Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2007-073-004
Ruth Ficek Stepien served as a Peace Corps volunteer in India from 1966 to 1968 as a staff secretary in the Worldwide Secretaries program. She had graduated from business school and worked for two years prior to joining. She trained at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a group of volunteers who were assigned to many different countries. In India, Stepien was assigned to the Peace Corps regional office in Hyderabad as secretary to the assistant directors. The office was very busy and she worked long hours to support the hundreds of volunteers in the area. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, June 10, 2007. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).