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Peace Corps Moldova 9s
Peace Corps Moldova 9s
Peace Corps Moldova 9s
032-GregS.JPG Greg Slone
002-Melinda.JPG Melinda Sabo
003-Chad.JPG Chad Pfitzer
004-Alan.JPG Alan Murdock
005-Mical.JPG Mical McFarland
006-Lisa.JPG Lisa Marie Bunker
007-Joey.JPG Joey Kendall
008-John.JPG John Goodrick
009-Kim.JPG Kim Duva
010-Marcus.JPG Marcus Notheisen
011-Connie.JPG Connie Cook
012-Jake.JPG Jake Smith
013-Bill.JPG Bill Summers
014-Jason.JPG Jason Matthews
015-Nathan.JPG Nathan Crane
016-Patrick.JPG Patrick Russell
017-Joe.JPG Joe Rogers
018-Gina.JPG Gina Hey
019-Sandra.JPG Sandra Collier
020-Stephanie.JPG Stephanie Lozeau
024-Julia.JPG Julia Malczynski
025-Carrie.JPG Carrie Ellis
026-Kristen.JPG Kristen Young
027-Mihial.JPG Mihail Seroka
028-GregC.JPG Greg Caudle
029-Jessica.JPG Jessica Weinfeld
030-Mary.JPG Mary Schuring
031-Lori.JPG Lori Mayes
001-Davidson.JPG Davidson Highfill
033-Marc.JPG Marc Skelton
035-Anna.JPG Anna Cavnar
Jason Cheek
038-Sarah.JPG Sarah Yochim
Maia McFadden
Clara-022.JPG Clara Morris
Kristin Wegner
Amy Sewick
When this story was posted in February 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:Read the stories and leave your comments.
The Peace Corps Library
Peace Corps Online is proud to announce that the Peace Corps Library is now available online. With over 30,000 index entries in over 500 categories, this is the largest collection of Peace Corps related reference material in the world. From Acting to Zucchini, you can use the Main Index to find hundreds of stories about RPCVs who have your same interests, who served in your Country of Service, or who serve in your state.
Make a call for the Peace Corps
PCOL is a strong supporter of the NPCA's National Day of Action and encourages every RPCV to spend ten minutes on Tuesday, March 1 making a call to your Representatives and ask them to support President Bush's budget proposal of $345 Million to expand the Peace Corps. Take our Poll: Click here to take our poll. We'll send out a reminder and have more details early next week.
Peace Corps Calendar:Tempest in a Teapot?
Bulgarian writer Ognyan Georgiev has written a story which has made the front page of the newspaper "Telegraf" criticizing the photo selection for his country in the 2005 "Peace Corps Calendar" published by RPCVs of Madison, Wisconsin. RPCV Betsy Sergeant Snow, who submitted the photograph for the calendar, has published her reply. Read the stories and leave your comments.
WWII participants became RPCVs
Read about two RPCVs who participated in World War II in very different ways long before there was a Peace Corps. Retired Rear Adm. Francis J. Thomas (RPCV Fiji), a decorated hero of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2005 at 100. Mary Smeltzer (RPCV Botswana), 89, followed her Japanese students into WWII internment camps. We honor both RPCVs for their service.
Bush's FY06 Budget for the Peace Corps
The White House is proposing $345 Million for the Peace Corps for FY06 - a $27.7 Million (8.7%) increase that would allow at least two new posts and maintain the existing number of volunteers at approximately 7,700. Bush's 2002 proposal to double the Peace Corps to 14,000 volunteers appears to have been forgotten. The proposed budget still needs to be approved by Congress.
RPCVs mobilize support for Countries of Service
RPCV Groups mobilize to support their Countries of Service. Over 200 RPCVS have already applied to the Crisis Corps to provide Tsunami Recovery aid, RPCVs have written a letter urging President Bush and Congress to aid Democracy in Ukraine, and RPCVs are writing NBC about a recent episode of the "West Wing" and asking them to get their facts right about Turkey.
RPCVs contend for Academy Awards
Bolivia RPCV Taylor Hackford's film "Ray" is up for awards in six categories including best picture, best actor and best director. "Autism Is a World" co-produced by Sierra Leone RPCV Douglas Biklen and nominated for best Documentary Short Subject, seeks to increase awareness of developmental disabilities. Colombian film "El Rey," previously in the running for the foreign-language award, includes the urban legend that PCVs teamed up with El Rey to bring cocaine to U.S. soil.
Ask Not
As our country prepares for the inauguration of a President, we remember one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century and how his words inspired us. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."