| Username: | Neilross |
| Full Name: | Neil Ross |
| Last Logged In: | June 13, 2007 |
| Registered: | May 29, 2001 |
| Total Posts: | 0 |
| Status: | New member |
| Country of Service: | Dominican Republic |
| Training Group: | Forestry at University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| Cities you served in: | Jarabacoa, DR |
| Arrival Year: | 1962 |
| Departure Year: | 1964 |
| Work Description: | Forestry forest fire control, but finding that not productive changed into community development, teaching English, and Boy Scout leadership in Jarabacoa & nationally and named PC Coordinator to the Dominican National Scout Association |
| Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description: | Peace Corps Training Director for small scale fisheries programs in Papua New Guinea and Philippines at University of Rhode Island summer 1981 |
| Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: | Peace Corps Recruiter November 1964 to March 1965 on university campuses across the country Founder & first President Friends of the Dominican Republic |
| Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: | Joining in the first year in the DR and without any PC precedent to go on, it was quite challenging both for staff and volunteers; we basically had to find our own projects. It was a life changing experience. |
| Any message for returned volunteers?: | Use the RPCV network in your career and life, Join and be active in NPCA and your country of service Friends group Promote the PC's Third Goal to help Americans understand the world Donate your PC records to an appropriate history archive Revisit your PC work site over the years and reestablish contact with your counterparts and friends there -- they will remember you |