Backpacking: The Positives and Negatives of Solo Backpacking By Tonga RPCV Paul Neville 21 November 2003 Bamboo: 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. 22 February 2004 Bamboo: Peace Corps in Haiti helped organize the assistance of a bamboo expert from Hawaii who made several trips to Haiti to provide training and help us get started 14 June 2003 Banking: RPCV Cathy Bessant appointed President of Bank of America North Carolina 14 December 2001 Banking: Jack Au gives from the heart - Peace Corps volunteer in Philippines 28 June 2001 Banks: Guatemala RPCVs Lora and Pat Whalen embrace microbank project in Honduras 7 March 2003 Baseball: Baseball, introduced to Nigeria by U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s, went into abeyance after their departure until the game was revived in 1989 11 May 2004 Baseball: Venezuela RPCV Branch B. Rickey has been President of the Pacific Coast League since 1997 when the Triple-A classification reorganized from three leagues into two 30 April 2004 Baseball: Marshall Island RPCV Chris Christensen remembers "In the 1960s, Peace Corps Volunteers, upon completion of training, were given a "book locker." The locker (actually a box about the size of a small footlocker) contained scores of paperbacks—history, politics, philosophy, fiction—that volunteers traded with each other." 22 February 2004 Baseball: Colleen Birner and her husband, Evan Fitzgerald, are about halfway through a Peace Corps stint in Rio Limpio teaching better agriculture practices and working with a youth group 2 January 2004 Baseball: Venezuela RPCV Branch Rickey III is President of Pacific Coast Baseball League 6 June 2003 Baseball: James Gultry served with the corps in Equatorial Guinea from 1990 until 1993 20 April 2003 Baseball: Los Angeles Peace Corps and L.A. Dodgers Pay Tribute In A Salute to Volunteerism 6 September 2002 Basketball: Tom O’Connor joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in the Central African Republic as a basketball coach 12 February 2004 Basketball: China RPCV Peter Hessler writes about NBA basketball player Yao Ming 24 November 2003 Basketball: In the mid sixties the "peace corps" from USA was active in Sri Lanka and one of them coached the "Orients Basketball Club" 14 September 2003 Basketball: Glen Ashlock bounces back after contracting rare strain of polio as PCV in Belize 7 June 2003 Basque: A Remembrance of Turkey RPCV Larry Trask 16 April 2004 Basques: Turkey RPCV and Linguist Larry Trask dies in England 8 April 2004 Basques: Asked to name a linguist, most people come up with Chomsky or Pinker. But Turkey RPCV Larry Trask - an expert on Basque - deserves to be famous too. 26 June 2003 Battered Women: As the Vietnam War was winding down and Watergate was cranking up, Claudette McShane and her husband Patrick McShane joined the Peace Corps in 1970, and flew off to contribute their talents and youthful enthusiasm in Brazil. 3 May 2004 Beading: Wendy Seaward's fascination with beading dates back to her post-college volunteer work in Africa. After earning a degree in horticulture from Virginia Tech, she spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho 25 February 2004 Beads: Hand Sculpted Stone Beads by Morocco RPCV "Africa John" 20 July 2003 Beads: Red Bead Days - The Peace Corps went to India to teach the Indian masses about contraception 24 June 2001 Bed and Breakfast: Papua New Guinea RPCVs Stephen and Janet Panther run a bed and breakfast with an international flavor 2 November 2002 Beekeeping: India RPCV Bob Stevens is honey grower 30 September 2003 Beekeeping: Luke Ward presented his slides and remembrances of three years as a Peace Corps beekeeper volunteer in Paraguay 20 August 2003 Beekeeping: In late 1970s and early 1980s, the U.S. Peace Corps funded two beekeeping advisors to teach beekeeping skills in Montserrat, and their activities were so popular that eventually a thriving beekeeping association was born 20 July 2003 Beekeeping: Kathleen DeBold joined the Peace Corps where she taught beekeeping, and assisted the people of the Central African Republic (CAR) to set up honey and beeswax markets 12 April 2003 Beekeeping: An Adventure in Panama and Costa Rica 10 February 2003 Beekeeping: PCV taught beekeeping 12 May 2002 Beekeeping: Experiences of a Peace Corps Beekeeper in Fiji 3 July 2001 Benefits: Q&A for RPCV Health Insurance Program 6 September 2003 Benefits: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) Health Insurance Program 17 August 2003 Benefits: Montana State Sen. John Bohlinger champions public service law for RPCVs 24 May 2003 Benefits: Peace Corps service will count toward teachers' pensions