February 5, 2004: Headlines: Recruitment: The Breeze: Joseph Opala, a history professor, volunteered for the Peace Corps. Opala said he goes out of his way to recommend Peace Corps service to his students.
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February 5, 2004: Headlines: Recruitment: The Breeze: Joseph Opala, a history professor, volunteered for the Peace Corps. Opala said he goes out of his way to recommend Peace Corps service to his students.
Joseph Opala, a history professor, volunteered for the Peace Corps. Opala said he goes out of his way to recommend Peace Corps service to his students.
Joseph Opala, a history professor, volunteered for the Peace Corps. Opala said he goes out of his way to recommend Peace Corps service to his students.
JMU No. 8 producer of Peace Corps volunteers
School has 41 alumni in organization
by Shannon McFadden / contributing writer
JMU was ranked No. 8 in the Peace Corps' 2004 list of "Top Producing Colleges and Universities" for the most volunteers in 2003.
"JMU alumni have had a long history of commitment to serving communities both locally and abroad," said Sara Johnston, the public affairs specialist for the Mid-Atlantic States Peace Corps Recruiting Office. "We've always been impressed with JMU's service-learning program. We congratulate JMU on its continued service."
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Joseph Opala, a history professor, volunteered for the Peace Corps.
"I didn't realize JMU is so high in the Peace Corps rankings," he said. "I'm glad to hear it."
Opala said he goes out of his way to recommend Peace Corps service to his students.
"For many recent college grads it's the best experience you can have," he said. "It gives you some chill-out time between college and grad school or your professional career, and the cross-cultural experience is, of course, invaluable."
He said he made lifelong friends with fellow volunteers and with people in his host country. Many volunteers, he added, "also develop a lifelong involvement with the country they serve in."
It's an absolutely tremendous experience," he said.
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." |
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| 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. |
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