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When this story was posted in January 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Ask Not
As our country prepares for the inauguration of a President, we remember one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century and how his words inspired us. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
January 15, 2005: This Week's Top Stories
Bellamy finishing term - Veneman to head Unicef 15 Jan
230 RPCVs volunteer for Crisis Corps 14 Jan
Peace Corps Fund needs silent auction items 12 Jan
Matt Gould in one-man Peace Corps show in Hollywood 12 Jan
Taylor Hackford's "Ray" Nominated for Golden Globe 12 Jan
Ambassador Johnson shares memories of Thailand 11 Jan
Senator Dodd suggests PC return to Venezuela 11 Jan
Ambassador Hull wants PC to return to Sierra Leone 11 Jan
Poiriers unhappy with PC investigation of missing son 10 Jan
Emile Hons reflects on the Deborah Gardner murder case 10 Jan
Judge Paul A. Bastine criticized for stalling Divorce 6 Jan
Volunteer Patricia D. Scatoloni dies in Macedonia 4 Jan
more top stories...
Coleman: Peace Corps mission and expansion
Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee that oversees the Peace Corps, says in an op-ed, A chance to show the world America at its best: "Even as that worthy agency mobilizes a "Crisis Corps" of former Peace Corps volunteers to assist with tsunami relief, I believe an opportunity exists to rededicate ourselves to the mission of the Peace Corps and its expansion to touch more and more lives."
RPCVs active in new session of Congress
In the new session of Congress that begins this week, RPCV Congressman Tom Petri has a proposal to bolster Social Security, Sam Farr supported the objection to the Electoral College count, James Walsh has asked for a waiver to continue heading a powerful Appropriations subcommittee, Chris Shays will no longer be vice chairman of the Budget Committee, and Mike Honda spoke on the floor honoring late Congressman Robert Matsui.
Latest: RPCVs and Peace Corps provide aid
Peace Corps made an appeal last week to all Thailand RPCV's to consider serving again through the Crisis Corps and more than 30 RPCVs have responded so far. RPCVs: Read what an RPCV-led NGO is doing about the crisis an how one RPCV is headed for Sri Lanka to help a nation he grew to love. Question: Is Crisis Corps going to send RPCVs to India, Indonesia and nine other countries that need help?
The World's Broken Promise to our Children
Former Director Carol Bellamy, now head of Unicef, says that the appalling conditions endured today by half the world's children speak to a broken promise. Too many governments are doing worse than neglecting children -- they are making deliberate, informed choices that hurt children. Read her op-ed and Unicef's report on the State of the World's Children 2005.
Changing of the Guard
With Lloyd Pierson's departure, Marie Wheat has been named acting Chief of Staff and Chief of Operations responsible for the day-to-day management of the Peace Corps. Although Wheat is not an RPCV and has limited overseas experience, in her two years at the agency she has come to be respected as someone with good political skills who listens and delegates authority and we wish her the best in her new position.
Our debt to Bill Moyers
Former Peace Corps Deputy Director Bill Moyers leaves PBS next week to begin writing his memoir of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Read what Moyers says about journalism under fire, the value of a free press, and the yearning for democracy. "We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country," he warns, "or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia."
RPCV safe after Terrorist Attack
RPCV Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the U.S. consul general in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia survived Monday's attack on the consulate without injury. Five consular employees and four others were killed. Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first woman to hold the position, has been an outspoken advocate of rights for Arab women and has met with Saudi reformers despite efforts by Saudi leaders to block the discussions.
Is Gaddi Leaving?
Rumors are swirling that Peace Corps Director Vasquez may be leaving the administration. We think Director Vasquez has been doing a good job and if he decides to stay to the end of the administration, he could possibly have the same sort of impact as a Loret Ruppe Miller. If Vasquez has decided to leave, then Bob Taft, Peter McPherson, Chris Shays, or Jody Olsen would be good candidates to run the agency. Latest: For the record, Peace Corps has no comment on the rumors.
The Birth of the Peace Corps
UMBC's Shriver Center and the Maryland Returned Volunteers hosted Scott Stossel, biographer of Sargent Shriver, who spoke on the Birth of the Peace Corps. This is the second annual Peace Corps History series - last year's speaker was Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn.

