2009.02.03: February 3, 2009: Headlines: COS - Tanzania: Country Directors - Tanzania: Agriculture: Oregon Live: Patrick Proden, a former country director for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, is the new head of the Oregon State University Extension Service's operations in Multnomah and Washington counties
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2009.02.03: February 3, 2009: Headlines: COS - Tanzania: Country Directors - Tanzania: Agriculture: Oregon Live: Patrick Proden, a former country director for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, is the new head of the Oregon State University Extension Service's operations in Multnomah and Washington counties
Patrick Proden, a former country director for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, is the new head of the Oregon State University Extension Service's operations in Multnomah and Washington counties
Proden, a former country director for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, is the new head of the Oregon State University Extension Service's operations in Multnomah and Washington counties. He is also the administrator for Extension's 4-H youth development program in both counties. Proden manages a staff of about 24 people and hundreds of volunteers. His priorities include forming partnerships with other organizations, securing funding for Extension's programs, forming advisory groups of local citizens, and making sure that Extension is meeting the changing needs of the metro area.
Patrick Proden, a former country director for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, is the new head of the Oregon State University Extension Service's operations in Multnomah and Washington counties
OSU Extension taps new head in county
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Hillsboro Argus
Patrick Proden's jobs have taken him from one extreme to another: from the concrete jungle of Baltimore's rough inner city, to a tiny town in rugged Alaska with no indoor plumbing, to the hot and humid coast of Tanzania.
And now Oregon.
Proden, a former country director for the Peace Corps in Tanzania, is the new head of the Oregon State University Extension Service's operations in Multnomah and Washington counties. He is also the administrator for Extension's 4-H youth development program in both counties.
Proden manages a staff of about 24 people and hundreds of volunteers. His priorities include forming partnerships with other organizations, securing funding for Extension's programs, forming advisory groups of local citizens, and making sure that Extension is meeting the changing needs of the metro area.
In Washington County, the Extension Service works out of an office in Beaverton and oversees 4-H clubs for youths, provides classes and individual consultations for farmers and tree growers, and trains people to become Master Gardeners. It also staffs a gardening hotline, operates a nutrition education program for low-income people, and offers information to consumers about topics like food preservation, healthy aging and mold control.
Proden grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. As the head of the Peace Corps in Tanzania, he was responsible for more than 100 volunteers and managed a staff of 32 and a $3 million annual budget that supported programs involving education, health, HIV/AIDS and the environment, he said. Early in his career, he worked for the Peace Corps in Niger where he advised communities on topics like erosion control, crops and animal husbandry.
He was also a teacher at two inner-city schools in Baltimore, and at a school in an Eskimo village in Alaska with a population of about 250 and no indoor plumbing at the time.
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