Administrative Information
Historical Note
Collection Overview
List of Countries
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Albritton, Jane, 1967-1969
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Jane, a member of India 45, trained at the University of Kentucky during the summer of her junior year in college. At the end of her training, she was accepted into the Peace Corps with service to begin after her graduation. Her project was Applied Nutrition Project. She and a PCV partner were assigned to Karera, in the district of Shivpuri, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. They worked in the villages of Toda Pichore, Dinara, Sirsod, Khaliphari. They distributed UNICEF seeds, garden tools, and sewing machines; promoted gardens; and taught nutrition classes. |
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3 tapes. Interviewed by Joanne M. Roll, May 5, 2008 |
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Gerardy, Janet, 1965-1967
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Janet Gerardy served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Punjab, India working on a poultry project. Interview concentrates on her impressions of the Peace Corps. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Joanne Roll, April 7, 2006. |
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Hibbard, Dave, 1967-1969
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See
Dave Hibbard interview
from Nigeria. |
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Maurer, James, 1966-1968
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Jim Maurer applied to the Peace Corps upon graduating high school. Two years later, while a college student, he served in India working on an agriculture project in pig production. In the interview, Maurer describes the project as well-intentioned but poorly planned, requiring more community development skills than animal husbandry. Maurer was frustrated and disappointed at the lack of progress. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, October 17, 2007. |
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Melton, C. Reid, 1965-1967
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Reid Melton served in India as a Peace Corps Volunteer on a rural public health and nutrition project. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Norma Wilder Benavides, November 8, 2003. |
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Stepien, Ruth Ficek, 1966-1968
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Ruth Stepien joined the Peace Corps in 1966, after working two years as a secretary, and served in India for a Peace Corps Worldwide Secretaries project as a program secretary. She trained at George Washington University with a group of volunteers who were assigned to fourteen different countries. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, June 10, 2007 |
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Van Hala, Marcus, 1965-1968
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Marcus Van Hala served in the India XVI group, primarily with a poultry-raising project sponsored by the Indian government with Agency for International Development (AID) support. India XVI was one of the last projects in India. The project was intended to introduce poultry and eggs into the diets of Indians who had previously not had either. At the end of his first year, he married Ruth Stanonik, a fellow Peace Corps volunteer. They then served an additional two years as a married couple in Udaipur. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, November 17, 2001. |
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Van Hala, Ruth Ann [Stanonik], 1965-1968
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Ruth Ann Stanonik served in the India XVI group, primarily with a poultry-raising project sponsored by the Indian government with Agency for International Development (AID) support. India XVI was one of the last projects in India. The project was intended to introduce poultry and eggs into the diets of Indians who had previously not had either. At the end of her first year, she married Marcus Van Hala, a fellow Peace Corps volunteer. They then served an additional two years as a married couple in Udaipur. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Robert Klein, November 17, 2001. |
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Webb, Linda Meinders, 1966-1968
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Linda Meinders Webb was a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1966-1968. She served in India as part of a Peace Corps nutrition education team in Andrea Pradesh, living and working in a small community. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, November 3, 2008. |
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Annchild, Cindy, 1968-1972
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Cindy Annchild and her husband joined the Peace Corps and were sent to Iran where couples only were allowed. They both taught High School children in segregated boy and girl schools. Her three month training was in Vermont where she was given intensive language training in learning to speak the difficult Persian language. In-country training consisted of cultural courses, especially on how to dress and act appropriately as a woman. The first year, she found it difficult to do everything "correctly" and fit into the society. She found Iranians to be the most hospitable and kind people she has ever met. Cindy and her husband re-enlisted from 1970 to 1972. By this time all Peace Corps volunteers were training in country and she and her husband became the cross cultural directors. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Ernest Zaremba, August 27, 2004. |
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Brown, Judy (Judith Detrich), 1966-1968
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Judy Brown served in Iran from September 1966 to June 1968 as a TOEFL teacher. During her first year, she worked at the University of Tehran, where a student strike began in March 1967. Following her May 1967 marriage to another Peace Corps Volunteer, she was assigned to girls’ schools in Bebehan (where she remained for a very short time) and then in Shushtar. Both of these schools were in southern Iran and contrasted strongly with her experience in the more urban capital city of Tehran. She taught large classes, with up to 80 students, and did not get to know her students as much as she did her adult neighbors. In her interview, Mrs. Brown describes her own marriage and that of a Muslim couple, as well as how Iranian culture and customs challenged her personal beliefs and caused her to re-examine her assumptions. She describes how her Peace Corps experience changed her career path and led her into a career in public service. The interview also talks about how Mrs. Brown feels reconnected with Iran through her current experience tutoring an Iranian woman. |
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1 tape. Interviewed by Susan Luccini, January 17, 2008. |
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Cavanna, Pamella, 1969-1971
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Pamella Cavanna, a nurse, and her husband applied to the Peace Corps for humanitarian reasons. They were selected and assigned to Iran. They trained in Fresno, California for three months while living in a trailer. The single volunteers lived in converted chicken coops. Cavanna felt well trained in the Farsi language and was able to converse in Farsi effectively. She also felt well prepared for the cultural differences. Pamela established a women’s clinic in Rezaiyeh, which had a successful beginning. At the end of her first year, she and her husband separated and the Peace Corps administration did not allow her to return to Rezaiyeh as a single woman. She completed her term as an English teacher in Teheran. The interview contains observations about sisterhood among Muslim women. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Susan Luccini, October 14, 2007. |
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McCulloch, Dorothy Davidson, 1964-1966
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Before joining the Peace Corps, Dorothy McCulloch had three years of teaching experience and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from the University of Georgia. She trained at the University of Michigan in the English Language Institute. Because of her degree she was assigned to the University of Istahan to teach an English instructor in the Faculty of Letters. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, July 25, 2005. |
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Albrink, Ann, 1964-1966
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In her first year as a Peace Corps volunteer, Anne Albrink taught adult education for wives of petit civil servants in the Foyer Feminin project, in a regional center. She was unhappy with the project. In her second year, she and three other volunteers developed a village outreach program, traveling to small villages to educate women in health, French and domestic service. |
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2 tapes. Interviewed by Robert Klein, May 8, 2003. |
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