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Acting and Theatre: Malaysian playright Kannan Menon says he wrote " Fireside Story" as well as the lyrics, and the music was composed by an American Peace Corps friend, Jim , whose last name escapes me now. 23 May 2004

Acting and Theatre: Zaire and Ivory Coast RPCV Paul Weidner to speak at Artistic Directors 40th Anniversary Forum 30 April 2004

Acting and Theatre: Zaire and Ivory Coast RPCV Paul Weidner is producing director of the Hartford (Conn.) Stage Company 28 January 2004

Acting and Theatre: Honduras RPCV Howard Bean is improv comic in Boston 22 January 2004

Acting and Theatre: THE first Annual Bulgarian Student Play Writing Contest has been held by Peace Corps volunteers with the aim of promoting artistic awareness among students in Bulgaria 8 January 2004

Acting and Theatre: Benjamin A. Horwitz spent two years in Bhopal, India as a Peace Corps Volunteer providing technical consulting to small-scale industrie 4 October 2003

Acting and Theatre: Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something" 1 September 2003

Acting and Theatre: Interview with Do Something Founder , Zimbabwe RPCV, and Actor Andrew Shue 1 September 2003

Acting and Theatre: While living in Honduras from 1985-87, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer working with adult literacy, women's groups, and rehabilitation programs for street kids 21 June 2003

Acting and Theatre: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman teaches lessons of Juneteenth as "The Griot" 19 June 2003

Acting and Theatre: Tim Talbott, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, will perform a production chronicling his Peace Corps experience in the Commonwealth of Dominica 8 June 2003

Acting and Theatre: Morocco RPCV and Poety Theatre Founder Don Wilsun dies in Seattle 26 May 2003

Acting and Theatre: Giles Hogya - Dean of Fine Arts - lived in Kabba, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and established and toured with his Children’s Theatre Company while teaching at the Kabba Teacher’s Training College 25 May 2003

Acting and Theatre: Television Actress Valerie Wildman of "Days of our Lives" worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the barrios of the Cartagena Mountains in Colombia 13 April 2003

Acting and Theatre: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman tells audiences stories ofAfrican-American ancestors 3 April 2003

Acting and Theatre: Hawai'i RPCV produces a monthly program on 'Olelo television called "Bring the World Home" 24 February 2003

Acting and Theatre: It was while James Pelegano was in the Peace Corps stationed on the South Pacific island of Tonga that the oceanographer became friends with the island physician 2 February 2003

Acting and Theatre: Thailand RPCV Lee Stetson impersonates John Muir, wins election to County Board of Supervisors 8 January 2003

Acting and Theatre: Peru RPCV Hank Finken performs one man plays 21 February 2002

Acting and Theatre: "You Look For Me..." which opens at HERE Arts Center at 145 Avenue of the Americas in New York City is about the thirty-five year friendship between a two men who meet while serving in the Peace Corps in Colombia in 1964 in their early twenties. 2 July 2001

Acting and Theatre: Before hitting graduate school, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India doing public health work 24 June 2001

Acting and Theatre: Actor Peter Lownds, friend of Jack Kerouac, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern Brazil in the mid-sixties 23 June 2001

Acting and Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth and Barbara met and married 14 years ago while they were young idealists in the US Peace Corps. They are still associated with developing countries, but Kenneth's idealism has mutated into business rhetoric, shrugging off accusations that his company is out for dirty money by selling defective baby formula to developing world mothers. 2 February 2000

Acting and Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle, who's repudiated his Peace Corps idealism and the memory of his parents' Holocaust survival, rejecting the righteous for the bottom line 2 February 2000

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Acting: Honduras RPCV Howard Bean is improv comic in Boston 22 January 2004

Acting: Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something" 1 September 2003

Acting: Interview with Do Something Founder , Zimbabwe RPCV, and Actor Andrew Shue 1 September 2003

Acting: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman teaches lessons of Juneteenth as "The Griot" 19 June 2003

