Jack Hood Vaughn



Jack Hood Vaughn

Jack Hood Vaughn.

Vaughn, currently the chairman of ECOTRUST, in Portland, Oregon, is the former director of the Peace Corps and U.S. Ambassador to Panama and Columbia.

Vaughn obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1943 and Master of Arts in 1947 in Latin American Studies from the University of Michigan. While enrolled at the university, he was their head boxing coach from 1942 to 1943, won three Golden Gloves championships, and taught Spanish, French and Latin American affairs.

President Lyndon Johnson named Vaughn the United States Ambassador to Panama in 1964 after the two nations broke off diplomatic relations. In 1965 Vaughn was called back to Washington to be named Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and the United States coordinator of the Alliance for progress. President Johnson named Vaughn director of the Peace Corps in 1966.

Vaughn was also the president of the planned parenthood federation of America-World Population, and was a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.

When this story was posted in October 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Kerry reaches out to Returned Volunteers The Kerry campaign wants the RPCV vote. Read our interview with Dave Magnani, Massachusetts State Senator and Founder of "RPCVs for Kerry," and his answers to our questions about Kerry's plan to triple the size of the Peace Corps, should the next PC Director be an RPCV, and Safety and Security issues. Then read the "RPCVs for Kerry" statement of support and statements by Dr. Robert Pastor, Ambassador Parker Borg, and Paul Oostburg Sanz made at the "RPCVs for Kerry" Press Conference. RPCV Carl Pope says the key to winning this election is not swaying undecided voters, but persuading those already willing to vote for your candidate to actually go to the polls. Take our poll and tell us what you are doing to support your candidate. Finally read our wrap-up of the eight RPCVs in Senate and House races around the country and where the candidates are in their races.

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Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview PCOL sits down for an extended interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez. Read the entire interview from start to finish and we promise you will learn something about the Peace Corps you didn't know before. Plus the debate continues over Safety and Security.

Schwarzenegger praises PC at Convention Governor Schwarzenegger praised the Peace Corps at the Republican National Convention: "We're the America that sends out Peace Corps volunteers to teach village children." Schwarzenegger has previously acknowledged his debt to his father-in-law, Peace Corps Founding Director Sargent Shriver, for teaching him "the joy of public service" and Arnold is encouraging volunteerism by creating California Service Corps and tapping his wife, Maria Shriver, to lead it. Leave your comments and who can come up with the best Current Events Funny?

Peace Corps: One of the Best Faces of America Teresa Heinz Kerry celebrates the Peace Corps Volunteer as one of the best faces America has ever projected in a speech to the Democratic Convention. The National Review disagreed and said that Heinz's celebration of the PCV was "truly offensive." What's your opinion and can you come up with a Political Funny?

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