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- February 25, 2004: Headlines: NPCA: Group Leaders Listserv: At the Presidents’ Forum in Portland, OR, last August, the group leadership passed a proposal to reduce the size of the NPCA’s Board to 12 – 18 members. Here is what the Board has decided. Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 4:19 pm [1]
- February 17, 2004 - Santa Fe New Mexican: RPCV Ralph Damiani Named Editor of 'Los Alamos Monitor' Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 5:26 am [2]
- February 12, 2004 - The Arizona Republic: The Peace Corps is going to Mexico in a carefully calibrated way, one that reflects the complex relations between the two countries Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 6:14 pm [1]
- February 17, 2004 - White House: Letter from President George W. Bush on Peace Corps Anniversary Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 6:13 pm [1]
- February 22, 2004 - Personal Web Site: I was in the Peace Corps for two years. Very few people would consider that "service to our country" and almost no one would consider it service to our country in the same way as joining the military and going to war. Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 12:23 am [1]
- February 3, 2004 - Yahoo News: California first lady Maria Shriver leaves TV day job to avoid conflict Monday, September 05, 2005 - 4:34 pm [3]
- February 25, 2004 - US Peace Corps (Late Posting): Peace Corps Deputy Director Jody Olsen accepts Distinguished Service Award from World Council of Credit Unions Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 12:18 am [1]
- February 29, 2004 - The Enterprise: Serving as a Peace Corps volunteer is not without challenges. Health and security risks often exist. But Peace Corps stands the test of time Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 7:16 pm [1]
- February 29, 2004 - Denver Post: Maurice "Maury" Albertson believes the idea of the international Peace Corps could give Kerry's campaign a boost similar to the one Kennedy's campaign received when he first advocated the founding of a U.S. corps. But he has not heard back from Kerry on his proposal Friday, March 05, 2004 - 12:35 pm [2]
- February 29, 2004 - Denver Post: Many consider Maurice "Maury" Albertson, retired director of Colorado State University's Research Foundation a co-founder of the Peace Corps, which Monday celebrates its 43rd anniversary Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 7:12 pm [1]
- February 29, 2004 - Santa Cruz Sentinel: Report questions student loan programs including Perkins loans that may be forgiven if students agree to teach in a high-demand area, serve in the military or serve the Peace Corps for a certain number of years Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 3:18 pm [3]
- February 27, 2004 - The Morning Call: Bush backs up call for volunteerism with historic AmeriCorps funding increase Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 7:09 pm [1]
- February 4, 2004 - Journal-Advocate: Andy McKean, a former Peace Corps volunteer, has been to more than 100 countries. He and his wife, Kathy, were in Sterling today, promoting "Liberty Day." Friday, December 03, 2021 - 9:47 am [3]
- February 25, 2004 - ContracCosta Times: Teresa Kerry says America can win the war on terrorism by presenting a different, kinder face to the world, one exemplified by the friendly optimism of a Peace Corps volunteer Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 6:36 pm [2]
- February 6, 2004 - Daily Lobo: Steve Shoup says the Peace Corps is putting people needlessly at risk Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:12 am [1]
- February 11, 2004 - Former Peace Corps Volunteers for Clark: RPCVs salute Wesley K. Clark - Statesman Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:10 am [1]
- February 25, 2004 - Trimet: Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the Peace Corps Fred Hansen heads Trimet Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:08 am [1]
- February 23, 2004 - New Haven Register: Letter to the Editor: National Guardsmen have not come from those who fled to Canada, joined the Peace Corps, VISTA or married for a draft deferment Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:06 am [1]
- February 25, 2004 - Dayton Daily News: Peace Corps hearings in March Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 7:20 pm [92]
- February 18, 2004 - The Brown and White: "Very few of us are called on to do great things, [but] all of us are called on to do small things greatly." says Peace Activitist Colman McCarthy Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:12 pm [1]
- February 24, 2004 - Idaho Statesman: Terrorism, Heinz Kerry said, is going to be defeated by the "can-do spirit" and "happy faces of Peace Corps volunteers”" and by better intelligence and support of other countries Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 9:07 am [3]
