Date: 2020-05
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2020_S
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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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: Farmer's Weekly Article: "Peace Corp volunteers in training at JSA: US volunteers learn tropical agriculture", August 19, 1967
Date: 1967-08-19
Creator: Miranda, Jean
Publisher: Farmer's weekly (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
Description: Newspaper clipping of a Farmer's Weekly article that describes the training of US Peace Corps volunteers at the Jamaican School of Agriculture.
Subject: Agriculture -- Periodicals; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Country: Jamaica
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fretz_0002
Type: newspapers
Collection: Phil Fretz collection
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Title: Front Page of TIK Newsletter, March 1968
Date: 1968-03
Creator: Fretz, Phil
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Front page of the Technical Institute of Kenema's newsletter. A circular graphic shows a hand holding a wrench. The words "TECHNICAL TIME" are inscribed beneath the wrench, and the artist's signature is written beneath the graphic on the right.
Subject: Newsletters -- Sierra Leone; Drawings; Graphics
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fretz_0003
Type: newsletters
Collection: Phil Fretz collection
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Title: Peace Corps : Sierra Leone : Mende Language Manual
Date: 1989
Creator: Kuyateh, Albaji Sheik; Conteh, Frederick
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: The purpose of this updated manual is to enable Peace Corps Volunteers in Sierra Leone to interact freely with the community in which they find themselves. One communicates and socializes through language; knowing the language and culture of a group of people is becoming part of those people. The Mende manual is specifically designed for those who will work in Mende-speaking areas. In order to acquire some proficiency in the language, the 'Brewster Method' should supplement this information. This manual provides a more functional knowledge in both language and culture, for all Volunteers. It therefore focuses on all Peace Corps Volunteer occupations. It will also help Volunteers to work effectively with the local community.
Subject: Peace Corps -- Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone -- Languages; Second language learning and teaching; Niger-Congo languages
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fretz_0004
Type: manuals (instructional materials)
Collection: Phil Fretz collection
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