Acting: Tim Talbott, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, will perform a production chronicling his Peace Corps experience in the Commonwealth of Dominica 8 June 2003

Acting: Morocco RPCV and Poety Theatre Founder Don Wilsun dies in Seattle 26 May 2003

Acting: Giles Hogya - Dean of Fine Arts - lived in Kabba, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and established and toured with his Children’s Theatre Company while teaching at the Kabba Teacher’s Training College 25 May 2003

Acting: Television Actress Valerie Wildman of "Days of our Lives" worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the barrios of the Cartagena Mountains in Colombia 13 April 2003

Acting: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman tells audiences stories ofAfrican-American ancestors 3 April 2003

Acting: Hawai'i RPCV produces a monthly program on 'Olelo television called "Bring the World Home" 24 February 2003

Acting: It was while James Pelegano was in the Peace Corps stationed on the South Pacific island of Tonga that the oceanographer became friends with the island physician 2 February 2003

Acting: Thailand RPCV Lee Stetson impersonates John Muir, wins election to County Board of Supervisors 8 January 2003

Acting: Peru RPCV Hank Finken performs one man plays 21 February 2002

Acting: "You Look For Me..." which opens at HERE Arts Center at 145 Avenue of the Americas in New York City is about the thirty-five year friendship between a two men who meet while serving in the Peace Corps in Colombia in 1964 in their early twenties. 2 July 2001

Acting: Before hitting graduate school, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India doing public health work 24 June 2001

Acting: Actor Peter Lownds, friend of Jack Kerouac, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern Brazil in the mid-sixties 23 June 2001

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Acting, Theatre, and Television: Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something" 1 September 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Interview with Do Something Founder , Zimbabwe RPCV, and Actor Andrew Shue 1 September 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: While living in Honduras from 1985-87, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer working with adult literacy, women's groups, and rehabilitation programs for street kids 21 June 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman teaches lessons of Juneteenth as "The Griot" 19 June 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Tim Talbott, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, will perform a production chronicling his Peace Corps experience in the Commonwealth of Dominica 8 June 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Morocco RPCV and Poety Theatre Founder Don Wilsun dies in Seattle 26 May 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Giles Hogya - Dean of Fine Arts - lived in Kabba, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and established and toured with his Children’s Theatre Company while teaching at the Kabba Teacher’s Training College 25 May 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Watch Director Vasquez on Television on the Web 8 May 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Swaziland RPCV Chris Matthews does benefit for Shore Memorial Hospital 5 May 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Director Vasquez appears on Television this evening 29 April 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Television Actress Valerie Wildman of "Days of our Lives" worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the barrios of the Cartagena Mountains in Colombia 13 April 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman tells audiences stories ofAfrican-American ancestors 3 April 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Costa Rica RPCV Joe Ingoglia appears on "Jeopardy" Television Show 5 March 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Hawai'i RPCV produces a monthly program on 'Olelo television called "Bring the World Home" 24 February 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Public Service Advertising for the Peace Corps - A Case Study 15 February 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Thailand RPCV Lee Stetson impersonates John Muir, wins election to County Board of Supervisors 8 January 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Kazakhstan PCV Kevin Marousek describes local television habits 3 January 2003

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Winnie Kelley, Creator of slogan: "The toughest job you'll ever love." dies 3 December 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: PC Director appears on Washington State Cable Television 5 November 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Peace Corps Samoa - It shocked, amazed, and disappointed me that my family had a television 23 October 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Peru and Guinea RPCVs meet with Meet the Press's Tim Russert 1 October 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Pilot TV show with Returned Volunteer character not picked up 27 August 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Bush premiers Public Service Announcements for volunteer work 30 July 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Rep. Chris Cox interviews Gaddi Vasquez about the Peace Corps role in the War against Terrorism for the Washington Report tv show 27 May 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Jill Clayburgh to play RPCV's mother in Fox Series 19 April 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Returned Volunteer character in new Fox TV Show 14 April 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Peace Corps Looking for Love 27 March 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Peru RPCV Hank Finken performs one man plays 21 February 2002

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Joseph Blatchford appears with John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Mike Douglas Show in 1972 15 September 2001

