March 18, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Mustang Daily: Phil Doub was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers when he served in Iran in the late 1960s
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March 18, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Mustang Daily: Phil Doub was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers when he served in Iran in the late 1960s
Phil Doub was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers when he served in Iran in the late 1960s
Phil Doub was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers when he served in Iran in the late 1960s
Volunteers of yesterday and tomorrow
By Caitlin Donnell
Mustang Daily
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
March 18, 2005
This is the third installment of a three-part series about the Peace Corps. It examines the experiences of Cal Poly students and faculty who have been involved with the organization.
Agriculture professor Phil Doub was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers when he served in Iran in the late 1960s.
He spent two years running a large school farm on the Caspian Sea and then stayed in Iran for five years and started a large vertically-integrated food business with some Iranian and American investors.
The business he started is still in operation and has about 700 people working there.
Doub was so eager to join the Peace Corps that he left Cal Poly in the middle of his college career and returned to graduate after his service.
"When I wanted to join the Peace Corps, it was idealism and wanting to work in developing countries," Doub said. "It was a very exciting program and it still is."
Doub said that the Peace Corps was a turning point in his life. Dana Mattson, is a social science senior who has been accepted to the Peace Corps and is waiting be assigned to a country. "This is a perfect opportunity to serve while figuring out what I want to do after the Peace Corps, career wise," Mattson said. Mattson described the process of becoming a volunteer as tedious and long. For Cal Poly students, the first thing to do is set up a meeting with Brady Radovich, the Central Coast regional Peace Corps recruiter.
Applicants must write essays, get recommendations and have interviews. The application process takes about nine months, so students who are interested in going into the Peace Corps after they graduate should start planning during the fall quarter of their senior year, Radovich said.
Students who are looking for the opportunity to volunteer abroad with the Peace Corps are encouraged to speak with Radovich in the library, room 207 or contact him by e-mail at bradovic@calpoly.edu .
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 | March 1: National Day of Action Tuesday, March 1, is the NPCA's National Day of Action. Please call your Senators and ask them to support the President's proposed $27 Million budget increase for the Peace Corps for FY2006 and ask them to oppose the elimination of Perkins loans that benefit Peace Corps volunteers from low-income backgrounds. Follow this link for step-by-step information on how to make your calls. Then take our poll and leave feedback on how the calls went. |
 | 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. |
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