Category Archives: Memoirs

Anne Williams in India

Name: Anne Williams
Country of Service: India
Place of Service: Bombay and Calcutta
Dates in Service: 1965-1967
Keywords: Community Development, Health

Accession Date: January 24, 2020
Access: No restrictions
Collection Size: 1.5 linear feet

Document Types
• Correspondence
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• Reports
• Publications
• Sound
• Biographical sketches

Additions to Collection:
Accession Date: September 7, 2021
Access: No restrictions
Collection Size: 0.01 linear feet

Document Types
• Correspondence
• Documents

Finding Aid

** in front of an item shows it was created by Anne D. Williams 

  1. account books 
    1. ** ADW personal 
    2. ** food & household, ADW and Betsy Franzen 
  2. Peace Corps Application Materials/Documents including 
    1. ADW Peace Corps Application 
    2. Letters of acceptance to join training  
    3. Physical fitness assessment 
  3. India 39 book of trainee photos, bios 
  4. India 23 training materials/documents including 
    1. Documents pertaining to training dates, preparation, and expectations (18 items) 
    2.  book of trainee photos, bios and sketches  
    3. training info, 11 pages 
    4. Columbia U campus map 
    5. immunization worksheet for ADW 
    6. W.H.O. vaccination card for ADW 
    7.  daily schedule for trainees supervised by Marvin Sicherman 
    8. ADW report on training placement 
    9. skit by volunteers 
    10. ADW certificate of training at Columbia U. 
    11. Peace Corps Handbook 
  5. ADW weekly letters to family 
    1. ** Jan 1966-Oct 1967 from India 
    2. ** Oct 1967-Nov 1967 from stops on my travel home 
  6. ADW work in Bombay: 
    1. Police Maternity Hospital & Welfare Center,  3 reports 
    2.  ADW planned daily schedule at Police Welfare Center 
    3.  PC memo to Police Welfare Center with PCV info, re requested furnishings for PCV housing 
    4.  Feb 1966 press clipping re ADW PC service 
    5. ** May 1966, ADW report to Peace Corps 
    6. ** July 1967 ADW proposal for record keeping 
    7. ** Sep 1967 ADW survey report to Police Welfare Center 
  7. 1-year seminar materials (Goa, Jan 1967) 
    1. announcements of seminar (2) 
    2.  India 23 PCV’s description of placements 
    3. 10 articles prepared by India 23 PCVs: Harriet Bissell, Don Cline, Doris Cort, Georgia Drakes,
    4. Dick Falstein, Barry & Gretchen Johnson, John Maddaus, Eric Souers, various others 
    5. Final Seminar Report, including transcripts of most discussions
  8. Items from PC India offices, USIS 
    1.  PC India Mar 1967 Handbook Supplement 
    2. PC India Apr 1967 Medical Handbook  
    3. Apr 1967 report on India Volunteer forum & evaluation 
    4.  17 personal communications 1966-67 
    5.   American-Hindi cookbook 
  9. Other reports on India 23 activities 
    1. Ghatkoper community development project, by Bob Ungerleider 
    2.  Potters Colony project, by Frank Matricardi 
  10. June 1967 trip to Nepal 
    1. ** ADW essay 
    2. US embassy’s map of Calcutta to Nepal route 
  11. Termination of Service Documents 
    1. 16 items pertaining to completion of service and return to the U.S. 
  12. Indian press clippings on India 23 basketball team 
  13. miscellaneous 
    1. ADW passport used 1966-1967 
    2.   ADW ID card, Youth Hostels Assn. of India  
    3.  ADW permit to consum liquor in Ootacamund  
    4. 5 receipts or stationery from places ADW visited 
    5. 9 banknotes from countries ADW visited 1967 
    6. unused ballot from Bombay election in 1966-67 
    7.  ADW income tax exemption certificate, 1967 
    8. health exam report for cook, Mary Rodrigues 
    9. ** ADW recommendation letter for cook, Mary Rodrigues 
    10. Gateway, Aug 1967 issue (India PCV magazine) 
  14. directories 
    1.  1981 RPCVs in Maine 
    2. 1988 Friends of India (Returned PCVs) 
    3.    1989 Friends of India (Returned PCVs) 
  15. Reunions, and information on other India 23 volunteers 
    1.  reunion notes: 1980, 1987, 1993, 1999, 2003,  
    2.    1993 Note and drawing by Marby Connet Selwitz 
    3.  2007 DVD compiled by Dick and Willo Falstein of India 23 service and reunions 
    4.  obituaries 
  16. India 17-18-19 photos 
  17. ADW essays 
    1. ** 2020 overview of PC experience 
    2. ** 1966 draft article for ADW high school newspaper (SSSAS in Alexandria, VA) 
  18. **Slide Index 
  19. audio recording **audio tape of sounds from India that I sent home in 1967 
  20. photos most taken by ADW 
    1. ** photo album 
    2. ** slides (about 1,300) taken in India and Nepal Jan 1966-Oct 1967 
    3. ** slides (about 400) from 1967 trip home (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Greece, Rumania, USSR, Japan) 
    4.  slides (about 200) taken by other India 23 PCVs 

