Libby Garvey served in the Peace Corps in Central Africa



Libby Garvey served in the Peace Corps in Central Africa

Libby Garvey, Chair

(Term expires December 31, 2004)

School Board Office: (703) 228-6015

Libby Garvey has worked as a legislative aide on Capitol Hill. She also served in the Peace Corps in Central Africa and was associate director of the Mount Holyoke Washington Internship program.

Ms. Garvey has served as the Vice President of the County Council of PTAs, Vice President of the Fairlington Civic Association and Vice Chair of the Advisory Council on Instruction and has been involved in the PTAs of Abingdon Elementary, Drew Model School and the H-B Woodlawn program. She has served as the President of the Abingdon Elementary PTA and as Secretary of the H-B Woodlawn Program Parent Advisory Committee. She joined the School Board in 1997, and served as Chair from 1999 until 2001.

Ms. Garvey earned her bachelor of arts degree from Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts) and has lived in Arlington since 1977. She and her husband, Kennan, have two daughters who graduated Arlington Public Schools, and one grandson, a future APS student

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

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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