Category: Profiles in Service
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Negotiating the Peace Corps into China
No communist country had hosted a Peace Corps program until Peter Tomsen negotiated a role for Volunteers in China, an objective that would take over a decade to fulfill
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Profile: Peter Tomsen
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Peter Tomsen cut a path from the Peace Corps to an ambassadorship through jungle warfare in Vietnam, negotiating Peace Corps into China, and serving as Special Envoy to Afghanistan after Soviet withdrawal.
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A Spy of the Egyptian Spies
Not your typical Peace Corps-to-Foreign Service path, this rendering of an ambassador’s tale twists amid my own fascination with the era’s social influences.
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Profile: Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr.
Sketch profiling Ambassador Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr. from a forthcoming nonfiction boook of profiles that explore Peace Corps roots in American diplomacy.
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Profile: Smooth Relationships
In their gentle manner, the townspeople had gone along with the program but didn’t own it, just another good idea that would resolve itself or fade away. The experience taught Brown Schoonover to be a successful communicator by being a listener.
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Profile: Brenda Brown Schoonover
As a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines, Brenda Brown Schoonover found people were interested in her views as an American, not as an African American.
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Cold War Peace Corps
Ben East shares a story about Parker Borg, tapped by Ronald Regan to be U.S. Ambassador in Mali, the first Returned Peace Corps Volunteer in such a position
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Profile: Parker Borg
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Sketches of distinguished American diplomats from my forthcoming book, Profiles in Service.
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Event: Books & Brews
On the eve of Foreign Affairs Day, the event recognizes the dedicated service of America’s diplomatic corps in these difficult times for the entire foreign affairs community.
Ben East Books 