Phil Fretz in Sierra Leone

Name: Philip Fretz
Country of Service: Sierra Leone
Place of Service: Kenema
Service Type: English teacher
Dates in Service: 1967-1969
Keywords: Education

Accession Date: January 8, 2020
Access: No Restrictions
Collection Size: 85 digital files

Document Types

  • Documents
  • Photographs
  • Film/Video

Digital Collection

Related Items in Other Repositories

Finding Aid

  1. Memoir, Softball, Snakes, Sausage Flies and Rice: Peace Corps Life in 1960s Sierra Leone, 2013. Transferred to general collection.
  2. Digital files including Peace Corps Sierra Leone Mende Language Manual , “Hike to the Falls” Video, digital images  

Ronald Rude in Nepal

Name: Ronald Rude
Country of Service: Nepal
Place of Service: Jaleshwar, Gorahana Panchayat (District)
Service Project Title: Junior Technological Assistants
Dates in Service: 1968-1971
Keywords: Agriculture, Community Development

Accession Date: December 5, 2019
Access: No restrictions
Collection Size: 94 digital files

Document Types

  • Correspondence
  • Photographs
  • Memoir

Digital Surrogates

Finding Aid

  1. Ron Rude, “Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer.” https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/peacecorps%3A2595 
  2. Photo collection of People 
  3. Photo collection of Hindu ceremonies 
  4. Photo collection of agriculture 

Sara Miller in Panama

Name: Sara Miller
Country of Service: Panama
Place of Service: Los Santos
Service Project Title: Community Environmental Conservation
Dates in Service: 2016-2019
Keywords: Agriculture, Community Development, Environment

Accession Date: October 6, 2019
Access: No restrictions
Collection Size: 1 digital file

Document Types/Finding Aid

Gene Carl Feldman in Western Samoa

Name: Gene Carl Feldman
Country of Service: Western Samoa
Place of Service: Upolu, Savai’i, and Manono
Service Type: Village Fisheries Development Project and Sea Turtle Conservation Project
Dates in Service: 1974-1977
Keywords: Agriculture, Architecture, Environment, Community Development

Accession Date: September 30, 2019
Access: No restrictions
Collection Size: 1 digital collection

Document Types

  • Photographs
  • Reports
  • Publications
  • Memoirs

Digital Surrogates

Finding Aid

  1. Documents 
    1. Fisheries Division Annual Report, 1972, 1975, 1979 
    2. Baitfish Trials, Samoa Times, March 11, 1977 
    3. Description of Peace Corps Service 
    4. Development of Fishing in Western Samoa, 1976 
    5. Expansion of Baitfish Cultural Project, 1977 
    6. FAO UNDP Samoa Baitfish Culture Project 
    7. Peace Corps Reports, 1974-1977 
    8. Report on the Design and Construction of a pilot scale bait fish culture facility 
    9. South Pacific Commission FAO Village Fisheries Development Project, Western Samoa, 1978 
    10. South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter, Oct 1977 
    11. South Pacific Commission Report Fisheries Project, Western Samoa, 1975 
    12. Western Samoa fish market guide by James Hollyer PCV 
    13. Western Samoa Group 14 Information and Qualification 
    14. Western Samoa Group 14 Volunteers and Staff 
  1. Drawings 
    1. Falemauga Cave Map 
    2. Preliminary Design for Outboard Engine Workshop Salelologa Savaii, November1974  
  2. Manono Photographs 
  3. Stories  
    1. “The Cave at Falemauga,” Gene Carl Feldman 
    2. “The Shark, the Samoan, and the Boy from New York,” Gene Carl Feldman 

