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Title: The Foreigners
Date: [date of publication unknown]
Creator: McGrew, Skeets; Harris, Mark
Publisher: King Screen Productions
Description: Follows a group of American Peace Corps volunteers in Colombia in their daily work, and in their reflections on their role.; Credits: Producer and writer, Mark Harris. Director, Skeets McGrew.
Subject: Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Economic history; Colombia -- Economic conditions; Colombia -- Social conditions
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: Media_Collection_16093
Type: documentary film
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3192
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Title: Friends of Colombia celebrates 60th anniversary of Peace Corps Colombia
Date: 2021-06-25
Description: June 25, 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the first Peace Corps group to begin their pre-service training, our very own Colombia I. To celebrate this anniversary, FOC will hosted a panel discussion exploring the history of Peace Corps, Peace Corps Colombia's plans for the future, and how the pandemic and national protests have impacted nuestra querida Colombia. Featured speakers include: Tom Mullins - Member of the first Peace Corps Colombia Alana DeJoseph - Film Director, A Towering Task Matthew Carlson - Country Director, Peace Corps Colombia Daniel Avila-Camacho - Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Colombia in the US
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_0001
Type: streaming video
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2984
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Title: La Norteamericana by Alfredo Gutiérrez
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Gutiérrez, Alfredo; Boyles, Cathie Maclin
Description: Read about the inspiration for La Norteamericana
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Vallenato (Music); Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Boyles_0001
Type: songs (performances)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2985
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Title: Howard Ellegant's Peace Corps Volunteer Termination Report, February 1966
Date: 1966-02
Creator: Ellegant, Howard
Description: Howard Ellegant was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1964-1966. Ellegant served as an architect planning schools and community centers. This is Ellegant's Peace Corps Volunteer Termination Report, February 1966. The report was presented to the Peace Corps upon completion of Ellegant's service as a Peace Corps Volunteer Architect, serving in Medellín, Colombia.
Subject: Architects; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Ellegant_0001
Type: reports
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2989
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Title: Anti-Peace Corps poster from Colombia, circa 1963-1965
Date: circa 1963/1965
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Gainor, Michael
Description: Original: Cuerpos de Pas que son: 1. Filial internacional del FBI-CIA 2. Cuerpo militar camuflado para montar y apoyar dictaduras 3. Mercenarios yankis de las oligarquias Que hacen: 1. Traman golpes de estado 2. Defienden intereses yankis 3. Preparan atentados contra dirigentes democratas y nacionalistica Translation: Peace Corps is 1. An international affiliate of the FBI-CIA 2. Camouflaged military corps to place and support dictatorships 3. Yankee mercenaries of the oligarchies What they do: 1. They plot coups 2. They defend Yankee interests 3. They prepare attacks against democratic and nationalist leaders
Subject: International relations
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Gainor_0001
Type: posters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2986
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Title: One of the First Peace Corps Volunteers Dies on the 60th Anniversary Year of the Peace Corps : William Dennis Grubb : 1941-2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Creator: [Person responsible unknown]
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Mr. W. Dennis Grubb peacefully entered into eternal rest on October 25, 2021 at home in Washington, D.C., SW after a courageous, multi-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare form of Parkinson’s. He was 80. The Peace Corps, global development, education, and the church have propelled his lifelong service to help others in nations on five continents. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Grubb joined the-then new Peace Corps at the age of 19 as one of its first and youngest volunteers, and served in Colombia One (1961-1963). He worked in Zipacon, a village 8,700 feet high in the Andes, a place with no running water or sewers, little electricity and few paved roads. Illiteracy, malnutrition, dysentery and tuberculosis were rampant. To address them, Mr. Grubb, Mr. Thomas Whalen, a fellow Volunteer, and the Colombian counterpart (referred to as promotor) assigned to their team by the Office of Community Development in Bogota, formed a liaison between Zipacon and government officials and secured assistance to build the first cooperative food store, a small medical center, three schools, roads, and a water supply pipeline. When the government offered a day of free chest X-rays and vaccinations, he and fellow Volunteers plastered the village with announcements, producing a record turnout upon the doctors arrival. He worked with Colombians of all levels, from rural farmers to national officials, to achieve his overall goal, which was to convince the community that they could control their lives. Mr. Grubb later said that his idealistic view of a peaceful and humane world was formed by his experience in Colombia.