- February 23, 2004 - Dallas Daily News: RPCV Yolanda Alameda sees a Hispanic Arts Center in the Ice House Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:07 pm [1]
- February 18, 2004 - Orion Online: Jenny Gibson picks pick Peace Corps over paycheck Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:05 pm [1]
- February 20, 2004 - The Idealist: Does any Returned Peace Corps Volunteer feel that the experience of being in the Peace Corps and all the beneficial and worthwhile experience we've gained means very little to any possible employer? Monday, February 23, 2004 - 6:10 pm [1]
- February 20, 2004 - Thunderbird: RPCV Theresa Gruber-Tapsoba tackles Worldwide Health Concerns with Innovation, Education Monday, February 23, 2004 - 6:09 pm [1]
- February 20, 2004 - American International Automobile Dealers: Marianne McInerney served under the Bush administration as Press Officer for the United States Peace Corps Monday, February 23, 2004 - 6:08 pm [1]
- February 22, 2004 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: AmeriCorps grows up / Congress gives it bipartisan support to expand Monday, February 23, 2004 - 6:07 pm [1]
- February 22, 2004 - Sing On San Diego: The ghost of JFK runs for president Monday, February 23, 2004 - 6:06 pm [1]
- February 20, 2004 - Sympatico: Journalist and former Peace Corps Deputy Director Bill Moyers Leaving PBS After Elections Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:13 pm [1]
- February 21, 2004 - Hartford Courant: Richard Hutton says We could have an expanded Peace Corps sending thousands of young Americans throughout the world as goodwill ambassadors Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:12 pm [1]
- February 22, 2004 - Hana Hou: After earning an architecture degree at Berkeley, Cal Hashimoto served in the Peace Corps in Africa, then traveled the world extensively, accumulating what he calls "an archive of different cultural images to create with." His sculptures reflect this, as he bends and joins the bamboo into organic, metaphysical shapes reminiscent of an African totem, or the calligraphy of a Zen poem. Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 4:55 pm [2]
- February 21, 2004 - Former Peace Corps Volunteers for Clark: RPCVs supported Wesley K. Clark - Weekend Thoughts Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:08 pm [1]
- February 22, 2004 - Hollywood Reporter: Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 9:41 am [3]
- February 22, 2004 - Baltimore Sun: Shirley Chisholm: Unbought, unbossed, unforgotten Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 9:51 am [3]
- February 18, 2004 - Peace Corps: Peace Corps Swears In Six New Country Directors Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:39 am [1]
- February 9, 2004 - Join Together: Operating under the same principles as the Peace Corps, a new national organization called the Parent Corps is aimed at mobilizing parents to help curb drug use among youth Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:38 am [1]
- February 15, 2004 - Washington Post: When President Kennedy started the Peace Corps, Mrs. Koeppl joined the staff of Georgetown University and oversaw the training of 110 female volunteers, ages 18 to 60, from 47 states Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 8:55 pm [1]
- February 13, 2004 - The Celebrity Cafe: JFK's words inspired many in the early 1960s with a pragmatic idealism that formed the basis of the Peace Corps and other New Deal programs Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 8:54 pm [1]
- February 13, 2004 - Biz Monthly: Padraic M. "Pat" Kennedy was one of the first 10 members of the staff that founded the Peace Corps and served as its director of volunteer support Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 8:53 pm [1]
- February 13, 2004 - PCOL Exclusive: NPCA on a new Course Friday, April 23, 2004 - 1:04 am [14]
- February 12, 2004 - Peace Corps: Presidents’ Day: Reflecting on 4 Decades of Presidential Support for the Peace Corps Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 8:48 pm [1]
- February 12, 2004 - Peace Corps: Love Knows No Borders: Married Couples in the Peace Corps Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 8:46 pm [1]
- February 15, 2004 - Hartford Courant: For somebody like John Kerry, the notion of paying any price, bearing any burden, join the Peace Corps, join the Green Berets - all that sloganeering really influenced him a great deal Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:21 pm [1]
- February 13, 2004 - Institute for Social Entrepreneurs: Jerr Boschee founds Peace Corps Veterans Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:20 pm [1]
