Peace Corps Online: May 14, 2001 - Jimmy Carter presents Peace Corps Award

May 14, 2001 - Jimmy Carter presents Peace Corps Award

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By Admin1 (Admin) on Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 2:11 pm: Edit Post

Jimmy Carter presents Peace Corps Award

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Former President Jimmy Carter to Present Lillian Carter Award to Returned Peace Corps Volunteer at 40th Anniversary Celebration Award named in honor of former president’s mother salutes senior volunteer from the Southeast

ATLANTA, May 14, 2001 -- Former President Jimmy Carter will present the Lillian Carter Award to an outstanding senior Returned Peace Corps Volunteer at a Peace Corps 40th anniversary celebration at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16th at the Carter Center. The event is sponsored by the Atlanta Regional Office of the Peace Corps and the National Peace Corps Association.

The Lillian Carter Award recognizes a volunteer who at the time of service was age 50 or older and who has demonstrated a commitment to the Peace Corps’ third goal: to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. The recipient will be announced at the May 16th celebration, which will also feature Jason Carter, the grandson of the former president who served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa, and Acting Peace Corps Director Charles R. Baquet III.

Lillian Carter joined the Peace Corps in 1966 and served for two years as a health volunteer in India. At the time of her service, she was 68 years old. The Lillian Carter Award, established by the Atlanta Regional Office of the Peace Corps in 1986, is awarded every five years to recognize outstanding service by senior volunteers. Of the more than 7,000 volunteers currently serving in the Peace Corps, 7 percent are age 50 or older. The oldest currently serving volunteer is 80.

Since President John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 162,000 people have served in 135 countries, working to teach children, helping to improve health and nutrition of families, bringing clean water to communities and preventing the spread of AIDS.

By Julie Gilgoff (cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com - 64.12.116.8) on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 3:54 pm: Edit Post

i am writing an artical for New York Newsday about senior Peace Corps volunteers, especially who were born in the Long Island/New York City areas. If anyone knows any relevant information please write to me.
Thank you.

By Admin1 (admin) (pool-151-196-43-253.balt.east.verizon.net - 151.196.43.253) on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 6:05 pm: Edit Post

Here is a list of stories about older volunteers:

Older Volunteers: Former Peace Corps volunteers Elene and Dale Hertweck are part of a growing trend of older Americans who heard the call of President Kennedy to serve in the Peace Corps when it was created in 1961, and can now finally enlist. 1 January 2005

Older Volunteers: Lowell and Laurie Peterson heading for Uzbekistan in Peace Corps 27 November 2004

Older Volunteers: At age 65, after her four children were grown, former Marine Evelyn Norton joined the Peace Corps and lived in Belize from 1985 to 1987 8 November 2004

Older Volunteers: Retired military psychologist Ernie Lenz returns to service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala 1 November 2004

Older Volunteers: When Beloit firefighter Paul C. Mickelson retired in 1992, he briefly pondered a leisurely life of golfing and fishing. But he knew he wasn't much of a golfer, and he didn't much like catching and releasing fish. So he joined the Peace Corps. 28 October 2004

Older Volunteers: Nicole de Lorimier, who traveled in Guatemala as a Peace Corps volunteer and then worked in Santa Barbara as a real estate broker, is now part of the "snow hens," the growing number of single, senior women who flock to sunny spots behind the wheel of a motor home 11 October 2004

Older Volunteers: Wini Yunker served in Ukraine. Her sense of adventure inspired Prill Boyle to write "Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women." 5 October 2004

Older Volunteers: Brian Courts and his wife, Mickey Chapman, will spend 24 months in the African country of Togo in what will be his third stint in the service 23 August 2004

Older Volunteers: Donna Steiger announces retirement, When she was 79 she traveled to Bulgaria with the Peace Corps 6 August 2004

Older Volunteers: Sam and Noelle LeBlanc explain shopping in Romania in a pre-capitalist economy 1 August 2004

Older Volunteers: Bob Beretta, 41, is leaving his South Lake Tahoe home of five years to join the Corps in September in a computer science teaching program that started last year in Tanzania, Africa 12 July 2004

Older Volunteers: Swaziland RPCV Ron Beeson marks 70th birthday with plunge from sky 12 July 2004

