| Username: | Quiles |
| Full Name: | Jose A. Quiles (Josian) |
| E-mail Address: | mucaro@verizon.net |
| Last Logged In: | June 10, 2010 |
| Registered: | May 23, 2001 |
| Total Posts: | 1 |
| Status: | New member |
| Country of Service: | Colombia 1967-1969 |
| Training Group: | CD 56 |
| Cities you served in: | Balboa & Pereira, Dept. of Risaralda |
| Arrival Year: | August 1967 |
| Departure Year: | August 1969 |
| Work Description: | Placement#1: Municipality of Balboa: Aug 1967 - March 1968-Rural and community development. Placement#2: City of Pereira University sports and educational tutoring from April 1968 to Aug 1969 |
| Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description: | None |
| Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: | PhD Higher education leadership; Peace Corps trainer for Nicaragua & Costa Rica at Ponce, PR Training Center; Retired as Provost/VP academic affairs. Presently, director of QRS (Quiles Research Services), providing research methods consultation. |
| Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: | Great experience...invaluable learning about the conduct of USA foreign policy in Latin America. |
| Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: | John Williams, Wisconsin; Tony Galiotto, New Jersey; John Thomas, Connecticut; John Ordman, New York. Heard from Lynda A.(Carithers) Sanchez, she lives in New Mexico and is author of books on American Indian Tribes (Mescalero & Apache). |
| Any message for returned volunteers?: | As RPCV's, we are a great fraternity of American national service. Very happy to see that the Peace Corps has returned to Colombia and continues active around the world. |
| Leave a message here if there was an incorrect or duplicate e-mail address for you in the "Directory of Volunteers": | Current e-mail address should be: mucaro@verizon.net |
| Caption of profile picture below: | Myself at Balboa Oct 1967, my 1st placement |