July 12, 2004: Headlines: COS - the Gambia: Adventure: Travel:: Vagablogging: Todd Borgie was Expedition Educator on "Take Me With You! " World Tour
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July 12, 2004: Headlines: COS - the Gambia: Adventure: Travel:: Vagablogging: Todd Borgie was Expedition Educator on "Take Me With You! " World Tour
Todd Borgie was Expedition Educator on "Take Me With You! " World Tour
Todd Borgie was Expedition Educator on "Take Me With You! " World Tour
Todd Borgie, Expedition Educator/Take Me With You! Program, Oakland, CA
Official bio: Bringing an eclectic background and a wide range of experiences to the team, Todd draws from 20 years as a teacher, an electrical engineer, and a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer.
The real story: A veteran of two previous Land Rover expeditions with Nick and Chanda Baggarly, Todd is an all-around utility player on the DATW team – and by this I mean that he knows how to play an accordion. Sadly, he will not be bringing the accordion on the expedition, though he will bring a guitar -- and legend has it that Todd can attract huge crowds of locals when he takes out his guitar, though most of these people flee when he actually starts playing. Todd’s office in the DATW office in Los Gatos was in the garage, where he would spend interminable amounts of time sprawled under the vehicles, only to emerge hours later, covered in grease. We’re still not sure what he was doing down there.
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. |
| 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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