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Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-025-007
Kay Clifford served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda from 1969 to 1971 as a teacher. She applied to the Peace Corps after reading about and seeing pictures of John F. Kennedy in her hometown of Ann Arbor. Her group was the first to train in Uganda. Clifford's assignment as a teacher in an all girls' gated boarding school was difficult. Idi Amin came into power during her second year. After a Peace Corps volunteer was murdered, everyone left Uganda. In the interview she speaks about her experience in the school and as a teacher and gives an account of the process of leaving the country. Note: Interview ends abruptly. Interviewed and recorded by Ernest Zaremba, August 26, 2004. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-007
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. David Closson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda from 1966 to 1968. Interviewed by phone, February 1, 1994. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-012
Cathy Olson served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda from June 1970 to October 1972 in a education program, then transferred to Ethiopia where she worked as a pharmacist from October 1972 to August 1973. She and her husband Alan served together. In Uganda, she taught in a girl's secondary school and helped the Dutch Catholic Mission Hospital in Kalisizo organize their pharmacy. The couple ended up being evacuated from Uganda due to the threat of violence under the regime of Idi Amin. Olson discusses the violence in Uganda and the evacuation process, as well as their travels to Zanzibar. She completed her service in Ethiopia as a professional pharmacist and taught in a medical assistant school. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, August 24, 2018. 3 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2018-034
Jennifer Mamola was a Peace Corps Volunteer in an education program in Gulu, Uganda, from November 2012 until April 2013 when she was hit by a car and seriously injured. She discusses the circumstances of her accident, the role that Peace Corps played in her evacuation first to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and then to Pretoria, South Africa, where she spent about a month in the hospital before returning home. Although Mamola praises the Peace Corps for her rapid evacuation and treatment while overseas and the help she received from the Peace Corps Advocate, she faults the agency and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for insensitivity to her needs and the poor medical coverage she has had since her return. (DOL is the agency that administers the Federal Employees Contribution Act (FECA) disability program, which covers Peace Corps volunteers.) Mamola discusses legislation pending in 2018 to address some of the medical issues faced by Peace Corps volunteers. In addition, she talks about Peace Corps training as well as her brief work in rebuilding a library in Uganda, which had been used as a safe space for children during the guerrilla attacks associated with Joseph Kony. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, 6 July 2018. 3 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-016
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Marie Gadsden served on Peace Corps staff in Kenya and Uganda from 1965 to 1967; as training coordinator in Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 1970; and as country director in Togo from 1970 to 1972. Interviewed in person, January 13, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-019
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Yvette Hunt served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda in the 1960s. Interviewed by phone, March 2, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).