Subject: Obituaries; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Subject -- Personal Name: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0003
Type: obituaries
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Title: Documents and photographs from Paul Robert Willey's Peace Corps service in Colombia, 1962-1964
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Willey, Paul Robert
Description: Paul Robert Willey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1962-1964. Willey worked as an education volunteer, teaching physical education.
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Physical education and training; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Willey_0001
Type: memoirs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2990
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Title: Biographies: Peace Corps Training Program at the University of Washington, Bolivia Mines Community Development, April 2- June 10, 1967
Date: 1967
Description: Booklet (mugbook) contains biographical information of each volunteer and staff member involved the 1967 Bolivia Mines Community Development training group.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia -- Biography
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0001
Type: collective biographies
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3153
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Title: PUES, October-November 1968
Date: 1968
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0002
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3154
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Title: PUES, December 1968-January 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0003
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3155
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Title: PUES, February-March 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0004
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3156
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Title: PUES, April-May 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0005
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3157
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Title: PUES, June-July 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0006
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3158
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Title: PUES, August-September 1969
Date: 1969
Description: Volunteer newspaper for Peace Corps Bolivia.
Subject: Volunteers -- Bolivia
Country: Bolivia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fletcher_0007
Type: newsletters
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3159
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Title: Hawks of the Sun: A Filmscript Autobiographical Story About a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile (1966-68) Facing the Challenges of Culture and Adaptation
Date: 2020
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: This filmscript describes many events in the two-year Peace Corps service of volunteer Kenny Karem in Chile, working in agriculture, education and forestry. It focuses on his relationships with Chilean friends, co-workers, Mapuche Indians and campesino farmers. It details actual events, cultural happenings, fiestas, cross-cultural snafus, the challenges of adapting to a foreign culture and the tremendous impact politics in Chile had on a volunteer’s service. Two of the scenes, “Coca Cola is Everything and Something More” and “Day of the Dead” were previously published in magazines.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile -- Motion picture plays
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0001
Type: screenplays
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3162
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Title: It Seemed Like a Dream: A Peace Corps Volunteer Returns to his Community in Chile
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: The article, “It Seemed Like a Dream” describe Kenny Karem’s return visit to his Chilean community and friends in 1995. He has maintained communication with them ever since his volunteer days up to the present time. This article had been previously published in a magazine.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0002
Type: essays
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3163
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Title: Letter from Michael McCann to the Hett family, 23 December 1966
Date: 1966-12-23
Creator: McCann, Connie Michael
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Connie Michael McCann writes to his sister Karen and brother-in-law Roger Hett about adjusting to his recent placement in Peru. He describes the many fiestas that have been held since his arrival.
Subject: Parties; Volunteer workers in community development -- Peru
Country: Peru
Local Identifier: PCCA_McCann_0001
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2600
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Title: Letter from Michael McCann to the Hett family, 25 February 1967
Date: 1967-02-25
Creator: McCann, Connie Michael
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Connie Michael McCann writes to his sister Karen and brother-in-law Roger Hett, answering their previous letters about their new child. McCann describes his new home and dating in South America.
Subject: Volunteer workers in community development -- Peru
Country: Peru
Local Identifier: PCCA_McCann_0002
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2605
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Title: Letter from Michael McCann to the Hett family, 24 June 1967
Date: 1967-06-24
Creator: McCann, Connie Michael
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Connie Michael McCann writes to his sister Karen and brother-in-law Roger Hett about being behind with writing, visiting his staging town, Chavin, and describes wedding tradition in Peru in anticipation of the event. He also describes his frustration with the slow pace of his work at the local Coop.
Subject: Volunteer workers in community development -- Peru; Wedding traditions
Country: Peru
Local Identifier: PCCA_McCann_0003
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2610
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Title: Letter from Michael McCann to the Hett family, 12 September 1967
Date: 1967-09-12
Creator: McCann, Connie Michael
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Connie Michael McCann writes to his sister Karen and brother-in-law Roger Hett about contacting a girl from home. McCann also references the common knowledge that all Peace Corps Volunteers have diarrhea.
Subject: Interpersonal relationships; Viral diarrhea; Volunteer workers in community development -- Peru
Country: Peru
Local Identifier: PCCA_McCann_0004
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2616
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