September 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Liberia: Nursing: Awards: Hartford Courant: Liberia RPCV Ann roderick is Tariffville's Citizen of the Year
Peace Corps Online:
Directory:
Liberia:
Peace Corps Liberia :
The Peace Corps in Liberia:
September 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Liberia: Nursing: Awards: Hartford Courant: Liberia RPCV Ann roderick is Tariffville's Citizen of the Year
Liberia RPCV Ann roderick is Tariffville's Citizen of the Year
She retired at 70 by joining the Peace Corps in Liberia, where she ministered to the sick as the head nurse in a post-surgical unit.
Liberia RPCV Ann roderick is Tariffville's Citizen of the Year
Retired Nurse, A Top Citizen
By Katie Melone
Hartford Courant
Hartford, Conn.
September 12, 2005
SIMSBURY - Ann Roderick doesn't want any publicity.
There's a pile of unopened mail on the table to sort, and raspberries to pick, she explains.
"Seems I have so many things to do," Roderick, Tariffville's Citizen of the Year, says from a chair in the living room of her 100-year-old Quarry Road home, her cane at her side.
She doesn't have much to say about being named her village's top citizen, but, in snippets, shyly offers the details of her 102 years.
Her father was a tobacco farmer in rural Tariffville in the early 1900s. She worked as a nurse for 25 years at St. Francis Hospital. When her brother's wife died in the 1940s, Roderick raised her niece and nephew.
She retired at 70 by joining the Peace Corps in Liberia, where she ministered to the sick as the head nurse in a post-surgical unit.
"I was getting on in years," she concedes.
Roderick has spent her life helping others, friends and neighbors say, and for these efforts, she will be honored Saturday during the third annual Tariffville Village Festival.
"She has lived a long life of simplicity," festival organizers wrote in a biography prepared on Roderick.
Roderick, a tiny woman, drives herself to Mass and the grocery store in a blue Audi A4.
Until recently, she'd open the doors each morning at St. Bernard's Church, and lay out the chalice, water and bread on the altar so the parish priest could sleep a little bit longer. After Mass, she cleaned up.
"She's given all her life," said the pastor, the Rev. Thomas Flower.
When this story was posted in September 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
| Why blurring the lines puts PCVs in danger When the National Call to Service legislation was amended to include Peace Corps in December of 2002, this country had not yet invaded Iraq and was not in prolonged military engagement in the Middle East, as it is now. Read the story of how one volunteer spent three years in captivity from 1976 to 1980 as the hostage of a insurrection group in Colombia in Joanne Marie Roll's op-ed on why this legislation may put soldier/PCVs in the same kind of danger. |
| 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 500 categories, this is the largest collection of Peace Corps related stories in the world. From Acting to Zucchini, you can find hundreds of stories about what RPCVs with your same interests or from your Country of Service are doing today. If you have a web site, support the "Peace Corps Library" and link to it today. |
| Friends of the Peace Corps 170,000 strong 170,000 is a very special number for the RPCV community - it's the number of Volunteers who have served in the Peace Corps since 1961. It's also a number that is very special to us because March is the first month since our founding in January, 2001 that our readership has exceeded 170,000. And while we know that not everyone who comes to this site is an RPCV, they are all "Friends of the Peace Corps." Thanks everybody for making PCOL your source of news for the Returned Volunteer community. |
Read the stories and leave your comments.
Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of the copyright owner for the non-profit purposes of criticism, comment, education, scholarship, and research under the "Fair Use" provisions of U.S. Government copyright laws and they may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner. Peace Corps Online does not vouch for the accuracy of the content of the postings, which is the sole responsibility of the copyright holder.
Story Source: Hartford Courant
This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; COS - Liberia; Nursing; Awards
PCOL22226
18