Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Turk Thomas Humphrey can be contacted at thudfaaadiadco
Country of Service: Iran
Training Group: Municipal Engineering / Thiokol Chemical / Clearfield, Utah
Cities you served in: Ahwaz, Tehran
Arrival Year: 1967
Departure Year: 1969
Work Description:
Draftsman / Surveyor in Ahwaz, then
Special Projects Coordinator for Iran Game & Fish Department in Tehran
Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:
Turkey / Gegakundu Program in Ankara / Portland State College / 1965
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Returned to University of Arizona for Master's Degree in International Relations / Worked for City of Tucson and Pima County Government during 1970's / Assistant Hospital Administrator for Kino Community Hospital / Moved to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1981 to work as HR Director for joint venture / Married Australian nurse from Sydney in Bern, Switzerland / Attended Vienna University for 2nd Master's Degree in HR Management / Retured to California in 1987 / Owned my own franchise, San Diego County Job Guide and worked as HR Director for Charter Medical in Rancho Bernardo, California / Daughter, Celeste Riane Humphrey born in 1989 / Owned home in Carlsbad, California / Returned to Riyadh in 1990 / HR Director for National Guard Hospital and Heart Hospital in Riyadh / Returned to Lake Oswego, Oregon in late 1995; worked as Physician Recruiter while looking for overseas employment / Arrived in Moscow December 1995 as National Director of Human Resources for Deloitte & Touche CIS / Moved to Paris in January 1999 to work for as Senior Manager of EMEA for Deloitte & Touche / Returned to Carlsbad in 2001 sell home and move possessions to Australia / Started work for Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in UAE in 2001 / Purchased home on Gold Coast in Queensland for retirement in 2005 / Employed with ADIA as HR Advisor / Family has been with me on all assignments since 1990.
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
Wish that I were more mature in those days, as I probably learned more from the wonderful Iranian people I met and worked with than I gave in return. Great, once-in-a-lifetime experience, that I look back on very fondly. Will forever have a love of the Persian culture and people.
Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
Mike Murphy, Gary Carlson, Jim Durfey
Any message for returned volunteers?:
Stay with the international life and keep giving of your time and efforts to humanitarian causes wherever you are.
Originally posted: February 19, 2005