in Massachusetts 6 January 2003 Benefits: Alaska House approves Permanent Fund for Peace Corps 14 March 2002 Bikini: Marshall Islands RPCV Jack Niedenthal, Bikinian by marriage and a spokesman for the islanders, believes that Washington, while spending billions elsewhere around the world, has not repaid its debt here. 2 May 2004 Bilingual Education: RPCV Trevor Cottle works in Bilingual Education 30 December 2001 Biodiversity: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Production in Tropical and Temperate Fragmented Landscapes 8 August 2001 Bio-Energy: The Gambia RPCV Tim Cassidy announced that Global Bio-Energy Inc. plans to kick off a bio-diesel project in the country in March 2003 as its contribution towards the country’s poverty alleviation effort 13 November 2003 Biography: Nepal RPCV Laurence Leamer writes book about the Kennedy Men 25 October 2001 Birth Control: It isn't easy selling the idea of birth control to high school dropouts with no decent job prospects, India RPCV Carl Pope said. He told a story about riding his bike down a rural road in India and being stopped by a peasant who asked what he was doing. The man couldn't grasp the concept of family planning or why he should care. 18 April 2004 Birth Control: Red Bead Days - The Peace Corps went to India to teach the Indian masses about contraception 24 June 2001 Birthdays: Happy Birthday, Peace Corps! 1 March 2004 Birthdays: Peace Corps Celebrates 43 Years 1 March 2004 Birthdays: Happy Birthday, Peace Corps! 1 March 2003 Birthdays: Happy Birthday, Peace Corps 1 March 2002 Blindness: Blind Peace Corps Volunteer January Gevara uses art to provide vision of better life for scorned Romanian children with AIDS 22 December 2003 Blindness: Peace Corps invited Sarah Presley to serve as an English teacher in a school for blind students in Morocco. 20 July 2003 Blindness: Honduras RPCV Ray Mungaray helps people adjust to a life of blindness 7 August 2002 Blindness: Ethiopea RPCV Courtney Arnold put words on discs for the blind 5 July 2002 Bodiversity: Proyecto Campanario is a conservation initiative begun by a small group of teachers who began their lives in Latin America over 20 years ago with the Peace Corps. 30 June 2001 Body Sculpting: Theresa Higgs teaches Body Sculpting as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niue 14 February 2001 Botany: Botanical Exploration of the Mache-Chindul Mountains, Northwestern Ecuador by RPCV John Clark 19 April 2003 Botany: Robert Zeigler joined the Peace Corps and taught high school science in a small school in rural Zaire 18 April 2003 Botany: Warren Roberts went to Peru in 1964 as a Peace Corps volunteer 26 June 2001 Boy Scouts: Neil Ross was a Peace Corps Volunteer in that nation in 1962-64, when he first became involved with the Dominican Scouting as a Troop leader and on the national level 24 February 2003 Boy Scouts: PC Director Vasquez receives Orange County Boy Scout Visionary Award 1 November 2002 Branding: Nick was a Peace Corps volunteer who taught English in a small middle school in southwest Korea 7 June 2003 Broadcasting: As a member of the first Peace Corps group to come to Sri Lanka, in 1962, I had first been assigned to Dharmaraja College, in Kandy, then to Thurston College, Colombo 7 December 2003 Brockport Program: Peace Corps Language Instructor Alicia Fink designs beautiful ethnic jewelry pieces that sometimes include Petroglyphs from the ancient ruins of her native Ecuador 22 December 2003 Budget: Proposed Fiscal 2005 Budget for International Affairs Programs includes $401 M for Peace Corps 3 February 2004 Budget: President Bush asks for $401 Million for Peace Corps in FY2005 Budget 2 February 2004 Budget Cuts: Due to budget cuts, Oregon State University's Peace Corps representative office will close on June 11 11 May 2004 Budgeting: Dominican Republic RPCV John Torphy retires as Vice Chancellor at University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 December 2003 Budgets: The Peace Corps official came around to deliver us our paychecks, no one came. The next day passed and nothing 25 April 2004 Budgets: President Bush Releases $5.1 Billion in Emergency Funds including funds for Peace Corps 21 September 2001 Bulletin Board: Bulletin Board: I'm interested in joining the Peace Corps Butterflies: Thailand RPCV Greg Ballmer is expert on butterflies 22 January 2004 Butterflies: RPCV Victor DeMasi works on State Butterfly Atlas 13 August 2002 Butterflies: Costa Rica Entomological Supply (CRES)- the first commercial butterfly farm in Latin America, was established in 1983 by a former Peace Corps volunteer, Joris Brinckerhoff and Maria Sabido 30 June 2001