Acting, Theatre, and Television: "You Look For Me..." which opens at HERE Arts Center at 145 Avenue of the Americas in New York City is about the thirty-five year friendship between a two men who meet while serving in the Peace Corps in Colombia in 1964 in their early twenties. 2 July 2001

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Before hitting graduate school, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India doing public health work 24 June 2001

Acting, Theatre, and Television: Actor Peter Lownds, friend of Jack Kerouac, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern Brazil in the mid-sixties 23 June 2001

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Peace Corps: Acting and Theatre

Read stories about the Peace Corps and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in Acting and Theatre. Archived stories are below. The most recent stories are above. Click on the link below to return to Peace Corps Library.

Peace Corps: Acting and Theatre

Acting and Theatre: East Timor Peace Corps Volunteer "T.T. Lyre" says: Artists and poets maybe 6 May 2006

Acting and Theatre: RPCV Ed Hoovler, whose one-man show "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" is the most challenging of his acting career, plays a grand total of 15 characters 29 November 2005

Acting and Theatre: "Perdita" explores the life of Perdita Huston - Peace Corps Staffer and Activist 11 September 2005

Acting and Theatre: Korea RPCV Cris Groenendaal has played the role of the Phantom in the hit musical "The Phantom of the Opera" more than 860 times on Broadway and with international companies 19 August 2005

Acting and Theatre: Another Review of "Doing Good" based on book by RPCV John Perkins 13 July 2005

Acting and Theatre: "Doing Good" describes the progression from altruistic young Peace Corpsman to cynical huckster for projects benefiting America's multinational corporations 9 July 2005

Acting and Theatre: Mime Troupe tackles history, politics and the World Bank with Musical Memoir of RPCV John Perkins 4 July 2005

Acting and Theatre: Marin Hinkle's parents met in the Peace Corps, and she was born in Tanzania. 5 June 2005

Acting and Theatre: RPCV Leslie Hawke gets a chunk of the play "Hurlyburly," for gypsy women in Romania 15 March 2005

Acting and Theatre: "The Time When I Was Mamadou" tells the story of, as Mauretania RPCV Matt Gould puts it, "a redheaded, gay, Jewish boy, which is basically me and three backup singers 17 January 2005

Acting and Theatre: Review of "The Time When I Was Mamadou" written and performed by Mauritania RPCV Matt Gould 16 January 2005

Acting and Theatre: Another Review of "The Time When I Was Mamadou" written and performed by Mauritania RPCV Matt Gould 15 January 2005

Acting and Theatre: RPCV Matt Gould writes and performs "The Time When I Was Mamadou," a hilarious and touching one-man musical play about the ill-guided misadventures of a red-headed, black, Jewish, gay boy who wants to help the "poor souls of the world to see life through [his] eyes." 13 January 2005

Acting and Theatre: RPCV Matt Gould writes and performs musical about the time he spent living in Mauritania: "The Time When I was Mamadou" 12 January 2005

Acting and Theatre: India RPCV Blake Willeford, now 61 and a retired carpenter, was just back from the Peace Corps when he bought The Clyde from the original owners, Norman and Hazel Clyde. At first his hippie friends worked concessions in exchange for free tickets. Now only the ticket sellers are volunteers, some for as long as 25 years. 9 December 2004

Acting and Theatre: Blake Willeford bought the Clyde Theatre in February of 1972. Blake was newly out of three years in the Punjab of India with the Peace Corps, and really knew nothing about running a movie theater. 9 December 2004

Acting and Theatre: Blake Willeford purchased the Clyde Theatre 1972 when he returned from a stint in the Peace Corps. Blake and his wife Lynn (who started as a ticketseller) have owned and operated the theater ever since. 9 December 2004

Acting and Theatre: From ages 5 to 7, Robert Richter lived in Kenya. His father was serving as deputy director for the Peace Corps there 23 October 2004

Acting and Theatre: Ends by Eastern Caribbean RPCV David Alex 24 September 2004

Acting and Theatre: Eastern Caribbean RPCV David Alex is the author of 16 one-act plays and eight full-length plays 17 September 2004

