November 29, 2004: Headlines: COS - Burkina Faso: Recruitment: Edwardsville Intelligencer: The five semesters of French should serve Tyler Ruthven well when he travels to French-speaking Burkina Faso next spring for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
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November 29, 2004: Headlines: COS - Burkina Faso: Recruitment: Edwardsville Intelligencer: The five semesters of French should serve Tyler Ruthven well when he travels to French-speaking Burkina Faso next spring for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
The five semesters of French should serve Tyler Ruthven well when he travels to French-speaking Burkina Faso next spring for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
The five semesters of French should serve Tyler Ruthven well when he travels to French-speaking Burkina Faso next spring for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
Will head for French-speaking Burkina Faso in 2005 for two-year stint
The five semesters of French, added to the two years he took at Edwardsville High School, should serve Tyler Ruthven well when he travels to French-speaking Burkina Faso next spring for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps.
"I just think it would be a great experience," he said recently in a phone interview from Lakeland, Fla. "I like to travel. I've enjoyed it since I was a little kid."
Some of that may have rubbed off from his father, Joe L. Ruthven, a former U.S. Navy man who spent 27 years as an engineer and maintenance manager for Shell Oil. He left the Edwardsville area four years ago to begin working as a project engineer and maintenance manager for The Ruthvens, a warehousing specialist founded by his father Joe P. Ruthven.
Tyler has lived with his family in such places as New Orleans and Saudia Arabia. After his graduation from EHS in 2000, he returned to New Orleans to enroll in Tulane.
He majored in political science and minored in math, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa last May.
In Burkina Faso, located in western Africa, is one of the poorest countries on earth. Ruthven estimates he will spend about 20 hours a week teaching math and will also spend some time helping with HIV and AIDS education programs.
About 300,000 people in Burkina Faso have HIV and AIDS, according to recent Peace Corps statistics.
In the 1980s and '90s, the country also experienced several military coups.
Ruthven said he was probably assigned to Burkina Faso because of his fluency in French. He will leave the U.S. for Burkina Faso on March 15. To get ready, he reads French newspapers whenever he can get ahold of them.
If everything works out, he'll visit the Edwardsville area before then, he said.
©Edwardsville Intelligencer 2004
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