1966: terry bennett md served as a Peace Corps Physician in morocco in Rabat and the entire Kingdom beginning in 1966



Returned Peace Corps Physician terry bennett md can be contacted at terryagreencafedcom

Country of Service: morocco

Training Group: Physicans

Cities you served in: Rabat and the entire Kingdom

Arrival Year: 1966

Departure Year: 1968

Work Description:

I was the Peace Corps Physician 1966-68 and ended up by default as the Director (unpaid, and unappreciated by Peace Corps Washington) for the Lab Tech project.

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

I returned to the USA and got a Harvard University Master's in Public Health, worked overseas for awhile,in Africa and the Mideast, and then went to Saudi Arabia for 8 years, whee I was the only non Moslem, non Middle Eastern doc to ever get a private license in the Kingdom. I now live and work in Rochester New Hampshire

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

I have written a Story of the grief and frustration tha the Volunteers and I went through. The Peace Corps management in Morocco was sick or worse for most of the time I worked there, the Washington management not much better

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

Anyone who knew Jim Stout, who was killed in Morocco in a road accident near Casablanca in 67 or 58.

Any message for returned volunteers?:

I grow old, I grow old, shall I wear my trousers rolled?""

Originally posted: April 5, 2008

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