Gary Ender in Nepal

Name: Gary Ender
Country of Service: Nepal
Place of Service: Keraun
Service Type: Agriculture
Dates in Service: 1969- 1972
Keywords: Agriculture

Accession Date: May 3, 2019
Access: No Restrictions
Collection Size: 1 digital file

Document Types

  • Publications
  • Memoir

Digital Surrogates (and Finding Aid)

Rebecca Cors in China

Name: Rebecca Cors
Country of Service: China
Place of Service: Zigong, Sicuan Province
Service Project Title: Environmental Educator Volunteer
Dates in Service: 2004-2006
Keywords:  Agriculture, Education, Environment

Accession Date: March 29, 2019
Access: No Restrictions
Collection Size: 1 digital item

Document Types

  • Photographs
  • Memoirs

Digital Surrogates/Finding Aid

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John P. Hughes in Nepal

John P. Hughes

Country of Service: Nepal
Dates in Service: 1970-2010

Accession Date: 29 October 2018; 22 September 2022
Access: Unrestricted
Collection Size: 3 items

Document Types

  • Publications
  • Film/Video

Digital Surrogates

Related Items in Other Repositories

Finding Aid

  1. Peace Corps/Nepal 22: A Retrospective on the Post-Peace Corps Careers of Trainees, Trainers, PC Staff and RPCVs (1/2) 
  2. Peace Corps/Nepal 22: A Retrospective on the Post-Peace Corps Careers of Trainees, Trainers, PC Staff and RPCVs (2/2) 
  3. Nepal 22 Chronicles: A Virtual Reunion

Raymond Fisher in Malaysia

Country of Service: Malaysia
Service Type: Community Development
Dates in Service: 1964-1966
Keywords: Community Development

Accession Date: October 8, 2018
Access: No Restrictions
Collection Size: .5 linear feet

Document Types

  • Correspondence
  • Reports
  • Publications
  • Memoir

Finding Aid

  1. Correspondence (to Raymond), 1963-1967, 1973, 2001, undated 
  2. Correspondence, 1964 
  3. Correspondence, 1965 
  4. Correspondence, 1966 
  5. Malaysian as Second Language, n.d. 
  6. News Clippings, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1973 
  7. Orientation Materials, 1964 
  8. Project Planning, 1964-1966 
  9. Recent Trends in the Socio-economic Life of Villages on the Malaysian Peninsula 
  10. Reflections, 1965 
  11. Report on Prior Field Experience, 1967 
  12. Request Letter, 1976 
  13. Review: Projects at Gedangsa, 1964-1966 
  14. Travel, 1965 

Paul Jurmo in the Gambia

Country of Service: the Gambia
Service Type: Education (Adult Literacy)
Dates in Service: 1976-1979
Keywords: Education, Community Development, Literacy

Accession Date: October 5, 2018
Access: No Restrictions
Collection Size: 2.75 linear feet and a USB containing Photos, Slides, and Audio; .01 linear feet of audio cassette tapes

Document Types

  • Audio Cassette Tapes (September 9, 2020)
  • Reports
  • Publications
  • Memoir

Related Items in Other Repositories

  • Amulets [Museum of the Peace Corps Experience]
  • A Simple Tool [Museum of the Peace Corps Experience]
  • Fans [Museum of the Peace Corps Experience]
  • Sling [Museum of the Peace Corps Experience]