Acting and Theatre: Four nights a week, Bulgaria RPCV Anji Roe Wood plays the part of a maid in a long-running farce about Atlanta society. 8 September 2004

Acting and Theatre: Bulgaria RPCV Anji Roe Wood is delighted to be joining the cast of Peachtree Battle! 8 September 2004

Acting and Theatre: Quirky, verbal romantic comedy Little Black Book has character, Jane Craig, who worked in the Peace Corps 16 August 2004

Acting and Theatre: 1963 was a year of great change, both nationally and theatrically with Hot Spot, a musical comedy about the Peace Corps that starred Judy Holliday 6 July 2004

Acting and Theatre: The idea for Hot Spot was born out of a real life incident that had occurred two years earlier. Marjorie Michelmore, a young Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Nigeria, wrote a postcard to her boyfriend back in the United States. She described the area as "squalor." What began as an ugly international incident, would end up being resolved in a very positive way 6 July 2004

Acting and Theatre: Hot Spot: Synopsis Of Scene - a musical comedy about the Peace Corps that starred Judy Holliday 6 July 2004

Acting and Theatre: Malaysian playright Kannan Menon says he wrote " Fireside Story" as well as the lyrics, and the music was composed by an American Peace Corps friend, Jim , whose last name escapes me now. 23 May 2004

Acting and Theatre: Zaire and Ivory Coast RPCV Paul Weidner to speak at Artistic Directors 40th Anniversary Forum 30 April 2004

Acting and Theatre: Zaire and Ivory Coast RPCV Paul Weidner is producing director of the Hartford (Conn.) Stage Company 28 January 2004

Acting and Theatre: Honduras RPCV Howard Bean is improv comic in Boston 22 January 2004

Acting and Theatre: THE first Annual Bulgarian Student Play Writing Contest has been held by Peace Corps volunteers with the aim of promoting artistic awareness among students in Bulgaria 8 January 2004

Acting and Theatre: Benjamin A. Horwitz spent two years in Bhopal, India as a Peace Corps Volunteer providing technical consulting to small-scale industrie 4 October 2003

Acting and Theatre: Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something" 1 September 2003

Acting and Theatre: Interview with Do Something Founder , Zimbabwe RPCV, and Actor Andrew Shue 1 September 2003

Acting and Theatre: While living in Honduras from 1985-87, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer working with adult literacy, women's groups, and rehabilitation programs for street kids 21 June 2003

Acting and Theatre: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman teaches lessons of Juneteenth as "The Griot" 19 June 2003

Acting and Theatre: Tim Talbott, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, will perform a production chronicling his Peace Corps experience in the Commonwealth of Dominica 8 June 2003

Acting and Theatre: Morocco RPCV and Poety Theatre Founder Don Wilsun dies in Seattle 26 May 2003

Acting and Theatre: Giles Hogya - Dean of Fine Arts - lived in Kabba, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and established and toured with his Children’s Theatre Company while teaching at the Kabba Teacher’s Training College 25 May 2003

Acting and Theatre: Television Actress Valerie Wildman of "Days of our Lives" worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the barrios of the Cartagena Mountains in Colombia 13 April 2003

Acting and Theatre: Liberia RPCV Kijana Wiseman tells audiences stories ofAfrican-American ancestors 3 April 2003

Acting and Theatre: Guyana RPCV Aryn Bartley staging the “Lysistrata Project: A Theatrical Act of Dissent” 26 February 2003

Acting and Theatre: Hawai'i RPCV produces a monthly program on 'Olelo television called "Bring the World Home" 24 February 2003

Acting and Theatre: It was while James Pelegano was in the Peace Corps stationed on the South Pacific island of Tonga that the oceanographer became friends with the island physician 2 February 2003

Acting and Theatre: Thailand RPCV Lee Stetson impersonates John Muir, wins election to County Board of Supervisors 8 January 2003

Acting and Theatre: Peru RPCV Hank Finken performs one man plays 21 February 2002

