1981: Peter R. Brunette served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador in Quito and Manta beginning in 1981



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Peter R. Brunette can be contacted at pointlessforestayahoodcom

Country of Service: Ecuador

Training Group: Omnibus 36

Cities you served in: Quito and Manta

Arrival Year: 1981

Departure Year: 1982

Work Description:

Assigned with wife (Dorothy Treisner) to Special Ed. school in Manta that didn't need us, for political reasons beyond our understanding.

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

Returned to New Hampshire, had a child, got divorced and became a lawyer.

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

Toughest job I ever loved but a bureaucratic mess in-country.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Everybody.

Originally posted: October 21, 2007

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