2004 Presidents' Forum Roll Call on proposed bylaw changes



These are the results of the actual roll call vote that was taken at the President's Forum at the NPCA's national convention in Chicago in 2004.

2004 Presidents' Forum Roll Call on proposed bylaw changes

2004 Presidents' Forum Roll Call Vote

"Yes" vote was in favor of the proposed changes to the NPCA by-laws.

"No" vote was opposed to the proposed changes.

Group Name Group Leader (or Designate) Yes No


Amigos de Bolivia y Peru Hugh Pickens yes

Amigos de Honduras Alan Waugh

Atlanta Area RPCVs Kim Ross yes

Boston Area RPCVs Doane Perry yes

Central Ohio Returned Volunteer Association Ben Bloom no

Charlotte Area Peace Corps Association Bill Brandon yes

Cincinatti Area Returned Volunteers Gayle Linkletter yes

Ethiopia & Eritrea RPCVs Marian Haley Beil yes

Florida West Coast RPCVs Mary Garrison yes

Friends of Afghanistan Will Irwin yes

Friends of Baltics Carla Galison yes

Friends of Bangladesh Bob Terry yes

Friends of Burkina Faso Bob Osbourne yes

Friends of Cameroon Jules Delambre yes

Friends of Colombia Arleen S. Cheston no

Friends of Ecuador Josh Busby yes

Friends of Fiji Fred Mosher yes

Friends of Ghana Frank Yates yes

Friends of Iran Bill Brandon yes

Friends of Jamaica Don Arneson yes

Friends of Kenya Roland Johnson yes

Friends of Liberia Pat Reilly yes

Friends of Malawi John Staub yes

Friends of Malaysia Margie Hazelton yes

Friends of Mali Brian d'Flippo yes

Friends of Micronesia Wayne Johnson yes

Friends of Morocco Tim Resch yes

Friends of Niger Jim Schneider yes

Friends of Nigeria Greg Zell yes

Friends of Poland Helene Hermus yes

Friends of Senegal Erica Burman yes

Friends of Sierra Leone Michael Diliberti yes

Friends of Somalia Don Beil yes

Friends of Tanzania Malcolm Morris yes

Friends of the Dominican Republic Neil Ross yes

Friends of Togo Mike Moore yes

Friends of Tunisia Kelly Brest van Kampen yes

Friends of Uganda Doane Perry yes

Friends of Ukraine Suzie Budak yes

Greater Saint Louis RPCV Association Mike Murray yes

Green Mountain Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Mary Gernignani yes

HEITA-SA (Friends of South Africa) Sarah Mullens yes

Iowa Peace Corps Association Katy Hansen no

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual RPCVs Michael Learned yes

Maryland RPCVs Hugh Pickens yes

Milwaukee Peace Corps Association Allegra Troiano yes

Minnesota RPCVs Mary Adams yes

Nebraska Area RPCVs Ron Psota yes

Northern Alaska Peace Corps Friends Tony Gasbarro yes

Northern California Peace Corps Assn Joan Liston yes

Northern Ohio Returned Volunteer Association Michelle Johnson yes

Oklahoma RPCVs Billie Chambers no

Orange County Peace Corps Association Sharon Keane yes

Peace Corps Alumni Foundation for Philippine Development Sarah McMeans yes

Peace Corps Association (WA/ID - Spokane) Inland Northwest Sue Bracken yes

Peace Corps Association Louisiana David Wessel yes

Peace Corps Association North Carolina Margaret Riley

Peace Corps/VISTA Alumni of Colorado Don Curtis yes

Philadelphia RPCVs Larry Lipton no

Pittsburgh Area Peace Corps Association Bill Kulina yes

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Northeastern Illinois Rick Barbieri yes

RPCV New Jersey Rowland Bennett yes

RPCVs for Environment & Development Katy Hansen no

RPCVs of Greater New York (Big Apple Corps) Galen Gaarder yes

RPCVs of Kentucky (statewide - Lexington) Jack Wilson yes

RPCVs of Northeastern New York (Albany) Terry AmRhein no

RPCVs of Rhode Island Peggy Benz yes

RPCVs of Rochester New York Marian Haley Beil yes

RPCVs of South Florida Greg Zell yes

RPCVs of Western Michigan Sue Celadilla yes

Sacramento Valley RPCVs Karina Dahl yes

Southeastern Michigan RPCVs Jeff Jenks yes

Southwestern Ohio Returned Volunteer Association Robert J. Griffith yes

Washington State Peace Corps Association Paulette Thompson yes

West Cascade Peace Corps Association Beryl Brinkman yes









66 yes



7 no



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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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By carmenluz (200.31.73.54) on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:16 pm: Edit Post

Mi nombre es carmen luz hidalgo .
Durante los años 1966 y 1973 Recibimos estudiantes del programa "peace Corps" en mi casa, en Bogota, colombia.
Quisiera tener el e-mail de
Friends of Colombia Arleen S. Cheston
gracias