Older Volunteers: A recent Peace Corps volunteer, Marge Pease, 79, was moved by both the great need of the orphanages she visited and the gratitude of the orphans in Russia 12 July 2004

Older Volunteers: Joan Lowell says "When my husband and I became Peace Corps trainees in Kazakhstan in 1994, he was 65 and I was 59." 20 June 2004

Older Volunteers: Peace Corps Volunteer Jean Spencer, 80, built ties with Thais in bridge of two cultures 18 June 2004

Older Volunteers: Hispanics are participating in the English as a second language in-home program created by a 73-year-old Florence Phillips who learned Spanish in her 50s and Swahili in her late 60s as a Peace Corps volunteer 16 June 2004

Older Volunteers: Boomers' key to long life? Volunteering, study says 16 June 2004

Older Volunteers: Uzbekistan RPCV Pearl is a Scrabblette 12 June 2004

Older Volunteers: Janet Munro to serve as Peace Corps Volunteer in Armenia 11 May 2004

Older Volunteers: At 62, Geraldine Brown joined the Peace Corps and went to a Romania that still was reeling from the ravages of communism and the darkly secretive government of Nicolae Ceausescu 18 April 2004

Older Volunteers: Seniors take more Peace Corps spots 15 April 2004

Older Volunteers: Beverly Redgate, 66,was in the Peace Corps in Poland from 1996 through 1998 training teachers to teach English 12 April 2004

Older Volunteers: Jackie Boone shares Peace Corps memories of Thailand, Ecuador, and El Salvador 9 April 2004

Older Volunteers: Fiji RPCV John Geier readjusts to life in Santa Fe 4 April 2004

Older Volunteers: Norm and JoAnn McCarthy volunteer in Morocco 30 March 2004

Older Volunteers: Ken and Lynne Best of Zillah are currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers in Nepal 30 March 2004

Older Volunteers: Jo Rogers, 71, spent two years in Moldova with Peace Corps 24 March 2004

Older Volunteers: When JoEllen Collins served in Thailand in the Peace Corps, she was labeled a "senior" because she was over 50 24 March 2004

Older Volunteers: At the age of 77, Helen Bunch has joined the Peace Corps and going to Albania 10 March 2004

Older Volunteers: Emily Carleton, at age 78, is on a two-year post in Namibia on the African West Coast, joining a growing number of seniors choosing to spend retirement years laboring for little pay in poor countries with few comforts of home 28 February 2004

Older Volunteers: Two years ago, Char cashed in everything, sold her house (in Minnesota) and quit her job of 20 years as an assistant administrator for a medical clinic to join the Peace Corps in Niger 17 February 2004

Older Volunteers: Two years ago, Char Novak cashed in everything, sold her house (in Minnesota) and quit her job of 20 years as an assistant administrator for a medical clinic to join the Peace Corps and go to Niger 17 February 2004

Older Volunteers: Alverna Eriksson, 80, joined the Peace Corps and went to Haiti — during the coup — came back, and left again for Nepal, where she taught nursing 2 February 2004

Older Volunteers: RPCV prays for the President 21 January 2004

Older Volunteers: Ann Walker, 62, gets one of two reactions when friends learn she has joined the Peace Corps and will be spending the next two years in Uzbekistan. 18 January 2004

Older Volunteers: Peter Alessi, 60, joining the Peace Corps to go to Eastern Europe 18 January 2004

Older Volunteers: 80-year-old RPCV Virginia Taylor hits hole-in-one at Mahogany Run 10 January 2004

Older Volunteers: 76-year old Peg Berner, already a seasoned traveler having visited 56 countries, some as a Peace Corps volunteer, frets a little about how to pack for her latest trip to Antarctica 8 January 2004

Older Volunteers: Capt. Kenneth Wedge and his wife, Coleen, will be entering the Peace Corps in September as volunteers in Suriname 27 December 2003

Older Volunteers: Art and Sue's Adventures in Suriname 27 December 2003

Older Volunteers: Tom and Mary Mechtenberg are Peace Corps volunteers, helping the impoverished residents of St. Lucia island 26 December 2003

Older Volunteers: Guatemala RPCV Janet Klepper dies in Oregon 18 December 2003

Older Volunteers: Mozambique RPCV Rebekah Robertson on the Dayton Series on Volunteer Safety and Security 16 December 2003

