The Peace Corps Experience: Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 by P. David Searles, country director for the Peace Corps in the Philippines
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The Peace Corps Experience: Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 by P. David Searles, country director for the Peace Corps in the Philippines
The Peace Corps Experience : Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 by Philippines Country Director P. David Searles
The Peace Corps Experience : Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 by Philippines Country Director P. David Searles
The Peace Corps Experience : Challenge and Change, 1969-1976
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by P. David Searles
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Hardcover - 288 pages (April 1997)
Univ Pr of Kentucky; ISBN: 0813120098 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 9.31 x 6.32
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A former deputy director of the Peace Corps offers both a first-hand look at life in the agency - in the field and at headquarters - and a radical reinterpretation of its history during the Nixon and Ford administrations. By the end of the 1960s, the Peace Corps was in disarray. Debate raged over its effectiveness, and many new volunteers embraced the anti-establishment behavior of the day's youth. When President Nixon appointed Joseph Blatchford as director in 1969, some insiders felt the agency's days were numbered - especially when Blatchford set about re-evaluating the Peace Corps' mission and initiated a program called New Directions to reorient its work. Many observers simply lump Blatchford's efforts with the failures and faults of the Nixon administration. David Searles, however, contends that the new director's initiatives revitalized the Peace Corps and made it more relevant. He relates the history of these policies and their implementation in the field, drawing on his experience as country director for the Peace Corps in the Philippines. He shows how, despite constant carping from veterans of the early Peace Corps and much furor at headquarters, New Directions re-energized the agency and renewed and reaffirmed the Peace Corps' mission.
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By Rachael Richardson (63-227-247-123.bois.qwest.net - 63.227.247.123) on Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 6:36 pm: Edit Post |
Hi, I'm still in high school and i was just curious on the case of your funding. How is that going? You are suffering from lack of funding correct?
Dave was the country director when I was a volunteer in Baguio City from 1971-1975. He was a very able administrator and personable as well.
Wishing him the best
Bill Powell
RPCV Baguio City Community Center
1971-1975
I benefited from Dave Searles' leadership as a Country Director, and also had an opportunity to meet him in Washington in '75. I'm looking forward to reading this book.
Dave Baggott
South Cotabato 72-73
Davao City 73-75
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By Bruce Best (104.60.192.138) on Friday, May 22, 2020 - 2:13 pm: Edit Post |
I fell love with one of the language instructors in my initial training program. After moving to my assignment, courting her formally had become difficult because I was assigned in Tacloban City and she lived with her family in San Pablo City, Laguna. In order to see her, I had to take a 12 hour boat ride to Manila and a bus to San Pablo. After a year we decided we wanted to get married. Despite all our efforts, her family was not supportive of our marriage so we decided to elope. On the eve of our elopement, the transportation I had arranged to spirit her away fell through. After a late night desperate call to David, against all the rules, he let me borrow a Peace Corps jeep to go to San Pablo. That was 45 years ago We now have 2 sons and 6 grandchildren. We are forever grateful. Thanks, David David