- February 12, 2004 - Iowa East Daily: Kerry proposed the "Service for College" initiative to help make college affordable and strengthen America's security. According to this initiative, for two years of service to the United States, every young person can earn the equivalent of the state's four-year public college tuition Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:19 pm [1]
- February 12, 2004 - US State Department: Only a few days ago, the Vietnamese Government extended an official invitation to the Peace Corps to come to Vietnam to discuss a country program says Matthew P. Daley, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:17 pm [1]
- February 12, 2004 - University of Texas: Phil Hardberger served as executive secretary of the Peace Corps (1962-1966) Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:16 pm [1]
- February 4, 2004 - Peace Corps: Peace Corps, Miami Dade College, and the National Peace Corps Association Join Forces to Honor Volunteers Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 7:01 pm [2]
- February 12, 2004 - The Lumberjack: Peace Corps Fellows Jill Brinkman and Scott Ralston work on Apache Indian Reservation Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:53 pm [1]
- February 11, 2004 - Sacramento Bee: Keith Brinton reaches out in the battle against tuberculosis Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:51 pm [1]
- February 11, 2004 - American Radioworks: RPCV Keith Brinton volunteered to go to Vietnam in late 1966 (Philadelphia-born, age 24) as a conscientious objector to war Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:50 pm [1]
- February 7, 2004 - The Chattanoogan: Mrs. Kerry said the U.S. should present a world image "of the Peace Corps rather than weapons of mass destruction." Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 5:16 pm [1]
- February 10, 2004 - State Senator David Magnani: David Magnani asks RPCVs to support Kerry for President Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 4:28 pm [5]
- February 5, 2004 - Dayton Daily News: Reporters among six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for "Casualties of Peace," the newspaper's October series on the Peace Corps Monday, February 09, 2004 - 10:05 pm [1]
- February 2, 2004 - Dayton Daily News: Senator DeWine and Ohio colleague Sen. George Voinovich inserted wording in the bill's manager's report that emphasized safety and security of Peace Corps volunteers, after a report by this newspaper on the topic Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 8:57 am [2]
- February 6, 2004 - Global Atlanta,: PCVs may arrive in Mexico as early as July Sunday, February 08, 2004 - 7:21 pm [1]
- February 6, 2004 - Nixon Library: Gaddi Vasquez to address the Nixon Library Docent Guild's tenth annual Student Geography Awards on April 2 Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 11:54 am [2]
- February 6, 2004 - US Peace Corps: Peace Corps Recognized for HIV/AIDS Prevention Manual Monday, December 18, 2006 - 4:42 am [3]
- February 6, 2004 - US Peace Corps: Peace Corps and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) to Unveil New Recruitment Campaign Sunday, February 08, 2004 - 7:17 pm [1]
- February 5, 2004 - Department of State: Gaddi Vasquez writes that Peace Corps Volunteers pave the way for entreprenuers to enter the market economy Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 9:05 am [2]
- February 5, 2004 - Fayetteville Online: Sustainable agriculture program catches attention of Peace Corps Friday, September 21, 2007 - 2:42 am [2]
- February 5, 2004 - Orange County Register: Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez endorses Tom Wilson for Assemblyman in California's 73rd Assembly District Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 11:38 pm [1]
- February 4, 2004 - Herald-Tribune: Dayton Daily News series on Peace Corps Safety and Security is finalist for 2004 Goldsmith Prize that promotes more effective and ethical government Friday, February 06, 2004 - 3:18 pm [2]
- February 1, 2004 - Free Lance Star: RPCV Richard Moore dies in Pennsylvania Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 11:35 pm [1]
- February 2, 2004 - Peace Corps: President Bush asks for $401 Million for Peace Corps in FY2005 Budget Monday, November 07, 2005 - 1:27 am [5]
- February 3, 2004 - US Department of State: Proposed Fiscal 2005 Budget for International Affairs Programs includes $401 M for Peace Corps Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:25 pm [1]
- February 1, 2004 - Washington Times: Answering Kennedy's call Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:24 pm [1]
- February 4, 2004 - Toronto Star: Plan for 'Peace Corps' cheered in Canada Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 4:56 pm [5]
- February 4, 2004 - The Globe and Mail: Canada plans own Peace Corps Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:19 pm [1]