Older Volunteers: Grace Arimura, Peace Corps volunteer in '80s, holds Botswana dear today 7 December 2003

Older Volunteers: Sydney Kling 's decision to join the Peace Corps after retirement proves it's ... ; Never too late 9 November 2003

Older Volunteers: RPCV Peggy Chisholm creates "Raising Cane" 23 October 2003

Older Volunteers: Sally Scholl returns from Kenya 22 October 2003

Older Volunteers: Nancy O'Connell says Peace Corps Living in Suriname is a Lot Like College Life 15 October 2003

Older Volunteers: Ken and June Nicholson return from Peace Corps service in Bulgaria 29 September 2003

Older Volunteers: RPCV Julia Maulden turns 90 28 September 2003

Older Volunteers: Linda Robinson was assigned to the West African nation of Senegal 14 September 2003

Older Volunteers: We have been Peace Corps volunteers in Romania for a year and a half now, and we’re still trying to find our own personal answers to the question of why we are here 13 September 2003

Older Volunteers: After spending 18 months as Peace Corps volunteers in Ukraine, the Schmidts returned to their California hometown of Laguna Beach, and then signed on for an assignment with Dentistry Overseas in Moldova 13 September 2003

Older Volunteers: Daryll and Mary Klein arrived in Bucharest for a three-month language and cross-cultural training program in June, 1995 13 September 2003

Older Volunteers: Sam and Noelle LeBlanc in the Peace Corps in Romania 3 September 2003

Older Volunteers: Next Stop, Romania for Sam and Noelle LeBlanc 3 September 2003

Older Volunteers: Bush greets future PCVs Edward and Jane Bardon in Minnesota 26 August 2003

Older Volunteers: Philippines RPCV Louise Mooney keeps busy, but it’s never ‘work’ 25 August 2003

Older Volunteers: Bush to salute retired Minnesota couple joining Peace Corps 24 August 2003

Older Volunteers: Future Peace Corps Volunteers Edward and Jane Bardon will greet President Bush in Minnesota 22 August 2003

Older Volunteers: Bush will meet Peace Corps volunteers Edward and Jane Bardon in Minnesota 22 August 2003

Older Volunteers: The Topchiks have been inspired by the example of their eldest son, Michael, who served as a Peace Corps agricultural teacher in Paraguay 20 August 2003

Older Volunteers: Millie Becker is an 80-year-old Southside woman who started her service in the Peace Corps when she was 65 on the island of Palau 17 August 2003

Older Volunteers: Morocco Volunteer John Powanda is one of oldest in history of Peace Corps 20 July 2003

Older Volunteers: The changing face of the Peace Corps 20 July 2003

Older Volunteers: Older Volunteers Heed the Call to Volunteer And Discover a New Career 19 July 2003

Older Volunteers: Ecuador RPCVs Donald and Pat Clausen retire, plan to work with poor in Central America 17 July 2003

Older Volunteers: Charlotte Apodaco Lucero will be traveling to Ecuador for next 27 months in Peace Corps 1 July 2003

Older Volunteers: RPCV Phyllis Gloden, 74, spent two years in Lesotho 1 July 2003

Older Volunteers: Jimmy Carter presented the Lillian Carter Award to outstanding senior RPCV 1 July 2003

Older Volunteers: Tony Gasbarro wins Lillian Carter Award 30 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Robert M. Livingston, 82, hopes to join Peace Corps 29 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Poland RPCV Jan Steed appointed new principal in Alameda 28 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Carter presents award to senior volunteer 27 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Older Volunteers joining Peace Corps 26 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Jim MacGillis practiced business law with Hinshaw & Culbertson before leaving as a third-year associate. He is currently serving in Honduras as a Peace Corps Volunteer. 21 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Catherine Beck served as a teacher in the eastern Caribbean nation of Grenada and in Sierra Leone 14 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Comedian Cork Proctor joined the Peace Corps at 66. His wife Carolyn Proctor helped design the Peace Corps logo more than 40 years ago 8 June 2003

Older Volunteers: Paul Mickelson applied for early retirement, sold his house, joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to Bamenda, Cameroon, in West Africa 26 May 2003

