1966: Geraldine Gillio served in Iran in Ahvaz beginning in 1966

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1966: Geraldine Gillio served in Iran in Ahvaz beginning in 1966

1966: Geraldine Gillio served in Iran in Ahvaz beginning in 1966

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Geraldine Gillio can be contacted at gerrygillioahotmaildcom

Country of Service: Iran

Training Group: Group 13 summer of 1966 in Austin Texas

Cities you served in: Ahvaz

Arrival Year: 1966

Departure Year: 1968

Work Description:

TEFL in girls' high schools
and in a boy's orphanage in Ahvaz
Running a summer kindergarten in an
orphanage in Kermanshah
Taught English evenings to adults in an Iran-America Society type school

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Returned to teaching world and American history at Snyder High School in Jersey City, NJ and retired in 1996. I do volunteer work with the International Institute of NJ and with the RPCV-NJ group (co-president)

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

It enriched my life in many ways. I am still in contact with my "Iranian family" and have been honored to be godmother to a child and two grandchildren of my best Iranian friend.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Anyone who is in Group 13-especially Carl J. Penton of Pensacola Florida

Any message for returned volunteers?:

If you are a member of an area or COS group, please get involved. There is a real need for committee and board members. Many hands make light work.

Originally posted: April 28, 2005



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