April 10, 2004 - Barn Stable Patriot: Jim Gould served as director of the Peace Corps in Malaysia

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Jim Gould served as director of the Peace Corps in Malaysia

Jim Gould served as director of the Peace Corps in Malaysia

Jim Gould served as director of the Peace Corps in Malaysia

Correction: With apologies to Jim Gould...

Our recent profile of Cotuit resident and historian Jim Gould ("Village's 'see' captain steers through the centuries," March 26, 2004) accurately portrayed his love of history and of his village, but missed the mark regarding some of his personal history.

Although the piece was well received by his friends, the historian in Jim would like a number of things clarified now and for the ages.

While most closely associated with Cotuit (the Wampanoag word meaning Place of the Council), Gould was enlisted to write the Hyannis chapter in the 1976 Bicentennial volume The Seven Villages of Barnstable. Ida Anderson, librarian at the Cotuit Public Library at the time, had the honor to write on that western village. Also among local histories he's written is a paper on the Cape's churches, though not the peninsula's original churches.

Gould's father was a chemical engineer, and borrowed the surname of Dr. Joseph Warren, a physician and soldier who fell in the Battle of Bunker Hill, to provide Jim with his middle name.

During World War II, Gould served five years in the infantry, all within the European Theater.

His work as a Foreign Service Officer in Sumatra, a part of Indonesia, later resulted in the 1956 publication of "Sumatra - America's Pepperpot."

Gould's work as a Foreign Service Officer in China was under Mao's rule, though he said he did visit Chiang's China, which he found "a mess of corruption." He was later assigned to Hong Kong, then a British Crown Colony.

When he later returned to the Far East, it was as director of the Peace Corps in Malaysia.

The Goulds' home on Cotuit Bay was designed by daughter-in-law Joan Dineen in 1989. He retired from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.

Thank you for your graciousness and contributions to the town, and we hope this will right the factual wrongs.




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Story Source: Barn Stable Patriot

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