Finding Aid

  1. Box 1
    1. 3 Audio Cassette Tapes (each tape is double-sided)
      1. Tape 1, Side A: “Religious Practices in a Gambian Village”
      2. Tape 1, Side B: “Lecture at UMass CIE by ?, Early 1980s”
      3. Tape 2, Side A: “Pakalinding, 1977”
      4. Tape 2, Side B: Blank
      5. Tape 3, Side A: “Guitar Music: Pakalinding Interview (11 March 1978)”
        1. Additional inscriptions: “Guitar; Class Vvsit; 2 drummings”
      6. Tape 3, Side B: “Japine: 10 March 1978”
        1. Additional inscriptions: “Japine classes; songs by girls”
    2. Background Info re: the Gambia, 1976-1982
    3. Curriculum Materials & Assessment Tools, 1976-1979 (1/2)
    4. Curriculum Materials & Assessment Tools, 1976-1979 (2/2)
    5. Documents Prepared by Paul Jurmo, 1967-1979 (1/3)
    6. Documents Prepared by Paul Jurmo, 1967-1979 (2/3)
    7. Documents Prepared by Paul Jurmo, 197601979 (3/3)
    8. Financial Reports of Nat’l Literacy Advisory Committee, 1979
  2. Box 2
    1. Ideas for Reading Materials for Adult Literacy, 1977-1981 & undated (1/3)
    2. Ideas for Reading Materials for Adult Literacy, 1977-1981 & undated (2/3)
    3. Ideas for Reading Materials for Adult Literacy, 1977-1981 & undated (3/3)
    4. Info About Attempted Coup D’état, 1980-1982 (1/2)
    5. Info About Attempted Coup D’état, 1980-1982 (2/2)
    6. Minutes of National Literacy Advisory Committee Meetings, 1976-1979 (1/3)
    7. Minutes of National Literacy Advisory Committee Meetings, 1976-1979 (2/3)
  3. Box 3
    1. Minutes of National Literacy Advisory Committee Meetings, 1976-1979 (3/3)
    2. Newsletters of Gambian Agencies, 1976-1979
    3. Notebooks, 21 September 1976-14 January 1977
    4. Notebooks, 18 January 1977-20 June 1977
    5. Notebooks, 20 June 1977-12 January 1978
    6. Notebooks, 20 January 1978-1 April 1978
    7. Notebooks, 7 April 1978-20 July 1978
  4. Box 4
    1. Notebooks, 22 July 1978-9 December 1978
    2. Notebooks, 10 December 1978-2 February 1979
    3. Notebooks, 2 February 1979-11 May 1979
    4. Notebooks, 12 May 1979-13 August 1979
    5. Notebooks, 13 August 1979-December 1979
    6. PC the Gambia “Bantaba” Newsletter with Article about Paul Jurmo’s Adult Literacy Project 1977-1978
    7. PC Project Description and Pre-Training Candidate Booklet 1975-1978 & Undated
  5. Box 5
    1. Personal Reflections, 1976-1979 & Undated
    2. Project Planning Doc’s and Reports, 1976-1982 & Undated (1/4)
    3. Project Planning Doc’s and Reports, 1976-1982 & Undated (2/4)
    4. Project Planning Doc’s and Reports, 1976-1982 & Undated (3/4)
    5. Project Planning Doc’s and Reports, 1976-1982 & Undated (4/4)
    6. Public Awareness Flyer Re: Adult Literacy by PCV Karl Warma, Undated
    7. Reports about Adult Literacy Efforts in Various African Nations 1977-1979
    8. Supervisor’s Log (To Document Site Visits), 1978
    9. Training Materials Used to Train Community Development Staff 1977-1979
    10. Workshop on Formal Ed as Component of Integ’d Rural Development, April 1979
  6. Box 6
    1. Donation Information and Co-Op Logo, Undated
    2. MEP Program Evaluation (Documents from 2 Formative Evaluations and 1 3rd-Year Evaluation (1982-1984); Program Evaluation
      1. MEP Formative Evaluation, June-July 1982
      2. MEP Formative Evaluation, November-December 1982
      3. MEP Program Evaluation, Numeracy Program Quarterly Report, March 31, 1983
      4. MEP Program Evaluation, Planning of the Evaluation, June-September 1983
      5. MEP Program Evaluation, Information Collected for Evaluation, 1983
      6. Evaluation Report Draft by Jurmo (1983) and Final Report, Revised by MEP Staff, 1984
    3. MEP Staff Training
      1. Early MEP Staff Training, October 1981
      2. MEP Staff Training, Workshop For Co-op Inspectors/ Education, Yundum, July, 1982
      3. MEP Workshop For Co-op Inspectors/Education, Training Schedule and Lesson Plans, November 1982
