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March 25, 2003: Headlines: COS - Iran: Religon: Henderson Gleaner: Iran RPCV Gordon Morrison recalls Middle East experiences 01/16 01:38pm [1]
December 8, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Writing - Iran: Bookfinder: Jennifer B-C Seaver announces today the publication of "Journeys: A Novel of Iran" about Peace Corps Volunteers managing their personal ups and downs against the background and intrigue of Iran in the mid-1960's 01/01 08:19pm [1]
December 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: COS - Afghanistan: Service: Pak Tribune: One of the hostages held in the American Embassy in Teheran was RPCV Barry Rosen. Years later, after 9/11, Mr. Rosen persuaded Teachers College, where he headed the press office, to resume its work of the 1970's in Afghanistan compiling school textbooks for the Ministry of Education. 01/01 04:08pm [1]
November 7, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Election2004 - Bush: Election2004 - Kerry: Iranian: Goudarz Eghtedari knew the US through the actions of a young American, Barkley Moore, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in a small town close to the Soviet border in Northern Iran. Despite the rumors I could overhear that he was a spy eavesdropping on Soviet communications, he was a friend back in the mid 60s when I was not even a teen. 11/29 03:32am [1]
November 8, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: University Administration: Football: NFL: After serving eight years and becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history, Donna Shalala was selected as the University of Miami's president. Now NFL.com has chosen her to discuss what it's like presiding over the school that produces more NFL talent than any other 11/12 09:16pm [1]
November 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: COS - Afghanistan: Hostages: Terrorism: Newsday: RPCV Barry Rosen left Manhattan last month for Afghanistan, next door to Iran, where he was held hostage for 444 days in 1979. Rosen is determined to recapture something that was taken from him more than two decades ago: his overseas life 07/25 06:40am [2]
September 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Environment: Urban Spaces: Architecture: CLA Today: Iran RPCV Peggy Lucas Scales Lofty Heights of Success 09/06 06:31pm [1]
July 21, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Civil Rights: Civil Liberties: Speaking Out: Muslim Issues: Law: Justice: Crime: Immigration: Profiling: Wilamette Week Online: Iran RPCV Tom Nelson helps wage a quiet jihad against the Bush administration 08/25 08:54pm [1]
August 7, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Islamic Studies: Christian Studies: Religion: Evansville Courier & Press: Iran RPCV Gordon Morrison sees world faiths up close 08/12 11:26am [1]
June 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: COS - Jamaica: Law: Patriot Act: The Oregonian: Jamaica RPCV David Berger defends Iranian Pete Seda against Patriot Act 06/05 03:29pm [3]
March 17, 2000: Headlines: COS - Iran: Parstimes: Madeleine Albright says "Over the years, thousands of American teachers, health care workers, Peace Corps volunteers and others have contributed their energy and goodwill to improving the lives and well-being of the Iranian people." 05/31 01:28pm [1]
May 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Primary Education: Framingham Online: Leslie Miller never thought she would become a teacher, but after spending a few years teaching English in Iran with the Peace Corps, she found she loved it. 01/22 07:00am [4]
May 21, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: Islamic Issues: Culturalism: Criticism: NGO's: Iran Bulletin: The objective complicity is also officiated by western NGOs which are today the heirs of the US Peace Corps, as purveyors of culturally-specific aid, virulently anti modernist-state, and as providers of culturalism. This connection is not lost on Islamism: from the use of NGO sympathies and lobbies, under the title of appropriate forms of democracy (connected to Islamism, as our origin and our fate), no less than in the post-modern (but consummately modernist) critiques of Enlightenment notions of progress and of reason 05/22 04:16pm [1]
April 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Iran: COS - Afghanistan: Languages: Arabic: Islamic Issues: Rocky Mountain News: Dan Lutz, who has done Peace Corps work in Afghanistan and Iran, builds Arabic language program in Denver schools 04/26 05:20pm [1]
March 20, 2004 - Grand Forks Herald: Former Clinton cabinet member Iran RPCV Donna Shalala to address medical school grads May 8 03/22 04:44pm [1]
March 22, 2004 - PCOL Exclusive: How does a PCV who speaks fluent Farsi end up teaching English in Micronesia? 10/15 01:36am [6]
February 11, 2004 - Talahassee Democrat: Iran RPCV Shalala extols art of listening 02/11 11:22pm [1]
December 2, 903 - Washington Post: Iran RPCV Shalala on how to make the Drug Plans Work 01/01 12:58pm [1]
