1964: Denny Kaltreider served in Colombia in Nilo, Cundinamarca & Bogota beginning in 1964

Peace Corps Online: Directory: Colombia: Directory of Colombia RPCVs: 1964: Denny Kaltreider served in Colombia in Nilo, Cundinamarca & Bogota beginning in 1964

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1964: Denny Kaltreider served in Colombia in Nilo, Cundinamarca & Bogota beginning in 1964

1964: Denny Kaltreider served in Colombia in Nilo, Cundinamarca & Bogota beginning in 1964

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Denny Kaltreider can be contacted at dennykauplinkdnet


Host Country: Colombia

Training Group Name: Colombia RCD (Group-?)

City (or cities) you served in: Nilo, Cundinamarca & Bogota

Year you began your peace corps service: 1964

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1966

Peace Corps Work Description:
1964-65 Rural Community Development Volunteer.
1965-1966 Educational TV Volunteer Summer 1966 Field Coordinator for PC-ETV Training Program at Brandeis University

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Drafted into US Army right after return to USA; served as combat photographer in Vietnam. Following discharge, became public school teacher - Gifted Specialist in State College, PA - just retired (June 2001)

Anything else you would like people to know about your peace corps service:
Unbelievably life-changing.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
I'd do it again in the blink of an eye.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
Any of the "old gang" from the "Pit" (Residencias Montreal in Bogota) or the RCD and ETV groups, or others who frequented Freddie's jazz bar in Bogota where Bill Slater and I played.


Originally posted: June 5, 2001



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