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Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-009
Dan Diliberti served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile from 1969 to 1971 as a home construction instructor. He trained in-country around Santiago. In the interview, he explains the training program and introduction to a new culture. Diliberti worked along with his wife in a home construction project that involved members of the local community. He talks about his friendships and relationships with the Chileans and the sense of working together to accomplish set goals. He also described the influence that the Peace Corps had on his later life and career. Interviewed and recorded by Paul Kinsley, February 1, 2011. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-007-002
Ann Diliberti served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile from July 1969 to July 1971 as a community service worker. She attended training in and around Santiago, Chile, as part of a construction instructor team along with her husband Dan. Diliberti discusses the culture shock and differences in life experiences she witnessed. She was very involved in her community, making friends and starting various projects, and lived in the same manner as the people she worked with. Interviewed and recorded by Paul Kinsley, December 7, 2010. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2010-035-004
Charlotte (Kelso) Thompson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile from 1969 to 1971 on a housing project. She and her husband were recruited to participate in a self-help housing project for married volunteer couples. The husbands worked as architects and the wives worked as social workers in Chilean communities where government-supported self-help housing projects existed. Thompson's role as a social worker was ill-defined but she found other useful ways to be involved in her community. The project was terminated early before the end of the second year after the election of President Salvador Allende. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, August 14, 2010. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2004-002-018
Kenny Karem served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile from 1966 to 1968. He trained at the University of Washington at Seattle. It was a very stressful training because over seventy-five trainees were reduced to only forty Peace Corps volunteers. The group was under constant scrutiny by psychologists. Karem spent one month in Puerto Rico before being assigned to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the south of Chile, working with Mapuche Indians. He had no defined job. After nine months, Karem transferred to the Hoof and Mouth Disease Treatment Program, under the Ministry of Health. He also discusses the effects of Vietnam and the draft. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, September 6, 2003. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2003-007-002
Carol Crew served in Chile with a cooperative development program. She received intensive language training at Notre Dame, and in Puerto Rico on an extended home-stay in a small village. Her assignment was initially uncertain, however Crew ended up in Santiago doing television production of educational programs about cooperatives. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, September 24, 2002. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-016-014
Joan Powell served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile from 1965 to 1967. She worked in the village of Tocopilla as a public health nurse. Interviewed by Mervin Adams, April 28, 1998, as part of a Northeastern University public history class. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file). An user's guide is available in Box 70, and one photograph has been transferred to the AV Department.
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-101
Susan Selbin served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile from 1967 to 1968 on a community development project. She later served in Liberia (1982-1983) and Swaziland (2009-2010) as well. In Chile, Selbin was assigned to Nogales where she worked with a Mother's Club to arrange educational workshops for women. To help support the club, she organized film festivals and the construction of a building. After rejoining the Peace Corps in the 1980s, Selbin worked at a university in Monrovia, Liberia. For her third tour, she focused on teacher training work in Makayane, Swaziland. Selbin says that her Peace Corps service gave her a can-do attitude, which she has carried with her throughout her life. In between her time in the Peace Corps, she taught special needs and inner city children and then served in the Foreign Service for 20 years. Now retired, she continues to enjoy volunteering and putting on film festivals focusing on environmental and other social issues. Interviewed and recorded by Christeen Pusch, June 21, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Collection
USPCPC
Photographs, 1961-1968 and undated. Black-and-white images of United States Peace Corps administrators and staff, both at headquarters and in the field, as well as images of volunteers working at their duty stations abroad. Photographers include Rowland Scherman, Paul Conklin and Abbie Rowe.