December 31, 2003 - Durham Herald Sun: Iran RPCV Sonna Loewenthal retires as Chapel Hill Assistant Town Manager 01/01 12:58pm [1]
December 26, 2003 - Brownwood Bulletin: Pamela Dean Spencer was posted in Abadan, Iran, by the United States Peace Corps 12/31 10:45am [1]
September 23, 1972 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer William E Challed who died while serving in Iran in September, 1972 at Age 25 12/19 10:18am [1]
April 29, 1970 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Judith Bosch who died while serving in Iran in April, 1970 at Age 24 11/03 01:24am [2]
September 1, 1967 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Nelson who died while serving in Iran in September, 1967 at Age 25 12/19 10:17am [1]
August 1, 1966 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Thomas Ashton who died while serving in Iran in August, 1966 at Age 22 12/19 10:17am [1]
June 23, 1965 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Francis Kirking who died while serving in Iran in June, 1965 03/14 05:35pm [2]
September 24, 2001 - Boston Returned Volunteers: My understanding of American exploitation and oppression started when I was in the Peace Corps in Iran at 21 years old in 1967. 11/27 10:57am [1]
November 17, 2003 - Philadelphia Inquirer: RPCV reunites with Iranian 'mom' 11/18 11:51am [1]
August 28, 2003 - Friends of Iran: RPCV Jennifer Seaver returns to Iran 08/29 10:55am [1]
July 26, 2003 - Johnson County Journal: Son of Iran RPCV Bob Dunkle fought near-fatal bout of leukemia 07/26 09:21am [1]
June 22, 2002 - Pasadena Star News: Iran RPCV Floyd Griggs was at school for 32 years 06/22 01:07pm [1]
June 22, 2003 - Arizona State University: Charlie and Marie Mitchell headed to Iran, where, before being posted to Mahallat, they learned Farsi 12/08 08:36am [9]
May 9, 2001 - Iranian - Peace Corps in Iran - Check out the American Peace Corps writers who spent time in Iran before the revolution. 09/04 05:12am [2]
I still think of myself as a Peace Corps volunteer. My service in Iran from 1962 to 1964 was one of the most important experiences of my youth 12/07 08:16pm [3]
Other Peace Corps women had babies while away, creating extraordinary memories, like those of Carole Nelson, a Bay Area city planner, who went through labor at a hospital in Iran surrounded by nurses in black chadors. 07/14 02:22am [2]
STATEMENT BY DONNA M. SHALALA: "I like to think of the Peace Corps as the 51st star on the American flag, because it represents the very best in the American character. I know this from my own service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Iran in the 1960s. 02/01 02:30pm [1]
Alternatives to the Peace Corps : A Directory of Third World & U.S. Volunteer Opportunities: Comment - As one who served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Iran, 1970-72; I wonder why anyone would choose an alternative to the Peace Corps. 07/07 03:40pm [1]
Can Iran be Forgiven? Barry Rosen first went to Iran as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1967 before taking up graduate studies in Iranian culture at Columbia University three years later. He became U.S. embassy press attache in Tehran in 1978, at the height of the revolution that overthrew the Shah. And he was in the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, when bearded militants poured over the compound's walls and began the 15-month hostage crisis. 12/05 07:41am [2]
Web Sites about Iran 01/23 03:05pm [1]
April 29, 1999 - Mage Publishers: Iran RPCV Jerome W. Clinton translates the story of Rostam and Esfandiyar 07/20 06:31pm [4]
February 27, 2003 - Tuscon Weekly: The Toughest Job 01/05 12:06am [2]
January 1, 1998 - American Memory Fellows Program: Chris and Sandy Langle taught in the Peace Corps in Iran 03/18 02:28pm [1]
January 1, 1999 - The Iran Project: Iran RPCV Barry Rosen talkes about Hostages and Captors: 20 Years Later 03/18 02:38pm [1]
July 28, 1998 - Emerican-Iranian Organization: Iran RPCV Barry Rosen speaks out on American-Iranian relations: Moving From Myth Toward Relationship 02/01 02:27pm [1]
March 18, 2003 - Monterey Symphony: Iran RPCV Joseph Truskot is Executive Director of the Monterey County Symphony 03/18 02:17pm [1]
March 18, 2003 - Personal Web Page: Iran RPCV John Raabe is Solar Designer 03/18 02:31pm [1]
May 1, 2000 - University of Miami: Iran RPCV Shalala addresses Peace Corps Volunteers leaving for Haiti 03/18 02:05pm [1]
November 2, 2002 - Friends of Iran: Reminders of our trip to Iran 03/18 01:58pm [1]
November 20, 2002 - The Capital Times: RPCV Rob Saleski returns to Iran 03/18 01:59pm [1]
October 22, 2001 - Dakota Studen: RPCV Michael Beard shares Middle Eastern experience in Iran 12/12 11:51am [2]
September 24, 2001 - Boston RPCVs: Iran RPCV Larkin D. Watson IV speaks out on Challenges of the New Millennium 03/18 02:21pm [1]
What Iran RPSV Instructors doing today 10/18 08:01am [3]
January 1, 2002 - Association Management: Iran RPCV Donna Shalala shares secrets of her success 01/18 10:48am [1]
January 6, 2002 - Palm Beach Post: RPCV Donna Shalala stands tall in Miami athletics as President of University of Miami 01/18 10:52am [1]
