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1963: Robert A. Findlay served in Colombia in Bucaramanga beginning in 1963



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Robert A. Findlay can be contacted at rfindlayaiastatededu

Country of Service: Colombia

Training Group: Colombia 8

Cities you served in: Bucaramanga

Arrival Year: 1963

Departure Year: 1965

Work Description: architect,disaster management

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:

Peru,1970, disaster relief
Cook Islands 1998, Crisis Corps, disaster risk assessment
El Salvador 1999, Crisis Corps, disaster management

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

Completed education through PhD
Architecture practice in Minneapolis
Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University for thirty years.
Retired to Olympia, WA in 2002

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

Lessons learned about sustainable design in Colombia continued to inform teaching, practice, and service work thereafter. Would never have been a teacher without the PC experience.

Originally posted: April 3, 2003

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