Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile
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- Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Egan worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. Egan worked with the community to build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.
- Peace Corps Volunteer Dave Fisk 1965-1967 worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. Fisk worked with the community to create a housing cooperative and build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.
- Peace Corps Volunteer Dave St. John 1965-1967 worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. St. John worked with the community to build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.
- Peace Corps Volunteer Phil Burgi worked with a community development project to help relocate and rebuild Trovolhue, which began experiencing annual flooding after the 1960 earthquake. As an engineer, Phil surveyed for the road, the plaza, the new school, and designed a new bridge and developed a site plan, 1965/1968.
- Peace Corps Volunteer Frank Nuchi 1965/1967 worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. Nuchi worked with the community to build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.
- Peace Corps Volunteer Gage Skinner served in Chile between 1964-1966 under the supervision of the Dirección de Asuntos Indígenas (DAI). Skinner helped start the successful Mapuche beekeeping venture and proposed marketing the sticks and balls from the traditional Mapuche game of chueca, which sold out in Temuco. Next came drums, flutes, wooden masks, and cradle boards. Profits from the sales went one-quarter to the crafts person and the rest to the Reducción Quetrahue's women's organization for the purchase of wool and dye for weaving projects. After the Peace Corps, Skinner became a cultural anthropologist, with a specialty in Native American studies. Skinner eventually donated his extensive collection of Mapuche arts and crafts to San Diego's Museum of Man.