Category: history
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Launch Day
The writer is greedy, demanding, insistent. Each word must lead the reader to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a page.
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Three Koreas
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The harsh environment, the boys pushed hard by striving parents, the high expectations Koreans had for themselves and Peace Corps volunteers all made for an often grinding experience
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Profile: Kathleen Stephens
“Let us hope that other nations will mobilize the spirit and energies and skill of their people in some form of Peace Corps.” President Kennedy, 1961
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From Oral History to Historical Narrative
I’m pulling back the curtain on process, sharing an excerpt of David Greenlee’s ADST oral history alongside the final narrative form from Profiles in Service.
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Profile: David Greenlee
The Peace Corps volunteers would work with the campesinos. The USAID people would help the central government deliver. This would stimulate development and social integration. It was a sweet theory.
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Celebrating Peace Corps
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Sixty-five years ago today, March 1, 1961, President Kennedy signed the Executive Order that created a Peace Corps within the Department of State.
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Profile: Donald Bliss
Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy is now available and I’m reviving the practice of sharing memorable stories from the collection.
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Getting Real Close
As the publication date draws near for Profiles in Service, the author puts in hours designing a cover jacket and reading the proof.
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Hostage Crisis III and the Ghosts of Camelot
Metrinko was cleaned up and brought to meet Tehran’s Friday prayer leader Ali Khamenei. In the room were a camera crew and the SFIL spokesperson, Niloufar Ebtekar
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Peace Corps Turkey and Iran
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Before enduring 444 days of captivity at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Michael Metrinko served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey (1968-70) and Iran (1970-73).
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