Acting and Theatre: "You Look For Me..." which opens at HERE Arts Center at 145 Avenue of the Americas in New York City is about the thirty-five year friendship between a two men who meet while serving in the Peace Corps in Colombia in 1964 in their early twenties. 2 July 2001

Acting and Theatre: Before hitting graduate school, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India doing public health work 24 June 2001

Acting and Theatre: Actor Peter Lownds, friend of Jack Kerouac, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern Brazil in the mid-sixties 23 June 2001

Acting and Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth and Barbara met and married 14 years ago while they were young idealists in the US Peace Corps. They are still associated with developing countries, but Kenneth's idealism has mutated into business rhetoric, shrugging off accusations that his company is out for dirty money by selling defective baby formula to developing world mothers. 2 February 2000

Acting and Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle makes his living selling defective baby formula in third-world markets. A former Peace Corps volunteer and 1960s idealist, Hoyle has succumbed to the bottom line in a corrupt and nefarious business. 2 February 2000

Acting and Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle, who's repudiated his Peace Corps idealism and the memory of his parents' Holocaust survival, rejecting the righteous for the bottom line 2 February 2000

Acting and Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth, a former Peace Corps volunteer gone astray, works for a cutthroat company that is eating its way through the world under the misleadingly harmless name of Iris and Rose 2 February 2000

Acting and Theatre: Mauritania RPCV Matt Gould has always been headed for Broadway 11 June 1997

Acting and Theatre: "The Time When I was Mamadou" is not first musical about the Peace Corps - Read about "Hot Spot" that appeared on Broadway in 1963 19 April 1963

When this story was posted in July 2006, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Jody Olsen is acting Peace Corps Director
The Senate confirmed Gaddi Vasquez to head the FAO on June 30. Jody Olsen will be acting Director until the President makes a permanent appointment. Olsen has been Deputy Director of the Peace Corps since 2002. She has previously served as Chief of Staff for two directors, as regional director for North Africa, Near East, and Asia and the Pacific, and as country director in Togo. She served in Tunisia as a PCV.

