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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: In Celebration of and in Thanksgiving for the Life of W. Dennis Grubb : April 6, 1941–October 25, 2021
Date: 2021-11-16
Publisher: Washington National Cathedral (Washington, DC)
Description: Funeral program for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021. Mr. Grubb was one of the first and youngest participants in the US Peace Corps, beginning his service in Colombia in 1961.
Subject: Funerals
Country: United States
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0002
Type: funeral ceremonies
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
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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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