1965: Lorrain Giddings served in Bolivia in Sucre beginning in 1965



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Lorrain Giddings can be contacted at giddingsaecologiadedudmx

Country of Service: Bolivia

Training Group: Bolivia-Peru-Ecuador

Cities you served in: Sucre

Arrival Year: 1965

Departure Year: 1967

Work Description:

University professor

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

Technical work for ten years in NASA (moon rocks and remote sensing), research scientist in Instituto de Ecología and Instituto de Recursos Bióticos, both in Xalapa, state of Veracruz, Mexico, since then.

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

Best years of my life.

Any message for returned volunteers?:

There is now an Association for Bolivian Studies at http://www.bolivianstudies.org/.

Originally posted: January 8, 2006

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