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2007.06.06: June 6, 2007: Headlines: Staff: Journalism: Advertising: Recruitment: Tallahassee Democrat: The Peace Corps Press Secretary manages a team of 25 Washington communications staffers and 11 regional-office press specialists
The Peace Corps Press Secretary manages a team of 25 Washington communications staffers and 11 regional-office press specialists
“I travel as part of a small delegation with the Corps director," Amanda said, "so we meet with high-level government officials as well as the Peace Corps volunteers. Visiting the volunteers at their sites - they work and live at the grass-roots, village level, is always a neat opportunity to gain an insider's look at the country. Every trip has been magical.” Her duties include managing all the organization's press, domestic and international, as part of a team of 25 Washington communications staffers and 11 regional-office press specialists.
PCOL Comment: Peace Corps has 36 full time employees in the Press Office placing articles in newspapers around the country about Peace Corps Volunteers and the work they are doing. With an estimated average salary of 50k plus 50% loading for benefits times 36 = almost $3 million annually in Press costs.
The Peace Corps Press Secretary manages a team of 25 Washington communications staffers and 11 regional-office press specialists
Here comes the globe-trotting bride
By Dorothy Clifford
CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT
Caption: Peace Corps Press Secretary Amanda Beck dancing in Panama with a man in native dress, 2006.
The smoky skies cleared, and golfers quietly disappeared from the fourth hole of Killearn Country Club for the idyllic May 26 outdoor wedding of Amanda Taylor Host and Thomas Martin Beck.
It was held at the elegant white-brick home of Amanda's parents, Sandra and former county commissioner Bruce Host, and was the grand finale to a weekend filled with parties and even a gentleman's lunch and tour of the Antique Car Museum.
The bride was a tall blond, beautiful and brainy. She grew up in Tallahassee, once wrote the Around Town social column for the Tallahassee Democrat and now travels the world as press director of the Peace Corps.
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In 2002, President George W. Bush first appointed Amanda special assistant to Gaddi Vasquez, then the director of the Peace Corps. In her five years with the Corps, Amanda has officially visited 13 countries, most recently Mongolia and Cambodia. Prior to that, she visited Jordan and Morocco. Last year, after Ron Tschetter was sworn in as the new director, she was named the press director.
Her duties include managing all the organization's press, domestic and international, as part of a team of 25 Washington communications staffers and 11 regional-office press specialists.
Since President John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps in 1961, 187,000 Americans have served in 139 countries.
“I travel as part of a small delegation with the Corps director," Amanda said, "so we meet with high-level government officials as well as the Peace Corps volunteers. Visiting the volunteers at their sites - they work and live at the grass-roots, village level, is always a neat opportunity to gain an insider's look at the country. Every trip has been magical.”
She particularly enjoyed the beautiful countryside of Albania, marveling over a rainbow at Victoria Falls in Africa, watching the sunset behind the ancient walls of Petra in Jordan and experiencing an entirely new culture in Cambodia.
The newlywed, who already has changed her Peace Corps e-mail address to Amanda Beck, leaves June 15 for Cameroon and Kenya. In Cameroon, she will help celebrate the Peace Corps' 45th year there.
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ohmygod........luckily america still has good looking blondes to run pr campaigns...the country club set equivalent of mit romney's boys...too good to go.....but just right for photo opps...
how many anthropologists does the pc have on staff.??