Older Volunteers: Stoddard begins fourth tour as Peace Corps volunteer in Africa 25 May 2003

Older Volunteers: Beverly Cantrill serves in a South African township 8 May 2003

Older Volunteers: Peace Corps Honors Older Americans Serving Abroad 7 May 2003

Older Volunteers: Peace Corps Honors Older Americans Serving Abroad 7 May 2003

Older Volunteers: Leslie Hawke headed for Romania at 48 - says Peace Corps must do a better job recruiting older volunteers 1 May 2003

Older Volunteers: RPCV Kay Drikey served in Samoa at 65 26 April 2003

Older Volunteers: RPCV Kay Drikey served in Samoa at 65 26 April 2003

Older Volunteers: Frances Kathryn Ruddick was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1964 - 66 and in Costa Rica from 1999 to the present 19 April 2003

Older Volunteers: A steady market presented itself in the person of Bob Leventry, a Chicagoan who had worked in Ecuador on various development projects for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer after retiring as president of a commercial insurance company 19 April 2003

Older Volunteers: Peace Corps teacher Marge Pease to share her adventures in Kazakhstan 18 April 2003

Older Volunteers: 64-year old PCV Bonnie Getsinger finds her calling in Bulgaria 1 March 2003

Older Volunteers: 64-year old PCV Bonnie Getsinger finds her calling in Bulgaria 1 March 2003

Older Volunteers: Jonathan Pernick heading to the Ukraine in the Peace Corps 13 February 2003

Older Volunteers: D.D. Sears, 65, and Whit Sears, 70 head for Peace Corps Thailand 8 January 2003

Older Volunteers: Joyce Burnette joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer in the West African nation of Mauritania 1 December 2002

Older Volunteers: David Blicker Finds It's Never Too Late for the Peace Corps 1 November 2002

Older Volunteers: Ella Lacey served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi 23 October 2002

Older Volunteers: RPCV Jack Lutz joins Peace Corps for 2nd time at 80 to go to Poland 18 August 2002

Older Volunteers: Wanda Wood at 66 is off to the Pacific Islands to teach health care in Peace Corps 24 July 2002

Older Volunteers: Sierra Leone RPCV Bill Patterson is National Champion Race Walker at 86 30 January 2002

Older Volunteers: Return of the aged hippies 26 November 2001

Older Volunteers: Jim Bullington - Return of the aged hippies 26 November 2001

Older Volunteers: Peace Corps provides midlife adventure in Poland 16 July 2001

Older Volunteers: “When M.J. says something, people are going to believe it and trust it more than if a 22-year-old says something,” adds Terry Murphee, Peace Corps Malawi director 15 July 2001

Older Volunteers: At the age of fifty-one, Helene quit her secure job, rejoined the Peace Corps. She worked in Slovakia for two years, helping that country build more democratic institutions. 15 July 2001

Older Volunteers: Welcome to Skip and Carol's Peace Corps Adventure in Bulgaria 4 July 2001

Older Volunteers: Jackie Granger: Relocating to the Global Village 4 July 2001

Older Volunteers: Charlotte Utting - For This Peace Corps Volunteer, Once Was Not Enough 30 June 2001

Older Volunteers: Clarence Weaver shows Age is no barrier to volunteers in Philippines 28 June 2001

Older Volunteers: Seniors playing growing role in Peace Corps 13 June 2001

Older Volunteers: Seniors playing growing role in Peace Corps (Full Story) 13 June 2001

Older Volunteers: Jimmy Carter presents Peace Corps Award 14 May 2001

Older Volunteers: Windsor couple brings enterprise to Ukraine 2 October 2000

Older Volunteers: As she prepares to leave for Morocco and service with the Peace Corps, Hilde Hein finds the post-classroom life anything but retiring. 1 March 2000

Older Volunteers: Dr. Yvonne Taylor began a two-year stint with the Peace Corps; she's now added a year to her service and plans to eventually retire there 1 July 1998

Older Volunteers: Retired Teacher Peter Yurich has served five tours in the Peace Corps - Namibia, Lesotho, Liberia, Philippines, Kiribati 22 November 1997

Older Volunteers: Age is no obstacle to Arthur Goodfriend's service in the Peace Corps in the Philippines in the 1970's and Hungary in the 1990's 10 June 1997

Best Regards,

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