      4. MEP Workshop For Co-op Inspectors/Education: Workshop Report, Feedback from Participants, November 1982
      5. “Workshops for “Village Facilitators” of MEP Numeracy Classes, Administrative Tasks; held: Jenoi, December 1982; Chamen, January 1983
      6. Workshops for “Village Facilitators” of Numeracy Classes; Feedback and Workshop Report; held December 1982, Jenoi, and Chamen, January 1983
      7. Workshops for “Village Facilitators” of Numeracy Classes, Training Schedule, Lessons Plans, Notes, Participants and Staff; December 1982, Jenoi, and Chamen, January 1983
      8. Workshops for “Village Facilitators,” Assessment Tools Interviews, Written Tests;  December 1982, Jenoi, and Chamen, January 1983
      9. Evaluation of “Intermediate” Course For CIES; Final Report, Feedback From CIES and Facilitators; Yundum, July-August 1983
      10. Initial Planning for “Intermediate” Training Workshops For Coop Inspectors/Education (CIES’s), Held in July-August 1983 at Yundum
      11. Schedule and Lesson Plans for “Intermediate” Course for CIEs; includes written work by CIEs; Yundum, July-August 1983
      12. Assessments of Participants in the “Intermediate” Course for Co-op Inspectors; includes quiz, essays, and interviews; held in Yundum, July-August 1983
      13. Workshop For MEP Supervisors, Held at New MEP Office at Co-op Department Headquarters at Banjul, March 1983
      14.  Workshop for Co-op Inspectors/ED, Proposed Agenda Interview, September1983
      15. Workshop for Representation of Co-ops in 5 West African Countries, and of US-A and International Organizations Related to Co-Operatives: Lesson Plans, Schedule, “Study Notes” (Handouts); held at Atlantic Hotel in Banjul, October 1983
    4. MEP Learning Resources 1982/1983: Curriculum Materials For Numeracy/Literacy Instruction
        1. MEP Learning Resources: Core Numeracy Curriculum: Learners Notebook, 2 editions (1983 and unknown), Co-Op Numeracy Facilitator’s Guide (1983, Second Edition)
        2. Homework Assignment Books: Bood 1, Addition, Book 2: Subtraction; Book 3: Money and Procedure Receipts, Undated
        3. Guidebook of Training Support Activities, 1983
        4. “Fun Activities:” Assorted Activities For Numeracy Facilitators, 1982
        5. Picture Stories” adopted as visual aids (Discussion Starters) in Numeracy Classes: Prototype Sketches by Jurmo; more-finished versions by Various Gambian Artists
        6. Numeracy Games: Farming Game, Extension Worker Game, Urban Worker Game, undated
  7. Box 7
    1. MEP Learning Resources 1982/1983: Curriculum Materials For Numeracy/Literacy Instruction (con’t)
      1. “Simplified Bookkeeping” Guide for Numeracy/Literacy Training Groups, 1983
      2. “Specific Literacy” Activities: UMass/CIE Book (198); Handouts for MEP Staff (1982); Follow-up Project with IBAs and NEF Services of Ministry of Education (1982)
      3. Income-Generating Projects: Handouts for MEP Staff Training (1983); Meeting with Peace Corps Volunteers (1983)
      4. Curriculum Overviews/ History, c. 1982
    2. MEP Miscellaneous
      1. Proposal for Calculator Project with UMass/CIE, 1983
      2. Miscellaneous Background Readings Re: NonFormal ED From: UNESCO, Co-Op ED-Materials Advisory Service, MAP International, UMASS/CIE Health Education Games, c. early 1980s
      3. Tree-Planting Curricula Prepared For Peace Corps Volunteers (by Jurmos): “Word Problems” Adapted from MEP Curriculum For Use in Forestry Dept. Training, 1983
      4. Staffing Plans for Supervisors, Driver Performance Issues, Numeracy Education Coordinator Job Description, c. 1983
      5. Proposal For Study at UMass/CIE by MEP Staffer Dodou Jome, 1982
      6. Consultant Housing, 1983
      7. Consultant Paul Jurmo Expenses Book, 1983
  8. USB containing digitized audio, photographs, and slides

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