December 13, 2004: Headlines: Staff: Chief of Staff: PCOL Exclusive: Marie Wheat named Acting Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations, RPCV Ron Campbell named Acting Deputy
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December 13, 2004: Headlines: Staff: Chief of Staff: PCOL Exclusive: Marie Wheat named Acting Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations, RPCV Ron Campbell named Acting Deputy
Marie Wheat named Acting Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations, RPCV Ron Campbell named Acting Deputy
Marie Wheat named Acting Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations, RPCV Ron Campbell named Acting Deputy
To: All Peace Corps
From: Gaddi H. Vasquez, Director
Subject: Announcement
On December 13, 2004, Lloyd Pierson was sworn in as Assistant Administrator for Africa at USAID. Effective today, Marie Wheat assumed the position of Acting Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations. Marie Wheat has served as Deputy Chief of Staff/Deputy Chief of Operations for the Peace Corps for the last two years. In that capacity, she has assisted the Director and Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations in managing the day-to-day of the agency's overseas activities and domestic operations. Wheat first came to Peace Corps as Director of Congressional Relations after serving almost 10 years on Capitol Hill. She served as the Chief of Staff in the Office of Congressman Jim DeMint and as Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight. She has also worked as a senior staff member to the House Budget Committee and the Office of Congressman Steve Largent.
As Marie takes on her new responsibilities, Ron Campbell will assume the role of Acting Deputy Chief of Staff/Deputy Chief of Operations. Ron recently transferred to Peace Corps headquarters after serving as Country Director in Tanzania and South Africa. He was an active member of the South Africa mission's task force for the President's Emergency Plan for the Relief of AIDS, and currently leads the Peace Corps' overall participation in this important program. Campbell served as a PCV in the Solomon Islands. His experience includes over 12 years as resident advisor in Africa and Poland on USAID and World Bank projects. He has worked on assignments in 16 countries and his 30 years of experience spans the private sector, non-profit sector and the U.S. government.
Amanda T. Host
Special Assistant to the Director
Peace Corps
1111 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20526
(202) 692-2100
When this story was posted in December 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:
 | 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." |
 | 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. |
 | Charges possible in 1976 PCV slaying Congressman Norm Dicks has asked the U.S. attorney in Seattle to consider pursuing charges against Dennis Priven, the man accused of killing Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner on the South Pacific island of Tonga 28 years ago. Background on this story here and here. |
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