October 10, 2002 - The Miami Herald: Iran RPCV Donna Shalala speaks to students 10/20 01:24pm [1]
March 18, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Mustang Daily: Phil Doub was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers when he served in Iran in the late 1960s 03/19 11:41am [1]
February 26, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: COS - Iran: American-Iranian Council: Sargent Shriver on Honorary Board of Directors of American-Iranian Council 02/26 07:09pm [1]
February 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Obituaries: Washington Post: During postings in Tehran, Geneva and Manila, Martha H. Bernhart persisted in her passion for feeding others, often preparing huge meals for Peace Corps volunteers and others 02/12 01:10pm [1]
2006.11.15: November 15, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: return to our Country of Service - Iran: Columbian: Jackie Spurlock said she found people very friendly on her trip to Iran 02/25 12:26pm [1]
2006.10.27: October 27, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Medicine: Telegram & Gazette/Sunday Telegram: Iran RPCV Leigh Emery travels world for science 11/12 02:36pm [1]
2006.10.04: October 4, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Presidents - Kennedy: History: Islamic Issues: Political Forecast: Chase Nordengren writes: To solve the similar problem of opposing a different ideology, President John F Kennedy created a Peace Corps, sending groups of volunteers to former Communist states both to aid development and to counteract the American capitalist stereotype 10/30 09:56am [1]
1999.05.30: May 30, 1999: Headlines: COS - Benin: COS - Iran: Medicine: Biostatistics: Leishmaniasis : Personal Web Page: The centuries-old scourge of leishmaniasis brought Benin RPCV Larry Moulton to Iran, a land where generations of his family ministered to the sick 09/11 02:49pm [1]
2006.07.30: July 30, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Magic: Entertainment: Refugees: Rutland Herald: Iran RPCV Tom Verner conjures up a better world as Magicians Without Borders 08/06 11:30am [1]
2006.03.29: March 29, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Center for Persian Studies : The Center for Persian Studies sponsors the celebration of the 45th Anniversary of the Peace Corps 05/06 01:24am [1]
2006.04.29: April 29, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Diplomacy: Hostage: Powerline Blog: RPCV Michael Metrinko was a hostage in Iran in 1979 09/07 07:12am [2]
2006.04.24: April 24, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Iraq: Presidents - Bush: Presidents - Kennedy: Nuclear War: Washington Post: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. writes: Bush's Thousand Days 04/26 09:45am [2]
2006.03.02: March 2, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: COS - India: Awards: Staff: Country Director - Iran: Swampscott Reporter: Warren Sawyer was deputy director of Peace Corps India (1969-71) and then Peace Corps country director of Iran (1971-74) 03/03 06:54pm [1]
January 6, 2006: Headlines: COS - Iran: Awards: Service: Afghanistan: Newport News-Times: Iran RPCV Paul Barker named Lewis & Clark Distinguished Alumnus 01/07 01:42pm [1]
July 1, 2000: Headlines: COS - Iran: Toys: Art: Crafts Report: Iran RPCV Dave Spencer is Toy Artist 01/02 04:37pm [1]
September 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Architecture: Residential Architect: Mike McKenna studied architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, then joined the Peace Corps to work in city planning in Iran 10/03 09:36pm [1]
August 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Training: Staff: The Daily Astorian: Mitra Vazeen taught Persian, survival skills and cultural issues to Peace Corps volunteers in Iran 08/26 08:34am [1]
July 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Writing - Iran: Middle East Journal: Iran RPCV John Limbert writes "Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City" 08/16 05:56am [1]
July 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Sudan: Diplomacy: UPI: Iran RPCV John W. Limbert has assumed charge of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum 07/17 04:52pm [2]
May 8, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Wildlife: Conservation: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Iran RPCV Dave Ferguson oversees $1 million in funding for the ever-expanding Multinational Species Conservation Acts, programs established since the early 1990s to help elephants, rhinos, tigers, apes and marine turtles, among others. More acts are in the works to cover cranes, small cats and "keystone species" 05/25 03:44pm [1]
April 8, 2005: Headlines: COS - Iran: Diplomacy: Daily Vanguard: President of the Foreign Service Association in Washington, D.C., John Limbert was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran and a U.S. Embassy Staff member in Tehran and was one of the people held hostage in Iran in 1979 04/09 11:54pm [1]