1961: BRENDA B. SCHOONOVER served in Philippines in Magaroa beginning in 1961



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer BRENDA B. SCHOONOVER can be contacted at RCSCHOON2aAOLdCOM

Country of Service: Philippines

Training Group: Group I

Cities you served in: Magaroa

Arrival Year: 1961

Departure Year: 1963

Work Description:

teacher for training Filpino teachers methods of teaching English as a second language

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

Associate director or Peace Corps Tanzania, 1965-67

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

Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. State Department, Ambassador to Togo from 1998-2000; American Charge D'Affaires Ad Inrterim to Belgium uninterrupted from September 2003 to
July 2004. Retired 2004 in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

My thoughts are best expressed in a speech I gave in the fall to new Peace Corps Fellows Group at Duke Uniniversity, Durham, NC .

Any message for returned volunteers?:

Continue to carry the torch of volunteerism once you return.

Originally posted: March 6, 2006

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