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1980: John Geiger served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras in Tegucigalpa beginning in 1980
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer John Geiger can be contacted at thegeigersabellsouthdnet
Country of Service: Honduras
Training Group: Honduras
Cities you served in: Tegucigalpa
Arrival Year: 1980
Departure Year: 1982
Work Description:
Environmental Engineer with the Ministry of Renewable Natural Resources
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Started and directed (for 18 years) the Catholic Volunteers in Florida, a one-year volunteer program (see www.cvif.org or www.cnvs.org. Since 2001 work for Orange County Florida in the Environmental Protection Division.
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
A great way to meet other fascinating people and to enlarge one's perspective of life. The tax money spent on Peace Corps has a better chance of establishing world peace than all the money spent on the military.
Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
The band we had for the Peace Corps parties 1980-1982 - one member was Dave Robinson, he was great on sax and clarinet, he was from Maine. I am in touch with he piano player - Jon Lind who worked in the Ministry of Natural Reosurces as well but as an environmental educator.
Originally posted: February 21, 2007
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Related Links:
Peace Corps Honduras; Directory of Honduras RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Honduras RPCVs; Peace Corps Annual Report: 1980