The Peace Corps Library
The Peace Corps Library is now available online with over 40,000 index entries in 500 categories. Looking for a Returned Volunteer? Check our RPCV Directory. New: Sign up to receive PCOL Magazine, our free Monthly Magazine by email. Like to keep up with Peace Corps news as it happens? Sign up to recieve a daily summary of Peace Corps stories from around the world.
Changing the Face of Hunger
In his new book, Former Congressman Tony Hall (RPCV Thailand) says humanitarian aid is the most potent weapon the United States can deploy against terrorism. An evangelical Christian, he is a big believer in faith-based organizations in the fight against hunger. Members of Congress have recently recommended that Hall be appointed special envoy to Sudan to focus on ending the genocide in Darfur.
PC will not return to East Timor in 2006
Volunteers serving in East Timor have safely left the country as a result of the recent civil unrest and government instability. Latest: The Peace Corps has informed us that at this time, the Peace Corps has no plans to re-enter the country in 2006. The Peace Corps recently sent a letter offering eligible volunteers the opportunity to reinstate their service in another country.
Chris Dodd considers run for the White House
Senator Chris Dodd plans to spend the next six to eight months raising money and reaching out to Democrats around the country to gauge his viability as a candidate. Just how far Dodd can go depends largely on his ability to reach Democrats looking for an alternative to Hillary Clinton. PCOL Comment: Dodd served as a Volunteer in the Dominican Republic and has been one of the strongest supporters of the Peace Corps in Congress.
The RPCV who wrote about Ben Hogan
Probably no RPCV has done more to further the Third Goal of the Peace Corps than John Coyne with the Peace Corps Writers web site and newsletter that he and Marian Haley Beil have produced since 1989. Now John returns to writing about his first love - golf in "The Caddie who knew Ben Hogan." Read an excerpt from his novel, an interview with the author and a schedule of his book readings in Maryland and DC this week.
Vasquez testifies before Senate Committee
Director Vasquez testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination as the new Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture replacing Tony Hall. He has been the third longest serving Peace Corps Director after Loret Ruppe Miller and Sargent Shriver. PCOL Comment: Read our thanks to Director Vasquez for his service to the Peace Corps.
First Amendment Watch
Maine Web Report hit with Federal Lawsuit
Website wins trademark suit against Jerry Falwell
Interview with a Hit Man
RPCV John Perkins says that for many years he was an "economic hit man" in the world of international finance whose primary job was to convince less developed countries to accept multibillion dollar loans for infrastructure projects that left the recipient countries wallowing in debt and highly vulnerable to outside political and commercial interests. In this exclusive interview for "Peace Corps Online," Colombia RPCV Joanne Roll, author of Remember with Honor, talks to Perkins about his Peace Corps service, his relation with the NSA, "colonization" in Ecuador, the consequences of his work, why he decided to speak out, and what his hopes are for change.
PC Program in Chad temporarily suspended
Director Vasquez announced the temporary suspension of the Peace Corps program in Chad on April 14 and that all 29 Peace Corps volunteers have left the country. With a program dating back forty years (See Page 4 of the April 1966 "Peace Corps Volunteer"), RPCVs hope that volunteers can return to Chad as soon as the situation has stabilized. Congratulations to the Peace Corps for handling the suspension quickly and professionally.
Peace Corps stonewalls on FOIA request
The Ashland Daily Tidings reports that Peace Corps has blocked their request for information on the Volkart case. "After the Tidings requested information pertaining to why Volkart was denied the position — on March 2 — the newspaper received a letter from the Peace Corps FOIA officer stating the requested information was protected under an exemption of the act." The Dayton Daily News had similar problems with FOIA requests for their award winning series on Volunteer Safety and Security.
PCOL readership increases 100%
Monthly readership on "Peace Corps Online" has increased in the past twelve months to 350,000 visitors - over eleven thousand every day - a 100% increase since this time last year. Thanks again, RPCVs and Friends of the Peace Corps, for making PCOL your source of information for the Peace Corps community. And thanks for supporting the Peace Corps Library and History of the Peace Corps. Stay tuned, the best is yet to come.
History of the Peace Corps
PCOL is proud to announce that Phase One of the "History of the Peace Corps" is now available online. This installment includes over 5,000 pages of primary source documents from the archives of the Peace Corps including every issue of "Peace Corps News," "Peace Corps Times," "Peace Corps Volunteer," "Action Update," and every annual report of the Peace Corps to Congress since 1961. "Ask Not" is an ongoing project. Read how you can help.
RPCV admits to abuse while in Peace Corps
Timothy Ronald Obert has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a minor in Costa Rica while serving there as a Peace Corps volunteer. "The Peace Corps has a zero tolerance policy for misconduct that violates the law or standards of conduct established by the Peace Corps," said Peace Corps Director Gaddi H. Vasquez. Could inadequate screening have been partly to blame? Mr. Obert's resume, which he had submitted to the Peace Corps in support of his application to become a Peace Corps Volunteer, showed that he had repeatedly sought and obtained positions working with underprivileged children. Read what RPCVs have to say about this case.
Military Option sparks concerns
The U.S. military, struggling to fill its voluntary ranks, is allowing recruits to meet part of their reserve military obligations after active duty by serving in the Peace Corps. Read why there is opposition to the program among RPCVs. Director Vasquez says the agency has a long history of accepting qualified applicants who are in inactive military status. John Coyne says "Not only no, but hell no!" and RPCV Chris Matthews leads the debate on "Hardball." Avi Spiegel says Peace Corps is not the place for soldiers while Coleman McCarthy says to Welcome Soldiers to the Peace Corps. Read our poll results. Latest: Congress passed a bill on December 22 including language to remove Peace Corps from the National Call to Service (NCS) military recruitment program
Why blurring the lines puts PCVs in danger
When the National Call to Service legislation was amended to include Peace Corps in December of 2002, this country had not yet invaded Iraq and was not in prolonged military engagement in the Middle East, as it is now. Read the story of how one volunteer spent three years in captivity from 1976 to 1980 as the hostage of a insurrection group in Colombia in Joanne Marie Roll's op-ed on why this legislation may put soldier/PCVs in the same kind of danger. Latest: Read the ongoing dialog on the subject.

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