Administrative Information
Historical Note
Collection Overview
List of Countries
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Meyer, G. Wright, 1999 - 2002
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Wright Meyer reflectes on his Peace Corps service as a small business/savings and loan advisor in Haiti. He describes his background, his training, and his attempts to organize several S and L co-ops in rural Haiti. |
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3 tapes. Interviewed by Kenneth M. Autrey, September 24, 2006. |
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Ruskin, Jennifer, 1996 - 1998
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Jennifer Ruskin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti on a community development project working with financial co-operatives in a network of rural villages. She also had a secondary project promoting health education through the Scouts. In the interview she speaks about her application process, training, project, and living with her host family. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Cathy Oliversan, June 2, 2007 |
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Southern, Robin, 1998 - 1999
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Micro-credit banking, Small business development. Difficult project (local conditions, etc.), long period of application (12 months +), then 3 months training in Haiti. Part of a small group, and did not finish tour of duty. Open and honest about problems of adjustment and difficulties of being Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti in 1998. |
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2 Tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, January 26, 2003. |
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Vogl, Susan Smith, 1998 - 2000
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With a degree in Math Education and extensive work experience in youth crisis counseling and running a home-based business, Susan Vogl joined the Peace Corps "because it was just time." Trained in Haiti, with intensive language training in Creole, technical studies in agriculture and small business, Vogl was assigned to an Agricultural station run by the non-profit organization (NGO), Organization for Rehabilitating the Environment. She worked in tissue culture for plant propagation and bamboo propagation, a project started by a previous Peace Corps volunteer through the Peace Corps Farmer-To-Farmer program. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, June 1, 2003. |
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Vogl, Tim, 1998 - 2000
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Tim Vogl joined the Peace Corps in his late thirties after a successful career as a chef in New York City and years of world travel. After a first year trying to define a role as an Agriculture Extension Agent, he settled on a bakery project. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, June 28, 2003. |
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Concepcion, Herminio, 1992- 1994
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Herminio Concepcion, a native of Puerto Rico, joined the Peace Corps after college to test his skills and interests working outdoors, and his service was in hillside farming. He received in country training in Santa Lucia then worked and lived in Tela, a small town on the coast of Honduras. Project involved traveling to various farms and training local farmers in hillside farming techniques to better utilize the scarce arable land. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Paula Estornell, April 21, 2003. |
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Doherty, Kimiko, 2003-2005
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Kimiko Doherty, a trained architect, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras 2003-2005 in a municipal development project. Kimiko was assigned to a remote municipality in a vaguely defined developmental role. Over time she became involved with local women’s groups, doing self-esteem and leadership training. Kimiko extended her service to conduct construction skills workshops to groups working on disaster mitigation and relief. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, August 22, 2009. |
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Hansis, Thomas D., 1969 - 1971
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Tom Hansis joined the Peace Corps in 1969, after completing a degree in Latin American Studies, to work in a rural community development project in Honduras. After one year he arranged to be reassigned to the capitol to work in the cooperative development agency. He worked briefly as a Peace Corps trainer in Puerto Rico after his service. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, July 30, 2005. |
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Hoekstra, Barbara Hageny, 1975 - 1978
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Barbara Hoekstra served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras where she worked as a nurse in a remote clinic. In the interview she talks about the challenges of living and working in Spanish, dealing with the poorly equipped clinic and traveling to Catholic sponsored clinics for local Indians. She also tells about extending her service for six months and her life after the Peace Corps including earning a Masters in Public Health. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Frieda Fairburn, May 4, 2007 |
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Kaare-Lopez, Barbara, 1978 - 1980
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Barbara Kaare-Lopez served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras as a nurse with the Ministry of Health. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Joanne Roll, May 21, 2006. |
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Leierer, Stephen J., 1978 - 1980
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, May 29, 2006. |
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McCurry, Jenifer, 1967 - 1969
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Jenifer joined the Peace Corps along with her husband in 1967. She was assigned to Honduras where she worked on community development and public health. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Barbara Hodgdon, July 8, 2004. |
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Mang-Haag, Katherine
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Katherine Mang-Haag served as a volunteer secretary in the Peace Corps office where she dealt with volunteers, local people and embassy personnel. She also worked in a mental hospital with many patients and few supplies. She discusses her post Peace Corps experience including working for the Red Cross and being active in a micro-enterprise lending project in Haiti and Tanzania. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Frieda Fairburn, May 4, 2007. |
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Pendleton, Donald, 1979 - 1981
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Donald Pendleton served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras as an Economic Entomologist. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, May 28, 2006. |
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Perry, Christine, 1975- 1977
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Christine Perry served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras from 1975-1977 with the Department of Education. She lived in OakRidge, Roatoa, Islas de la Bahia and worked with a pre-school Teacher Training project in the kindergartens throughout the country. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, November 9, 2008 |
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Lowe, Karen W., 1992 - 1995
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Karen Lowe was a Junior High School English teacher with a degree from Boston University. She left education to work in the business sector. In 1992, at age 30, she decided to join the Peace Corps, which at the time was developing programs in Eastern Europe. She was assigned to Hungary to work in an English as a Foreign Language project. Lowe taught at an elementary school in a mid-sized town. She worked with students and former teachers of the Russian language trying to upgrade their English skills. She extended for a third year and played an active role in the newly developed National Drama Festival. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, September 21, 2005. |
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